Meeting program

Nature Chemical Biology Annual Symposium: The Chemical Biology of the Cell

FRIDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2006
  • 1:00 PM
  • Welcome and Introduction

The nucleus and cell division
  • Session Chair:
  • Ulrike Eggert, Harvard University, MA
  • 1:30 - 2:10
  • Tarun Kapoor
  • Rockefeller University, NY
  • Chemical biology of cell division
  • 2:10 - 2:50
  • Antoine van Oijen
  • Harvard University, MA
  • A single-molecule view of DNA replication
  • 2:50 - 3:30
  • Peter Sorger
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
  • Towards a systems pharmacology of cancer treatment
  • 3.30 - 4:00
  • Coffee Break

Metal ions and metabolites
  • Session Chair:
  • Sarah O'Connor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
  • 4:00 - 4:40
  • Jeremy Nicholson
  • Imperial College London, UK
  • Metabolic regulation and dysfunction in supersystems
  • 4:40 - 5:20
  • Valeria Culotta
  • Johns Hopkins, MD
  • Metal Trafficking
  • 5:20 - 6:00
  • Joseph Noel
  • The Salk Institute, CA
  • Hybrid type I fatty acid - type III polyketide synthases and cellular differentiation
  • 6:30 - 7:30
  • Reception
SATURDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2006
  • 8:00 AM
  • Breakfast

Cytoplasmic processes
  • Session Chair:
  • Nathanael Gray, Harvard University, MA
  • 8:30 - 9:10
  • Garry Nolan
  • Stanford University, CA
  • Drug screening against networks: towards discerning multiparametric phospho-signaling with primary single cells and patient samples
  • 9:10 - 9:50
  • Jack Taunton
  • UCSF, CA
  • How actin filament networks push and pull on cellular membranes
  • 9:50 - 10:30
  • Philippe Bastiaens
  • EMBL, Germany
  • Imaging enzyme catalysis via enzyme-substrate intermediates
  • 10:30 - 11:00
  • Coffee Break

Membranes
  • Session Chair:
  • Adrian Whitty, Biogen Idec, MA
  • 11:00 - 11:40
  • Pietro de Camilli
  • Yale University, CT
  • Phosphoinositide metabolism in the regulation of membrane traffic
  • 11:40 - 12:20
  • Akihiro Kusumi
  • Kyoto University, Japan
  • Single-molecule tracking reveals transient nature of molecular interactions in signal transduction
  • 12:20 - 1:00
  • Richard Proia
  • National Institutes of Health, MD
  • Sphingolipid function in cells and disease
  • 1:00 - 2:00
  • Lunch

Future directions: Cell and chemical biology moving forward
  • Session Chair:
  • Terry L. Sheppard, Nature Chemical Biology
  • 2:00 - 2:45
  • Carolyn Bertozzi
  • University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • Key challenges for the future of chemical biology in the cell: a Chemist's perspective
  • 2:45 - 3:30
  • James Rothman
  • Columbia University, NY
  • Key challenges for the future of chemical biology in the cell: a Biologist's perspective
  • 3:30 - 4:00
  • Discussion and Wrap up

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