Program Details (in pdf file here):

 

9:30-10:30 PLENARY LECTURE: Professor Jeff Gelles

Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University

“How kinesin keeps its grip: single-molecule studies of a molecular motor”

 

10:30-10:50 COFFEE BREAK, POSTER SETUP

 

10:50-11:15 Professor Yves DeKonick,

Neurophysics, Laval University

“Making sense of noise at live synapses in neurons”

11:15-11:40 Professor Christine DeWolf,

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University

“Raft formation by lipid second messengers: do phosphoinositide lipids phase separate in model membranes?”

11:35-12:05 Professor Peter Swain,

Department of Physiology, Physics, & Mathematics, McGill University

“Quantifying gene regulation in single cells”

 

12:05-14:00 POSTER SESSION, PIZZA LUNCH

 

14:00-14:25 Professor Stephen Michnick,

Department of Biochemistry, Université de Montréal

“Genomic-scale protein interaction network inference and dynamics”

14:25-14:50 Professor Anne-Marie Lauzon,

Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Dept. of Medicine, McGill University

“Molecular mechanics of smooth muscle myosin in the latch-state”

 

14:50-15:10 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS

 

15:10-15:35 Dr. John Pezacki,

Steacie Institute of Molecular Sciences, National Research Council

“Nanoscale imaging of beta-adrenergic receptors in the developing heart”

15:35-16:00 Professor David Burns,

Department of Chemistry, McGill University

“Biospectroscopy of Respiration: Applications from Womb to Tomb.”

 

16:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION AND CONCLUSION