Programme for the Berlin Meeting

Arrival
Bring your luggage to Harnack House (description attached)
The meeting will take place in the lecture room of MPI Molekulare Genetik, in walking distance of the Harnack House (description attached)
I suggest that you have a lunch bite prior to the start of meeting! Or bring a sandwich along.

12.00 Introduction by EU Commission's representative Annette Schneegans
Comments by the external expert Alfred Nordheim
12.15 Salvatore Oliviero „report of the co-ordinator“
12.40 Erwin Wagner laboratory
Erwin Wagner „Introduction into the AP-1 family, Analysis of AP-1 in the mouse“
Domenico (Mimmo) Migliorini
13.05 Peter Angel laboratory
Peter Angel „c-Jun and JunB“
Britta Klucky
13.30 Moshe Yaniv laboratory
Moshe Yaniv „Jun D and Fra1“
Laura Casalino, Anna d´Angelo
13.55 Nic Jones laboratory
Nic Jones „ATF2“
Julien Ackermann
14.20 Marc Castellazzi laboratory „v-Jun“
14.45 Coffee break
15.00 Hans van Dam laboratory
Hans van Dam „AP-1 and human diseases"
Francoise Carlotti
15.25 Peter Herrlich laboratory
Peter Herrlich „Upstream Signalling to AP-1“
Sylwia Sekula
15.50 Agi Grigoriadis laboratory
Agi Grigoriadis „Bone/cartilage cell differentiation and disease“
Stéphanie Ricaud
16.15 Salvatore Oliviero laboratory
Salvatore Oliviero „angiogenesis“
Sandrine Evellin

16.40 We stretch legs and go briefly outside
17.00 Meeting of all participants with the EU representative Dr. Schneegans and the external expert Professor Alfred Nordheim for a general discussion

18.30 Departure for Dinner, at Diekmann, Alte Potsdamer Strasse 5 (description attached)

8.30 the PIs meet for a discussion on “collaboration versus competition” dealing with the matter raised by the e-mails of Peter Angel and Salvatore Oliviero.
Meeting of all starts at 9.00

Session 1: Upstream signalling to AP-1
9.00 Latifa Bakiri: „Investigating functions of c-Fos phosphorylation“
9.20 Amhed Salameh : "VEGFR-3 induces endothelial cells survival via MKK4, JNKs, c-JUN signaling”
9.40 Mohamed Hamdi: „JNK-dependent apoptosis by persistent DNA damage in transcribed genes“
10.00 coffee break
10.20 Olivier Kassel: „Negative control of AP-1 by nuclear receptors“
10.40 Sylwia Sekula: „The co-activator function of nTrip6 for AP-1“
11.00 Lijian Hui: „AP-1 and stress kinases“
11.20 Helen Morrison: „The Ras to AP-1 signalling“
11.40 Special Lecture: Alfred Nordheim "Essential roles for the murine transcription factor SRF in muscle and brain cells."

12.30 Lunch break – Cafeteria MPI

Session 2: Functional analysis of AP-1 in single cell systems
14.00 Francoise Carlotti: “AP-1 RNAi studies in transformed human cells”
14.20 Marc Castellazzi: „Repression by v-Jun in transformed primary CEF cells“
14.40 Mimmo Migliorini: „AP-1 and tumor suppression in ES cell biology“10.30
Session 3: Organismic phenotypes
15.00 Marina Schorpp-Kistner: „JunB-dependent VEGF transcription and angiogenesis“
15.20 Damien Gerald: „The role of JunD in Angiogenesis and Tumor progression"
15.40 coffee break
16.00 Special Lecture: Bernd Groner: „Inhibition of crucial signaling events in tumor cells"
17.00 Sandrine Evellin: "Phenotypic analysis of endothelial cells silenced for FRA1 or JUNB".
17.20 Jochen Hess: „AP-1 in skin carcinogenesis“
17.40 Rainer Zenz: „AP-1 in skin disease“
18.00 Departure for a self-organized evening (options are listed in the attachment)

9.00 Laura Casalino "Mechanisms controlling the proliferation of normal and transformed thyroid cells: living with or without Fra-1"
9.20 Arabella Meixner: „Functions of Jun proteins“
9.40 Wolfgang Breitwieser: „Role of ATF-2 in stress responses and in tumourigenesis”
10.00 Dominic James: „Role of ATF-2 in Development”
10.20 coffee break
10.40 Stéphanie Ricaud: „Cell cycle and c-Fos-induced osteosarcomas“
11.00 Antonios Danikas: „Rho GTPases and bone cell differentiation“
11.20 Gaelle Laurent: „The role of junD in the control of oxidative stress and premature aging"
11.40 Special Lecture: Andreas Trumpp: „Stem Cells and their Niche“
12.40 Erwin Wagner/Moshe Yaniv/Peter Herrlich: concluding remarks/future perspectives
13.00 lunch at MPI cafeteria
14.00 Departure to Reichstag where we will enter by reservation in the restaurant. After walking around and some introduction by a guide we will have coffee and cake (15.30). Subsequently everybody leaves to visit Berlin at his gusto (alternative proposals for the afternoon in the attachment)