Poster session A

Poster session D

Committee

Scientific committee

• Humbert DE SMEDT (Leuven, BE)
• Rosario DONATO (Perugia, IT)
• Philippe GAILLY (Brussels, BE)
• Volker GERKE (Munster, GE)
• Jacques HAIECH (Strasbourg, FR)
• Claus HEIZMANN (Zürich, CH)
• Luc LEYBAERT(Gent, BE)
• Steve MOSS (London, UK)
• Bernd NILIUS (Leuven, BE)
• Jan PARYS (Leuven, BE)
• Roland POCHET (Brussels, BE)
• Thomas VOETS (Leuven, BE)
• Frank WUYTACK (Leuven, BE)

Local Organising committee

• Humbert DE SMEDT (Leuven, BE)
• Philippe GAILLY (Brussels, BE)
• Luc LEYBAERT (Gent, BE)
• Bernd NILIUS (Leuven, BE)
• Jan PARYS (Leuven, BE)
• Roland POCHET (Brussels, BE)
• Thomas VOETS (Leuven, BE)
• Frank WUYTACK (Leuven, BE)

administrative committee

• Vivianne AELBRECHT (Leuven, BE)
• Paulette MIROIR (Brussels, BE)
• Yves PARIJS (Leuven, BE)
• Marleen SCHUERMANS (Leuven, BE)

website

• Valery DAUBIE (Brussels, BE)

Poster Prizes

• A7 - The calcium channels Cavβ4 subunits acts as independent transcription. M. DEWAARD
• B17 - Expression of zebrafish NCS coincides with visual function in the larval retina. N. RAETSCHO
• C22 - Orai1 downregulation: a missing link in understanding the prostate cancer apoptosis resistance. M. FLOURAKIS
• D40 - Localisation of the putative NAADP-receptor. K. RIETDORF

Jury

• Sir Michael Berridge (President)
• Claude Klee
• Bob Williams
• Volker Gerke
• Steve Moss
• Rosario Donato
• Jacques Haiech
• Marc Moreau
• Jacek Kuznicki
• Joachim Krebs

Fellowships

• Laura ALLAN
  investigating the mechanism of amyloid β-peptide-induced Ca2+ release.
• Utchariya ANANTAMONGKOL
  Expression and localization of classical transient receptor potential channels (TRPCS) in mammary gland cells.
• Maria BERROCAL
  1. Alteration of Ca2+ dependence of synaptosomal plamsa membrane Ca2+ ATPase in human brain affected by Alzheimer´s disease.
  2. Functional modulation of calcium pumps by amyloid β-peptide in primary cultures of hyppocampal neurons.
• Joanna GRUSZCZYNSKA
  STIM1 and STIM2 are present in mouse brain neurons and show puncta-like colocalization with ORAI1 upon calcium depletion of the ER.
• Sandra HANNINEN
  Ca2+-handling phenotype of cardiomyocytes with impaired mitochondrial function is reversed by N-acetylcysteine (NAC).
• Michael HARR
  Glucocorticoids negatively regulate IP3R-associated kinases FYN and LCK to modulate TCR-induced calcium signals.
• Annette LIS
  Identification of critical amino acid for STIM1-mediated gating of CRACM.
• Andrey MAKAROV
  Study of S100 proteins in human normal and malignant cells and tissues.
• Flavio Henrique BERALDO DE PAIVA
  Cellular prion protein interaction with an active laminin γ-1 chain peptide triggers calcium signaling promoting neuritogenesis
• Latha RAMAKRISHNAN
  1. Regulation of ADP-ribosyl cyclases during early embryogenesis of the sea urchin.
  2. Molecular characterisation of a novel sea urchin ADP-ribosyl cyclase.
• Weiwei SHEN
  STIM1 oligomerization is a rapid and reversible event regulated by physiological changes in ER calcium concentration.
• Jeremy SMYTH
  Store-operated calcium entry is suppressed during mitosis due to phosphorylation of the endoplasmic reticulum calcium sensor STIM1.
• Hironori SUZUKI
  Elucidation of the Ca2+-dependent interaction mechanism between ALG-2 and ALIX by X-Ray crystallographic analysis.
• Gergo SZANDA
  1. Mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake during sore-operated Ca2+ influx.
  2. Mg2+ signaling and mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake.
• Lucie TOSCA
  Origin or fertilization calcium signal and control mechanisms of apoptosis of the sea urchin egg and embryo: role of the PLCI- and MEK/ERK pathways.
• Norbert WEISS
  1. The S218L familial hemiplegic migraine mutation promotes deinhibition of Cav2.1 calcium channels during direct G-protein regulation.
  2. Functional regulation of calcium homeostasis in adult mouse skeletal muscle fibre by specific G-protein β-γ subunits.