University of Glasgow Meeting, 7-9 April 1999

Themed Meeting, centred around: "Complex Protein Assemblies as Molecular Machines"

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Meeting Programme


Thursday 8 April 1999

Lipid Group Colloquium
Sphingolipids

Organiser:
S. Pyne (Glasgow)

Trafficking

Speakers:
09.00 S. Sch�tze (Kiel, Germany)
Sphingomyelinases in cell signalling
09.35 D. Perry (South Carolina, USA)
Ceramide, apoptosis and senescence
10.10 S. Pyne (Glasgow)
Sphingosine 1-phosphate signalling
10.40 Coffee
11.00 Society Medal Lecture
12.10 T. Kolter (Bonn, Germany)
Recent advances in the biochemistry of glycosphingolipid metabolism
12.50 A. Rampersaud (Ohio, USA)
Gangliosides and growth factor receptor regulation
13.30 Lunch and Lipid Group AGM

Signalling

Speakers:
14.30 D. Hoekstra (Groningen, Netherlands)
Intracellular trafficking of fluorescently-labelled sphingolipids
15.10 D. Allan (London)
How short-chain ceramides kill cells
15.50 T. Futerman (Rehovot, Israel)
The roles of sphingolipids in regulating neuronal growth and development
16.30 Poster Session

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