Fanconi Anemia Research Fund

Oral Presentations Fanconi Anemia Scientific Symposium
September 29 - October 2 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

Alpi, Arno	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom	Determining the Assembly and Activity of the FA Nuclear Complex.
Auerbach, Arleen	Laboratory of Human Genetics and Hematology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York	Fanconi Anemia FA-J Cells are Mutated in a BRCA1-interacting Protein and Show Compromised DNA Repair.
Bagby, Grover	OHSU Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon	A Co-chaperone Function of FA Proteins: FANCD2, FANCC, and FANCG Facilitate STAT5a Dependent Survival Responses in Cells Exposed to Oxidative Stress.
Bogliolo, Massimo	Laboratory of Genetic Instability and Cancer, Gustave Roussy Institute, Villejuif, France	Functional Connection Between the Cohesin Protein SMC1 and the Fanconi Anemia Pathway
Boulad, Farid	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York	Fludarabine Based Cytoreductive Regimen and T-Cell Depleted Grafts from Unrelated of Mismatched Related Donors for the Treatment of Patients with Fanconi Anemia.
Brakenhoff, Ruud	Department of Otolaryngology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Genetic Progression of FA-SCC and Development of a Non-invasive Screening Method for Precursor Lesions
Clapp, D. Wade	Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana	Foamy Viral Vectors Efficiently Transduce Quiescent Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells and Restore the Long Term Repopulating Activity of Fancc-/-Stem Cells.
de Winter, Johan P.	Department of Clinical Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Evidence for Subcomplexes in the Fanconi Anemia Pathway.
Fagerlie, Sara R.	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington	Fancc-/-CD8+ Cells Inhibit Normal Hematopoiesis
Giri, Neelam	Clinical Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland	National Cancer Institute Clinical Cenetics Branch Fanconi's Anemia Cohort: A Preliminary Report.
Godthelp, Barbara	Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands	FA-D1/BRCA2-deficient Cells Have Distinct Cellular Characteristics in Comparison with FA-J Cells.
Grompe, Markus	Oregon Stem Cell Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon	Testing of New Therapeutic Interventions in Murine Models of Fanconi Anemia.
Hackett, Perry B.	Discovery Genomics, Inc. and Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Genetics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota	Long-term Gene Expression and Phenotypic Correction of FANCC-deficient Lymphoblastoid Cells Using the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System.
Hanenberg, Helmut	Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, and Immunology, Children's Hospital, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany	Sensitivity and Specificity of Retroviral Complementation Group Assignment in Primary T Cells and Fibroblasts From Patients with Fanconi Anemia.
Harris, Richard E.	Fanconi Anemia Comprehensive Care Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati	Retrospective Cytogenetic and FISH Analyses in Fanconi Anemia Patients Evaluated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Hays, Laura E.	OHSU Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon	Ordering Carcinogenic Events in Ovarian Cancer: Loss of Fanconi Proteins Must Be Preceded by Loss of Apoptotic Effector Pathways.
Hejna, James	Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon	The Chromatin Remodeling Protein Tip60 Interacts with FANCD2 and is Required for the Repair of DNA Interstrand Crosslinks
Hiom, Kevin	Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom	The BRCA1 Associated C-terminal Helicase BACH1/BRIP1 Functions in the Fanconi Anemia Pathway: A Candidate for FANCJ.
Hirsch, Betsy	Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota	Detection, Characterization and Significance of Clonal Chromosomal Abnormalities in Fanconi Anemia.
Jones, Nigel J.	School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom	Phosphorylation of FANCG at Serine 7 is Required for the Interaction Between FANCD2 and BRCA2 and for FANCG Interaction with the RAD51 Paralog XRCC3.
Kalb, Reinhard	Department of Human Genetics, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany	Study of Fanconi Anemia Patients Assigned to Complementation Group FA-D2.
Kowal, Przemek	Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts	Structural and Functional Studies of the FANCF Protein.
Levran, Orna	Laboratory of Human Genetics and Hematology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York	A BRCA1-interacting Protein is Mutated in Fanconi Anemia FA-J.
Levitus, Marieke	Department of Clinical and Human Genetics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Positional Cloning of the Gene Defective in Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group J.
Locatelli, Franco	Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy	Fludarabine, Low-dose Cyclophosphamide and Anti-thymocyte Globulin is a Safe and Effective Preparative Regimen for Transplantation from Alternative Donors in Patients with Fanconi Anemia.
Margossian, Steven	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts	Functional Interaction Between FANCD2 and ATM in the DNA Damage Response.
Meetei, Amom Ruhikanta	Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio	A New Component of the Fanconi Anemia Core Complex, FAAP250, is Required for FANCD2 Monoubiquitination and Deficient in Fanconi Anemia Patients.
Niedzwiedz, Wojciech	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom	An Evolutionary Conserved DNA Binding ATP'ase Functions in FA Pathway.
Pace, Paul	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom	Purified Recombinant FANCD2 Posseses DNA Exonuclease Activity.
Postlethwait, John H.	Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon	Functional Analysis of Zebrafish Fanconi Anemia Genes.
Rio, Paula	Hematopoietic Gene Therapy Program, CIEMAT Madrid Spain	A Novel Assay for Testing the Functional Activity of BRCA1 Mutations in Primary Human Cells.
Root, Heather	Department of Genetics and Genomic Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada	Fanconi Anemia Proteins, Together with BLM, are Involved in Telomere Maintenance in ALT-Immortalized Human Cells.
Singh, Bhuvanesh	Laboratory of Epithelial Cancer Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York	Novel Mechanism for Pathogenesis of Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Mutation of SCCRO.
Sobeck, Alexandra	Division of Molecular Medicine and Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon	Partial Overlap of FANCD2 and Mre11 Pathways in Response to DNA Repair Intermediates.
Stone, Stacy	Department of Molecular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon	Functional Characterization of FANCA Complexes.
Surrallés, Jordi	Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain	FANCD2 Plays Multiple Roles to Prevent Genome Stability.
Takata, Minoru	Department of Immunology and Molecular Genetics, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan	A Monoubiquitin Moiety on FancD2 Serves as Chromatin Targeting Signal, But is Dispensable for DNA Repair.
Thompson, Larry H.	Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California	Prevention of Persistent Chromosomal Breaks and Instability by Fanconi Anemia Fancg During DNA Replication.
Tolar, Jakub	Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota	Non-viral Transfer of Human FA-C Gene into Neonatal Fanconi Anemia C Mice.
van de Vrugt, Henri	Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon	Analysis of Homology-directed DNA Double-strand Break Repair in Fancd2-deficient Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells.
Wagner, John	Department of Pediatrics, Bone Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota	Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the Treatment of FA: Risk Factor Assessment.
Wang, Weidong	Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, National Insitutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland	The Role of the Fanconi Anemia Core Complex in DNA Damage Response.
Wang, XiaoZhe	Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts	The Fanconi Anemia Protein, FANCE, Associates with Two Functionally Distinct Chromatin Complexes.
Williams, David A.	Fanconi Anemia Comprehensive Care Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio	Early Analysis of Stem Cell Collection and Gene Transfer Trials in Fanconi Anemia: Evidence Supporting Aggressive Collection of Stem Cells for All Patients.
Yamashita, Takayuki	Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan	Hsp90 and Chaperone-associated Ubiquitin Ligase CHIP Regulate the Fanconi Anemia Pathway.

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Hanenberg, Helmut

Harris, Richard E.

Hays, Laura E.

Jones, Nigel J.

Kowal, Przemek

Levran, Orna

Locatelli, Franco

Margossian, Steven

Meetei, Amom Ruhikanta

Niedzwiedz, Wojciech