Biological and Medicinal Chemistry
Division (BM)
Divisional Representatives: Robert Campbell and Todd Lowary, University of Alberta
The Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Division
gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions of an anonymous donor, Anacor Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca Canada, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada)
Ltd./Ltée, Fisher
Scientific, Merck Frosst Canada Ltd./Ltée, MethylGene
Inc., NAEJA Pharmaceutical
Inc.,Neurochem Inc., Omicron Biochemicals, Inc., Pfizer Global Research &
Development, Praxair Technology Inc., Sigma-Aldrich
Canada and University
of Alberta, Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Division in support of the scientific program.
BM1 Altered_Proteins
Organizer: Ron Kluger,
University of Toronto
This symposium is supported by Custom
Biologics.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Karine Auclair, McGill University
Stephen Bearne, Dalhousie University
Paul Berti, McMaster University
Robert
Campbell, University of Alberta
John
Honek, University of Waterloo
Jeffrey
Keillor, Université de Montréal
Mark Nitz, University of Toronto
Martin Tanner, University of British
Columbia
Scott Taylor, University of Waterloo
Stephen Withers, University of British
Columbia
Andrew Woolley, University of Toronto,
Bernard Belleau Award Lecture
David Zechel, Queen's University
BM2/OR2 Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology (Joint with OR)
Organizers: Christopher Cairo,
University of Alberta and Chang-Chun Ling, University of
Calgary
This symposium is supported by the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for
Carbohydrate Science.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Andrew Bennet, Simon Fraser University
David Bundle, University of Alberta
David
Jakeman, Dalhousie University
Harry
Jennings, Institute for Biological Sciences
Jamie Rich, University of British Columbia (research carried out at University of
Alberta), Boehringer Ingelheim Award Lecture
Martin Tanner, University of British
Columbia
Stephen Withers, University of British
Columbia
Vivian
Yip, University of British Columbia, CCUCC Chemistry
Doctoral Award Lecture
BM3/OR5 Chemical
Biology: Molecular Probes and Organic Biomaterials (Joint with OR)
Organizers: David Vocadlo, Simon
Fraser University and Fraser Hof, University of Victoria
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Michael
Brook, McMaster University
Eric
Brown, McMaster University
David Bundle, University of Alberta
Robert
Campbell, University of Alberta
Dennis Dougherty, California Institute of
Technology
Elizabeth Gillies, The University of Western
Ontario
Jeffrey
Hartgerink, Rice University
Sarah O'Connor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
John Pezacki, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
BM4 Chemistry and Biology of Nucleic
Acids
Organizers: Andrew
MacMillan, University of Alberta and Peter Unrau, Simon Fraser
University
This symposium is supported by Agilent
Technologies.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Masad
Damha, McGill University
Richard Fahlman, University of Alberta
Dirk Iwata-Reuyl, Portland State
University
Philip Johnson, York University
Ute
Kothe, University of Lethbridge
Daniel
Lafontaine, Université de Sherbrooke
Yingfu Li, McMaster University
Jean-Pierre
Perreault, Université de Sherbrooke
David Perrin, University of British
Columbia
Jumi Shin, University of Toronto
Wade
Winkler, University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center
BM5/PT4 Computational Approaches to
Drug Design (Joint with PT)
Organizer: Jack Tuszynski,
University of Alberta
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Peter
Hinow, University of Minnesota
Mary Ann Jordan, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Richard
Luduena, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San
Antonio
John Parkinson, Hospital for Sick Children
Dave Schriemer, University of Calgary
Shoshana Wodak, Hospital for Sick Children
BM6/PT8 Protein NMR Spectroscopy (Joint with PT)
Organizer: Leo
Spyracopoulos, University of Alberta
This symposium is supported by Bruker Canada and the Department of
Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and
Dentistry, University of Alberta, GE Healthcare-Life Sciences, NANUC and Varian, Inc.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Cheryl Arrowsmith, University of Toronto
Katherine Borden, Université de
Montréal
Walter
Chazin, Vanderbilt University
Kalle Gehring, McGill University
Patrick
Loria, Yale University
Giuseppe Melacini, McMaster University
Anthony
Mittermaier, McGill University
Gary
Shaw, University of Western Ontario
Brian
Sykes, University of Alberta
BM7/AN7/PT9 Single-Molecule Measurements in Biological Chemistry (Joint with AN and
PT)
Organizers: Nancy Forde, Simon
Fraser University and Hongbin Li, University of British Columbia
This symposium is supported by JPK Instruments.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Christopher Cairo, University of Alberta
Gonzalo
Cosa, McGill University
David Cramb, University of Calgary
Cécile
Fradin, McMaster University
Claudiu Gradinaru, University of Toronto
Michel
Grandbois, Université de Sherbrooke
Jürgen
Kreuzer, Dalhousie University
Gilbert Walker, University of Toronto
Michael
Woodside, University of Alberta
BM8/OR11 Small Molecule Drug Design
and Development (Joint with OR)
Organizer: Amitabh Jha,
Acadia University
This symposium is supported by the Canadian
Breast Cancer Foundation-Atlantic, Sepracor Canada and Varian Canada.
Confirmed invited
speakers:
Edward
Knaus, University of Alberta
Lakshmi Kotra, The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro and University of Toronto
Virinder Parmar, University of Delhi
Youla Tsantrizos, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada)
Ltd.
Herbert Waldmann, Max Planck Institute for Molecular
Physiology
Donald Weaver, Dalhousie University
