21st Meeting of the French Society of Toxinology (SFET)

"Freshwater and Marine Toxins"

9th - 10th December 2013, Pasteur Institute (François Jacob Auditorium)
Paris - France

| Ecology, Diversity and Biosynthesis

• Kaarina SIVONEN
  Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, Univ. Helsinki, Finland
  Cyanobacterial toxins and bioactive compounds
• Katrin KITTLER
  Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
  The Mystery of the Metabolic Activation of Cylindrospermopsin. To be confirmed.
• Vitor VASCONCELOS
  Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Porto University, Portugal
  Ecotoxicology of cyanobacterial toxins: is there a trend?
• John A. AASEN BUNAES
  School of Vet. Science. Dpt of Food Safety & Infection Biology,Oslo, Norway
  Uptake of AZAs in Minipigs, Toxicological Evaluation

• Philipp HESS
  Ifremer, Laboratoire Phycotoxines, Nantes, France
  GdR PHYCOTOX : an Interdisciplinary Research Network on Toxic Algae, their Toxins & Effects on Ecosystem and Society

• Daniel SHER
  School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel
  Comparison of the nematocyst content from a jellyfish, a sea anemone and a hydra reveals core and flexible components of the secreted venom

| Genomic, Transcriptomic, Proteomicand Analysis

• Muriel GUGGER
  Collection des cyanobactéries, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
  Toxins and other secondary metabolites potential in the Cyanobacterial Phylum
• Annick MÉJEAN
  Biochemistry, ENSCP, Paris, France
  Biosynthesis of the Cyanobacterial Neurotoxins Anatoxin-a and Homoanatoxin-a: from the Genome to the Metabolites
• Sébastien DUTERTRE
  Institute for MolecularBiosciences, University of Queensland, Australia
  The messiness of cone snail venom evolution
• Loïc QUINTON
  Faculté des Sciences, Liège, Belgium
  Attribution of cystein connectivity in the conotoxins: new prospects based on partial oxidation/reduction experiments and ion-mobility mass spectrometry

| Genomic, Transcriptomic, Proteomicand Analysis

• Damien REVEILLON
  Ifremer, Laboratoire Phycotoxines, Nantes, France
  Beta-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA): Optimization of Identification and Quantification in Biological Samples
• Zita ZENDONG
  Ifremer, Laboratoire Phycotoxines, Nantes, France
  Extended Evaluation of Mixed-mode and Lipophilic Sorbents for Passive Sampling of Marine Toxins
• Ronald MAUL
  Department of Quality. Leibniz, Großbeeren, Germany
  Enhanced LC-MS/MS-Analysis of Cylindrospermopsin in Plant and Freshwater Matrices Using the Stable Isotope Dilution Assay
• Fernando M. RUBIO
  Abraxis LLC, Warminster, USA
  Development and Validation of a Colorimetric Microtiter Plate Based Receptor-Binding Assays for the Determination of Fresh Water and Marine Toxins Using the Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor

| Mode of action and Pharmacology

• Jan TYTGAT
  Laboratory of Toxicology, University of Leuven, Belgium
  Sea anemone toxins: from lab bench discovery to commercial drugs ?
• Steve PEIGNEUR
  Toxicology and Pharmacology, University of Leuven, Belgium
  When Cone Snails and Spiders meet: Design of Selective and Potent Sodium Channel Inhibitors

• Eline K. M. LEBBE
  Toxicology and Pharmacology, University of Leuven, Belgium
  Structure-Function Elucidation of a new α-conotoxin, Lo1a, from Conus longurionis
• Katharina ZIMMERMANN
  Pathophysiology University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  How the sodium channel activators ciguatoxins cause burning pain from cooling ?
• César MATTÉI
  Récepteurs et canaux ioniques, Université d’Angers, France
  Current Knowledge on Ciguatoxins Mode of Action

• Yves BOURNE
  AFMB, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
  Diversity in the binding interactions of marine toxins to AChBP, the soluble nAChR surrogate
• Jane KILCOYNE
  Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland
  Isolation of Minor and Novel Azaspiracids – Structure Elucidation and Toxicology
• Jennifer GERAGHTY
  Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland
  In vivo Study of Azaspiracids in Mini Pigs

| Miscellaneous

• Daniel LADANT
  Biochimie des Interactions Macromoléculaires, CNRS UMR 3528. Institut Pasteur
  Voltage- and Calcium-Dependent Translocation of Bordetella pertussis Adenylate Cyclase (CyaA) Toxin across a Tethered Lipid Bilayer
• Grazyna FAURE
  Institut Pasteur, Unité Récepteurs-Canaux, Paris
  GLIC, a Proton-Gated Ion Channel from Gloeobacter violaceus as a New Target for Phospholipase A2
• Rym BENKHALIFA
  Lab. des Venins et Molécules Thérapeutiques, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia
  A Novel Toxin Variant from the Androctonus australis hector Scorpion Venom Selectively Activates Kv7.4 Channel

Closure. Denis SERVENT (SFET President)