2008 TORONTO - Gairdner Lectures Oct 23-24/08

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Welcome:              Dr. John Dirks, President, The Gairdner Foundation

Chair:                  Catharine Whiteside, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Vice Provost Relations with Healthcare Institutions, University of Toronto      

Introduction:         Dr. Freda Miller, Senior Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Professor,                                Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

Speaker:              Dr. Samuel Weiss, Gairdner Laureate 2008, Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy & Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Director                               Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CA

Adult neural stem cells:  From basic science to therapeutic applications

Introduction:         Dr. Howard Lipshitz, Professor & Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics, Associate Director, Terrence Donnelly CCBR,                                University of Toronto

Speaker:                 Dr. Victor Ambros, Gairdner Laureate 2008, Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical                                  School, Worcester, MA, USA

MicroRNA pathways in animal development

Introduction:       Dr. Craig Smibert, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

Speaker :             Dr. Gary Ruvkun, Gairdner Laureate 2008, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

The tiny RNA pathways of C. elegans

Introduction:      Dr. Tony Pawson, University Professor, University of Toronto, Programme in Molecular Biology & Cancer, Samuel                              Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital

Speaker:             Dr. Nahum Sonenberg, Gairdner Laureate 2008, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and McGill Cancer Centre, McGill                              University, Montreal, Quebec, CA

Translational control in biology and medicine

Chair:                    Dr. Jack Gauldie, University Professor, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Director,                                Centre for Gene Therapeautics, Hamilton

Introduction:         Dr. Joan Murphy, Head of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, UHN, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics &                                Gynecology, University of Toronto

Speaker:                Prof. Harald zur Hausen, Gairdner Laureate 2008, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

Infections as cancer risk factors

Introduction:         Dr. Michael Julius, Vice President Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, CA

Speaker:              Dr. Ralph M. Steinman, GairdnerLaureate 2003, Henry G. Kunkel Professor & Sr. Physician,The Rockefeller University, New                                York, NY, USA

Dendritic cells:  A vehicle for vaccine development (Not Yet Available)

Introduction:         Dr. Janet Rossant, Chief of Research & Senior Scientist, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

Speaker:                 Dr. Alan Bernstein, Gairdner Wightman Laureate 2008, Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, New York, NY

Global solutions for global challenges:  Progress towards an HIV vaccine

Conclusion     Dr. John H. Dirks

ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: MICRO RNA'S, STEM CELLS AND AGING

TORONTO - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CAMPUS - MACLEOD AUDITORIUM

Friday, October 24, 2008                          

Welcome:             Dr. John Dirks, President & Scientific Director, The Gairdner Foundation

                               Professor Paul Young, Vice President Research, University of Toronto, CA

Chair:                      Dr. Michael Hayden, Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of British Columbia,                                  Vancouver, B. C.

Speaker:             Dr. Tony Pawson

Signalling Proteins          

Introduction:           Dr. Martin Simard, Laval University Cancer Research Centre, Quebec City, Montreal, CA

Speaker:              Dr. Craig Mello, Gairdner Laureate 2005, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School,                               Worcester, MA, USA

RNAi from mechanism to medicine           

Introduction:         Dr. David MacLennan, Gairdner Laureate 1991, Banting Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto,                                Charles H. Best Institute, Toronto, CA

Speaker:                 Dr. Eric Olson, Professor, Molecular Biology, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas

MicroRNa control of heart development and disease

Introduction:         Dr. Steve Scherer, The Center for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, CA

Speaker:                 Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Computational Genetics,                                  Boston, MA, USA

Reading and writing genomes

Chair:                    Dr. Michael Tyers, CH Waddington Professor of Systems Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Introduction:         Dr. Samuel Aparicio, Professor of Breast Cancer Research, UBC/BCCA, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC

Speaker:                  Dr. Douglas Hanahan, Diabetes, and Comprehensive Cancer Centres, UCSF, San Francisco

Micro-RNA signatures of the stages in multi-step tumorigenesis (Not Yet Available)

Introduction:         Dr. Brenda Andrews, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA

Speaker:                 Dr. James S. Thomson, Professor of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center,                                  Wisconsin, USA

Exiting the pluripotent state, and back again

Introduction:         Dr. Andras Nagy, Senior Investigator, Developmental Molecular Geneticist, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount                                Sinai Hospital, Toronto, CA

Speaker:                 Dr. Gordon Keller, Senior Scientist, Division of Stem Cell & Developmental Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, CA

Directed differentiation of embryonic stem cells to functional tissues

Introduction:         Dr. Peter Lewis, Vice Dean, Research & International Relations, Faculty of Medicine, Professor of Biochemistry, University                                of Toronto, Toronto, CA

Speaker:                 Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, Director, Hillblom Center for Biology of Aging, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Genes and cells that regulate the lifespan of "C. elegans" (Not Yet Available)

Introduction:         Dr. Jacques Drouin, Chair in Molecular Genetics, Intitut De Recherches Cliniques De Montreal, Montreal, Quebec

Speaker:                 Dr. Leonard Guarente, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Sirtuins, aging and diseases

Conclusion:                Dr. John H. Dirks