Biomedical & Life Science

This symposium will bring together these new fields to examine those aspects of host and Plasmodium biology important for understanding immunity and pathogenesis.

ABRCMS is the largest, professional conference for biomedical and behavior students, including mathematics, attracting approximately 2,800 individuals, including 1,500 undergraduate students, 300 graduate students and postdoctoral scientists and 1,000 faculty and administrators.

ASMCUE is an interactive four-day conference on scientific updates and effective teaching strategies. Each year, the conference attracts approximately 300 microbiology and biology educators.

Graduate students, both from within and outside McGill, will participate and present research projects on a variety of interdisciplinary scientific themes. An emphasis is placed on communication of ideas to an audience encompassing a broad range of scientific interests and expertise.

The purpose of this meeting is to stimulate progress in the methods of computer-aided drug design. This will be accomplished by bringing theory and practice into contact at a number of levels in order to highlight interesting and important practical problems waiting to be solved, and by deepening participants’ understanding of the science underlying these challenges.

This symposium is designed to explore experimental models of development, to understanding the role of epigenetics in regulating important signaling pathways, and to examine the relationship of the fetal environment to normal development and the susceptibility to chronic disease.

A key goal for the meeting will be to facilitate collaborative interactions between basic and clinical scientists focused on prediction, prevention, and treatment of insulin resistance and diabetes.

This meeting is intended to explore these recently appreciated mechanisms for gene regulation and to showcase the novel techniques that have permitted these advances.

The goal of this meeting is to examine the challenges facing GPCR drug discovery, and to explore the application of structural biology, genomics and proteomics to GPCR target selection, and to lead identification and optimization.

Immunological Mechanisms of Vaccination will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists in immunology, virology, systems biology and vaccinology, to address critical advances in these fields and their implications for vaccinology.

This conference will bring together scientists working on innate immune mechanisms activated by these receptors, and will have as a key focus the ability of these receptors and the responses they elicit to promote adaptive immunity. The conference will therefore be of interest to many investigators interested in immunity and the role the immune system plays in disease.

This symposium will focus on advances in our understanding of normal pancreatic b-cell function and mechanisms of beta-cell failure in type 2 diabetes, which has become a pandemic disease with estimates of affected individuals reaching 350 millions in 2030.

The MRFA, MFA, GSA, and MAA will be hosting the Mayo Multidisciplinary Research Educational Symposium for Young Investigators in March 2010 at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. The main goals of the symposium are to (1)provide a forum for the career and professional development of young investigators, (2)encourage communication between basic science and clinical researchers in related fields (3)recognize outstanding achievement amongst young investigators and research mentors.

This conference will examine the tension between the development of new practical malaria control tools, including genomic ones, and the advantages of more fully exploiting existing tools. It is hoped that the scientific discussion will help influence individual and programmatic research priorities.

The purpose of this meeting is to highlight exciting new opportunities in the discovery of small molecule drug candidates, including the following: Novel targets for small molecules, including disruption of protein-protein interactions, allosteric modulation of receptors and enzymes, and direct interactions with transcription factors.

Our meeting will bring together scientists working on the basic biological questions of how synapses form in model organisms, the development of new technology, and those with interests in understanding the links to human diseases.

The overarching aim of this Keystone Symposia meeting will be to take advantage of our knowledge of etiologic heterogeneity by examining the phenomenology and pathophysiology of etiologically-defined autistic syndromes, and contrasting this with what is known about idiopathic autism, in order to ultimately shape the development of treatment approaches informed by knowledge of the underlying pathophysiology.