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Wednesday, November 18th

12:30 Shuttle from the Sheraton Hotel to ISB
1:00 Registration
1:45 John Aitchison Opening Remarks
2:00 Session: Peroxisomal Disorders - John Aitchison (chair)
2:00 - 2:25 Nancy Braverman Recovery of Pex1-Gly834Asp peroxisome dysfunction by small molecule compounds
2:25 - 2:55 Ann Moser Newborn screening for X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD): A combined liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric (LC-MS/MS) method
2:40 - 2:55 Hendrik Rosewich Rational diagnostic strategy for peroxisomal biogenesis defects
2:55 - 3:10 Werner Kovacs Peroxisome deficiency causes a complex phenotype because of hepatic SREBP/Insig dysregulation associated with endoplasmic reticulum stress
3:10 - 3:30 Q & A / Group discussion / Break
3:30 - 3:45 Florian Eichler Is microglial apoptosis an early pathogenic change in cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy?
3:45 - 4:00 Joseph Hacia Evaluation of nonsense suppressor therapies in cells from patients with peroxisome biogenesis disorders
4:00 - 4:15 Manuel Santos In vivo treatment with Peroxisomal Proliferators reduces neuronal damage in a double transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease
4:15 - 4:30 Cecile Brocard A novel method to detect transient interactions with membrane bound peroxins
4:30 - 4:45 Johannes Berger Peroxisomal localization of beta-lipotropin and beta-endorphin in ALDP positive cells
4:45 - 5:00 Q & A / Group discussion / Break
5:00 Shuttles from ISB to Sheraton Hotel
6:00 - 9:00 Welcome Reception Sheraton Hotel
6:30 Leroy Hood The future and the promise of P4 Medicine
7:00 Nancy Braverman Introducing individuals with various peroxisome diseases and their families

Thursday, November 19th

8:00 Shuttles from Sheraton Hotel to ISB
8:50 Richard Rachubiniski Day 2 - Opening Remarks
9:00 Session: Peroxisome Biogenesis - Richard Rachubiniski (chair)
9:00 - 9:15 Ramsey Saleem Signaling controlling peroxisome biogenesis in yeast
9:15 - 9:30 Jennifer Smith Transcriptional control of oleate induced peroxisome biogenesis
9:30 - 9:45 Ralf Erdmann Dissection of the peroxisomal protein import machinery
9:45 - 10:00 Yukio Fujiki Peroxisome biogenesis and its regulation: membrane assembly, matrix protein import, and morphogenesis
10:00 - 10:15 Hans Waterham Genetic classification of > 600 patients with Zellweger Syndrome Spectrum disorder indicates 12 essential PEX genes
10:15 - 10:30 Ewald Hettema Multiple roles for Pex3 in peroxisome biogenesis
10:30 - 10:45 Adabella van der Zand Illuminating the yeast peroxisome biogenesis pathway
10:45 -11:15 Q & A / Group Discussion / Break
11:15 - 11:30 Sven Thoms Evidence for Sec61 translocon involvement in peroxisome formation
11:30 - 11:45 Fred Mast Peroxisomal membrane protein biogenesis: insights from the polytopic integral membrane protein, Pex30p
11:45 - 12:00 Arvind Jamakhandi Peroxisomal Integral Membrane Proteins, Pex29 and Pex30, Interact with Resident Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteins
12:00 - 12:15 Changle Ma The peroxisomal matrix import of Pex8p requires only PTS receptors and Pex14p
12:15 - 12:30 Hiroyuki Shibata Structural-basis for the Pex3p-Pex19p interaction in the translocation of class I peroxisomal membrane proteins
12:30 - 12:45 Markus Kunze Mutational analysis of the PTS2-type peroxisomal targeting signal and the identification of novel human PTS2-targeted proteins
12:45 - 1:00 Q & A / Group Discussion
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch and Poster Session
2:30 - 2:45 Sigrun Reumann Large-scale machine learning models allow the prediction of new PTS1 signals of plant peroxisomes
2:45 - 3:00 Matthias Wilmanns Molecular principles in cargo recognition by the peroxisomal receptors and scaffold complexes
3:00 - 3:15 Tsuneo Imanaka Importance of the NH2-terminal hydrophobic motifs on the peroxisome selective targeting of PMP70
3:15 - 3:30 Shoji Mano Isolation and characterization of Arabidopsis apm mutants that are defective in peroxisome biogenesis
3:30 - 3:45 Markus Islinger Hitchhiking of CU/ZN superoxide dismutase to peroxisomes - Evidence for a natural piggyback import mechanism in mammals
3:45 - 4:00 Gregory Jedd Woronin bodies: models of peroxisome and organelle differentiation
4:00 - 4:30 Q & A / Group Discussion / Break
4:30 Shuttles from ISB to Sheraton Hotel

Friday, November 20th

8:00 Shuttles from Sheraton Hotel to ISB
8:50 Suresh Subramani Day 3 - Opening Remarks
9:00 Session: Peroxisome Function - Suresh Subramani (chair)
9:00 - 9:15 Myriam Baes Peroxisomes, insulin sensitivity and thermogenesis: is there a link?
9:15 - 9:30 Yasuyoshi Sakai Peroxisome homeostasis in lower eukaryotes
9:30 - 9:45 Ronald Wanders New insights into the role of human ABCD1 and ABCD2 through studies in the yeast S. cerevisiae
9:45 - 10:00 J. Kalervo Hiltunen Metabolite traffic across peroxisomal membrane: Pxmp2 (PMP22) is a solute channel in mammals
10:00 - 10:15 Anne-Marie Lamhonwah The peroxisomal organic cation/ carnitine transporter OCTN3
10:15 - 10:30 Paul Michels ABC transporters in the glycosomal membrane of Trypanosoma brucei are involved in fatty-acid uptake
10:30 - 10:45 Vladimir Titorenko Novel anti-aging small molecules greatly extend yeast life span by targeting a mechanism linking longevity and lipid metabolism in peroxisomes, the endoplasmic reticulum, and lipid bodies
10:45 - 11:15 Q & A / Group Discussion / Break
11:15 Session: Peroxisome Regulation - John Aitchison (chair)
11:15 - 11:30 Andrei Fagarasanu A feedback mechanism adjusts the level of Inp2p, the peroxisomal receptor for Myo2p, in response to peroxisome positioning in the dividing yeast cell
11:30- 11:45 Jianping Hu The role of three dynamin-related proteins and a tail-anchored protein in the division and positioning of peroxisomes in plants
11:45 - 12:00 Wolfgang Schliebs PEX14 is required for microtubule-based peroxisome motility in human cells
12:00 - 12:15 Barbara Knoblach Phosphorylation-dependent activation of peroxisome proliferator protein Pex11 controls peroxisome abundance
12:15 - 12:30 Johannes-P. Koch New aspects on the functional relationship between PEX11 and other factors of the peroxisomal proliferation machinery
12:30 - 1:00 Q & A / Group Discussion / Break
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch and Poster Session
2:30 - 2:45 Peter Kim NBR1 is required for peroxisome turnover in mammalian cells
2:45 - 3:00 Marc Fransen Formation and turnover of peroxisomes in cultured mammalian cells
3:00 - 3:15 Ravi Manjithaya Idenitifying new players required for selective autophagy of peroxisomes
3:15 - 3:30 Bonnie Bartel Peroxisome-associated matrix protein degradation in arabidopsis
3:30 - 3:45 Heidi McBride Identification of coats required for vesicle transport between mitochondria and peroxisomes
3:45 - 4:00 Robert Mullen The role of peroxisomes and ESCRT in tombusvirus replication
4:00 - 4:30 Q & A / Group Discussion
4:30 - 4:40 John Aitchison Closing Remarks
5:00 Shuttles from ISB to Sheraton Hotel
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