Welcome - Denis SERVENT (SFET President)

Chairmen : Blandine GENY & Julien BARBIER

• Signalling pathways activated by Clostridium perfringens alpha-toxin

  Rick TITBALL (School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK)

• Attack of the central nervous system by Epsilon toxin from Clostridium perfringens : the cell targets and mechanisms

  Bernard POULAIN (Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Strasbourg, France)

• Lethal toxin from Clostridium sordellii modifies sequentially or independently several cellular signalling pathways

  Michel POPOFF (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

• Mechanisms of cell death caused by pore-forming clostridial toxins

  Alain VANDEWALLE (Centre de Recherche Biomédicale Bichat-Beaujon, Paris, France)

• How anthrax toxin orchestrates its own uptake into mammalian cells

  Gisou VAN DER GOOT (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

• From the interacting molecular surfaces of staphylococcal leucotoxins with membranes and their different impact on innate immunity

  Gilles PREVOST (Institut de Bactériologie, Strasbourg, France)

• Calcium-induced folding of the intrinsically disordered RTX motifs from Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase toxin

  Ana Cristina SOTOMAYOR PÉREZ (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
  

Poster session and Election of the SFET Directory Board

Chairmen : Michel POPOFF & Alain VANDEWALLE

• Pasteurella multocida toxin activation of heterotrimeric G proteins

  Klaus AKTORIES (Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany)

• Autophagy - part of an integrated cellular stress response

  Guido KROEMER (Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France)

• Multi-step endosomal retrograde sorting of Shiga toxin

  Vincent POPOFF (Laboratoire Trafic et Signalisation, Institut Curie, Paris, France)

• Calmodulin-induced conformational and hydrodynamic changes of the catalytic domain of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase

  Johanna KARST (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

• Inhibitors of large clostridial toxins: screening and structure

  Julien COULOMB (CEA, Simopro, Gif sur Yvette, France)

  
  

General Assembly of the SFET

Chairmen : Gilles PREVOST & Bernard POULAIN

• Recent developments on the mechanism of action of marine phycotoxins

  Amparo ALFONSO (Departamento de Farmacología. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain)

• Maurocalcine-derivatives as biotechnological tools for the penetration of cell-impermeable compounds

  Michel DE WAARD (Institute of Neuroscience, Grenoble, France)

• New compounds inhibiting specifically toxin trafficking through the retrograde pathway

  Julien BARBIER (CEA, Simopro, Gif sur Yvette, France)

• Gamma-Haemolysin HlgB/HlgC induces glutamate release from granular neurons of rat cerebellum after intracellular calcium mobilization

  Emmanuel JOVER (Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Strasbourg, France)

• Maturation of toxins in the venom duct of Conus textile

  Rowan DOBSON (Université de Liège, Belgique) 

• A non-invasive method to appraise time-dependent effects of toxins on the mouse neuromuscular excitability in vivo

  Delphine BOERIO (CNRS, Neurobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Gif sur Yvette, France)

• Proteomic analyses for the characterization of toxicity pathways and their interactions in human cells: learning from marine biotoxins

  Gian Paolo ROSSINI (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy)

• About the antalgic effect of scorpion alpha and beta toxins

  Najwa ABBAS (CNRS, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France)

  
  

Chairmen : Jordi MOLGO & Alexandre CHENAL 

• Ciguatoxins : an overview of their receptor modulation and neurocellular disorders

  César MATTEI (DGA, Paris)

• First high resolution picture of a venom apparatus transcriptome : the case of the Conus consors cone snail

  Yves TERRAT (CEA, SPI, Gif sur Yvette, France)

• Design of antibody-reactive peptides from discontinuous parts of scorpion toxins

  Claude GRANIER (CNRS, Montpellier)

• Genèse de l’œdème pulmonaire induit par le venin d’Androctonus australis hector et ses toxines : rôles de médiateurs inflammatoires

  Fatima LARABA-DJEBARI (Institut Pasteur, Alger, Algérie)

• Nouvelle approche d’identification de peptides à visée thérapeutique à partir de librairie de venins

  Kamel MABROUK (Université Aix-Marseille, France)