Speaker Information

Keynote: Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco
Title: “From Protein Folding to Cognition: The Serendipitous Path of Discovery”
Abstract: A screen for small molecule modulators of the unfolded protein response yielded ISRIB, a druglike compound that with high efficacy renders cells insensitive to translational inhibition by phosphorylation of eIF2. ISRIB proved to be a cognitive enhancer in rodents, significantly improving long-term memory of wild-type animals in behavioral assays.
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Dafna Bar-Sagi
​NYU School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Title: “Oncogenic Ras-Dependent Tumor Cell Vulnerabilities”

Anthony Bretscher
​Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Title: “Pickup, transport and home delivery: How a molecular motor mediates polarized growth and organelle segregation”
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Rebecca Heald
Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkley
Title: “Mechanisms of mitosis and size control in Xenopus”
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Sean Morrison
Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern
Title: “Osteogenic & Hematopoietic Niches”
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Pietro De Camilli
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Neuroscience and Cell Biology Departments,Yale University School of Medicine
Title: “Lipid Signaling in the Control of Membrane Dynamics and Interactions” View CV