30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Photobiology

Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac
Quebec City, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 13-17, 2002

Schedule (as of 6/14/02)


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MONDAY, JULY 15
7:00-9:00am
Place D'Armes/
Jacques Cartier
   Continental Breakfast/Exhibits/Poster Viewing I
8:00-9:00am
Salle de Bal

Photobiology School Lecture 2

The Determination of Immune Protection Factors of Sunscreens
1A. Young, 2A. Fourtanier, 1Kings College, London, UK, 2Recherche Clichy, France

   
9:00-12:00pm
Frontenac
A3 Photoimmunology
Chairs: Paul Bergestrasser, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX and, Margaret Kripke, UT M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
   
9:00am
Photoimmunology--Where have we been? Where are we going?
M. Kripke, Department of Immunology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
9:15am
Photoimmunology in Quebec City: Where are we Going Today?
P. Bergestrasser, UT Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, TX
9:30am
Comparing the Effects of T4 liposomes, RNA fragments, and Photoprotective Lotion on UV-induced Immune Suppression in Human Subjects.
1,2E. Baron, 1F. Swain, 3M. Matsui, 3T.Mammone, 3K. Marenus, 3D. Maes, 1K. Cooper, 1,2S. Stevens, 1Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, 2D Louis Stokes Veterns Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 3Estee Lauder Companies, Melville, NY
10:00am
An Integral Role of CD80/CD86-CD152 Co-stimulation in Murine Photocarcinogenesis
1S. Beissert, 2J. Bluestone, 3A. Sharpe, 1T.Schwarz, 1A. Scherer, 1University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, 2UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 3HarvardUniversity, Boston, MA
10:15am
Cis-urocanic Acid Acts as a 5-HT Receptor Agonist
1Walterscheid, D. Nghiem, S. Ullrich, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
10:30am
Cis-urocanic Acid Causes Immunosuppression Through 5-HT Receptor Signaling
D. Nghiem, J. Walterscheid, S. Ullrich, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
10:45am
Immune Function in the Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor (HGF/SF) Transgenic Mouse Model of Ultraviolet (UV) Irradiation-induced Melanoma
1,3H. Poetschke Klug, 2F. Noonan, 3G. Merlino, 1National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD, 2George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., 3National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
11:00am
UV Fingerprint and Oxygen Radical Mediated Genetic Damage Occur at Different Depths in the p53 Gene of Solar Keratosis and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin in Humans
1N. Agar, 1G. Halliday, 1R. Barnetson, 3M.Wheeler, 2A. Jones, 1University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, 3Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW
11:15am
Telomerase Reactivation and p53 Mutation in Solar Keratosis
1,2A. Jones, 1,2N. Agar, 1,2A. Nikolic, 1,2R.Barnetson, 1,2G. Halliday, 1University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW
11:30am
Influence of Adaptation to UVB on UVB-induced Immunosuppression
1,2A. Sleijffers, 1J. Garssen, 3F. De Gruijl, 4G.Boland, 4J. Van Hattum, 1H. Van Loveren, 1National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 2University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands, 4University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
11:45am
UV pre-exposure Increaseses the Severity of Buruli Ulcer Disease (BUD)
1R. Cope, 1J. Hartman, 1C. Morrow, 1W.Haschek, 2P. Small, 1University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2Walters Life Sciences, Knoxville, TN
   
9:00am-12:00pm
Salle de Bal
B3 PDT: Oxidative Interactions
Chairs: Albert Girotti, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI and Giulio Jori, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
   
9:00am
Photosensitized Lipid Peroxidation and Apoptotic Killing in 5-aminolevulinate-treated COH-BR1 Cells: Protective Effects of Mitochondrial GPX4 Overexpression
1A. Girotti, 1T. Kriska, 1,2W. Korytowski, 1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
9:25am
Photodynamic Properties of a Series of Zinc Tetrasubstituted Phthalocyanines
S. Brown, University of Leeds
9:50am
Phthalocyanines as Phototherapeutic Agents for the Treatment of Microbial Infections
G. Jori, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
10:15am
Break
10:40am
Dendritic Cells and PDT
1Hunt, S. Wang, D. King, H.Jiang, R. Salmon, QLT, Inc., Vancouver, B.C.
11:05am
Monitoring Real-time Tumor Response in the Rat During PDT Using Positron Emission Tomography
van Lier, R. Lecomte, M. Bentourkia, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
11:30am
Analysis of Cellular Respiration Changes In the RIF-1 Tumor in response to Photodynamic Therapy with Verteporfin
1X. Zhou, 1B. Pogue, 2J. O'Hara, 2C.Wilmot, 2H. Swartz, 1Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2Department Medical School, Hanover, NH
11:45am
Photodynamic Therapy with Toluidine Blue in K562 Leukemic Cells
S. Dussault, G. Viau, R. Bissonnette, Hopital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
   
9:00am-12:00pm
Laval
C3 DNA Repair: Cellular Signaling and Tumour Suppressors
Chairs: Elliott Drobetsky, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Alain Sarasin, CNRF, Villejuif, France
   
9:00am
Activation of Some Signaling Pathways in Skin Tumours from DNA Repair Deficient Xeroderma Pigmentosum Patients
1A. Sarasin, 1L.ljhn Day-a-Grosjean, 1S. Queille, 2N.Soufir, 2N. Basset-Seguin, 1J. Ehrhart, 1Laboratory of Genetic Instability and Cancer, Villejuif, France, 2Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
9:25am
Modulation of the DNA Damage Response in UV-exposed Human Cells Through Genetic- vs. Functional-inactivation of the p53 Tumor Suppressor
1E. Drobetsky, 1C. Leger, 1G. Mathonnet, 1J.Therrien, 2R. Drouin, 3M. Alaoui-Jamali, 1University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 3McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
9:50am
Recombination Functions of BRCA1
R. Scully, N. Puget, I. Shim, 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
10:15am
Break
10:45am
Mechanism of p53 and BRCA1 Tumor Suppressor Genes in Regulating Nucleotide Excision Repair
J. Ford, S. Adimoolam, M. Fitch-Bruhns, A.Hartman, Stanford University School of Medicine and Genetics, Stanford, CA
11:10am
P53 and ING1: Enhancing the Repair of UV-damaged DNA to Suppress Skin Cancer Development
G. Li, K. Cheung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
11:35am
The Role of a Yeast Homologue of the Human Phosphatase Activator hPTPA in the Cellular Response to Oxidative DNA Damage
1J. David, 1X. Yang, 1D. Ramotar, 2L.Gaudreau, 1Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
   
9:00am-12:00pm
Bellevue
D3 Contributed Papers Platform Session
Chairs: Rebecca Goyan, Royal Military College of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and John Simon, Duke University, Durham, NC
   
9:00am
Inter-domain Crosstalks within the Phytochrome A Protein: Functional Implications
1P. Song, 2J. Kim, 1G. Choi, 1C.Park, 1University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Kwangju, Korea, 2University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
9:15am
Chloroplast Movement in Alocasia Does Not Shorten Gas Diffusion Pathlength as Measured by Photoacoustics
1T. Vogelmann, 2H. Gorton, 3S. Herbert, 1University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 2St. Mary's College of Maryland, MD, 3University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
9:30am
Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of the Structural Morphology of Sepia Eumelanin
Y. Liu, C. Clancy, J. Simon, Duke University, Durham, NC
9:45am
Subcellular Photodynamics of Porphyrins Using Two-photon Excitation
1R. Goyan, 2D. Cramb, 2K. Samkoe, 2J.Bogle, 1R. Watering, 1R. Pottier, 1E. Gudgin Dickson, 1Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
10:00am
Structural Requirements for Efficient Cellular Photoprotection by Carotenoid Derivatives.
1,2J. Kanofsky, 1P. Sima, 1Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL
10:15am
Triplet vs. Singlet and Energy-Transfer vs. Charge-Transfer Interactions of Metallo-Phthalocyanines with (Hydro)Peroxides
T. Gantchev, J. Van Lier, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
10:30am
Role of Secondary ROS in Transducing Membrane Photosensitization to Nuclear Damage
G. Ouedraogo, R. Redmond, H. Lilber, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
10:45am
Photodegradation Rates of Bacteriorhodopsin
D. Sammeth, J. McIntyre, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
11:00am
Targeted Photodynamic Therapy for Staphylococcus aureus Soft Tissue Infections in vivo Monitored by Bioluminescence Imaging
1,2M. Hamblin, 1,2T. Zahra, 3K. Francis, 1,2T.Hasan, 1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 3Xenogen Corporation, Alameda, CA
11:15am
Primary Photophysics Following UV-A Photoexcitation of Pheomelanin
J. Simon, T. Ye, Duke University, Durham, NC
11:30am
Writing on the Genome - Focused Induction of UV Photoproducts in Cell nuclear DNA by Three-Photon Infra-red Laser Radiation.
1R. Meldrum, 2S. Botchway, 2G. Hirst, 1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 2Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK
11:45am
Interaction of Plasmenylcholine with Singlet Oxygen and Free Radicals
1J. Kalinowska-Tluscik, 1,2M. Norek, 2D. Thompson, 1T.Sarna, 1Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
   
12:00-1:30pm
Le Champlain,
Library Room
Past President's Lunch
   
1:30-2:30pm
Salle de Bal

ASP Presidential Lecture

Microbial Rhodopsins: Genome-mining and Structure/Function Relationships in Transport and Signal Transduction
J. Spudich, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

   
2:30-5:30pm
Frontenac
A4 Contributed Papers Platform Session
Chairs: Joseph Zuclich, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, San Antonio, TX and Holly Gorton, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's, MD
   
2:30pm
Varying Levels of Dietary Vitamins E and C Does Not Ameliorate - Carotene Exacerbation of UV-carcinogenesis
H. Black, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2:45pm
Effects of Solar Radiation on Photosynthesis in Macroalgae
D. Häder, M. Lebert, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Staudtstr, Erlangen, Germany
3:00pm
UV Radiation and the Snow Alga Chlamydomonas nivalis
1H. Gorton, 2T. Vogelmann, 1St. Mary's College of Maryland, MD, 2University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
3:15 PM
Visual Significance of Yellow Optical Filters
S. Zigman, Boston University School of Medicine, Woods Hole, MA
3:30pm
Near-UV/Blue Light - induced Fluorescence in the Human Lens: Potential Veiling Glare Interference with Visual Function.
J. Zuclich, F. Previc, B. Novar, P.Edsall, Northrop Grumman, San Antonio, TX
3:45pm
UV Visible Radiation Hazards To Lens And Aqueous Humour Protein of the Rabbits' Eye
F. El Refaei, Cairo, Egypt
4:00pm
Childhood UV Doses: Reality versus Myth
1D. Godar, 2F. Urbach, 3F. Gasparro, 4J.van der Leun, 1US Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD, 2Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 3Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 4Ecofys Utrecht, The Netherlands
4:15pm
Does an Environmental PCB/PCDF Mixture Enhance Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Skin Cancer?
C. Morrow, K. Imsilp, L. Hanse, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
4:30pm
Monitoring Tissue Oxygenation and Viability by Non-invasive Spectrally Resolved Reflectance Imaging as Applied to Chlorin e6-based Photodynamic Therapy
1,2S. Kimel, 2G. Kostenich, 2A. Orenstein, 1Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
4:45pm
Photodynamic Therapy with Verteporfin Increases Tumor pO2 and Enhances the Effect of Radiation Therapy in the RIF-1 Tumor
1B. Pogue, 2J. O'Hara, 1X. Zhou, 2C.Wilmot, 2H. Swartz, 1Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
5:00pm
Mycosporine Like Amino Acids as Potential Cosmetic UV Agents?
K. Berg, Roche Vitamins, Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
5:15pm
Effects of Combined PDT and Ionising Radiation or Hyperthermia on Human Glioma Spheroids
1,2H. Hirschberg, 2,3S. Madsen, 2B. Thromberg, 1Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, 2University of California, Irvine, CA, 3University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
   
2:30pm-5:30pm
Salle de Bal
B4 ALA-mediated PDT
Chairs: Roy Pottier, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Johan Moan, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway
   
This syposium is sponsored in part by DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
   
2:30pm
In vivo Generation of PpIX from ALA and ALA Derivatives
J. Moan, P. Juzenas, A. Juzeniene, S. Stakland, L. Ma, V. Iani, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway
3:00pm
Regulation of Porphyrin Synthesis and the Roles of Cytosolic and Nuclear Porphobilinogen Deaminase (PBGD).
Z. Malik, L. Greenbaum, Y. Gozlan, D.Schwartz, D. Katcoff, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
3:30pm
Current Status of DUSA's Development of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) Using Levulan (aminolevulinic acid HCl)
S. Marcus, DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Valhalla, NY
4:00pm
BREAK
4:15pm
Dermatologic Applications of PDT
A. Oseroff, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
4:45pm
The in vivo Monitoring of ALA-induced Fluorescence
R. Pottier, The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
5:15pm
Photodynamic Therapy with both Topical or Systemic Aminolevulinic Acid Delays the Appearance of UV-induced Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Hairless Mice
Y. Liu, G. Viau, R. Bissonnette, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
   
2:30pm- 5:30pm
Laval
C4 DNA Repair Enzymology
Chairs: Darel Hunting and Eric Moon-Shong Tang, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX
   
2:30pm
Base Excision Repair of Oxidative DNA Damage in Mammalian Cells: The Early Steps
S. Boiteux, Fontenay aux Roses, France
3:00pm
An Interesting Region within the Putative Nuclease Domain of E. coli Endonuclease V
1Y. Kow, 2M. Hashimoto, 1B. Imhoff, 3L.Bazaar, 1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2NYU Medical School, Tuxedo, NY, 3Trevigen, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD
3:30pm
Transcription-coupled DNA Repair is Genomic Context Dependent
1Z. Feng, 1W. Hu, 1E. Komissarova, 2A.Pao, 2M. Hung, 2G. Adair, 1M. Tang, 1New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY, 2University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas
4:00pm
Break
4:30pm
Transcription-coupled and Global Genome Repair Differentially Influence Ultraviolet-B Induced Acute Skin Effects, Langerhans Cell Migration, Local and Systemic Immunosuppression
1J. Garssen, 2W. Igen, 1H. Van Steeg, 3B.Van Der Horst, 1H. Van Loveren, 1H. Van Kranen, 4F. De Gruijl, 3J. Hoeijmakers, 1National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 2University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 4Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
4:45pm
Efficient Repair of UV-induced DNA Damage in Terminally Differentiated Human Keratinocytes
1,2D. Oh, 2K. Yeh, 1University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
5:00pm
DNA Repair and Signal Transduction
D. Yarosh, AGI Dermatics, Freeport, NY
   
2:30pm-5:30pm
Bellevue
D4 Blue Light Receptors in Plants and Bacteria
Chairs: Goldgang Gartner, Max-Planck-Inst. For Radiation Chemistry, Mulheim, Germany
   
2:30pm
Cryptochromes - Not Cryptic Any Longer
A. Batschauer, O. Kleiner, M. Mueller, O.Panajotow, Phillips University, Marburg, Germany
3:00pm
Phototropins: Light-driven Molecular Switches in Plants
1R. Bogomolni, 2T. Swartz, 1S. Corchnoy, 1P.Wenzel, 2J. Christie, 2W. Briggs,
1University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA
3:30pm
Phototropin Function in Fern and Arabidopsis
M. Wada, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
4:00pm
Break
4:30pm
Photophysics, Photochemistry and Structural Modeling of Phototropin-related Prokaryotic Proteins: A New Family of Bacterial Blue-light Receptors
A. Losi, Max-Planck Institut for Strahlenchemie, Mnlheim an der Ruhr, Germany and Instituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Parma, Italy
5:00pm
Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase (PAC): A Novel Blue-light Receptor Flavoenzyme Mediating Euglena Photomovement
1M. Iseki, 2S. Matsunaga, 3A. Murakami, 4K.Shiga, 5M. Sugai, 6T. Takahashi, 7D. Hader, 1,8M. Watanabe, 1National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, 2University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 3Kobe University Research Center for Inland Seas, Iwaya, Japan, 4Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan, 5Toyam University, Toyam, Japan, 6Toho University, Funabashi, Japan, 7Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany, 8Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
   
5:30pm-6:00pm President's Member Reception
6:00pm-6:40pm
Salle de Bal
Business Meeting

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