The event will take place in Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.500
You will find the full programme in the conference abstract booklet
DAY 1 – Wednesday 9 October 

 

THE REGISTRATION DESK OPENS AT 8:00

08.45:   Welcome words

Session 1 –  Cell death in Neurodegeneration: Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s disease 

Chair: Inna Lavrik, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and ECDO President

9:00            

Keynote
Tau protein: a double etched sword

Luc Buée, Neuroscience and Cognition Research Centre, Lille

9:45

10:00

10:07

Short talk (selected from abstracts): Guy Brown, University of Cambridge

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Ege Solel, University of Bergen

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Svenja Lorenz, Helmoltz Zentrum München

10:15 Coffee break with posters & industry exhibition

10:45

Autophagy and Neurodegeneration
David Rubinsztein, UK Dementia Research Institute

11:15 Senescent glial cells promote neurodegeneration
Darren Baker,
Mayo Clinic

11:45

Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease
Aaron Gitler,
University of Stanford

12:15

Lunch with posters & industry exhibition                           (ECDO Board meeting)

13:30

Poster session, industry exhibition & “Meet the editors” event (reception area)

Session 2 – Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis, necroptosis and autophagy

Chair: Eleonora Candi, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”

15:00           

Keynote
Autophagy’s impact on aging, differentiation and metabolism in the immune system
Katja Simon
, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin

15:45

16:00

16:07

Short talk (selected from abstracts): Nakano Hiroyasu, Toho University School of Medicine

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Anna Saorin, University of Zurich, Kinderspital Zurich

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Iratxe Uranga Murillo, Health Research Institute of Aragon

16:15

Novel insights into the molecular mechanism of inflammasome-driven disease
Sabrina Sofia Burgener, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

16:45

Coffee break with posters & industry exhibition

17:15

Regulation of necroptosis and its role in inflammation
Manolis Pasparakis, University of Cologne

17:45

Regulation of TNF cytotoxicity by unconventional autophagy
Mathieu Bertrand, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research & Ghent University

18:15

Ceremony and talk for CDD prize:
Metabolism, drugs, and diet: ferroptosis as a new therapeutic paradigm
Brent Stockwell, Columbia University

19:00

The 30th Anniversary of the European Cell Death Organization
Boris Zhivotovsky,
General Secretary of the European Cell Death Organization and Karolinska Institute

19:10 

Opening reception with poster session at the conference venue
Invited speakers dinner (Nyx Restaurant on Belval Campus)  

DAY 2 – Thursday 10 October 
Session 3 – Metabolism & cell death

Chair: Patrizia Agostinis, VIB-Center for Cancer Biology and ECDO board member

9:00        

Keynote
cROSsing barriers: Metabolism meets T cell function
Dirk Brenner, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University  of Luxembourg and Luxembourg Institute of Health

9:45

10:00

10:07

Short talk (selected from abstracts): Kamyar Hadian, Helmoltz Munich

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Melanie Grusdat-Pozdee, University of Luxembourg

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Francesca Rizzollo, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology

10:15

Autophagy checkpoint inhibition – A novel strategy for therapeutic autophagy enhancement
Guido Kroemer,
Université Paris Cité

10:45

Coffee break with posters & industry exhibition

11:15

Decoding the contribution of the immune system to aging
María Mittelbrunn
, Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology

11:45

Ceremony and talk for ECDO prize:
Ferroptosis as the underlying mechanism in neurodegenerative disease
Marcus Conrad, Institute of Metabolism and Cell Death, Helmholtz Munich

12:30

13:30

Lunch with posters & industry exhibition (CDD meeting)

Poster session, industry exhibition (reception area)

14:45

Presentation by the Luxembourg National Research Fund

Session 4 – Cancer: fundamental mechanisms & clinical applications

Chair: Boris Zhivotovsky, Karolinska Institute and ECDO General Secretary

15:00   

Keynote
Death receptors and ubiquitin in cell death, inflammation and immunity
Henning Walczak, Institute of Biochemistry I, University of Cologne

15:45

16:00

16:07

Short talk (selected from abstracts): David Andrews, Sunnybrook Research Institute

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Ilaria Deidda, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Roberto Fernández Acosta, University of Antwerpen

16:15

Mitochondria and Anti-Tumour Immunity – A Case of Bacterial Mimicry
Stephen Tait
, Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute and University of Glasgow

16:45

Coffee break with posters

17:15

Turning up the heat on cancer
Judy Lieberman
, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

17:45

Disturbed mitochondrial dynamics instruct T cell exhaustion and beyond cell death
Ping Chih Ho
, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Lausanne

18:15

Genomic and non-Genomic Anti-Ferroptotic Functions of Estradiol Define Cell Death Propagation and Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury
Andreas Linkermann, Heidelberg University

18:45

ECDO General Assembly

19:00

Wrap up

19:30

Gala dinner (Halle des Poches à Fonte)

DAY 3 – Friday 11 October
Session 5 – Cell death & inflammation

Chairs: Ivano Amelio, University of Konstanz and President elect of ECDO & Peter H. Krammer, German Cancer Research Center and ECDO board member

9:00            

Keynote
How does the tumour suppressor p53 instruct cell fate – apoptosis vs cell survival and cell cycle arrest ?
Andreas Strasser,
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

9:45

10:00

10:07

Short talk (selected from abstracts): Sjoerd van Wijk, Goethe University Hospital

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Simon Verdonck, VIB-UGent University of Gen

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Kirsten Kenney, University of Queensland

10:15

New tricks for XIAP in cell death and inflammation
Lynn Wong, Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich

10:45

Coffee break with posters & industry exhibition

11:15

Ceremony and talk for Juerg Tschopp prize:
Junying Yuan, Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

12:00

12:15

12:22

12:30

Short talk (selected from abstracts): Esther Hoste, Ghent University

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Georgia Atkin-Smith, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Flash talk (selected from abstracts): Wei Xie, VIB – UGent – Center for Inflammation Research

Serotonin signaling protects neurons against protein aggregation-induced dysfunction and degeneration
Patricia Maciel,
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute and University of Minho

13:00

Lunch & Industry Exhibition

13:45

14:00

14:15

Short talk (selected from abstracts): WalkerJackson, Linköping University

Short talk (selected from abstracts): Ana Janic, Universidad Pompeu Fabra

Short talk (selected from abstracts): Frank Essmann, Robert Bosch Center for Tumor Diseases

14:30

Microglial pyroptosis as driving force of amyloid pathology in Alzheimer disease
Michael Heneka, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg

15:00

Poster prizes ceremony & concluding remarks

15:10

Wrap up and end