Thursday 29th July
Session 1: Mitochondria - Chair: Rosario Donato
08:30 – 09:15 Keynote Lecture	Rosario Rizzuto (Ferrara, It) Mitochondrial Ca2+ signalling in cell life and death
09:15 – 09:45	Pontus Aspenstrom (Uppsala, S) Rho GTPases in mitochondrial regulation
09:45 – 10:15	Mike Duchen (UK) Calcium, mitochondria and oxidative stress in models of neurodegeneration

Session 2: Cell Division - Chair: Daniela Pietrobon
10:45 – 11:15	Michael Whitaker (Newcastle, UK) Calcium signals in sperm, eggs and embryos
11:15 – 11:45	Howard Baylis (Cambridge, UK) IP3 signalling in the C. elegans embryo
11:45 – 12:15	John Carroll (London, UK) Ca2+ signalling in meiosis and mitosis

12:15 – 15:30 - LUNCH and Poster Session 1

14:15-15:15

SPONSORS - Technical Workshop

Session 3: CA2+ binding proteins - Chair: Rachel Wong
15:30 – 16:00	Bob Burgoyne (Liverpool, UK) Neuronal calcium sensor proteins and the regulation of neurotransmission
16:00 – 16:30	Walter Chazin (Nashville, USA) Structural mechanisms and target selectivity in EF-hand proteins
16:30 – 17:00	Reg Morgan (Oviedo, Es) Evolutionary perspective on calcium binding protein families

Oral poster presentations - Chair: Jim Putney
17:00-17:15	Jan-Marek Weislogel (Heidelberg, Germany) Calcium imaging using recombinant calcium probes in primary hippocampal neurons
17:15-17:30	Alexis Menteyne (Paris, Fr) NAADP signalling in mice pancreatic acinar cells: characterization of the calcium stores involved
17:30-17:45	Gabriele Ackermann (Zurich, Switzerland) S100A1-deficient mice display characteristics of hypertrophy and enhanced myocardial performance
17:45-18:00	David J Weber (Baltimore, USA) The calcium-dependent interaction of S100B with p53 inhibits the function of the tumor suppressor

FREE EVENING

Session 5: Calcium Physiology - Chair: Claus Heizmann
10:45 – 11:15	Kathy Hajjar (New York, USA) In vivo functions of annexin 2
11:15 – 11:45	Frank Wuytack (Leuven, B) The Ca2+/Mn2+ pumps in the Golgi apparatus
11:45 – 12:15	Mitsuhiko Ikura (Toronto, Can) Structural basis for IP3-mediated Ca2+ release from ER

12:15 – 15:30 - LUNCH and Poster Session 2

14:30– 15:30 - ECS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Session 6: Cell signaling I - Chair: Joachim Krebs
15:30 – 16:00	Jim Putney (Raleigh, USA) Novel mechanisms of calcium entry regulation
16:00 – 16:30	Alexei Tepikin (Liverpool, UK) How to make local calcium signals: a lesson from polarized epithelial cells
16:30 – 17:00	Vincenzo Sorrentino (Siena, It) A molecular approach to the organization of the calcium releasing machinery in the sarcoplasmic reticulum

 

Oral poster presentations - Chair: Jacques Haiech
17:00-17:15	Stéphanie Thebault (Villeneuve d'Ascq, Fr) Differential role of TRP channels in Ca2+ entry and proliferation of primary human prostate cancer epithelial cells
17:15-17:30	Peter Lockyer (Cambridge, UK) CAPRI is a novel sensor of Ca2+ entry revealing an analogue mode of Ca2+- dependent ras deactivation
17:30-17:45	Thomas Vogl (Muenster, Germany) Altered LPS signaling in S100A9-/- mice
17:45-18:00	Sacha Jensen (Oxford, UK) Calcium binding to fibrillin-1 TB-cbEGF domain pairs: new insights into microfibril organisation

CONFERENCE BANQUET

Saturday 31st July
Session 7: Development and Neurobiology - Chair: Roland Pochet
09:00 – 09:45 - Keynote Lecture	Rachel Wong (St.Louis, USA) Calcium-dependent regulation of dendritic development in the retina
09:45 – 10:15	Nicholas Spitzer (San Diego, USA) The frequency of calcium spikes specifies neurotransmitter expression in the spinal cord
10:15 – 10:45	Peter Mobbs (London, UK) Calcium waves in the developing chick retina and retinal pigment epithelium

10:45 – 11:15 BREAK

Oral poster presentations - Chair: Alexei Tepikin
11:15-11:30	Catherine Leclerc /Marc Moreau (Toulouse, Fr) A calcium-dependent pathway is involved in the formation of the embryonic kidney in Xenopus
11:30-11:45	Rod O'Connor (Cambridge, UK) Cytosolic Ca2+ activates mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake
11:45-12:00	John Dedman (Ohio, USA) Targeted inhibition of Ca2+s/calmodulindependent kinase II in cardiac myocytes of transgenic mice
12:00-12:15	Lorna Bailey (London, UK) Roles for annexin 1 and annexin 2 in post-endocytic sorting of EGFR

Session 8: Calcium and Disease III - Chair: Michael Berridge
13:45 – 14:15	Marie-France Bader (Strasbourg, Fr) A role for lipids in the late stages of calcium-regulated exocytosis
14:15 – 14:45	Leon Lagnado (Cambridge, UK) Calcium microdomains at the active zone
14:45 – 15:15	Xander Wehrens (New York, USA) Ryanodine receptor dysfunction in cardiac disease