NIH Special Interests Groups - Apoptosis Interest Group

Summary

Meeting time: Monthly, First Monday of each month, 4:00p.m.

Meeting place: Building 30, Conference Room 117

          Seminar schedule: See NIH Calendar of Events

Contact: Yves Pommier

Phone: 496-5944

Email: yp4x@nih.gov

Information on the Apoptosis Interest Group

• About the Apoptosis Interest Group

What is apoptosis?

• About apoptosis (a brief explanation of the concept based on the above diagram

NIH Bethesda Campus Apoptosis Research Groups

• Jonathan Ashwell (T lymphocyte apoptosis: Signaling, steroids, and role of Fas)
• Luciano d'Adamio (genes involved in T lymphocyte apoptosis)
• Eda Bloom (FDA) (induction of apoptosis in IL-2-activated NK cells)
• Jeffrey Cohen (Apoptosis and viral infection)
• Colin Duckett (Control of Programmed Cell Death by the TNF Receptor Superfamily)
• Curt Harris (p53-triggered apoptosis)
• Pierre Henkart (Cytotoxic lymphocyte mechanisms; caspases, granzymes, and lymphocyte apoptosis)
• Kenneth Jacobson (Purine receptors [adenosine and ATP] and apoptosis)
• Michael Lenardo (T lymphocyte apoptosis)
• Len Neckers (Apoptosis induced by cancer chemotherapy drugs, particularly taxol)
• Yves Pommier (Mechanism of apoptosis induced by DNA topoisomerase inhibitors)
• Steven Sabol (Molecular pathways of Apoptosis)
• Yun-bo Shi (Apoptosis in Xenopus development)
• Michail Sitkovsky (Thymocyte apoptosis by purinergic receptors)
• Richard Youle (Bcl-2 family mechanism; apoptosis by interferon pathways, RNase L)
• Sharon Wahl (Apoptosis in human monocytes)

Neighboring Apoptosis Research Groups

• Edgar Boedeker, U.Md. Center for Vaccine Devel., Baltimore (apoptosis induced by enteric bacteria and their toxins)
• Diane Godar, FDA, Rockville (Apoptosis induced by ultraviolet radiation and other chemical and biological agents)
• Marie Hardwick, Johns Hopkins Med. Sch., Baltimore (Apoptosis and viral infection)
• Antony Rosen, Johns Hopkins Med. Sch., Baltimore (Apoptotic proteolysis of autoimmune antigens)
• Thomas Sayers, NCI, Frederick (immune-mediated apoptosis of tumor cells)
• David Scott, Holland Red Cross Lab, Rockville (B lymphocyte apoptosis)
• Yufang Shi, Holland Red Cross Lab, Rockville (lymphocyte apoptosis)
• Mark Smulson, Georgetown Med. Sch., Washington, D.C. (Poly-ADP-ribose polymerase and apoptosis)
• Sarah Spiegel, Georgetown Med. Sch., Washington, D.C. (role of ceramides in apoptosis)
• Karen Vousden, NCI, Frederick (apoptosis induction by p53)
• Mark Williams, Holland Red Cross Lab, Rockville (T lymphocyte apoptosis)

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Last modified: January 31, 1997 by Pierre Henkart