国際細胞ストレス学会Cell stress society international (CSSI)は，細胞や生体のストレス応答とその分子レベルの制御に関して世界の研究者が学術交流と人的交流を深め，オフィシャルジャーナルモCell Stress and Chaperonesモを発行し、最新研究成果を全世界に公表する国際学術団体として1999年に設立されました。2003年に第1回国際会議をケベックシティ（カナダ）で開催して以来2年ごとに国際会議を開催しており，2005年第2回会議トマール（ポルトガル），2007年第3回会議ブダペスト（ハンガリー）と，世界各地で開催してきました。第4回国際会議は2009年に札幌で開催することになり，札幌医科大学佐藤昇志がお世話させて頂くことになりました。

　本国際会議は第4回臨床ストレス応答学会大会としても開催されます。臨床ストレス応答学会BSSRは，ストレス応答とその制御に関して基礎研究者と臨床医学研究者が交流を深め，臨床医学と基礎医学の境界にある領域の発展，さらには研究成果の臨床応用，創薬の進展に貢献する学会として，平成17年12月に設立されました。

　現在，国内外のCSSI会員，BSSR会員で組織委員会を結成し，以下のようなテーマでシンポジウムとワークショップを計画しております。このなかには文部科学省「タンパク質の社会」研究班との合同シンポジウム、「日本ハイパーサーミア学会」との合同シンポジウム、韓国細胞ストレス学会との合同シンポジウムなどもあり，国際色豊かで，基礎から臨床まで幅広い研究領域をカバーするユニークでInformativeな国際会議となるとなることは間違いありません。

　現在、参加登録および発表抄録の受付を開始しております。学生の皆様に多数ご参加いただくために、４日間の食事代込みの参加登録費を１万円としています。若い研究者のポスター発表賞も設けております。

　是非とも，多くの細胞生物学会会員、ポスドク、学生の皆様にご参加いただき，有意義で刺激的な4日間を楽しんでいただきたく，ご案内申し上げます。


札幌医科大学医学部病理学第一講座　教授　佐藤昇志

INVITATION

The 4th Cell Stress Society International (CSSI) Congress on Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine

Congress Date

Oct. 6 (Tue.)-9 (Fri.) 2009

Venue

Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo Hotel & Spa Resort

Abstract Submission Deadline

July 31 (Fri.) 2009

Early Registration Deadline

July 31 (Fri.) 2009

Online Registration Deadline

Aug. 31 (Mon.) 2009

Official web site

http://cssi-bssr2009.org/

It is a great pleasure and honor to invite you to the 4th Cell Stress Society International (CSSI) Congress on Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine, on October 6-9, 2009 in Sapporo, Japan. The cellular stress response is one of the most fundamental mechanisms for all living biological organisms. Cells live and maintain homeostasis by confronting and responding to different stressors not only in their internal, but also in their external milieu. There is increasing interest in research on such cellular stress responses in the field of biomedical science. Since such stress responses are considered to be evolutionarily highly conserved in almost all species of biologic organisms, some research could cross over to as yet different biological categories from E. coli to mammals and from basic to clinical medicine. In this congress, a distinguished international panel of speakers will discuss the most recent scientific progress on cellular stress responses from various and diverse points of view. This congress will also be jointly held in close with cooperation of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Society for Stress Response (BSSR) that was organized in Japan in 2006.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I hope that this joint meeting will contribute to promoting great progress in this field of biology and medicine. In addition, participants can enjoy the early month of October in the Sapporo area as well, when it is possible to enjoy sightseeing and to experience the wonderful nature and atmosphere of Hokkaido.


Noriyuki Sato, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee
The 4th Cell Stress Society International (CSSI) Congress on Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine
The 4th Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Society for Stress Response (BSSR)

Congress Secretariat

Toshihiko Torigoe, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
S-1, W-17, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, 060-8556 JAPAN
Phone (+81) 11-611-2111 (Ext. 2691)
(+81)11-613-8374
Fax (+81)11-643-2310
E-mail: stress2009@sapmed.ac.jp

Scientific Program

Hallmarks and New Horizons in Biomedical Stress Responses
* coordinator

October 6 (TUE)
Opening address
Laurence Hightower (University of Connecticut, USA)

Plenary lecture 1
Kazuhiro Nagata (Kyoto University, Japan)

Plenary lecture 2
Kenneth L. Rock (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)


October 7 (WED)

Symposium 1. ER Stress and diseases
　　　 *Kazutoshi Mori (Kyoto University, Japan)
　　　 *Seiichi Oyadomari (Tokushima University, Japan)
　　　 Richard Blumberg (Harvard Medical School, USA)
　　　 Hideki Nishitoh (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
　　　 Kenji Kohno (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Symposium 2. Dynamics of Protein Community: From Chaperones to Translocators
　　　 *Hideki Taguchi (Tokyo University, Japan)
　　　 *Kazutoyo Terada (Kumamoto University, Japan)
　　　 Toshiya Endo (Nagoya University, Japan)
　　　 Yukio Fujiki (Kyushu University, Japan)
　　　 Teru Ogura (Kumamoto University, Japan)

Symposium 3. Chaperonopathies: Involvement of Chaperones in Pathogenesis
　　　 *Alberto J. L. Macario (University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA)
　　　 *Hideaki Itoh (Akita University, Japan)
　　　 Francesco Cappello (University of Palermo, Italy)
　　　 Robert Tanguay (University of Laval, Canada)
　　　 Judith Fydman (Stanford University, USA)
　　　 Tangchun Wu ( Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)

Symposium 4. Metallothionein in biology and medicine
　　　 *Michael A. Lynes (University of Connecticut, USA)
　　　 *Masao Sato (Tokushima Bunri-University, Japan)
　　　 James Koropatnick (London Regional Cancer Program, UK)
　　　 Adrian West (University of Tasmania, Australia)

October 8 (THU)

CSS Korea-BSSR Joint Sympoium Pathobiology of Folding Diseases
　　　 *Donggeu Sul (Korea University, South Korea)
　　　 *Keiichi Higuchi (Sinsyu University, Japan)
　　　 +2-3 TBA

Symposium 5. Adaptation to Stress in Bacteria
　　　 *Hitoshi Nakamoto (Saitama University, Japan)
　　　 *Wolfgang Schumann (University of Bayreuth, Levanon)
　　　 Hirofumi Yoshikawa (Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan)
　　　 Franois Baneyx (University of Washington, USA)
　　　 Zengyi Chang (School of Life Sciences,Peking University,Beijing, P. R. China)

Symposium 6. Proteolysis, Autophagy and Cellular stress
　　　 *Keiji Tanaka (Tokyo Metropolitan Inst., Japan)
　　　 Noboru Mizushima (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
　　　 Claudina Pousada (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
　　　 Linda Hendershot (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
　　　 Antonio De Maio (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Symposium 7. Novel technologies for protein engineering and structural biology
　　　 *Ikuo Wada (Fukushima Medical School, Japan)
　　　 Takaharu Okajima (Hokkaido University, Japan)
　　　 Nina Malchus (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
　　　 Xavier Michalet (UCLA, USA)
　　　 Masataka Kinjo (Hokkaido University, Japan)

The CSSI Medallion Award lecture
　　　 Costa Georgopoulos (University of Utah, USA)

Symposium 8. Stress Proteins and Immune Responses
　　　 *Noriyuki Sato (Sapporo Medical University, Japan)
　　　 *Stuart Calderwood (Harvard Medical School, USA)
　　　 Nilabh Shastri (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
　　　 Christian Kurts (University of Bonn, Germany)

Symposium 9. New paradigm for heat shock response
　　　 *Akira Nakai (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
　　　 Lea Sistonen (Abo Akademi University and University of Turku, Finland)
　　　 Valerie Mezger (Ecole Normale Superieure, Molecularire du Stress, France)
　　　 Kazue Hashimoto-Torii (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)

Symposium 10. Role of Cellular Stress in Mental Disorders
　　　 *Kazuhito Rokutan (University of Tokushima, Japan)
　　　 *Tadafumi Kato (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan)
　　　 Carol Prives (Columbia University, USA)
　　　 James L. Manley (Columbia University, USA)

October 9 (FRI)
JSTM-BSSR Joint Symposium. New Frontiers of Hyperthermia Research
　　　 *Akihisa Takahashi (Nara Medical University, Japan)
　　　 Andrei Laszlo (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
　　　 Takeo Ohnishi (Nara Medical University, Japan)
　　　 Sharon Evans (Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA)
　　　 Yoshiaki Tabuchi (Toyama University, Japan)
　　　 Len Neckers (National Cancer Institute, USA)

Symposium 11. Molecular Chaperones and Diseases
　　　 *Tohru Mizushima (Kumamoto University, Japan)
　　　 *Gen Sobue (Nagoya University, Japan)
　　　 Eugene B. Chang (University of Chicago Medical Center, USA)
　　　 Paul J.Muchowski (University of Washington, USA)
　　　 Youjiro Niitsu (Sapporo Medical University, Japan)

The Alfred Tissieres Young Investigator Award (Award lecture)
　　　 Wanping Xu (National Cancer Institute, USA)

Young Investigator Award for Best Posters

Lunchon Seminar (EIZAI pharm. Co. Ltd.)

to be announced


Satellite Symposium (Cancer immunotherapy, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharm., Co. Ltd.)
　　　 Nilabh Shastri (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
　　　 Heiichiro Udono (RIKEN, Japan)
　　　 Tsukasa Seya (Hokkaido University, Japan)