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53rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Membrane Proteins in Health and Disease

 

April 15-18, 2010
Banff Centre
107 Tunnel Mountain Road
Banff, Alberta, Canada


Scientific Program

All Sessions held in the Max Bell Auditorium
Meals are in the Vistas Dining Room in the Sally Borden Building
Poster Displays are in Room 150 & 151  of the Max Bell Building.  
Banquet and Awards Presentations are in the Donald Cameron Hall Dining Room.   Welcome Reception, Registration, Coffee Breaks and Exhibitors Booths are in the Max Bell Building.


 Wednesday April 14

7:30 - 10:00 pm
MB Rm 253

Satellite Meeting on Bicarbonate Transporters - Session 1
(Joe Casey and Reinhart Reithmeier, Co-organizers)

 Thursday April 15

8:30 am - 5:00 pm
MB Rm 253

Satellite Meeting on Bicarbonate Transporters - Session 2
(Joe Casey and Reinhart Reithmeier, Co-organizers)

1:00-7:00pm
PDC Main Lobby Lounge

Meeting Registration

5:00-6:00 pm
MB Auditorium

Session 1: Main Meeting Opening Session
(Session Chair: Reinhart
Reithmeier)

 

Plenary lecture: Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University
Insertion of membrane proteins into the endoplasmic reticulum

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Dinner

7:30 - 10:30 pm
MB Auditorium

Session 2: Membrane Protein Trafficking & Folding 
(Session Chair: Joe Casey)

7:30 - 8:10 pm

David Andrews (McMaster University)   
A whole genome image based screen for genes involved in assembly of the endoplasmic reticulum

8:10- 8:50 pm

Emmanuelle Cordat (University of Alberta)
Band 3 Edmonton, a novel trafficking mutant of the anion exchanger 1

8:50 - 9:10pm

Break

9:10 - 9:50 pm

Franck Duong (University of British Columbia)  
The Nanodisc: a new tool for the membrane biochemist

9:50 - 10:30 pm

Ron Kopito (Stanford University)
Quality control and protein degradation in the early secretory pathway

 

 Friday April 16

7:00 - 9:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am - 12:00 pm
MB Auditorium

Session 3:  Regulation of Membrane Proteins
(Session Chair: Larry Fliegel)


8:30 am

CSBMCB Announcements

8:35 - 9:30 am

Joachim Deitmer (Technical University of Kaiserslautern)
Functional interaction between carbonic anhydrases and acid/base-coupled membrane transporters

9:30 - 10:05 am

Daniela Rotin (University of Toronto)
Role of the Nedd4 family of ubiquitin ligases in endocytosis

10:05- 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 11:15 am

Larry Fliegel (University of Alberta)
Mechanisms of Regulation of the Na+/H+ Exchanger in the Myocardium and other Tissues

11:15 am -12:00 pm

Jonathan Lytton (University of Calgary)
The Role of K+-Dependent Na+/Ca2+-exchangers in Neuronal Function

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch  (Bagged lunches can be pre-arranged for those going on outings)

1:00 - 2:00 pm
MB Auditorium

GE Healthcare Life Sciences Presentation
Jason Schuman Ph.D., Biacore Application Scientist
Hemophilia and the role of blocking membrane binding of Factor VIII by an inhibitory IgG4 antibody using label-free interaction analysis

1:30  - 4:00 pm

Free Time

4:00 - 6:00 pm
MB Rm 150 & 151

Poster Session I
(Poster Pub – Cash Bar)

6:00 - 7:30 pm
Vistas Dining Room

Dinner

7:30 - 10:30 pm
MB Auditorium

Session 4: Membrane Protein Structure
(Session Chair:  Howard Young)


7:30 pm

Chair's Introduction

7:35-8:10 pm

Joanne Lemieux (University of Alberta)
Making the cut: Intramembrane proteolysis revealed by structural studies of rhomboid peptidases

8:10-8:50 pm

Da-Neng Wang (New York University)
Structural basis of the ion selectivity and gating mechanism of an organic-ion channel: FocA

8:50-9:10 pm

Break

9:10-9:50 pm

Jeff Abramson (University of California, Los Angeles)
Crystal structures of SGLT reveal mechanistic insight into Na+ and galactose release

9:50-10:30 pm

Francisco Bezanilla (University of Chicago)
The major transitions of S4-based voltage sensors


 Saturday April 17

7:00 - 9:00 am

Breakfast

8:30 am - 12:00 pm
MB Auditorium

Session 5:  Membrane Proteins in Diverse Species
(Session Chair: Elaine Leslie)


8:30 am -
9:15 am

Ekkehard Neuhaus (Technical University of Kaiserslautern)
Nucleotide transporters in plants and intracellular bacteria

9:15 am -
10:00 am

Dean Price (Australian National University)
Can a topology map for the cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter, BicA, have relevance to eukaryotic members of the SulP/SLC26 family?

10:00 am -
10:30 am

Break

10:30 am -
11:15 am

Etana Padan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Structure based functional study of the NhaA Na+/H+ antiporter, a key antiporter from bacteria to human.

11:15 am -12:00 pm

Janet Wood (University of Guelph)
Proton-osmolyte symporter ProP: osmosensor and osmoregulator

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch (Bagged lunches can be pre-arranged for those going on outings )

1:00 - 5:00 pm
MB Rm 253

Satellite Meeting on Na+/H+ Exchangers
(Larry Fliegel - Organizer)

1:30 - 4:00 pm

Free Time (for those not attending Satellite Meeting)

4:00 - 6:00 pm
MB Rm 150 & 151

Poster Session II
(Poster Pub - Cash Bar)

4:00 - 5:00 pm
MB Auditorium

CSBMCB Annual General Meeting
Special presentation
: Deborah Gordon, President and CEO, Research Canada
Important vote: Merger with Genetics Society of Canada

6:00 - 7:30 pm
MB Auditorium

Plenary Session- CSBMCB Award Talks
(Session Chair: David Williams)

6:00 - 6:30 pm

Young Investigator Award
Dr. Senthil K Muthuswamy, OCI, Toronto
Cell polarity morphogenesis and differentiation – a missing facet in understanding carcinogenesis

6:30 - 7:00 pm

Jeanne Manery Fisher Award
Dr. Cheryl Arrowsmith, OCI, Toronto
The structural genomics consortium: structural and chemical biology of human protein families

7:00 - 7:30 pm

Senior Investigator Award
Dr. Hans Vogel, University of Calgary
Iron uptake in gram-negative bacteria: TonB or not TonB, that is the question

7:30 - 9:00 pm
DCH Dining Room

CSBMCB Banquet and Awards Presentations
CSBMCB Arthur Wynne Award Presentation & Talk
Dr. Michel Chretien
It is all about Serendipity and Luck!

9:00- 12:00 pm
DCH Dining Room

Music / Cash Bar


 Sunday April 18

8:30 am - 12:00 pm
MB Auditorium

Session 6:  Membrane Proteins and Diseases
(Session Chair: Xing-Zhen Chen)


8:30 -
9:15 am

Elaine Leslie (University of Alberta)
Arsenic transport by the multidrug resistance proteins (MRPs/ABCCs)

9:15 am -
10:00 am

Sven-Eric Jordt (Yale University)
TRPA1 in airway chemosensation and asthmatic inflammation

10:00 -
10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 11:15 am

Steve Somlo (Yale University)
Membrane Protein Trafficking and the Pathogenesis of Human Polycystic Diseases

11:15 am -
12:00 pm

Gergely Lukacs (McGill University)
Protein quality control at the plasma membrane; models and mechanism


12:00 noon

Lunch and Departure
(Bagged lunches can be pre-arranged for those going on outings )

 
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