| Thursday July 5th, 2007 |
| 7:00 am |
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Registration Desk Opens |
| 7:00 am |
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Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:00 pm |
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Trainee’s Mini-Symposium including Invited Speakers from Abstracts |
| 12:00 pm |
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Lunch |
| 1:10-3:00 pm |
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Trainee’s Mini-Symposium including Invited Speakers from Abstracts |
| 3:00-6:00 pm |
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Afternoon break |
| 6:00 pm |
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Opening Dinner |
Session I Plenary Lectures
Session Chair Eric Brown, McMaster University |
| 7:30 pm |
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Ronald Breaker, Yale University, CT
Exploring the diversity of riboswitch structures and functions |
| 8:15 pm |
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Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Designing biological systems |
| 9:00 pm |
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Mixer and Exhibits |
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| Friday July 6th, 2007 |
| 7:00 am |
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Registration Desk Opens |
| 7:00 am |
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Breakfast |
Session II Small Molecule Probes of Big Biology
Session Chair Eric Brown, McMaster University |
| 8:20 am |
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Tom Silhavy, Princeton University, NJ
Chemical conditionality: an approach for understanding outer membrane biogenesis in gram-negative bacteria |
| 9:00 am |
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Jim Inglese, NIH Chemical Genomics Center, MD
Quantitative high throughput screening: discovery of investigational molecular probes though the biological activity profiling of chemical libraries |
| 9:40 am |
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Dr. Eric Brown, McMaster University
Probing uncharted physiology in bacteria with new (and old) small molecules |
| 10:20 am |
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Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 10:50 am |
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Raymond Andersen, University of British Columbia
Bioactive marine natural products: drug leads and cell biology tools |
| 11:30 am |
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Peter Roy, University of Toronto
Using C. elegans as a platform for the discovery of small molecule tools for biological analysis |
| 12:10 pm |
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Lunch / CSBMCB Board Meeting |
Session III Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids
Session Chair Yingfu Li, McMaster University |
| 1:20 pm |
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Eric Westhof, Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire du CNRS, France
Molecular recognition between antibiotics and RNA |
| 2:00 pm |
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Hiro Suga, University of Tokyo, Japan
Genetic code reprogramming |
| 2:40 pm |
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Bruce Sullenger, Duke University Medical Center, NC
Novel applications of aptamers: teaching an old dog some new tricks |
| 3:20 pm |
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Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 3:50 pm |
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Chuck Wilson, Chief Scientific Officer Archemix Corp, USA
Optimizing therapeutic aptamers through medicinal chemistry |
| 4:30 pm |
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Jean-Pierre Perreault, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec
Development of cleaving ribozyme with high fidelity |
| 5:10-7:00 pm |
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Poster Pub I & Hor’s D’Oeuvres |
| 7:00-8:30 pm |
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Award Lectures |
| 7:00-7:45 pm |
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Translational control in cancer and in learning and memory
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Roche Diagnostics Prize Lecture |
| 7:45-8:30 pm |
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Merck Frosst Prize Lecture:
Marco Marra, University of British Columbia, vancouver, BC
High-Resolution Genome Rearrangements Discovery in Follicular Lymphoma |
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| Saturday July 7th, 2007 |
| 7:00 am |
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Registration Desk Opens |
| 7:00 am |
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Breakfast with the Exhibitors |
Session IV Developments in Systems Biology
Session Chair Daniel Figeys, University of Ottawa |
| 8:20 am |
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Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
The evolution of enzyme mechanisms and functional diversity |
| 9:00 am |
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Mathias Uhlén, Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
A human protein atlas for normal and cancer tissues |
| 9:40 am |
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Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego
Systems biology approach to deciphering cellular networks in macrophages |
| 10:20 am |
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Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 10:50 am |
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Kristin Baetz, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology
Integrated analysis of the histone acetyltransferase NuA4 |
| 11:30 am |
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John Yates, Scripps Research Institute, CA
Driving biological discovery using mass spectrometry |
| 12:10 pm |
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Lunch |
Session V Genomics and Proteomics
Session Chair Guy Poirier, Université Laval |
| 1:20 pm |
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N. Leigh Anderson, Plasma Proteome Institute, Washington DC
The plasma proteome: challenges for biomarker discovery and validation |
| 2:00 pm |
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Ronald Beavis, University of British Columbia
Informatics strategies for immune system surveillance |
| 2:40 pm |
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Gerry Wright, McMaster University, Ontario
The Genomic Enzymology of Antibiotic Resistance |
| 3:20 pm |
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Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 3:50 pm |
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Benoit Coulombe, Institute des recherches cliniques de Montréal
A panorama of the protein complexes formed by the RNA polymerase II transcription machinery in mammalian cells |
| 4:30 pm |
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Akhilesh Pandey, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
An integrated bioinformatics and proteomics approach to study kinases and substrates |
| 5:10-7:00pm |
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Poster Pub II |
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| Sunday July 8th, 2007 |
| 7:00 am |
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Breakfast |
Session VI Frontiers in Chemical Biology
Session Chair Gerry Wright, McMaster University |
| 8:20 am |
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Jon Clardy, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Genes, genetically-encoded small molecules, and biology |
| 9:00 am |
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Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia
Directed evolution as a strategy for the generation of new catalysts for glycoside assembly |
| 9:40 am |
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John Vederas, University of Alberta
Integrated approaches to discovery of new antimicrobial agents |
| 10:20 am |
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Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 10:50 am |
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Suzanne Walker, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Peptidoglycan biosynthesis and its inhibition |
| 11:30 am |
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Michael A. Marletta, University of California, Berkeley
Biological sensing of nitric oxide and oxygen: A problem in molecular recognition |
| 12:10 pm |
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Lunch |
Session VII Chemical Genomics and Cancer
Session Chair Michael Hallet, McGill University |
| 1:20 pm |
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Albert Koong, Stanford University, CA
Inhibition of the unfolded protein response (UPR) as a cancer therapeutic strategy |
| 2:00 pm |
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Jerry Pelletier, McGill University, Montreal
Therapeutic potential of translation initiation inhibitors |
| 2:40 pm |
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Maya Schuldiner, University of California, San Francisco
Building a systems level view of the cell using genetic interaction maps |
| 3:20 pm |
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Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 3:50 pm |
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Stephen Michnick, Université de Montréal
Chemical biology on pins and needles |
| Session VIII CSBMCB 50th Anniversary Banquet & Awards Presentations |
| 6:00-7:00pm |
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Taxi pick ups from hotel to Faculty Club |
| 6:30 pm |
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Cocktails with Dixieland Quartet at Faculty Club |
| 7:30 pm |
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Banquet & Awards Presentation |
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| Monday July 9th, 2007 |
| 7:00 am |
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Breakfast |
Session IX Systems and Synthetic biology
Session Chair Martin Latterich, Université de Montréal |
| 8:20 am |
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Robert Nadon, McGill University, Montreal
Statistical analysis of high throughput screening results |
| 9:00 am |
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Catherine Au, McGill University, Montreal
Systems biology of the cell via organellar proteomics |
| 9:40 am |
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Peter Swain, McGill University, Montreal
Stochasticity and designs of genetic networks |
| 10:20 am |
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Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am |
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Anne-Claude Gingras, University of Toronto
Functional proteomics of serine/threonine phosphatases |
| 11:30 am |
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Jackie Vogel, McGill University, Montreal
Analysis of yeast PP1/Glc7 phosphatase networks using integrated genomic and proteomic approaches |
| 12:10 pm |
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Lunch |
| 1:10 pm |
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Science Policy Meeting |
| 2:10 pm |
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CSBMCB Annual General Meeting |
| 3:10 pm |
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Coffee Break & General Discussion (Ballroom Lobby) |
| 4:00 pm |
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Departures |