ORGANIZERS:

Yinon Ben-Neriah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aaron Ciechanover, Technion
Ze’ev Ronai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 

Scientists from Japan, China, Europe and the USA will come together to discuss recent discoveries in the involvement of modifications by involvement of modifications by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in fundamental cellular processes, with special emphasis given to their involvement in the pathogenesis of disease, in particular – malignant transformation.

Topics to be addressed include: Structure, Biology and Pathology of UPS Components, SUMO, ER Stress, Oncogenesis, Cell Cycle, Signaling and Hypoxia, Apoptosis and Autophagy, Inflammation, Stem Cell and Cancer.

 

SPEAKERS:

Hans Clevers, Hubrecht Institute
Pier-Paolo Di Fiore, European Institute of Oncology
Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Frankfurt
Vishva Dixit, Genentech
Ron Hay, University of Dundee
Avram Hershko, Technion
Mark Hochstrasser, Yale University
Tony Hunter, Salk Institute
Alain Israel, Pasteur Institute
Kazuhiro Iwai, Kyoto University
Randall Johnson, University of Cambridge
Michael Karin, UC San Diego
Adi Kimchi, Weizmann Institute of Science
Maria Masucci, Karolinska Institutet
Michael Matunis, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Keiichi Nakayama, Kyushu University
Ami Navon, Weizmann Institute of Science
Moshe Oren, Weizmann Institute of Science
Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children's Hospital
David Ron, University of Cambridge
Brenda Schulman, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Yossi Shiloh, Tel Aviv University
Hermann Steller, The Rockerfeller University
Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Helle Urlich, IMB Mainz
Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University
Allan Weissman, Center for Cancer Research
Keith Wilkinson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dieter Wolf, University of Stuttgart
Yossi Yarden, Weizmann Institute of Science
Ed Yeh, University of Missouri