CECAD intensifies efforts for its internationalisation

CECAD has been trying to intensify its international contacts. In this context the CECAD-IRCAN Symposium took place in Nizza on September 21st.
 
Please see the following program:

8:45 Welcome Adress: E. Gilson & B. Schumacher

09:00 – 10:40 Skin & tissue renewal / rejuvenation

9:00 C. Féral

Keeping Skin youthful: CD98hc skin aging regulator identified

9:20 Carien Niessen
Polarity and oriented cell devision in the regulation of aging of epidermal stem cells

9:40 C. Gaggioli
LIF mediates pro-invasive activation of stormal fibroblast in cancer

10:00 Sandra Iden
Roles of the mammilian polarity protein Par3 in skin homeostasis, tumor formation and progression

10:20 E. Roettinger
Nematostella vectensis, a marine invertabrate to study Embryogenesis, Regeneration and Aging.

10:40 – 11:40 Coffee Break & informal discussion

11:40 E. van Obberghen
Regulation of insulin action and secretion by micro-RNAs: relevance for diabetes

12:00 J. Brüning
Hypothalamic control of energy homeostasis and aging associated diseases

12:20 G. Pages
The CXCL7/CXCR1/2 axis is a key driver in the growth of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:40 DNA damage / stress response

14:00 Thorsten Hoppe
Mitochondrial surveillance

14:20 Gael Cristofari
Jumping genes in human

14:40 E. Gilson
The extra-telomeric life of shelterin

15:00 B. Schumacher
Systemic DNA damage response

15:20 D. Bulavin
DNA damage response and oncogenesis

15:40 – 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 C. Reinhardt
exploiting defects in the DNA damage response for personalized cancer therapy

17:00 G. Lithi
A genetic framework to understand how heterogenous cell populations escape cancer chemotherapy

17:20 Bernd Wollnik
Genome instability in congenital syndromes with accelerated aging phenotype

17:40 – 19:00 Coffee break & informal discussion

19:00 – 19:30 Closing remarks, future meetings