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

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)

Poster session

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)

Closure - Denis SERVENT (SFET President)