Final Programme Smolenice 2008 [click here to download pdf]

 

Preliminary Programme

Time Schedule

Session A: NER

  1. Van Houten Ben (Research Triangle Park, USA): Seeing the light: watching DNA repair one molecule at a time
  2. Kisker Caroline (Wuerzburg, Germany): From recognition to incision - new insights into nucleotide excision repair.
  3. Christmann Markus (Mainz, Germany): A novel role for c-FOS/AP-1 in defence against ultraviolet light
  4. Tudek Barbara (Warsaw, Poland): DNA damage induced by lipid peroxidation and its repair
  5. Piršel Miroslav (Bratislava, Slovakia): DNA repair and apoptosis in the helicase mutants

 

Session B: BER and MMR

  1. Epe Bernd (Mainz, Germany): Base excision repair under oxidative stress
  2. Parson Jason (Harwell, UK): Regulation of base excision repair proteins by ubiquitilation and in response to DNA damage
  3. Szyfter Chris (Poznan, Poland): A function of Nrf2 transcription factor and polymerase eta  and kappa in repair of oxidative DNA damage by OGG1
  4. Marra Giancarlo (Zurich, Switzerland): Colon cancers with defects of the DNA mismatch repair
  5. Bartošová Zdena (Bratislava, Slovakia): Loss of heterozygosity at mismatch repair gene loci in tumors with microsatellite instability

 

Session C: Recombination & DSB Repair

  1. Wilson Thomas (Ann Arbor, USA): Enzyme recruitment and catalysis in yeast nonhomologous end joining
  2. Doherty Aidan (Brighton, UK): Many ways to make ends meet: a role for polymerases in orchestrating DNA double-strand break repair processes
  3. Krejčí Lumír (Brno, Czech Republic): Processing of recombination and stalled replication intermediates by MUS81/MMS4 - where proteins MUSt help MUS81 ("EMBO Young Investigator lecture")
  4. Kysela Boris (Birmingham, UK): DNA damage responses in rare genetic syndromes
  5. Åström Stefan (Stockholm, Sweden): Mating type switch in milk yeast (K. lactis)

 

Session D: ICL Repair

  1. McHugh Peter (Oxford, UK): The human SNM1A repair factor
  2. Chovanec Miroslav (Bratislava, Slovakia): Is there Fanconi anemia-like pathway in lower eukaryotes?
  3. Brabec Viktor (Brno, Olomouc, Czech Republic): Role of DNA repair in the mechanism underlying antitumor activity of platinum coordination complexes

 

Session E: Genotoxicology & Cancer

  1. Kaina Bernd (Mainz, Germany): Alkylation-triggered apoptotic pathways: role of p53, DSB repair and implication for glioma and melanoma therapy
  2. Collins Andrew (Oslo, Norway): Developing and applying new assays for DNA repair studies
  3. Dušinská Mária (Oslo, Norway): DNA repair - genotypic and phenotypic biomarker
  4. Štetina Rudolf (Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic): The individual DNA repair capacity. From the genetic background to expression and function
  5. Brozmanová Jela (Bratislava, Slovakia): Toxicity and mutagenicity of selenium compounds in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  6. Belyaev Igor (Bratislava, Slovakia): Exposure to microwaves from mobile communication, DNA repair and cancer risk

 

Session F: Lesion Tolerance & Reversal

  1. Haracska Lajos (Szeged, Hungary): Molecular dissection of postreplicational repair in yeast and human cells
  2. De Wind Niels (Leiden, The Netherlands): Mutatis mutandis: roles of mutagenic translesion synthesis in DNA damage responses, fitness and disease
  3. Margison Geoff (Manchester, UK): Alkyltransferase-like proteins: mighty small damage sensors
logo