FREE RADICALS IN MONTEVIDEO 2007  

FINAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

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ABBREVIATED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 

V Meeting of SFRBM-South American Group

 and

 V International Conference on Peroxynitrite and Reactive Nitrogen Species

  

Conference Chair:  Rafael Radi

Conference Vice-Chairs:  Homero Rubbo and Ana Denicola

  

Radisson-Victoria Plaza Hotel

Montevideo, Uruguay

September 2- 6, 2007

  

SUNDAY, September 2nd., 2007

 

14:00 -18:00  Registration
 
18:00 -18:15 Welcome, 

Chair of the Congress, Dr. Rafael Radi and 

Mayor of the city of Montevideo, Dr. Ricardo Ehrlich

 
18:15 - 19:15 Opening Plenary Lecture, Dr. Louis Ignarro, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Chair:  Alberto Boveris
 
19:30 - 20:00  Tango Concert
   
20:00 - 22:00 Welcome Reception

               

MONDAY, September 3th., 2007

 

08:30 - 09:15 Plenary Lecture 1  Ohara Augusto, Chair:  Jack Lancaster
09:15 - 10:25 Plenary Lecture Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Chair: Ana Denicola
10:00 - 10:30  Café y Alfajores
10:30 - 12:10

PARALLEL SESSIONS Colloquium 1 Oxygen radical chemistry and detection (Ronald Mason; F. A. Villamena, Celia Quijano, Etelvino Bechara) Chair:  Peter Wardman
Colloquium 2 Cyclooxygenase, Lipid Peroxidation and Nitrolipids (Lawrence Marnett, Dulcinea Abdalla, Valerie O´Donnell, Andrés Trostchansky) Chairs:  Bruce A. Freeman
13:00 - 14:00   FREE RADICAL SCHOOL Redox Thermodynamics (Willem Koppenol)
EPR Detection of Free Radicals in Biology (Natalia Romero)
14:15 - 15:15 WORKSHOP Fluorescent Probes for Oxidative and Nitrative Stress, Mike Janes
15:30 -17:30 POSTER SESSION
17:00 Café y Alfajores
17:40 - 19:45

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Colloquium 3 Redox biology:  metals and thiols (Madia Trujillo, Alejandro Vila, Vadim Gladyshev), Chair: James K. Hurst
Colloquium 4 Signal Transduction (Henry J. Forman, Francisco Schopfer, A. Daiber, F.T. Ogata, C. Merino Gutierrez) Chair:  Francisco Laurindo

           

TUESDAY, September 4th., 2007

 

08:30 - 09:15 Plenary Lecture 3 JD Morrow, Chair:  Homero Rubbo
09:15 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 4 Volker Ullrich, Chair: Lawrence Marnett
 
10:00 - 10:30 Café y Alfajores
 
10:30 - 12:10   PARALLEL SESSIONS Colloquium 5 Nitric oxide and peroxynitrite in redox vascular biology (Francisco Laurindo; Jeanette Vazquez Vivar; Santiago Lamas, C. Szabo) Chair:  Volker Ullrich
Colloquium 6

Inflammation, Oxidants and Myeloperoxidase in Disease (Helmut Sies, Anibal Vercesi, Matthew Grisham, A. J. Kettle)  Chair:  Joseph Beckman

 
13:00 - 14:00 FREE RADICAL SCHOOL Reaction Kinetics in Free-Radical Biology (Peter Wardman)
Biological detection of superoxide (Laura Castro)
 
14:15 - 15:15 WORKSHOP Analysis of nitrated lipids by mass spectrometry, Paul Baker
 
15:30 -17:30 POSTER SESSION
 
17:00 Café y Alfajores
 
17:40 - 19:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Colloquium 7 Peroxynitrite Chemistry and Biochemistry (J.K. Hurst, W. Koppenol, S. Bartesaghi, E.C. Kennett) Chair:     Gerardo Ferrer-Sueta
Colloquium 8

Mammalian Host Cell-Pathogen Interactions (Leopold Flohé, S. R. Wilkinson, Marcelo Comini, Susana Romao, H. C. Santiago)  Chair:  Henry Forman   

    

WEDNESDAY, September 5th., 2007

 

08:30 - 09:15 Plenary Lecture 5 Dennis Stuehr, Chair:  Bruce A. Freeman
09:15 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 6 Claudio Fernandez, Chair:  Leopold Flohé
10:00 - 10:30  Café y Alfajores
10:30 - 12:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Colloquium 9 Mitochondria and Apoptosis (E. Cadenas,  Juan J. Poderoso, Alberto Boveris, F. Klamt)  Chair:  Alberto Boveris
Colloquium 10

Neurodegeneration and neuroprotection (Patricia Cassina, Joao  Laranjinha, A. Di Stasi, L. F. Barbosa) Chair:  Luis Barbeito

13:00 - 14:00 FREE RADICAL SCHOOL Nitric Oxide Diffusion and Reactions (Jack Lancaster)
Working with redox enzymes to study free radical processes (Beatriz Alvarez)
14:15 - 15:15 WORKSHOP High resolution respirometry, Erich Gnaiger
15:30 -17:30 POSTER SESSION
17:00 Café y Alfajores
17:40 - 19:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Colloquium 11

Nitration, Nitrosation and Oxidation in Protein Function (Joseph Beckman, José Souza, T. Tiago, Leonor Thomson, Bruce A. Freeman)  Chair: Matthew Grisham

Colloquium 12 Antioxidant interventions and repair systems (F. Leighton, M. G. Traber, Virginia Junqueira, G. V. López, M. P. Barros) Chair:  Federico Leighton

   

THURSDAY, September 6th., 2007

 

09:30 - 10:15 Plenary Lecture 7  Balz Frei, Chair: Juan José Poderoso
10:15 - 11:00 Plenary Lecture 8 Valerian Kagan, Chair:  Rafael Radi
 
11:00 - 11:30 Young Investigator Awards And Closing
 
12:00 - 13:00 Farewell reception in the Teatro Solis
 
13:00 -14:00 Guided visit (complimentary) to the Teatro Solis (Optional)

     

PLENARY LECTURERS 

Louis Ignarro (Opening Lecture)  

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  

Ohara Augusto (Brazil) 

Claudio Fernández (Argentina) 

Balz Frei (USA) 

Jay Heinecke (USA) 

Valerian Kagan (USA) 

Balaraman Kalyanaraman (USA) 

Jason Morrow (USA) 

Volker Ullrich (Germany) 

 

CONFIRMED INVITED SESSION SPEAKERS AND CHAIRS

Dulcinea Abdalla (Brazil)

Virginia Junqueira (Brazil)  

Beatriz Alvarez (Uruguay)

Wim Koppenol (Switzerland)  

Paul Baker (USA)

Santiago Lamas (Spain)

Luis Barbeito (Uruguay)

Jack Lancaster (USA)

Etelvino Bechara (Brazil)

Joao Laranjinha (Portugal)

Joseph S. Beckman (USA)

Francisco Laurindo (Brazil)

Alberto Boveris  (Argentina)

Federico Leighton (Chile)

Enrique Cadenas (USA)

Larry Marnett (USA)

Patricia Cassina (Uruguay)

Ronald Mason (USA)

Laura Castro (Uruguay)

Valerie O´Donnell (Wales)

Leopold Flohé (Germany)

Juan José Poderoso (Argentina)

Henry Forman (USA)

Francisco Schopfer (USA)

Bruce A. Freeman (USA)

Helmut Sies (Germany)

Vadim Gladyshev (USA)

José Souza (Uruguay)

Dr. Erich Gnaiger (Austria) Dennis Stuehr (USA)

Sara Goldstein (Israel)

Madia Trujillo (Uruguay)
Matthew Grisham (USA)

Jeannette Vazquez Vivar (USA)

Jay Heinecke

Anibal Vercesi (Brazil)

James Hurst (USA)

Alejandro Vila (Argentina)

Mike Janes (USA)

Peter Wardman (England)

Shane Wilkinson (England)