8th International Conference on AAA Proteins

Organizers
Walid A. Houry (University of Toronto, Canada)
Joaquin Ortega (McMaster University, Canada)

Co-organizers
Christine Bear (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)
Lori Burrows (McMaster University, Canada)
Isabelle Rouiller (McGill University, Canada)

Conference Planner
Rob Reedijk (University of Toronto, Canada)

Scientific Committee
Bernd Bukau (Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
Paul Freemont (Imperial College London, U.K.)
Phyllis Hanson (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Mike Maurizi (National Cancer Institute, USA)
John Mayer (University of Nottingham, UK)
Hemmo Meyer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Teru Ogura (Kumamoto University, Japan)
Dale Wigley (London Research Institute, UK)

List of Speakers and Topics

Clp chaperones and bacterial infection
Bernd Bukau 'EMBO Plenary Lecture' (Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg), Tania Baker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Clp chaperones and bacterial infection
Mike Maurizi (NCI, National Institutes of Health), David Dougan (La Trobe University)

ClpB/Hsp104
James Shorter (University of Pennsylvania), Helen Saibil (Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College)

Lon
Irene Lee (Case Western Reserve University), Carolyn Suzuki (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School)

p97 and links to cancer
Paul Freemont (Imperial College London), Hemmo Meyer (Institute of Biochemistry, ETH), Thomas Sommer (Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine)

p97 and links to neurodegenerative diseases and aging
Thorsten Hoppe ‘EMBO Young Investigator Lecture’ (University of Cologne), Virginia Kimonis (University of California, Irvine), Teru Ogura (Kumamoto University)

AAA in organelles
Phyllis Hanson (Washington University School of Medicine), Wes Sundquist (University of Utah School of Medicine)

AAA motors
Andrew Carter (University of California, San Francisco), Chikako Shingyoji (University of Tokyo)

Proteasome
Alfred Goldberg (Harvard Medical School), Michael Glickman (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Proteasome and links to neurodegenerative diseases
Daniel Finley (Harvard Medical School), John Mayer (University of Nottingham Medical School)

AAA in DNA/RNA binding
Tsutomu Katayama (Kyushu University), Dale Wigley (Cancer Research UK), Walid A. Houry (University of Toronto), Xiaodong Zhang (Imperial College London)