Program-Friday, April 06, 2007 -5th day

Program-Friday, April 06, 2007 -5th day

INVITED LECTURE – 9 (Co-Chairs: Kathryn Robson, Yoshiro Niitsu)

08:30 am - 09:00 am

IL-17: Friedrich Ataxia

Helene Puccio, PhD

09:00 am - 09:30 am

IL-18: Cancer

Des Richardson, PhD

09:30 am - 10:00 am

IL-19: Anemia

Iain C. Macdougall, MD

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Break

PLENARY SESSION – 6 (Co-Chairs: Maria Linder, Frank Torti)

10:30 am - 10:50 am

O-71: HIGH ALTITUDE-INDUCED ERYTHROPOIESIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH DOWN-REGULATION OF IRON-RELATED PROTEINS AND MYOGLOBIN IN HUMAN SKELETAL MUSCLE

G. Cairo, PhD, P. Robach, PhD, C. Gelfi, PhD, F. Bernuzzi, PhD, H. Pilegaard, PhD, A. Viganò, PhD, P. Santambrogio, PhD, P. Cerretelli, MD, J. Calbet, MD, S. Moutereau, PhD and C. Lundby, PhD, University of Milan (Presented By: G. Cairo, PhD)

10:50 am - 11:10 am

PL-18: NOVEL APPROACH FOR ELUCIDATION OF IRON-INDUCED CARCINOGENESIS: OXYGENOMICS AND MICRO-RNA

S. Toyokuni, MD, PhD, K. Dutta, PhD and S. Akatsuka, PhD, Department of Pathology and Biology of Diseases/Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine (Presented By: S. Toyokuni, MD, PhD)

11:10 am - 11:30 am

PL-19: CERULOPLASMIN, HEPHAESTIN, AND FERROPORTIN IN RETINAL IRON HOMEOSTASIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RETINAL DISEASE MACULAR DEGENERATION

J. Dunaief, MD, PhD, P. Hahn, MD, PhD, T. Dentchev, MD, A. Donovan, PhD, N. Andrews, MD and L. Harris, MD, University of Pennsylvania (Presented By: J. Dunaief, MD, PhD)

11:30 am - 11:45 pm

Closing

11:45 pm - 01:15 pm

Lunch