2nd Intern. Workshop Molecular Biology Stress Response
	Tongji Medical University , Wuhan, PR China October 15-18, 1999
	see WEB site http://www.rsvs.ulaval.ca/~labrt/Wuhan/IWMBSR.html
	Organized by:	Dr Wu Tangchun (Tongji) & Prof R.M. Tanguay (Laval, Québec)
	Invited Speakers:	- Prof André P. Arrigo (Univ C. Bernard, Lyon, France) "Small Hsps as regulators of apoptosis" - Dr Kerstin Bellmann (Univ. Laval, Québec, Canada) "Hsp70: Implications in Type 1 Diabetes" - Prof Ian Brown (Univ Toronto, Canada) "Neuroprotective effects of heat shock" - Dr Daniel Ciocca (LARLAC, Mendoza, Argentina) "Heat shock proteins and drug resistance in cancer" - Prof William Currie (Dalhousie Univ., Halifax,Canada) "Heat shock proteins in heart and brain" - Prof Peter Csermely (Semmelweiss Univ., Budapest, Hungary) "Substrate binding of the 90kDa molecular chaperones: implications for molecular mechanisms" - Prof Martin E. Feder (University Chicago, Illinois) "Engineered and Natural Variation in Hsp70 in Drosophila: Context, Patterns, and Consequences" - Dr Anil Grover (Univ. New Delhi, India) "Characterization of high molecular weight stress proteins with special reference to rice" - Prof Larry Hightower (Univ. Storrs, Connecticut, USA) "Thermotolerance in the natural world:lessons from desert and tropical fish" - Prof Subash Lakhotia (Banaras Univ., Varanasi, India) "Tissue-specific regulation of HSP70 and other Hsps in response to stress in Drosophila" - Prof Jacques Landry (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) "Role of HS27 in stress signal transduction" - Prof Richard I. Morimoto (NorthWestern Univ., Evanston, Ill. , USA) "Sensing Stress and Protein Damage by a Family of Heat Shock Factors and Molecular Chaperones" - Prof Michel Morange (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) "HSP expression during embryogenesis and Heat Shock Transcription Factor 2" - Dr Gabrielle Multhoff (GSF Institute Klinical Haematol., Munich, Germany) "Stress-independent heat shock protein membrane expression and the NK-mediated anti- tumor immune response." - Prof Kazuhiro Nagata (Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Univ. Kyoto, Japan) "Role of HSP47, a collagen-specific stress protein, in mouse development" - Prof JeongSun Seo (Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea) "Differential expression of hsp70.1 and 70.3 on various stresses in MEF of hsp70.1 deficient mice" - Prof Wolfgang Schumann (Bayreuth University, Germany) "Heat stress management in Bacillus subtilis" - Prof Yu -fei Shen (Inst. Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China) "Molecular events in the regulation of hsp90 gene expression" - Dr Pramod K. Srivastava (Univ. Connecticutt, Farmington, USA) "Heat shock proteins: Ancient functions, modern roles" - Prof Robert M. Tanguay (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) "Small Hsps involvement in nucleo-cytoplasmic transport and in chaperone functions" - Dr Muriel Vayssier (UFR Cochin Port-Royal, Paris, France) "Tobacco smoke and the heat shock response" - Dr David Walsh (UNSW, Sydney, Australia) "Hsp71 and Hsp27 relationship during early neuronal differentiation in the CNS" - Prof Zhizhen Wang (Institute Biophysics, Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China) "Chaperone activity of protein disulfide isomerase" - Dr Yang Wu (Liverpool School Tropical Medicine, England) "Hsp60 in human parasites" - Dr Tangchun Wu (Tongji Med University, Wuhan, China) "Heat stress proteins and molecular biomarkers" - Prof Takashi Yura (HSP Institute, Kyoto, Japan) "Regulatory mechanisms of the heat shock response in E. coli"
	Deadline for Abstracts:	June 15 1999
	Registration:	Contact : Dr Tangchun Wu at: Wut@dns.tjmu.edu.cn or Prof Robert M. Tanguay at: robert.tanguay@rsvs.ulaval.ca
	Email for Requests and Registration:	rmtang@rsvs.ulaval.ca
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