Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Spring Symposium
Schedule
Location: 3M Building, Rm 3250
9:30 am
Welcome - Dr. David Litchfield, Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry, Western University, London, ON
9:35 am
Dr. James Choy, Dept. of Biochemistry, Western University, London, ON
"Intrinsically disorder-based protein-protein interactions in the Nrf2/Keap1 pathway"
10 am
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Julie Forman-Kay, Senior Scientist and Program Head, Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick Children; Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
"Dynamic interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins in biological regulation and cellular organization"
Host: Dr. Shawn Li
11 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am
Dr. Brian Shilton, Dept. of Biochemistry, Western University, London, ON
"Quinone reductase 2: enzyme or redox switch?"
11:45 am
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Elias Arner, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
"The selenoprotein thioredoxin reductase in control of cellular signaling pathways and as an anticancer drug target"
Host: Dr. David Litchfield
12:30 pm
Lunch provided
