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4A. Plant Oxidative stress
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Organizer and chair: Imre Vass
Oral presentations: Saturday, 25th August, 2007 9:30-12:30
Building B, Room B1
23-26 August 2007,
Budapest, Hungary
9:30-10:00 Evolution of desiccation tolerance: genomic aspects. Dorothea Bartels (Bonn, Germany)
10:00-10:30 Functions of tocopherols and other lipid-soluble antioxidants in plants under light- or metalinduced
oxidative stress. Michel Havaux (Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France)
10:30-11:00 The Genetic Basis of Singlet Oxygen-Mediated Signaling of Stress Responses in Plants. Rasa
Marija Meskauskiene (Zurich, Switzerland)
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-11:50 Damage and repair of the photosynthetic apparatus under stress by visible and ultraviolet
light. Imre Vass (Szeged, Hungary)
11:50-12:10 Mammalian Bax initiates plant cell death through ROS production and organelle destruction.
Maki Kawai-Yamada (Tokyo, Japan)
12:10-12:30 Reactive carbonyl detoxification and stress resistance in plants. Gábor Horváth (Szeged,
Hungary)
Posters of this symposium can be found on page 29.
1C. HSF activation
Organizer and chair: Lea Sistonen
Oral presentations: Saturday, 25th August, 2007 9:30-12:30
Building B, Room B2
9:30-10:00 Multi-site post-translational modifications and functional interplay of HSF1 and HSF2. Lea
Sistonen (Turku, Finland)
10:00-10:30 HSF1 activation and the control of apoptosis in chemoresistant cancers. M. Gabriela
Santoro (Rome, Italy)
10:30-11:00 Roles of HSF1 in inflammatory and immune response. Akira Nakai (Ube, Japan)
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-11:50 HSF2 and the proliferation of the neuronal precursors and migration of neurons in the
developing cortex- normal and stress conditions. Valérie Lallemand-Mezger (Paris, France)
11:50-12:10 Developmental activity of HSF1 revealed by loss of function experiments. Elisabeth
Christians (Toulouse, France)
12:10-12:30 Dual roles of Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) in Cardioprotection, Pathologic Hypertrophy and
Heart Failure in Transgenic Mice. András Orosz (Salt Lake City, USA)
Posters of this symposium can be found on page 43.