23rd SEPT, 2010 (THURSDAY) |
12.30-2:00 PM |
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Lunch
Venue: Heritage Village |
4:00-5.30 PM |
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Registration |
5.30 – 6:00 PM |
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Nico van Uden Lecture
Chair: Rajendra Prasad |
T1 |
New Developments in Multidrug Resistance in Cancer
Michael Gottesman |
7:00-7.30 PM |
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Euro-India Co-operation
Phillipe de Taxis du Poёt
First Secretary, Head of Science and Technology, Delegation of the European Union to India |
8:00 PM |
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Cocktail/Dinner
Co-sponsored by the Delegation of the European Union to India
Venue: Heritage Village |
24th SEPT, 2010 (FRIDAY) |
8:30 – 10:30 AM |
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Ion Homeostasis in Yeast
Chairs: Hana Sychrova and Antonio Pena |
T2 |
Disruption of Ion Homeostasis by Antifungal Drugs
Rajini Rao |
T3 |
Charge Balance matters: Lessons from modelling potassium homeostasis
Maik Kschischo |
T4 |
Real Time measurements of ion fluxes across the plasma membrane of S. cerevisiae and of cytosolic pH: Comparison of Trk1p and Trk2p
Jost Ludwig |
T5 |
Role of Na+/H+ antiporter and Na+- ATPase in Candida glabrata physiology
Hana Sychrova |
10:30 – 11:00 AM |
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Tea/Coffee Break |
11:00 – 1:30 PM |
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Environmental Sensing, Metabolism and Signalling
Chairs: Johan M. Thevelein and Nilanjan Roy |
T6 |
The peculiar behavior of S. cerevisiae during the late stages of wine fermentation
Catarina Prista |
T7 |
mrg19 increases chronological lifespan of S. cerevisiae by altering glutamate metabolism
Nilanjan Roy |
T8 |
On the road for the identification of the IP3 receptor
in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Rogelio Lopes Brandão |
T9 |
Chronological life-span extension is blocked by ammonium in amino acid starved cells, associated to autophagy inhibition and to cell death induction
Maria João Sousa |
T10 |
Nutrient sensing mechanisms for rapid activation of the PKA pathway in yeast
Johan M. Thevelein |
1:30 – 2:30 PM |
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Lunch
Venue: Heritage Village |
2:30 – 5:30 PM |
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Transporters of Yeast and Cancer Cells-I
Chairs: Andre Goffeau and Richard Cannon |
T11 |
Characterizing specificities of breast cancer resistance protein ABCG2 over P- glycoprotein ABCB1: selective inhibitors and additional ABC signature
A. Di Pietro |
T12 |
Development of natural product and small molecule modulators of multidrug resistance-linked ABC drug transporters
Suneet Shukla |
T13 |
Drug discovery using fungal ABC transporters expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Richard Cannon |
T14 |
Evolution and phylogenetic relationships between permeases transporting inorganic cations in Hemyascomycetes and Zygomycetes
Angel Dominguez |
T15 |
Heterologous expression of ABC transporters in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Andre Goffeau |
T16 |
Transcriptional regulation of the multidrug efflux pump MDR1 in Candida albicans Joachim Morschhauser |
5:30 – 7:30 PM |
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Poster Session
Tea/Coffee Break |
7:30 PM |
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Cocktail/Dinner
Venue: Heritage Village |
25th SEPT, 2010 (SATURDAY) |
8:00 AM |
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Group photo and day tour, Delhi
Lunch in city |
8:00 PM |
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Cocktail/Dinner
Venue: Heritage Village |
26th SEPT, 2010 (SUNDAY) |
8:00 – 10:30 AM |
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Membrane Transporters and Regulation
Chairs: Joachim F. Ernst and Anand Bachhawat |
T17 |
Multiple roles for the transcriptional regulators Rds2 and Ert1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Bernard Turcotte |
T18 |
Evolution and Function of Novel Transcriptional Regulators in Fungal Genomes
K. Natarajan |
T19 |
Role and regulation of the ABC transporter Pdr18p in yeast adaptive response to auxin-like herbicides
Tânia R. Cabrito |
T20 |
Glutathione transport and utilization in fungi
Anand Bachhawat |
T21 |
Regulation of protein-O-mannosylation in Candida albicans
Joachim F. Ernst |
10:30 – 11:00 AM |
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Tea/Coffee Break |
11:00 – 1:30 PM |
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Transport and Antifungal Drugs
Chairs: Joachim Morschhauser and Mukund Deshpande |
T22 |
Antifungals and chemosensitizers to combat multidrug resistance in Candida albicans
Slawomir Milewski |
T23 |
Real-time identification of basic events underlying the action of surface-active antifungals on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Dana Gášková |
T24 |
Antifungal drug discovery: a sticky pursuit
Neeraj Chauhan |
T25 |
Signature motifs in the nucleotide-binding domains of ABC transporter CaCdr1p are functionally asymmetric
Antresh Kumar |
T26 |
Targeting chitin metabolism for antifungal agents development: Issues and challenges
Mukund Deshpande |
1:30 – 2:30 PM |
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Lunch
Venue: Heritage Village |
2:30 – 5:00 PM |
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Transporters of Yeast and Cancer Cells-II
Chairs: Milan Hoefer and Suresh Ambudkar |
T27 |
The interplay between drug resistance and virulence in Candida glabrata involves the ABC transporter CgCDR1
Dominique Sanglard |
T28 |
Small molecular metal chelate can overcome multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer through alteration of redox status
S. K. Choudhuri |
T29 |
Structural and functional characterization of secondary drug transporter Mdr1p of Candida albicans: A Rational Mutational analysis
Khyati Kapoor |
T30 |
Signaling Interface of the Yeast Multidrug Transporter Pdr5: Role of the Q-loop Residues
Neeti Ananthaswamy |
T31 |
The mechanism of action of multidrug resistance-linked ABC drug transporters
Suresh Ambudkar |
5:00 – 5:30 PM |
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Indo-German Research Opportunities
Dr. Torsten Fischer
Head of the DFG Offices
DFG Office India (Lead) |
5:30 – 7:00 PM |
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Poster Session
Tea / Coffee Break |
7:00 PM |
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SMYTE Dinner
Co-sponsored by DFG-Büro Indien
Venue: Heritage Village |
27th SEPT, 2010 (MONDAY) |
8:30 – 10:30 AM |
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Structure, Function and Gene Regulation
Chairs: Rajini Rao and Parag Sadhale |
T32 |
Insights into the glucose-mediated endocytosis of yeast Jen1 lactate transporter
Sandra Paiva |
T33 |
The effect of ploidy on genome stability and virulence in Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis
Kaustav Sanyal |
T34 |
Study of a putative virulence factor of Candida albicans that does not affect morphogenesisin Candida albicans
Parag Sadhale |
T35 |
Quantitative Assessment of Membrane Potential Changes by Fluorescent Probe in Yeast
Jaromír Plášek |
10:30 – 11:00 AM |
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Tea/Coffee Break |
11:00 – 1:30 PM |
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Transporters of Yeast and Cancer Cells-III
Chairs: Dominique Sanglard and Patrick van Dijck |
T36 |
Vinca alkaloids induced multiple drug resistance reversing potential of black tea polyphenols in human cancer cells
Yogeshwer Shukla |
T37 |
Promiscuities and specificities of MDR transporters of pathogenic Candida albicans
Nidhi Puri |
T38 |
Heterologous expression of the Candida albicans general amino acid permeases in yeast shows that they function both as transporters and as trasceptors
Patrick van Dijck |
T39 |
Specific dipeptides induce persistent signaling and deficient vacuolar sorting of the yeast amino acid transceptor Gap1
Griet Van Zeebroeck |
T40 |
Identification of new transport systems for folic acid and methotrexate in normal human T-lymphocytes and leukemic cells
Rama Shanker Verma |
| 1:30 – 1:45 PM |
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Conclusions
Invitation to SMYTE 29, Mexico |
1:45 – 2:30 PM |
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Lunch and Depart
Venue: Heritage Village |
