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October 1 - 3, 2008 Rotterdam The Netherlands |

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2008
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Programme |
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Wednesday October 1, 2008 |
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11.30 REGISTRATION 13.30 Welcome Jan Trapman (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) |
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Session 1: Novel Technologies 13.45 Keynote speaker Michael Mancini (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA) Intranuclear dynamics of nuclear receptors and cofactors 14.20 René Houtman (Pamgene, ‘s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) Interaction of nuclear receptors with peptide motifs 14.40 Ian Mills (University of Cambridge, UK) Androgen target genes 15.00 Speaker selected from abstracts |
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15.15 – 15.45 BREAK + POSTER VIEWING |
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15.45 Fahri Saatcioglu (University of Oslo, Norway) Ligand-specific dynamics of the androgen receptor in living cells 16.05 Cor Kuil (Organon-Schering Plough, Oss, The Netherlands) Drug development on steroid hormone receptors 16.25 Speaker selected from abstracts 16.40 Keynote speaker Gordon Hager (NIH,Bethesda, USA) Subnuclear trafficking and gene targeting by steroid receptors |
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17.15 FINISH 18.00 – 19.30 RECEPTION |
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Thursday October 2, 2008, morning programme |
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Session 2: Transcriptional Control by Androgen Receptors I 09.00 Keynote speaker Wouter de Laat (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Inter-chromosomal gene regulation in the 09.35 Frank Claessens (University of Leuven, Belgium) The hinge region of the androgen receptor 09.55 Roland Schüle (Klinikum der Universität Freiburg, Germany) Androgen action and histone modifications 10.15 Speaker selected from abstracts |
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10.30 – 11.00 BREAK + POSTER VIEWING |
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11.00 Bernard Haendler (Bayer-Schering Pharma AG,Berlin, Germany) Functional consequences of AR acetylation 11.20 Craig Robson (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) Properties and expression of AR coregulators 11.40 Speaker selected from abstracts |
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11.55 – 14.30 LUNCH + POSTER SESSION |
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Thursday October 2, 2008, afternoon programme |
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Session 3: Transcriptional Control by Androgen Receptors II 14.30 Keynote speaker Marc Timmers (UMC, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Dynamic regulation of core promoter activity 15.05 Olli Jänne (University of Helsinki, Finland) Structural and functional analysis of androgen receptor 15.25 Guido Jenster (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Gene expression profiling of the human prostate zones 15.45 Speaker selected from abstracts |
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16.00 – 16.30 BREAK + POSTER VIEWING |
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16.30 Charlotte Bevan (Imperial College, London, UK) Mechanisms of androgen receptor repression 16.50 Speaker selected from abstracts 17.05 Keynote speaker Bas van Steensel (NKI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Genome-wide views of chromatin structure and function |
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17.40 POSTER AWARD CEREMONY 17.50 FINISH 20.00 CONGRESS DINNER |
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Friday October 3, 2008 |
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Session 4: Molecular Basis of Prostate Cancer 09.00 Keynote speaker Fritz Schröder (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Early detection of prostate cancer in 2008 09.35 Keynote speaker Steven Balk (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) AR, the cell cycle and prostate cancer 10.10 Norman Maitland (University of York, UK) Prostate cancer stem cells 10.30 Speaker selected from abstracts |
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10.45 – 11.15 BREAK |
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11.15 Ralf Hoffmann (Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Phosphodiesterases in prostate cancer 11.35 Frank de Jong (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Intraprostatic androgens and expression of androgen 11.55 Colin Cooper (Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK) Fusion transcripts in prostate cancer 12.15 Speaker selected from abstracts 12.30 Keynote speaker James Dalton (GTx, Inc, Memphis, USA) Structure-based design of selective androgen receptor modulators |
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13.05 CLOSURE |
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Contact: m.a.vandenakker@erasmusmc.nl |
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Androgens 2008 Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands |