Schedule of Events and Webcast Links
The Gairdner 50th Anniversary Toronto Symposium is taking place from Wednesday, October 28 - Friday October 30, 2009. Events at the symposium are being webcast. Consult the schedule below for webcast links and associated times and event descriptions.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Webcast link: http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091028-GFS/index.htm | |
STEM CELLS, DISEASE MECHANISMS AND FUTURE THERAPIES | |
| Time | Description |
| 9:00am-9:30am | Induction of pluripotency by defined factors Shinya Yamanaka, Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 9:30am-10:00am | Directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to functional tissues Gordon Keller, Director, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Toronto, ON. |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Transposon-mediated reprogramming provides a powerful exploratory tool for understanding stem cell induction Andras Nagy, Senior Investigator Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, and Canada Research Chair in Stem Cells and Regeneration ,Toronto, ON |
| 10:30am-10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am-11:15am | Stem cells of the intestine Mario Cappechi, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 11:15am-11:45am | The roles of small RNAs in stem cells Phillip Sharp,Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston MA |
| 11:45am-12:15pm | Adult neurogenesis and the formation of social memories Samuel Weiss, University of Calgary, AB |
| 12:15pm-12:45pm | On being a scientist for 60 years Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, NC |
THE CELL: AN ENDLESS FRONTIER | |
| 1:40pm-2:00pm | How cells - and organisms - respond to perturbing their telomere maintenance Elizabeth Blackburn, Morris Herzstein Endowed Professor in Biology & Physiology, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics University of California, San Francisco |
| 2:00pm-2:20pm | The cellular machinery of protein folding: Molecular chaperones in health and disease Ulrich Hartl, Max- Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany |
| 2:20pm-2:40pm | Roles of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation in cellular regulation Avram Hershko, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa |
| 2:40pm-2:55pm | Coffee Break |
| 2:55pm-3:15pm | Genetic control of programmed cell death in C. elegans Bob Horvitz, David H. Koch Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| 3:15pm-3:35pm | Small RNAs in every corner of the cell Victor Ambros,Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
| 3:35pm- 3:55pm | A C. elegans endocrine system that couples detection of xenobiotic drugs to regulation of reproduction and longevity Gary Ruvkun,Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School |
| 3:55pm - 4:15pm | Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in animal cells Robert G. Roeder, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, NY |
| 4:15pm- 4:35pm | Internal Representations of the Olfactory World Richard Axel, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University Professor, Columbia University, NY |
| 4:35pm | Concluding Remarks |
Webcast link: http://cih.utoronto.ca/webcast.html | |
GAIRDNER GLOBAL HEALTH SYMPOSIUM | |
| Time | Description |
| 1:25pm-1:40pm | What's global health and why is it important? Jeff Koplan, Director of Global Health, Emory University |
| 1:40pm-1:55pm | Innovation and access in global health Tachi Yamada, President of Global Health Program, Gates Foundation |
| 1:55pm-2:10pm | Building capacity Mark Walport,Director, Wellcome Trust. |
| 2:10pm-2:25pm | Global health: why Canada should care and what Canada should do Peter Singer, Director, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto |
| 2:25pm-2:45pm | Discussion |
| 2:45pm-3:00pm | Break |
THE CHALLENGE OF CHRONIC DISEASE | |
| 3:00pm-3:20pm | Burden of cancer associated with infectious agents in developing countries Nubia Munoz, Inaugural Canada Gairdner Global Health award recipient |
| 3:20pm-3:35pm | What is Science for anyway? John Sulston, Cambridge, UK |
| 3:35pm-3:50pm | The evolving global vaccine landscape Margaret G. McGlynn, President, Merck Vaccines, Merck and Company Inc. |
| 3:50pm-4:05pm | Death and tobacco taxes Prabhat Jha , Director, Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto |
| 4:05pm-4:20pm | Halving adult mortality worldwide Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Co-Director, CTSU,Oxford University |
| 4:20pm-4:40pm | Discussion |
| 4:40pm-4:45pm | Conclusion Dr. John Dirks, President and Scientific Director, the Gairdner Foundation |
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Webcast link: http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091029-GFS/index.htm | |
CANADA GAIRDNER RECIPIENTS' LECTURES, THE CHARLES HOLLENBERG SYMPOSIUM | |
| Time | Description |
| 9:15am-9:45am | Protein homeostasis in health and disease Dr. Peter Walter, Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, CA, |
| 9:45am-10:15am | The unfolded protein response: To mammals and beyond Dr. Kazutoshi Mori, Professor, Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 10:15am-10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30am-11:00am | The systems architecture of the bacterial cell cycle Dr. Lucy Shapiro, Director, Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine,Professor, Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA |
| 11:00am-11:30am | Developmental biology of a simple organism Dr. Richard Losick, Professor, Microbial Development and Gene Regulation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | On the tribulations of not performing randomized trials Dr. David Sackett, Professor Emeritus, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:00pm-1:15pm | John Dirks, Introduction of the Inaugural Canada Gairdner Global Health Award |
| 1:15pm-1:45pm | From causality to prevention: the case of cervical cancer Dr. Nubia Munoz, Emeritus Professor, National Cancer Institute, Bogota, Colombia and Visiting Scientist, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona |
| 1:45pm-2:15pm | Induction of pluripotency by defined factors Dr. Shinya Yamanka, Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 2:15pm-3:00pm | Humanity's genes Dr. Sydney Brenner, Distinguished Professor, The Salk Institute, San Diego |
| 3:00pm | Concluding Remarks |
Friday, October 30, 2009
Webcast link: http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091030-GFS/index.htm | |
GAIRDNER/NOBEL AND GAIRDNER LAUREATE FORUMS | |
| Time | Description and Speakers |
| 8:45am-10:15am | ATTACK AND REPULSIONS: INFECTIONS AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEMNew Vaccines: Doing Better than NatureDr. Ralph Steinman, Henry G. Kunkel Professor & Sr. Physician, The Rockefeller University, New York Is understanding peptide selection by histocompatibility molecules important for vaccination? Dr. Emil Unanue, Paul & Ellen Lacy Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO New Vaccines: Hopes and Hypes Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10:30am-12:00pm | THE METABOLIC SYNDROME: FOOD AND FUEL FOR THOUGHTLeptin and ObesityDr. Jeff Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, The Rockefeller University, New York Nuclear Receptors and Energy Dr. Ron Evans, Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla California SREBP Pathway and Cholesterol Dr. Michael Brown, Regental Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Targeting Metabolic Networks Dr. Tony Pawson, University Professor, Program in Molecular Biology & Cancer, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto |
| 2:00pm-3:30pm | CANCER: CAN NEW INSIGHTS INTO BIOLOGY YIELD BETTER RESULTS?Insights in virology as precondition for novel approaches in the prevention of human cancersDr. Harald zur Hausen, Professor Emeritus, German Cancer Research institute, Heidelberg, Germany Molecular diversity of human breast cancer: clinical and threapeutic implications Dr. Dennis Slamon, Chief, Department of Hematology, Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles Do cancer stem cells and metastasis hold the answers? Dr. Bob Weinberg, Professor of Biology, Member, Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA Helicobacter and stomach cancer Dr. Barry Marshall, International Research Foundation for Helicobacter and Intestinal Immunology, Virginia Telomeres and telomerase in cancer Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Morris Herzstein Endowed Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco |
| 7:00pm-8:30pm | THE PERSONALIZED GENOME: DO I WANT TO KNOW?Dr. Michael Hayden, Director and Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, VancouverDr. Sydney Brenner, Distinguished Professor, The Salk Institute, San Diego Charles Sabine, Award winning NBC News correspondent and carrier of the gene for Huntington's Disease Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |