1. Montevideo 2014
First Conference of the
South American Chapter,
Cell Stress Society International
15th Anniversary of the CSSI
Chair: Dr. Maria Bausero
Cell Stress and
Heat Shock Proteins

2. A Brief History of the
Cell Stress Society International
On its Fifteen Anniversary
By
Founding President Larry Hightower
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3. First of 3 key events: An international workshop tradition begins
In the fall of 1997, Subhash Lakhotia hosted a workshop entitled “Molecular Biology of Stress
Responses” in India. This set the pattern for future CSSI international workshops: About 100
participants, 70% from the host developing country and neighboring countries, emphasis on
quality science, student participation, and culture.
Wolfgang Schumann and Subhash.
Wolfgang tells the story of the idea of
a workshop at www.cellstress.uconn.edu.
Pramod Srivastava and Takashi Yura

4. Second Event: An international congress in Budapest, 1997
The Budapest Congress attracted over 700 colleagues from over 62 countries. With an
attendance more than twice the 1996 Cold Spring Harbor meeting, a very popular venue that
had filled beyond capacity, this congress demonstrated that there was great interest and enthusiasm
from the global scientific community to support and attend international meetings in our field.
90th birth anniversary of Hans Selye
Peter Csermely, Chairman
2nd CSAC Editorial Board
Meeting: Drs Hickey, Yura,
Brown and Morimoto (L to R)

5. Third and Catalyzing Event: Another publisher buys CL. Decision
was made to terminate CSAC at the end of 1999.
Announcement of New Journal: September 21, 1995 Nature

6. 2013 was the 18th year of
Cell Stress & Chaperones
Session speakers: N. Pfanner,
K.-D. Scharf, R. Morimoto, L. Hightower,
E. Muckel and L. Nover (Session Chair).
Bound volumes of a journal are rarely seen today.
It is a good way to show the growth of our journal over
its 18 year existence. Dramatic increases in the number of
published papers began in 2008, the start of the Springer Era.
In that year Cell Stress & Chaperones became published by
Springer and is part of the world-wide distribution system for
Springer electronic and print journals.
The first public display of CSAC was during
The German Society for Cell Biology meeting,
Hamburg, 1996.

7. Cell Stress & Chaperones Growth in Usage
14,247
45,000
40,000
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
Complete Citations, 2002 - 2012 4,904
19,774
26,943
39,768
10,000
The chart above shows the dramatic increase in citations,
a change that will translate into higher Impact Factors for our journal
over the next few years. The chart on the right is likely the most predictive
of the future growth and development of our journal,
the annual increases in full text downloads of articles
published in Cell Stress & Chaperones.
5,000
-
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Full Text Downloads per year 2008-2012

8. Fifth International Congress on Stress Responses in Biology
and Medicine, Quebec City 2011
Chairman: Professor Robert M. Tanguay
Sixth International Congress on Stress Responses in Biology
and Medicine, Sheffield, UK 2013
Chairman: Professor Graham Pockley

9. Huangshan City 2015
VIIth International
Congress on Stress
Responses in Biology
and Medicine will be
held in Huangshan,
China, September 15-19,
2015.
Organizers: Professors
Lingjia Qian and
Tangchun Wu

10. Events at the Congresses
Symposia: Drs. Arrigo, Landry, Tanguay and Lubsen at
sHSP session, Budapest, 2007.
Editorial Board meetings: Drs. Hendershot, Nagata, Sato,
Schumann and Heikkila at Tomar, 2005.
Awards: Assay
Design student
poster awards
at Tomar, 2005.
Awards: Dr. Ellen
Nollen and mentor,
Dr. Harm Kampinga,
share a memory
before the Alfred
Tissières Award
Ceremony, Budapest,
2007.
Daniel Ciocca visits Emily Noonan’s
poster in Quebec, 2003.
Commercial Exhibits

11. The CSSI Medallion for Career Achievement
Susan Lindquist - 2003
Costa Georgopoulos - 2009
Takashi Yura - 2000
R. John Ellis - 2007
Aaron Ciechanover - 2005
Ferruccio Ritossa- 2010

12. The Alfred Tissières
Young Investigator Award
Wanping Xu - 2009
Ellen Nollen - 2007
Anton Vila-Sanjurjo
2005
Alfred, 1917-2003
Mathias Gehrmann- 2011 Justin Benesch- 2013

13. The First Ferruccio Ritossa Early Career Award
was made at the Sheffield Congress in 2013.
The creation of this award was part of the
celebration of the 50th anniversary of the
discovery of the heat shock response.
The award went to Dr. Mehdi Mollapour
Assistant Professor
Department of Urology
SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Dr. Mollapour was sponsored by
Dr. Len Neckers, the National
Cancer Institute, NIH USA.

14. Ferruccio Ritossa, scientist and sculptor 1936-2014
Receiving the CSSI Medal
In Bologna Italy 2010
Observing heat shock puffs
In Naples Italy early 1960’s
Inspiring a one-day
symposium of science
and the arts in Rome 2013
Organized by Professors
Gabriella Santoro
and Larry Hightower

15. CSSI Regular Members by Geographic Region - 2013
North America
50.00%
Asia
16.84%
Africa
0.53%
Europe
26.84%
South
America
5.79%
Countries with most
members by regions
North America
Canada: 20
USA: 75
Europe
France: 5
Germany: 8
Italy: 9
The Netherlands: 5
UK: 6
Asia-Pacific
Australia: 6
China: 3
Israel: 8
Japan: 10
Africa
South Africa: 1
South America
Argentina: 5
Brazil: 5
CSSI members come from 28 countries
The purpose of the Cell Stress Society and its
journal Cell Stress & Chaperones is to foster the
international development of the stress response field.

16. North America
23%
Europe
38%
Africa
1%
Asia
37%
South America
1%
Geography of Published Articles
27 Countries Represented Each Year
Africa
1%
2008
52 Articles
2012
71 Articles
North America
29%
Europe
39%
Asia
24%
South America
7%

17. On behalf of the Executive Council, it is my pleasure to welcome
the South American Chapter of the CSSI and to participate
in this first meeting of the Chapter.
Executive Council
Graham Pockley, President 2013-2014
Tangchun Wu, President-elect 2014 Robert
Tanguay, Immediate Past President
2014 Lawrence Hightower, Secretary-Treasurer
2014 Cristina Bonorino, Councilor 2014 Harm
Kampinga, Councilor 2014 M. Gabriella Santoro,
Councilor 2014 James Clegg, Senior Editor,
CSAC Philip Hooper, Senior Editor,
CSAC Antonio DeMaio, Senior Editor,
CSAC Helen Neumann, General Secretary, ex
officio