Mini Symposium 1

Monday, 19th December 2005

16:30 – 18:00	Mini Symposium 1 : (Symphony) (Parallel to Mini Symposium 2 & 3) Chairs : Paul Sebastian & G M Nair
16.30 – 16.40	Manipulation of MAPK signal transduction: A rational therapy for prostate cancer? Hari K Koul Thomas Johnson, Randall B. Meacham & Sweaty Koul USA
16.40 – 16.50	Apoptotic Mechanisms of NSAID Chemoprevention in Human Oral Epithelial Cell Lines Steven M. D'Ambrosio Chunhua Han & Haiming Ding USA
16.50 – 17.00	A Novel Approach to Inhibit Mammary Cancer Development by Inhibitors of P-glycoprotein Sarma SR. Dittakavi¹ Janathanan Kankesan¹, Lakshmi A. Venugopal¹, Jake Thiessen², Victor Ling³, Prema M. Rao¹ & Srinivasan Rajalakshmi¹ Canada
17.00 – 17.10	Role of Twist in invasion and metastasis of breast cancer Venu Raman* Farhad Vesuna, Yelena Mironchik & Paul Winnard USA
17.10 – 17.20	Down-regulation of Cyclooxygenase-2 and Telomerase activity by dideoxypetrosynol A, a polyacetylene from the sponge Petrosia sp., in U937 human monocytic leukamia cells Yung Hyun Choi^1* Nam Deuk Kim², Jee H. Jung², Taeg Kyu Kwon³ & Do Sik Min⁴ South Korea
17.20 – 17.30	Enhanced Cytotoxicity and Inhibition of Cyclooxygenase-2 by Combination of Curcumin and Diallyl Trisulfides (DATS) in HEK 293T Cells Elango Erode Murugaian Asita Haq, Parvathy Gopalakrishnan & Saritha India
17.30 – 17.40	Molecular Basis of Thymoquinone as a Promising Candidate in Apoptotic Cell Death Pathway and Cancer Chemotherapy Altaf A. Wani^1,2,3* Mohamed A. El-Mahdy¹, Qianzheng Zhu¹, Qi-En Wang¹ & Gulzar Wani¹ USA
17.40 – 17.50	Heat shock protein inhibitors as potential agents to bypass drug resistance: Study using drug resistant cancer cells T.R.Santhosh Kumar India
17.50 – 18.00	Caspase-,sphingosine- and mitochondrial dysfunction-dependent mechanisms of lysosomal leakage and cathepsin B activation in DNA damage-induced apoptosis Richard Bertrand^{1, 2} Claudie Paquet¹, Nicolas Parent¹, Alain-Théophile Sané¹& Myriam Beauchemin¹ Canada
18.00 – 18.10	Yes-Associated Protein, A p53 Family Member Modulator, Is A Potential Tumour Suppressor Subham Basu* Ming Yuan, Samuel Lattimore, Safia Ali, Jose Sivera & Louise Jones UK
18.10 – 18.20	Molecular Regulation of Selenium-induced Prostate Cancer Cell Death: Is 5-Lipoxygenase a Target of Selenium ? Jagadananda Ghosh & Sathish Sundaram Vattikuti USA
18.20 – 18.30	Expression of the X-chromosome RBMX, RBM3 and RBM10 genes is associated with the expression of apoptosis-related genes in breast cancer José Schneider^1,2, Fernando Martínez-Arribas^1,2 David Agudo¹, Francisco Gómez-Esquer¹ Gema Díaz-Gil, Raul Lucas² & José Schneider^1,2 Spain²