21st IUBMB International Congress and 12th FAOBMB Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The 21st IUBMB and the 12th FAOBMB International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2009-Congress) was taked 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

1. EMBO Lecture: Aaron J. Ciechanover
   2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

2. IUBMB Life Lecture and Medal                Kurt Wüthrich
   2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland

3. Severo Ochoa Lecture and Medal             Sidney Altman
   1989 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Yale University, USA

4. Osamu Hayaishi Lecture and Medal Shinya Yamanaka
   Kyoto University, Japan

5. E. C. Slater Lecture and Medal                 Robert G. Roeder
   Rockefeller University, USA

6. Kunio Yagi Lecture and Medal                  Gregory J. Hannon
   Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

7. Chester Beatty Lecture and Medal             Victor Ambros
   University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

8. FAOBMB, Svasti Lectureship                  Gang Pei
   Tongji University, China

9. European Federation of Biotechnology      Mathias Uhlén
   Royal Institute of Technology; Sweden

10. FEBS Lecturer          Wolfgang Baumeister
    Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

11. 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

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