2009 Annual Meeting

2009 International BioIron Society Program Schedule
   

SUNDAY, JUNE 7th, 2009

   
14:00 – 20:00

Registration / Information Desk Open
Location: Porto Congress Center Alfândega

19:00 21:00

Welcome Reception (Get-Together Party)
Location: Alfândega Mooring by the Douro

   
MONDAY, JUNE 8th, 2009
   
08:00 – 18:30 Registration/Information Desk Open
Location: Porto Congress Center Alfândega
09:00 – 09:30

Opening Ceremony
Pierre Brissot, President of IBIS
Graça Porto, Chair of BioIron 2009

09:30 – 10:30

Plenary Session I: The Global Iron Cycle & Evolution
Location: Arquivo
Chair: Antonello Pietrangelo, Modena, Italy

09:30 – 10:00
Keynote Lecture 1: Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate
Tim Jickells, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
10:00– 10:30
Keynote Lecture 2: Iron and Oxygen Sensing
Peter Ratcliffe, University of Oxford, UK
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Location: Noble Hall
11:00 – 12:30

Plenary Session II: Erythropoiesis and Iron Recycling
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Mario Cazzola, Pavia, Italy and François Canonne-Hergaux, Paris, France

11:00 – 11:30
Lecture 1: Erythropoiesis
Olivier Hermine, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
(Presented By: Geneviève Courtois)
11:30 – 12:00
Lecture 2: Ineffective Erythropoiesis in Beta-Thalassemia
Stefano Rivella, Cornell University, New York, USA
12:00 – 12:30

Podium Presentations (Click to View)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Location: Noble Hall
14:00 – 15:15 Poster Session I Presentations (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo
15:15 – 18:45

Concurrent Sessions: I-III

15:15 – 18:45

Concurrent Session I: Intracellular Iron Trafficking (Click to View)
Location: D. Maria
Chairs: Fumio Kishi, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan and Prem Ponka, Montreal, PC, Canada

15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session II: Iron and Inflammation (Click to View)
Location: D. Luis
Chairs: Manuela Santos, Montreal, PQ, Canada and Guenter Weiss, Innsbruck, Austria

15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session III: IRE / IRP (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Robert Crichton, Wavre, Belgium and Lucas Kühn, Epalinges, Switzerland

17:00 – 18:30 Concurrent Sessions: IV – V
17:00 – 18:30

Concurrent Session IV: Iron Homeostasis and HFE Revisited (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Martina Muckenthaler, Hiedelberg, Germany and Nathan Subramaniam, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

17:00 – 18:30

Concurrent Session V: Iron, Proliferation and Cancer (Click to View)
Location: D. Luis
Chairs: D.R. Richardson, Wales, Australia and Suzy Torti, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

17:00 – 18:30

Symposium: Iron Overload and Hematological Disorders
Location: D. Maria
Chairs: Maria Cappellini, Milan, Italy and Letícia Ribeiro, Coimbra, Portugal

17:00 – 17:20

Iron Overload in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Mario Cazzola, Pavia, Italy

17:20 – 17:40

MRI for Cardiac Iron Evaluation
John Wood, Los Angeles, USA

17:40 – 18:00

State of Art of Iron Chelation Therapy
Maria Cappellini, Milan, Italy

18:00 – 18:20

Future Therapeutic Approaches to Target Imbalances in Iron Homeostasis
Antonello Pietrangelo, Modena, Italy

18:20 – 18:30
General Discussion
   
TUESDAY, JUNE 9th, 2009
   
08:00 – 14:30 Registration/Information Desk Open
Location: Porto Congress Center Alfândega
09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session III: Microbial Iron Metabolism
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Guenther Winkelmann, Tübingen, Germany and Maria Salomé Gomes, Porto, Portugal

09:00 – 09:30
Lecture 3: Iron Metabolism in Yeast
Caroline Philpott, University of UTA, USA
09:30 – 10:00
Lecture 4: Siderophores and the Battle for Iron by Aspergillus
Hubertus Haas, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
10:00 – 10:30
Podium Presentations (Click to View)
10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break
Location: Noble Hall

11:00 – 12:30

Plenary Session IV: Iron, Immunity and Inflammation
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Guenter Weiss, Innsbruck, Austria and Hal Drakesmith, Oxford, UK

11:00 – 11:30
Lecture 5: The Immune System at the Crossroads of Iron Metabolism
Maria De Sousa, ICBAS, University of Porto, Portugal
11:30 – 12:00
Lecture 6: Iron and Host-Pathogen Interactions
Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
12:00 – 12:30
Podium Presentations (Click to View)
12:30 – 13:30

IBIS Business Meeting
Location: Arquivo

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch
Location: Noble Hall

   
  Afternoon Free
   
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10th, 2009
   
08:00 – 18:15 Registration/Information Desk Open
Location: Porto Congress Center Alfândega
09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session V:Cellular Iron Metabolism
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Paolo Arosio, Milan, Italy and Ivana De Domenico, Salt Lake City, USA

09:00 – 09:30
Lecture 7: Role of Mitochondria in Iron-Sulfur and Iron Metabolism
Roland Lill, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
09:30 – 10:00
Lecture 8: Hepcidin Regulation and Processing
Sophie Vaulont, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS, Paris, France
10:00 – 10:30
Podium Presentations (Click to View)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Location: Noble Hall
11:00 – 12:30

Plenary Session VI: Systemic Iron Homeostasis – A n Evolutionary Perspective
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Tomas Ganz, LA, USA and Jerry Kaplan, Salt Lake City, USA

11:00 – 11:20
Lecture 9: Iron Metabolism in Plants
Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College, Hanover USA
11:20 – 11:40
Lecture 10: Iron Metabolism in C. Elegans
Iqbal Hamza, University of Maryland, USA
11:40 – 12:00
Lecture 11: Iron Metabolism in Zebrafish
Barry Paw, Harvard Medical School, USA
12:00 – 12:20
Lecture 12: Iron Metabolism in Mammals
Marie-Paule Roth, Toulouse University, France
12:20 – 12:30
General Discussion
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Location: Noble Hall
14:00 – 15:15

Poster Session II Presentations (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo

15:15 – 16:45 Concurrent Sessions VI – VIII
15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session VI: Hepcidin (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Sophie Vaulont, Paris, France and Dorine Swinkels, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session VII: Novel Aspects of Iron and Infection (Click to View)
Location: D. Maria
Chairs: Ana Tomás, Porto, Portugal and Chinmay Mukhopadhyay, New Delhi, India

15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session VIII: Iron Around the Body (Click to View)
Location: D. Luis
Chairs: Alberto Piperno, Monza, Italy and Martin Vokurka, Prague, Czaech Republic

17:00 – 18:30 Concurrent Sessions IX – X
17:00 – 18:30

Concurrent Session IX: Anemia Revisited (Click to View)
Location: D. Maria
Chairs: Carole Beaumont, Paris, France and Sylvia Bottomley, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

17:00 – 18:30

Concurrent Session X: Other Significant Proteins, Other Metals (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Esther Meyron-Holtz, Haifa, Israel and Alain Townsend, Oxford, UK

17:00 – 18:30

Symposium: Novel Technologies
Location: D. Luis
Chairs: Maria de Sousa, Porto, Portugal and José Moura, Lisbon, Portugal

17:00 – 17:20
Imaging the Distribution of Iron-Ferritin-Hemosiderin at the Subcellular Level
Carmen Quintana, Instituto Microelectronica de Madrid, Spain
17:20 – 17:40
Spacial Coordination of Cell-Adhesion Molecules and Redox Cycling of Iron in Pulmonary Blast Injury
Nikolai Gorbunov, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
17:40 – 18:00
Shuttling Iron Between Cellular Organelles
Ioav Cabantchik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
18:00 – 18:20
Drug Targeting to the Brain Using the Transferrin Receptor
Ruben Boado, UCLA, USA
18:20 – 18:30
General Discussion
   

THURSDAY, JUNE 11th, 2009

   
08:00 – 18:15 Registration/Information Desk Open
Location: Porto Congress Center Alfândega
09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session VII: Tissue Iron Metabolism
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Olivier Loréal, Rennes, France and Joana Palha, Braga, Portugal

09:00 – 09:30
Lecture 13: Iron and the Brain
Torben Moos, Aalborg University, Denmark
09:30 – 10:00
Lecture 14: Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis and Human Disease
Tracey Rouault, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, USA
10:00 – 10:30
Podium Presentations (Click to View)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Location: Noble Hall
11:00 – 12:30

Plenary Session VIII:Hemochromatosis
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: Pierre Brissot, Rennes, France and Grant Ramm, Brisbane, Australia

11:00 – 11:30
Lecture 15: Hemochromatosis: Screening and Penetrance
Katie Allen, University of Melbourne, Australia
11:30 – 12:00
Podium Presentations (Click to View)
12:00 – 12:30
Lecture 16: Hereditary Hemochromatosis as a Conformational Disorder
Matthew W. Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
12:30 – 14:00

Lunch
Location: Noble Hall

14:00 – 15:15

Poster Session III Presentations (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo

15:15 – 16:45 Concurrent Sessions XI – XIII
15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session XI: Iron, Brain and Neurodegeneration (Click to View)
Location: Arquivo
Chairs: James Connor, Hershey, PA, USA and Roberta Ward, Louvain-la-Neu, Belgium

15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session XII: Novelties – From Approaches to Therapies (Click to View)
Location: D. Maria
Chairs: Sonia Levi, Milano, Italy and Elisabeta Nemeth, Los Angeles, CA, USA

15:15 – 16:45

Concurrent Session XIII: Iron Overload Around the World (Click to View)
Location: D. Luis
Chairs: John Crowe, Dublin, Ireland and Nils Milman, Naestved, Denmark

17:00 – 18:00

Closing Ceremony
Location: Arquivo

Ernest Beutler Lecture
Chair: Maria de Sousa, Porto, Portugal

Iron as Engine of Basic Biological Processes and Disease: The Future of Bioiron
Nancy Andrews, Duke University, USA

18:00

Meeting Adjourns

19:30

Departure for Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony from all official congress hotels

20:30 Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Location: Palácio da Bolsa
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