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52e Congrès annuel de la société de biochimie et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire
Le repliement des protéines : principes et maladies

 

1er au 5 juin 2009
White Oaks Conference Resort
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario


Programme scientifique

Toutes les sessions sont dans les salles Grand Event Rooms A et B
Les repas ont sont dans le Sunhill Dining Room
Les présentations de posters sont la salle in Grand Events Room C
Les pauses-café sont dans le Garden View Foyer

 Lundi 1 juin

12:00 - 18:00
Inscription
14:00 - 17:00
CIHR Training Program in Protein Folding: Trainee Minisymposium
For minisymposium schedule, click here
18:00
Souper
19:30 - 21:00
Présentations du prix Merck Frosst
Mick Bhatia (McMaster) Cellular and molecular characterization of human pluripotent stem cells
21:00 pm 
Mixeur d'ouverture

Mardi 2 juin

07:00 Déjeuné



Séance 1: Protein Folding in the Cell
Chair: Gergely Lukacs (McGill)
08:15 Susan Lindquist (Whitehead Institute) Happy Birthday Darwin! Protein folding propels evolution
08:50
Chris Kaiser (MIT) The Meaning and Mechanisms of Redox Homeostasis in the ER
09:25
Alan Davidson (U. of Toronto) The important role of unstructured protein regions in bacteriophage assembly
10:00 Pause-café
10:30 Jason Young (McGill) Functional diversity of Hsc70 co-chaperones
10:50
Bill Balch (Scripps) Managing folding and traffic in human misfolding disease
11:25
David Thomas (McGill) Correcting the trafficking defect of ΔF508 CFTR

12:00

Dîner
13:00 - 16:00
Temps libre
16:00
Présentation de posters I
18:00
Souper



Séance
2: Theoretical & Computational Approaches to Protein Folding
Chair: Régis Pomès (SickKids, Toronto)
19:30 Régis Pomès (SickKids, Toronto) Molecular mechanism of beta-sheet formation at water-nonpolar interfaces
20:05 Ken A. Dill (UCSF) Modeling protein stabilities and solubilities
20:40
Pause-café
21:00
Vijay S. Pande (Stanford) Simulating protein folding in vitro and in vivo on experimentally relevant timescales
21:35
Hue Sun Chan (U. of Toronto) Cooperativity in Protein Folding: Theory and Experiment

22:10 - 24:00

Pub aux posters
 

Mercredi 3 juin

07:00 Déjeuné



Séance
3: Mechanisms of Protein Folding and Misfolding
Chair: Charles Deber (SickKids, Toronto)
08:15 Chris Dobson (Cambridge) Protein Misfolding and Disease: From the Test Tube to the Organism
08:50
Charles Deber (SickKids, Toronto) Peptide approaches to memberane protein folding
09:25
Susan Marqusee (UC Berkeley) Manipulating the folding landscape using the optical tweezers
10:00
Pause-café
10:30
Art Horwich (Yale) Chaperone action in vitro and in an ALS model
11:05
Linda Foit (U Michigan) Optimizing protein stability in vivo offers new insights into the conflicting forces in protein evolution
11:25
Lewis Kay (U of Toronto) Seeing the invisible by solution NMR spectroscopy

12:00 

Dîner
13:00 - 16:00
Temps libre
16:00
Présentation de posters II
18:00
Souper



Séance
4: Cellular Responses to Protein Misfolding
Chair: Allen Volchuk (UHN, Toronto)
19:30 Walid Houry (U of Toronto) The role of nucleotides and amino acid decarboxylases in the bacterial acid stress response
20:05
Ron Kopito (Stanford) Prion-like properties of polyglutamine amyloids
20:40
Pause-café
21:00
Randy Kaufman (U of Michigan) Interactions between protein misfolding in the ER and oxidative stress
21:35
David Ron (Skirball Inst., NYU) Prospects for tuning the Unfolded Protein Response

22:10 - 24:00

Pub aux posters

Jeudi 4 juin

07:00
Déjeuné



Séance 5: Protein Dynamics and Disorder
Chair: Scott Prosser  (U Toronto)
08:15 Peter Wright (Scripps) Promiscuous proteins: folding and interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins
08:50
Julie Forman-Kay (SickKids, Toronto) Disordered Protein Interactions within Highly Dynamic Regulatory Protein Complexes
09:25
Lawrence Macintosh (UBC) Rheostatic control of gene expression: conformational flexibility and phosphorylation-dependent regulation of Ets transcription factor
10:00 Pause-café
10:30
Peter Tompa (Budapest) Unusual modes of molecular recognition by disordered proteins
11:05
George Harauz (U Guelph) Induced Secondary Structure and Polymorphism in Myelin Basic Protein, an Intrinsically Disordered Organizational Linker of the CNS
11:25
Mitsu Ikura (UHN, Toronto) STIM1-mediated store-operated calcium entry uses a protein unfolding/oligomerization-coupled mechanism?

12:00

Dîner
13:00 - 16:00
Atelier principal: Prion Protein Misfolding - Canadian Contributions to Protein Structure and Dynamics
Organized by PrioNet Canada and the Alberta Prion Research Institute
Speakers include: Avi Chakrabartty, University of Toronto; Will Guest, University of British Columbia; Michael James, University of Alberta; Nahid Jetha, University of British Columbia; Olivier Julien, University of Alberta; Nat Kav, University of Alberta; Braden Sweeting, University of Toronto; David Wishart, University of Alberta
16:00 - 17:00
Assemblée générale annuelle de la SCBBMC
18:00 - 19:00
Mixeur
19:00 - 21:30
Banquet et présentation des prix

 Vendredi 5 juin

07:00
Déjeuné



Séance
6: Protein Misfolding in Aging and Disease
Chair: Neil Cashman (UBC)
08:15 Peter St. George-Hyslop (U of Toronto) Molecular insights into protein misfolding in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
08:50
Cynthia Lemere (Brigham and Women’s) Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
09:25
Jeff Kelly (Scripps) Restoring Proteostasis to Ameliorate Disease
10:00
Pause-café
10:30
David Westaway (U of Alberta) Attributes and Overlaps of the PrP and Shadoo proteins
11:05
Jeremy Lee (U Sask) Nanopore analysis of the interaction of metal ions and antibodies with prion proteins
11:25
David Vocadlo (SFU) Modulators of intracellular glycosylation limit microtubule-associated protein tau phosphorylation in vivo

12:00

Dîner et départ
 
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