Autophagy and Pancreatic Diseases

VACCARO MI

Madeburg

Workshop; 43rd Meeting of the European Pancreatic Club; 2011

European Pancreatic Club

PGT - Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer Chair: NN 13:30  Autophagy and pancreatic diseasesMaria Vaccaro (Buenos Aires/AR) 13:50         Cell death in experimental tumor modelsDavid Tuveson (Cambridge/UK) 14:10                                   Resistance to apoptosis-inducing anti cancer agentsJörg Kleeff (Munich) 14:30  WNT5A mediates resistance to apoptosis in pancreatic cancer via NFAT1Heidi Griessmann (Marburg) 14:42 c-Myc directs apoptosis of pancreatic cancer cells via activation of the NOXA geneMathias Wirth (Munich) 14:54 VMP1 triggers autophagy and cancer cell death through the interaction with BH3 domain of Beclin1Maria Molejon (Buenos Aires/AR) 15:06 TP53INP1 interacts with LC3 and LC3-like proteins through the LC3-interacting region (LIR) and promotes autophagic degradation of oxidized proteins in pancreatic cancerMarion Seillier (Marseille/FR) 15:18 The pro-survival effect of PHLPP1 in pancreatic cancer is mediated through overexpression of Akt2Claudia Nitsche (Greifswald) 15:30 Autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells signals via the non-canonical hVps34 dependent pathwaySandrina Maertin (Greifswald) 16:15 -16:55 PGT - Round-table discussions: Meet the expert, Cell death in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancerChair: Miklos Sahin-Toth (Boston/US)Participants: Thomas Reinheckel (Freiburg), Alexei Tepikin (Liverpool/UK), Anna Gukovskaya (Los Angeles/US), Constanze Kubisch (Munich), Rolf Graf (Zürich/CH), David Tuveson (Cambridge/GB), Jörg Kleeff (Munich), Maria Vaccaro (Buenos Aires/AR)