Oxygen-regulated pathways
Reactive oxygen species in pathology
Hypoxia in physiology and non-cancer diseases
Hypoxia and cancer
FINAL TIME TABLE OF THE SYMPOSIUM
Tuesday June 15, 2010
17:00 - 17:20 Invitations
17:20 - 18:00 Keynote lecture
Peter J. Ratcliffe, University of Oxford, UK
Oxygen sensing in animals: the HIF hydroxylase system
18:00 - 19:00 Concert
19:00 Welcome dinner
Wednesday June 16, 2010
7:15 - 8:30 Breakfast
7:30 - 14:00 Installation of posters

Session 1: Oxygen-regulated pathways
Chairs: R. Wenger & L. Poellinger

8:30 - 9:00 Roland Wenger, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Protein hydroxylation-dependent oxygen sensing and downstream pathways
9:00 - 9:30 Lorenz Poellinger, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Mechanisms of gene regulation in hypoxia
9:30 - 10:00 Teresa Pereira, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Identification of a new mechanism targeting HIF-1α for degradation at hypoxia
10:00 - 10:30 Agnes Görlach, German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany
NOX and the HIF pathway: the plot thickens
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou, Institut Curie, Paris, France
HIF function in insulin secretion and aging
11:30 - 12:00 Jozef Dulak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Cross-talk between HIFs, Nrf2/heme oxygenase-1 and microRNA in stem cells and angiogenesis
12:00 - 12:30 Peter Staller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
HIF1 and Foxo3A collaborate during metabolic adaptation to hypoxia
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Session 2A: Hypoxia in cancer Chairs: T. Acker & P. Staller

14:00 - 14:30 Patrick Maxwell, University College London, UK
Hypoxic response pathways in kidney cancer
14:30 - 15:00 Till Acker, Institute of Neuropathology, Giessen, Germany
Tumor stem cells and their niche(s)
15:00 - 15:30 Massimiliano Bonafe, University of Bologna, Italy
Hypoxia response activates stem cell regulatory pathways to regulate the basal-like/stem cell-like phenotype in human breast cancer cells
15:30 - 16:00 Persio Dello Sbarba, University of Florence, Italy
Hypoxia and glucose availability regulate the selection of chronic myeloid leukaemia progenitor cells with different drug-resistance
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 Georg Breier, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Role of oxygen sensors in tumor angiogenesis
17:00 - 17:30 Aleksandar Kuzmanov, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Functional analysis of Factor inhibiting HIF (FIH) in development and tumor progression
17:30 - 18:00 Isabelle Ader, Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology, Toulouse, France
A sphingosine 1-phosphate antibody inhibits intratumoral hypoxia and sensitizes to docetaxel in prostate cancer animal model
18:00 - 18:30 Selma Pennacchietti, University of Torino Medical School, Italy
Targeting acquired resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy by inhibition of hypoxia-induced tumor cell escape
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00 Poster Session
Thursday June 17, 2010
7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast

Session 3: Hypoxia in physiology and non-cancer pathology
Chairs: D. Katschinski & O. Krizanova

8:30 - 9:00 Dörthe Katschinski, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany
Expression and function of the PHD/HIF oxygen sensor system in the heart
9:00 - 9:30 Johanna Myllyharju, University of Oulu, Finland
Hearts of hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl 4-hydroxylase-2 hypomorphic mice show protection against acute ischemia-reperfusion injury
9:30 - 10:00 Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Epo-induced excessive erythrocytosis in mice
10:00 - 10:30 Hava Golan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Maternal hypoxia alters migration signaling in offspring cerebellum
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Carsten Willam, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Kidney and hypoxia: HIF as a new therapeutic option in acute kidney injury
11:30 - 12:00 Cormac Taylor, University College Dublin, Ireland
Regulation of inflammatory gene expression by hypoxia
12:00 - 12:30 Joachim Fandrey, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Acute hypoxia induces HIF-1 independent monocyte adhesion to endothelial cells through increased ICAM-1 expression
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Eoin Cummins, University College Dublin,
Ireland
CO2 sensing, inflammation and immunity
14:30 - 15:00 Olga Krizanova, Institute of molecular physiology and genetics, Slovak
Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Hypoxia and calcium transport systems – from modulation to function
15:00 - 15:30 Jose Lopez-Barneo, University of Sevilla, Spain
Adult neural crest-derived stem cells sustain carotid body adaptive growth in chronic hypoxia
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

Session 2B: Hypoxia in cancer
Chairs: S. Pastorekova & J. Pouyssegur

16:00 - 16:30 Carine Michiels, University of Namur, Belgium
Hypoxia protects cancer cells from cell death induced by chemotherapeutic drugs
16:30 - 17:00 Stephan Reshkin, University of Bari, Italy
The scaffolding protein, NHERF1, functions as a link between tumor hypoxia and microenvironmental acidification
17:00 - 17:30 Jacques Pouyssegur, University of Nice, France
Tumour metabolic adaptation to hypoxic and acidic stress
17:30 - 18:00 Silvia Pastorekova, Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
New insights into functional aspects of CA IX and their implications for cancer biology
19:00 Barbecue Party with Slovak folk music and dancing
Friday June 18, 2010
07:30 - 8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Departure (1st bus)
09:00 – 11:00

COST Action TD0901
HypoxiaNet MC members meeting

Silvia Pastorekova, Olga Krizanova – summing up
Cormac Taylor – invitation to Dublin meeting
Sylvie Hermouet – presentation of the COST Action BM0902
MPN&MPNr-EURONET
Roland Wenger, Dörthe Katschinski – project issues
Gedrius Varoneckas – view of the rapporteur
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 Departure (2nd bus)