Program
GENERAL INFORMATION
The conference will begin with an opening session on the afternoon of Sunday, October 16th, 2011 with a Keynote Lecture presented by Dr. Roger Tsien. It will close after the banquet in the evening of Thursday, October 20th 2011.
Twelve main sessions are planned. Each session will generally have two invited speakers plus an additional four talks chosen from submitted abstracts.
Conference Sessions
Keynote Session
- James Whisstock
- Roger Tsien, Nobel Laureate
Session 1: Cancer and Cell Survival
- Agnes Noel
- Vishva Dixit
- Christoph Peters
- Karen McLuskey
- Oakley Olson
- Berta Casar
Session 2: Immunity and Host Pathogen Interactions
- James McKerrow
- Aimee Shen
- Thomas Reinheckel
- Renier Van der Hoorn
- Hans-Ulrich Demuth
- Aaron Puri
Session 3: Neurobiology and Degeneration
- Michael Wolfe
- Monica Driscoll
- Jankos Kos
- Dion Kaiserman
- Mark Kindy
- François Jean
Session 4: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis
- Sheena McGowan
- Jan Potempa
- Wilhelmina Huston
- Giles Lalmanach
- Alexander Wlodawer
- Tomasz Kantyka
Session 5: Proteasome and Ubiquitin-like Modifiers
- Kenji Tanaka
- Craig Leach
- Birgitta Tomkinson
-
Oscar W. Huang
- Yuushi Okumura
- Margarete Heck
Session 6: Beyond the Active Site
- Ben Turk
- Gregg Fields
- Dmitriy Minond
- Weiru Wang
- Adam Renslo
Session 7: Therapeutic Strategies
- Yoshiaki Kiso
- Irit Sagi
- Olga Vasiljeva
- Erik Lindstrom
- Evette Radisky
- Azza Eissa
Session 8: Hunting for Substrates
- Kris Gevaert
- Ding Xue
- Ulrich Auf dem Keller
- Emily Crawford
- Francis Impens
- Anna Prudova
Session 9: Drug/Probe Discovery
- Marcin Drag
- Herman Overkleeft
- Vincent Dive
- Anthony O'Donoghue
- Montse Morell
- Oliver Vosyka
Session 10: Cardiovascular Disease
- James Huntington
- Robert Pike
- Edward Sturrock
- Maria Arampatzidou
- Kai Kessenbrock
- Katsuya Hirasaka
Session 11: Proteolysis and Signaling
- Hiroyuki Sorimachi
- Nabil Seidah
- Matthew Freeman
- Christoph Becker-Pauly
- Bram van Raam
Session 12: Cancer and Metabolism
- Klaudia Brix
-
M. Sharon Stack
- Mark Gorrell
- Christian Ries
- Cindy Lim
- Galia Blum
For information on Pre-Conference Workshops, see the Workshops page.