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21st IUBMB International Congress and 12th FAOBMB Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
August 2-7, 2009, Shanghai, China
The 21st IUBMB and the 12th FAOBMB International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2009-Congress) will take place in Shanghai on 2-7 August, 2009. The Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will host this prestigious Congress.
The 2009-Congress will offer comprehensive advances at the cutting edge of biochemistry and molecular biology, which cover four major themes of life sciences (Genome Dynamics and Gene Regulation; Protein Structure, Dynamics and Proteomics; Cell Signaling and Network; Molecular Basis of Diseases) with a total of 36 symposia; it will also provide additional symposia such as glycobiology and biotechnology.
The Organization Committee has put the greatest effort to invite the world leading scientists to give presentations in the Congress. So far 10 plenary speakers, including three Nobel Laureates, Drs. Aaron J. Ciechanover, Kurt Wüthrich and Sidney Altman, as well as Dr. Shinya Yamanaka who discovered iPS cells and Dr. Victor Ambros who discovered microRNA, have confirmed their participation. In addition, 120 invited speakers have also been confirmed and will give presentations in the different symposia.
The Organization Committee invites you, your colleagues and students to attend this prestigious Congress. The registration is opened from January 1st 2009. For more information and registration online, please visit the following website: http://www.iubmb-faobmb2009.cn
The deadline for registration and abstract submission is July 1st, 2009
Confirmed Plenary Speakers
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EMBO Lecture: Aaron J. Ciechanover
2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel -
IUBMB Life Lecture and Medal Kurt Wüthrich
2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland -
Severo Ochoa Lecture and Medal Sidney Altman
1989 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Yale University, USA -
Osamu Hayaishi Lecture and Medal Shinya Yamanaka
Kyoto University, Japan -
E. C. Slater Lecture and Medal Robert G. Roeder
Rockefeller University, USA -
Kunio Yagi Lecture and Medal Gregory J. Hannon
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA -
Chester Beatty Lecture and Medal Victor Ambros
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA -
FAOBMB, Svasti Lectureship Gang Pei
Tongji University, China -
European Federation of Biotechnology Mathias Uhlén
Royal Institute of Technology; Sweden -
FEBS Lecturer Wolfgang Baumeister
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Germany -
CSBMB, Yinglai Wang Lecture Yi-Gong Shi
Tsinghua University, China
Confirmed Invited Speakers and Titles of Symposia
Theme 1: Genome
Dynamics and Gene instability (29)
1, DNA replication and repair
Guo-Min Li University
of Kentucky, UK
Peter Burgers Washington
University, St. Louis, USA
2, Genome instability
David Chen University
of Texas Southwestern Medical School, USA
Frederick W. Alt Harvard Medical
School; USA
Daniel Durocher University of Toronto,
Canada
3, Chromatin remodeling and epigenetics
Chris Glass University
of California, San Diego, USA
John Lis Cornell
University, USA
Pavel Georgiev Institute
of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Russia
Shigeaki Kato The
University of Tokyo, Japan
4, Transcription control
Yang Shi Harvard
Medical School, USA
Karl Ekwall Karolinska
Institute, Sweden
Tony Kouzarides University of Cambridge,
UK
5, Functional Genomics
Bing Ren University
of California, San Diego, USA
Huck Hui Ng Genome
Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Joseph R. Ecker The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies; USA
Harinder Singh The
University of Chicago, USA
6, MicroRNA biology
Yo-Xin Jin Shanghai
Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Tim W. Nilsen Case
Western Reserve University; USA
Yi-Jun Qi National
Institute of Biological Sciences, China
7, Non-coding RNA and catalytic RNA
David Lilley University
of Dundee, UK
Anna Marie Pyle Yale University,
USA
8, RNA processing and transport
Reinhard Lührmann Max-Planck
Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Douglass Black Howard
Hughes Medical Institute; University of California, Los Angeles; USA
Manuel Ares University
of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Masatoshi Hagiwara Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
9, Translational control
Alberto Kornblihtt Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Javier Caceres MRC
Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council; UK
Anne Ephrussi European
Molecular Biology Laboratory; Germany
Robert Singer Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Theme 2: Protein Structure, Dynamics and Proteomics (25)
1, Structure of membrane proteins
You-Xing Jiang Howard
Hughes Medical Institute; The University of Texas Southwestern, USA
Bente Vilsen University
of Aarhus; Denmark
Joao Morais-Cabral Instituto Biologia Moleculare Celular, Portugal
2, Dynamics and structures of macromolecular complex
Michael P. Rout Rockefeller
University, USA
Wei Yang National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA
Klaus Schulten University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Bob Stroud University
of California in San Francisco, USA
3, Protein folding, stability and quality control
Arthur Horwich Howard
Hughes Medical Institute; Yale University School of Medicine; USA
Yong-Zhang Luo Tsinghua University,
China
4, Modeling and drug discovery
Glaucius Oliva Universidade
de Sao Paulo, Brazi
Ming Luo Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Tom Blundell University
of Cambridge; UK
R Sowhdhamini National
Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
5, Protein trafficking
Frederick M. Hughson Princeton
University, USA
Dirk Fasshauer Max-Planck-Institute
for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Jenny Martin University
of Queensland; Australia
6, Protein profiling and interaction (TBD)
7, Protein modification
Zhi-Jian, James, Chen Howard
Hughes Medical Institute; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
USA
Yue Xiong University
of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Shao-Cong Sun University
of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
8, Protein degradation
Daniel Finley Harvard Medical School, USA
Yoshinori Ohsumi National Institute for
Basic Biology, Japan
Brenda Schulman Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Jan- Michael Peters Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna,
Austria
9, Proteomics
John Bergeron McGill
University, Canada
Fu-Chu He Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine;
China
Theme 3: Cell Signaling and Network (30)
1, Genetic reprogramming
Duan-Qing Pei Guangzhou
Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shinichi Nishikawa Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN Kobe,
Japan
2, Cell fate determination
An-Ming Meng Institute
of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
Stephen Wilson University
College London, UK
Shinichi Aizawa Center
for Developmental Biology, RIKEN Kobe, Japan
Robert Saint Australian
National University, Australia
3, Cell cycle control
Di-Hua Yu The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Kuang Jian The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Todd Stukenberg University of Virginia
Medical School, USA
4, Signaling networks
An-Ning Lin The
University of Chicago, USA
Melanie H. Cobb University of Texas, Southwestern
Medical Center, USA
Gary L Johnson University
of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Jean Wang University
of California, San Diego, USA
5, Stem cell biology
Hai-Fan Lin Yale
University, USA
Sean Morrison University
of Michigan, USA
John Dick University
of Toronto, Canada
6, Bioenergetics and metabolism
Kun-Liang Guan University of California
San Diego, USA
Dario Alessi University
of Dundee, UK
Rony Seger Weizmann
Institute of Science, Israel
David Sabatini Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA
7, Signaling and behaviors
Horace Loh University
of Minnesota, USA
Tomas Hökfelt, Karolinska
Institutet; Sweden
Ping-Yee Law University
of Minnesota, USA
Paul Insel University
of California at San Diego, USA
8, Regulation of cell migration
Dan Wu Yale
Medical School, USA
Peter Devreotes Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine; USA
Tobias Meyer Stanford
University Medical Center, USA
Tatsuo Kinashi Kansai
Medical University, Osaka, Japan
9, Membrane trafficking
Scott Emr Cornell
University; USA
Wan-Jin Hong Institute
of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
Theme 4：Molecular Basis of Diseases (29)
1.Protein misfolding and neurodegeneration
Xiao-Jiang Li Emory
University School of Medicine, USA
Marie F. Chesselet University of California, Los Angeles,
USA
Susan Ackerman Howard Hughes Medical
Institute; Jackson Laboratory, USA
David Rubinsztein University of Cambridge; UK
2. Molecular mechanism of cancer
Yosef Yarden The
Weizmann Institute of Science; Israel
3. Apoptosis and autophagy
Jun-Ying Yuan Harvard
Medical School; USA
Eileen White Rutgers
University, USA
Noboru Mizushima Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
J. Marie Hardwick Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, USA
4. Bacterial and viral infection
Maria G. Masucci Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Brigitte Gicquel Institut
Pasteur, France
5. Stress responses and aging
F. Ulrich Hartl Max
Planck Institute of Biochemistry; Germany
Richard Morimoto Northwestern University, USA
Kazuhiro Nagata Kyoto University,
Japan
Gordon Lithgow Buck Institute for
Advanced Age Research, California, USA
6. Immunological and inflammatory disorders
Ke Shuai University
of California, Los Angeles, USA
Michael Karin University
of California, San Diego; USA
David Wallach Weizmann
Institute of Science, Israel
Zheng-Gang Liu National Institutes
of Health/National Cancer Institute, USA
7. Molecular diagnostics and therapeutics
Min Li Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine; USA
John A. Blaho University
of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey; USA
8. Metabolic regulation and dysfunction
David James Garvan
Institute of Medical Research, Sydney; Australia
Morrie Birnbaum University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine; USA
Jae Bum Kim Seoul
National University, Korea
Tao Xu Institute
of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
9. Cancer stem cells and metastasis
Jun-Lin Guan University
of Michigan Medical School, USA
Fiona Watt Cancer
Research UK Cambridge Research Institute; UK
Stephen J. Weiss University of Michigan,
USA
Geoff Lindeman Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Symposium of Glycobiology
William P. Timmie Emory University School of
Medicine, USA
Tong-Zhong Ju Emory
University School of Medicine, USA
Irma van Die University
Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Naoyuki Taniguchi Osaka University, Japan
Hisashi Narimatsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Japan
Symposium of Biotechnology and Technology Transfer
Christian Mandl Novartis Vaccines
and Diagnostics, Inc, USA
Kathrin U. Jansen Wyeth Vaccine Research, Inc,
USA
T. Mark Doherty Statens Serum Institut,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Cornelis J.M. Melief Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Alexander von Gabain Intercell
AG, Vienna, Austria
Symposium of History and Education of Biochemistry
Judith Voet Swarthmore
College, Swarthmore, USA
Donald Voet University
of Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas Baldwin University of
California at Riverside, USA
Eduardo Galembeck Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil
Hoon Eng Khoo Asian University
for Women, Bangladesh
