Receptors and other forms of protein binding in obesity and atherosclerosis

Chair: Urs P. Steinbrecher
Co-Chair: Eleftherios P. Diamandis

Sponsor:

14:15 - 14:45h

High density lipoprotein-cell interactions

Gordon A. Francis

Lipid and Lipoprotein Research Group, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

14:45 - 15:15h

Receptors for oxidized low-density lipoproteins

Urs P. Steinbrecher

Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

15:15 - 15:45h

Nuclear receptors and ligands that regulate adipose tissue development

Gérard P. Ailhaud

Centre de Biochimie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Faculté des Sciences, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose, Nice, France

15:45 - 16:00h

Refreshments in the Poster Display Area, Campus Lobby, Medical Sciences Building
(just across from the entrance of the J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium)

16:00 - 16:30h

The role of adhesion molecules in atherosclerosis

Myron I. Cybulsky

Max Bell Research Centre, Toronto Hospital Research Institute,
and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

16:30 - 17:00h

Receptor for advanced glycoxidation endproducts (RAGE): Implications for chronic cellular dysfunction in diabetic vasculopathy

David M. Stern

Departments of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and Surgery, Rover Physiology Research Laboratories,
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

17:00 - 17:30h

Roundtable Discussion

17:30 - 18:30h

Annual Business Meeting
International Society for Enzymology

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