RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Moscow, 4-7 February 2003
13.00
–14.00. Registration of participants
(In the Presidium of the Russian Academy of
Sciences (new building),
Moscow, Leninsky prospect, 32a, main entrance,
third floor, Red Hall).
14.00.
Opening ceremony.
Opening
speech of Academician Rem Petrov ( Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Russia).
14.10.
Georgiev G. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Foundation of
Eucaryotic Molecular Genetics in the USSR/Russia.
15.00.
Greetings of the conference’s guests
Scientific sessions, starting from February 5, will be convened in the Conference-hall of the Institute of Gene Biology (Vavilova street, 34/5).
9.30-10.00.
Registration of participants.
Chairmen:
Gary Abelev, Grady Saunders
10.00. Mach
J.-P. (Institute of Biochemistry, Lausanne, Switzerland):
Conjugates
Between Anti-tumor Antibodies and Major Histocompatibility Complexes
Containing
Antigenic Peptides, as a New Tool for Cancer Immunotherapy.
10.25.
Kiselev S. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Fighting
“non-self”: Two Arms, One Goal.
10.50. . Sashchenko
L. , Dukhanina E., Yashin D., Shatalov Yu., Romanova E., Korobko E., Demin
A., Lukjanova T., Kabanova O., Khaidukov S., Kiselev S., Gabibov A., Georgiev
G., Gnuchev N. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
The
Tag7/PGRP-Hsp70 Complex is Cytotoxic and is Secreted by LAK Cells.
11.15.
Saunders G. (University of Texas, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
The Wilms
Tumor Supressor Gene (WT1) Can Function as Either a Positive or Negative
Transcriptional Control Factor.
11.40. Coffee
In Vivo Molecular Imaging with Fluorescent
Proteins.
12.25 Korobko
I., Korobko E., Chupikova N., Kiselev S. (Institute of Gene Biology,
Moscow, Russia):
MAK-V/Hunk,
the Mammalian MARK/Par-1/Kin1-Like Protein Kinase.
12.50.
Lukanidin E. (Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Biology, Copenhagen,
Denmark):
Molecular
Mechanisms of Tumour Progression.
13.15.
Nedospasov S. (Engelhardt Institute of
Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Biological
Functions of Tumor Necrosis Factor and Lymphotoxin In Vivo Assessed by Gene Targeting.
13.40.
Lunch
Chairmen:
Jean-Pierre Mach, Nikolay Gnuchev
15.00. Tora
L. (Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg,
France):
The Role of
TAF-Containing Multiprotein Complexes in RNA Polymerase II Transcription
Control.
15.25.
Gabibov A. (Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow,
Russia):
Catalytic
Antibodies and Pathology
15.50. Jans
D. (Division for Biochemical and Molecular Biology, John Curtin School of
Medical Research, Clayton, Australia):
Nuclear Import Pathway of the Chromatin
Remodelling Agent SRY; Clinical Implications.
16.15.
Sobolev A. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Modular
Recombinant Transporters for Targeted Intranuclear Delivery of Locally-Acting
Drugs.
16.40.
Deyev S. (Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow,
Russia):
Multivalent
Mini-Antibodies for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy.
17.05.
Coffee
Chairmen:
Sjur Olsnes, Grigorii Enikolopov
17.20. Giacca M. (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy):
AAV Vectors as a Powerful Tool for Gene and Cell Therapy of Cardiovascular Disorders.
17.45.
Korochkin L. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Perspectives
of Using Stromal Cells of Human Bone Marrow in Gene and Cell Therapy.
February, 6, Thursday
Chairmen:
Leonid Korochkin, Mauro Giacca
10.00.. Olsnes S. (Department of
Biochemistry, Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital,
Oslo, Norway):
Translocation
of Toxins and Growth Factor into Cells.
10.25. Peunova N. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA):
NO
Signalling in Xenopus Organogenesis.
10.50. Enikolopov G.( Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA):
Regulation
of Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain.
11.15
Coffee
Chairmen:
Peter Becker, Igor Zhimulev
11.30.
Buzdin A., Ustyugova S., Gogvadze E., Vinogradova T., Lebedev Yu., Sverdlov
E. (Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute
of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia):
The Human
Specific Retroelements.
11.55.
Ryskov A.P. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Study on
Clonal Diversity, Genetically Unstable Loci and Somatic Mosaicism in
Partenogenetic Caucasian Rock Lizards, Genus Darevskia.
12.20.
Elgin S. (Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA):
Organization of the Fourth Chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster: Interspersed Heterochromatic and Euchromatic Domains”
12.45.
Pirrotta V. (Department of Zoology, University of Geneva, Switzerland):
Polycomb
Silencing and Chromatin Memory”
13.10.
Zhimulev I., Belyaeva E.
Intercalary
Heterochromatin and Genetic Silencing.
13.40.
Lunch
Chairmen:
Vincenzo Pirrotta, Alexei Ryskov
15.00. Becker
P. (Adolf-Butenandt-Institut Molekularbiologie, Munchen, Germany):
The Role of
Nucleosome Sliding for Chromatin Dynamics”
15.25.
Biessman H. (Developmental Biology Center, University of California, Irvine,
USA):
Telomere Elongation by Retrotransposons in
Drosophila melanogaster”.
15.50. Savitskaya E. (Institute of Gene Biology,
Moscow, Russia):
The Su(Hw)
Insulator Modulates the Recombination between FRT Sites and Transposition of P
Elements in Drosophila melanogaster.
16.15.
Coffee
16.40. Falaschi
A. (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste,
Italy):
Protein-DNA Interactions Occurring in vivo and in vitro at a Human Replication Origin.
17.05.
Stratling W. (Institut fur Medizinesche
Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universitat-Klinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf,
Hamburg, Germany):
From Nuclear Matrix to MeCP2 and Rett Syndrome”
17.30.
Bistritskii A., Verbovaia L., Iarovaia O., Razin S. (Institute of Gene
Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Partitioning
of Human Dystrophin Gene into DNA Loops and Replicons.
17.55. Bode
J. (GBF, German Research Center for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany):
From DNA
Structure to Gene Expression: Mediators of Nuclear Compartmentalization and
-Dynamics.
Morning session
TRANSCRIPTION CONTROL.
Chairmen:
Pavel Georgiev, Wolf Stratling
10.00.
Cavalli G. (Institut de Genetique Humaine, Montpellier, France):
Conveying Cellular Memory Through Long-Distance
Chromosomal Interactions in Drosophila.
10.25.
Golovnin A. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
An
Endogenous Su(Hw) Insulator Separates the Yellow
Gene from the Achaete-Scute Gene
Complex in Drosophila.
10.50.
Saunders G. (University of Texas, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
PAX6 the
Master Gene for Eye Development”.
11.15.
Coffee
11.35. Georgieva S., Nabirochkina E.,
Krasnov A., Georgiev P., Ilyin Yu. (Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Novel Genes
that Participate in Transcription Control in Drosophila.
12.00.
Tschurikov N. (Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia):
Mechanisms
of Gene-Specific Silencing: Role of Forum-domains
and RNA-RNA duplexes.
12.25 Poster session
13.30.
Lunch
Chairmen:
Francisco Baralle, Vladimir Gvozdev
15.00.
Spirin A. (Institute of Proteins, Puschino, Moscow region, Russia):
Coding and
Non-Coding RNA.
15.25.
Baralle F. (International Centre for
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy):
Molecular Pathology of pre-mRNA Splicing”
15.50.
Gvozdev V. (Institute for Molecular
Genetics, Moscow, Russia):
RNA
Interference, Mobile Genes and Regulation of Gene Expression.
16.15.
Scherrer K. (Institut Jacque Monod, CNRS, Universites Paris, Paris, France):
From Giant RNA and DNA Domains to the Concept
of 3 Types of Genomic Information.
16.40.
Closing of the Conference.
