CELL DEATH
October 6 - 10, 2009
Abstract Deadline: August 7, 2009
Organizers:
Marie Hardwick, Johns Hopkins University
Shigekazu Nagata, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Junying Yuan, Harvard Medical School

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We are pleased to announce the eighthmeeting on Cell Death, to be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from Tuesday evening October 6th till after lunch on Saturday, October 10th, 2009. The meeting will cover the field of cell death and apoptosis by specific sessions devoted to the topics listed below.

The format of the meeting will include morning and evening sessions consisting of short talks, limited to approximately 15 minutes, principally on unpublished work. Because the audience will be composed of investigators with rather diverse backgrounds, the session chairs will anchor each session with a 20 minute talk to provide an overview of the specific area. The other submitted abstracts will be presented in poster sessions in the free afternoons. As usual at Cold Spring Harbor Meetings, all abstracts of both poster and platform sessions will be published in an abstract book given to all the participants.

Topics Include:
• Developmental cell death – organismal and immunological
• Autophagy, apoptosis, necrosis and other death pathways
• Disease mechanisms and therapeutic strategies
• Metabolism at the interface of death and survival
• Structural and biochemical details of cell death
• Cell death signaling pathways–experimental & systems biology
• Mitochondrial dynamics and function
• Non-canonical death factor mechanisms in the nervous system
• Cancer cell death mechanisms – bench to bedside


Keynote Speakers:
Junying Yuan, Harvard Medical School
Doug Wallace, University of California Irvine

David Andrews, McMaster University
Eric Baehrecke, University of Massachusetts
Nikia Danial, Dana-Farber
Vishva Dixit, Genentech
Zvi Fuks, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Doug Green, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
Liz Jonas, Yale University
Sally Kornbluth, Duke University
Beth Levine, UT Soutwestern
Judy Lieberman, Harvard
Scott Lowe, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Peter Sorger, Harvard/MIT
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Genentech
Craig Thompson, University of Pennsylvania
Eileen White, Rutgers
Atar Winoto, University of California Berkeley
Richard Youle, NIH/NINDS

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend and have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to beavers@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in October.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:
National Cancer Institute
National Institute on Aging
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.