CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:

CANKARJEV DOM, Cultural and Congress Centre, Mrs. Alenka Kregar
Prešernova 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 2417 133
Fax: +386 1 2417 296
E-mail: alenka.kregar@cd-cc.si

Address of the local organising committee:

Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology 
Jozef Stefan Institute 
Jamova 39 
SI-1000 Ljubljana 
Slovenia 
Phone: (+386 1) 477 3854 
Fax: (+386 1) 477 3984

Contact:
boris.turk@ijs.si
barbara.vrtacnik@ijs.si
veronika.stoka@ijs.si

Saturday, September 22

From 17:00                         Registration

18:15 – 20:00                     Dinner

20:00 – 20:15                     Opening of the symposium

20:15 – 21:00                     Helmut Holzer Memorial Lecture

Michael Groll: Drug discovery in the ubiquitin proteasome pathway

[chair Vito Turk]

 

21:00 – 23:00                     Get-Together

 

Sunday, September 23

Cysteine Cathepsins: friend and foes

 

[Chair: Christoph Peters]

 

9:00 – 9:25          Klaudia Brix: Cysteine cathepsin variants in the intestine, skin, and thyroid – trafficking pathways, interaction partners and possible functions in physiology and disease

9:25 – 9:50          Gilles Lalmanach: Human cysteine cathepsins in pulmonary fibrosis

9:50 – 10:15        Lukas Mach: Human cathepsin O: glycosylation, processing and cellular activity

10:15 – 10:30     Christine Watson: Regulation and function of Cathepsin L in mammary gland involution

 

10:30 – 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

 

The World of Inhibitors

 

[Chair: Walter Stoecker, Francesc Aviles]

 

11:00 – 11:25     Francesc X. Aviles: Advances on M14 metallocarboxypeptidases and inhibitors: from the deep profiling of specificities to new functionalities

11:25 – 11:50     Walter Stoecker: Control of Astacin Metalloproteases by Natural Inhibitors

11:50 – 12:05     Eva Žerovnik: On possible function and toxicity of multiple oligomeric / conformational states of human stefin B.

12:05 – 12:20     Marko Novinec: Human testican-3, a novel thyropin with unique characteristics

12:20 – 12:35     Jerica Sabotič: Structure and function of protease inhibitors and lectins from mushrooms

12:35 – 12:50     Tina Zavašnik: Inhibition of human cathepsins S and L by the salivary cystatin-type inhibitor OmC2 from the tick Ornithodoros moubata

 

12:50 – 15:00     LUNCH BREAK

 

Is there a structure?

 

[Chair: Dušan Turk]

 

15:00 – 15:25     James Huntington: How and why the Z variant of α1-antitrypsin polymerises, and what can be done about it

15:25 – 15:40     Tom Murray-Rust: Crystal structure of the prothrombinase complex from Pseudonaja textilis reveals the likely structure of the human prothrombinase complex

15:40 – 16:05     Robert Pike: The zymogen form of the catalytic region of the complement protease, C1s, is stabilized into a form unable to interact with substrates and cofactors

16:05 – 16:30     Hans Brandstetter: The activation peptides of fIX and fX undergo a disorder-order transition upon ligand binding

 

 

16:30 – 17:00     COFFEE BREAK

 

Protease cocktail

[Chair: Rob Pike]

 

17:00 – 17:15     Marcin Drag: Hybride combinatorial substrate libraries for profiling endoproteases substrate specificity

17:15 – 17:30     Dmitriy Minond: Discovery of Novel Inhibitors of ADAM17 Using Glycosylated and Non-Glycosylated Substrates And Combinatorial Library Approach

17:30 – 17:45     Anthony O'Donoghue: Global Identification of Proteinase Specificity by Multiplex Substrate Profiling

17:45 – 18:00     Brenda Oppert: Expression patterns of digestive peptidases in larvae of the tenebrionids 'Tenebrio molitor' and 'Tribolium castaneum'

18:00 – 18:15     Thomas Zögg: The structural basis of autoproteolysis and immune modulation by the pestiviral protein Npro.

 

18:35 – 20:00     DINNER

 

20:00 – 21:30     POSTER SESSION I (and social activities)

 

 

 

Monday, September 24

Death and Survival

[Chair: Peter Vandenabeele]

 

9:00 – 9:25          Guy Salvesen: Caspases, Paracaspase, and the Space Between Death and Survival

9:25 – 9:50          Petra Van Damme: The substrate repertoire of the aggregate-clearing yeast metacaspase Yca1

9:50 – 10:15        Boris Zhivotovsky: Contribution of caspase-2 for cleavage of substrates during cell death

10:15 – 10:40     Gunnar Pejler: A serglycin proteoglycan/tryptase axis promotes apoptotic versus necrotic cell death in mast cells

 

10:40 – 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

 

[Chair: Boris Zhivotovsky]

 

11:00 – 11:25     Peter Vandenabeele: Role of proteases and kinases in TNF-induced necroptosis

11:25 – 11:50     Hans-Uwe Simon: p73 regulates hepatocellular lipid metabolism

11:50 – 12:05      Veronika Stoka: Structural and functional network of ataxin 3: human vs mouse models

 

12:05 – 12:30     Sponsor presentations

 

12:30 – 15:00     LUNCH BREAK

 

 

Inflammation, tumours, …

[Chair: Gilles Lalmanach]

 

15:00 – 15:25     Jan Potempa: Proteolytic activity of Porphyromonas gingivalis as the sole virulence factor in the development of aspiration pneumonia

15:25 – 15:50     Kenji Yamamoto: Cathepsin E: Related signaling systems, functions and implication in diseases

15:50 – 16:05     Walter Halangk: Zymogen Activation, Cell Injury and Inflammation in Acute Pancreatitis

16:05 – 16:20     Nataša Kopitar Jerala: Cysteine proteinase inhibitors modulate innate immune response

 

16:20 – 16:50 COFFEE BREAK

 

 

[Chair: Klaudia Brix]

 

16:50 – 17:15     Thomas Reinheckel: Distinct roles for endolysosomal cysteine proteases in the macrophage response to Staphylococcus aureus

17:15 – 17:30     Christoph Peters: Impact of Mircoenvironmental Proteolytic Capacity on Cancer Cell Invasion and Metastasis

17:30 – 17:45     Marko Fonović: Cysteine cathepsins effect tumor cell migration and invasion through the shedding of protein ectodomains

17:45 – 18:00     Chris Scott: Cathepsin S produced from both tumour and infiltrating stromal cells is essential to promote tumour neovascularisation and growth

 

18:00 – 20:00     DINNER

 

20:00 – 21:30     POSTER SESSION II (and social activities)

 

Tuesday, September 25

Alzheimer, clinics, calpains, …

[Chair: Guy Salvesen]

 

9:00 – 9:25          Hans-Ulrich Demuth: Glutaminyl cyclase inhibitors attenuating neurodegeneration and neurinflammation in models of Alzheimer‘s disease are now at clinical stage

9:25 – 9:50          Manuel Than: Specific metal binding dictates the conformation of the APP-E2 domain

9:50 – 10:15        Hiroyuki Sorimachi: Towards understanding the enigmatic substrate specificity of calpains

10:15 – 10:40     Yasuhiko Ozaki: Calpain in human reproduction: role of calpain in human placenta of patients with intrauterine growth restriction

 

10:40 – 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

 

11:00 – 11:45       Closing keynote lecture

Joseph A. Trapani: Mouse granzyme A mediates a novel, non-apoptotic form of cell death

[Chair: Boris Turk]

 

11:45 – 12:00     Closing of the Symposium

 

12:00 – 20:00     Lunch and Free afternoon

20:00 – 24:00     Gala dinner

 

Wednesday, September 26

 

Hotel check-out & Departure

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