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Rudbeck Life Science Symposium
2nd Chiba-Uppsala Meeting
February 16-17, 2012
Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala
Program
Thursday, February 16
Session 1
Chairpersons: Koutaro Yokote and Lars Larsson
9.00-9.10
Lena Claesson-Welsh, Welcome, introduction,
9.10-9.30
Olle Kämpe, Dept. Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, “Molecular
mechanisms in autoimmune disease”
9.30-9.50
Kazuo Suzuki, Inflammation Program, Dept. Immunology, Chiba University
Graduate School of Medicine. “Mechanism of vasculitis development”
9.50-10.10
Lars Larsson, Dept. Neurosciences, Uppsala University. “Molecular
mechanisms for muscle waisting/sarcopenia in ageing"
10.10-10.30
Koutaro Yokote, Dept. Internal Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School
of Medicine. “Progeric syndrome and its implication in age-related diseases”
10.30-10.50
Coffee
Session 2
Chairpersons: Kotaro Suzuki and Birgitta Heyman
10.50-11.10
Birgitta Heyman, Dept. Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala
University, “IgE in antigen transport and immune responses”
11.10-11.30
Gunnar Nilsson, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine,
Karolinska Institutet “Mast cells as regulators of skin inflammation and
immunity.”
11.30-11.50
Kotaro Suzuki, Dept. Molecular Genetics. Chiba University Graduate School
of Medicine. “Tumor suppressor p53 functions as a negative regulator in
IgE-mediated mast cell activation”
12.00-14.00
LUNCH
Session 3
Chairpersons: Takashi Miki and Mikael Rehn
14.00-14.20
Leif Andersson, Dept. Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala
University. "Novel animal models for genetic dissection of growth and
appetite".
14.20-14.40
Takashi Miki, Dept Medical Physiology, Chiba University Graduate School of
Medicine. “Metabolic consequences of high fat diet in insulin resistance”
14.40-15.00
Mikael Rhen, Dept. Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska
Institutet “Genetic regulation of salmonella-host interactions”
15.00-15.20
Tomoko Yamamoto, Dept. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Graduate
School of Pharmaceutical Sci., Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine.
“Control of Salmonella pathogenicity island expression on the stress-induced
regulatory loop within macrophages”
15.20-15.40
Akiko Takaya, Dept. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Graduate School
of Pharmaceutical Sci. Chiba University, ”Control of inflammatory response
and macrophage cell death by Salmonella”
Friday, February 17
Session 4
Chairpersons: Magnus Essand and Anna Dimberg
9.00-10.00
Jacques Pouyssegur, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research,
University of Nice, “Tumor and metabolism”
10.00-10.30
Coffee
10.30-10.50
Magnus Essand, Dept of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala
University, “Cancer Gene Therapy”
10.50-11.10
Anna Dimberg, Dept of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala
University “Distinct gene expression signature of vessels in high grade human
glioma”
11.10-11.30
Michael Welsh, Dept. of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University. “Role of
the Shb adaptor protein in tumor angiogenesis”.
11.30-11.50
Lena Claesson-Welsh, Dept of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala
University “Regulation of tumor inflammation”
11.50-12.00
Concluding remarks