CELL DEATH
October 11 - 15, 2011
Abstract Deadline: August 19, 2011

Organizers:
Douglas Green, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Marie Hardwick, Johns Hopkins University
Scott Lowe, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/HHMI

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We are pleased to announce the ninth meeting on Cell Death, to be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from Tuesday evening October 11 till after lunch on Saturday, October 15, 2011. 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include morning and evening sessions consisting of short talks, limited to approximately 15 minutes, principally on unpublished work.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.

Keynote Speaker:
Gerard Evan, University of Cambridge, UK

Topics & Discussion Leaders:
Bcl-2 Proteins
David Andrews, McMaster University, Canada
Andreas Strasser, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Computational Biology and Omics
Adi Kimchi, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Peter Sorger, Harvard Medical School

Cell Death in Cancer Biology
Huseyin Mehmet, Merck & Co.
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, National Institute of Health

Cell Death Therapies
Anthony Letai, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Eileen White, Rutgers University

Non-Apoptotic Cell Death
Eric Baehrecke, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Junying Yuan, Harvard Medical School

Molecular Mechanisms
Hao Wu, Weill Cornell Medical College
Michael Hengartner, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Mitochondrial Dynamics & Function
Barbara Conradt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Doug Green, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Metabolic Control of Cell Death
Sally Kornbluth, Duke University
Seamus Martin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline.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.