The C.P. Leblond Celebratory Symposium

The C.P. Leblond Celebratory Symposium

C.P. Leblond Amphitheater (M1)

Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

3640 University Street, Montreal, Quebec.  H3A 2B2

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Program: 

8:30 AM        Inauguration of C.P. Leblond Amphitheater - by Interim VP Dean Samuel Benaroya

9:00 AM        Welcome Address – by Provost Anthony C. Masi

9:15 AM        Introduction of Dr. Alain Beaudet - by Dr. Phil Barker

9:20 AM        Dr. Alain Beaudet

President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario.

 ‘C.P. Leblond: A Towering Figure in Canadian Health Research’

10:00 AM      Introduction of Dr. Hans Clevers – by Dr. Phil Gold

10:05AM       Dr. Hans Clevers,

Department of Molecular Genetics, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

‘Wnt signaling, Lgr5 stem cells and cancer’

10:45-11:10 AM           *** Coffee Break ***

11:10 AM      Introduction of Dr. Martin Dym - by Dr. Vassilios Papadopoulos

11:15 AM      Dr. Martin Dym

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

 ‘Potential of Male Germline Stem Cells’

12:00 -1:30 PM          

*** Lunch with Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows ***

1:35 PM        Introduction of Dr. Stuart Kornfeld – by Dr. Tommy Nilsson

1:40 PM        Dr. Stuart Kornfeld

Professor of Medicine, Hematology Division,  Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

 ‘Mannose 6-phosphate lysosomal targeting system’

2:20 PM        Introduction of Dr. Marilyn Farquhar – by Dr. John J.M. Bergeron

2:25 PM        Dr. Marilyn Farquhar

 Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

 ‘Linking G protein signaling, EGF receptor trafficking and cancer metastasis’

3:05-3:30 PM           *** Coffee Break ***

3:30 PM        Introduction of Dr. Alberto Luini – by Dr. Louis Hermo

3:35 PM        Dr. Alberto Luini

TIGEM-Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy.

‘Mechanisms of cargo transfer across stations of the secretory pathway’

4:15 PM        Introduction of Dr. J. Lippincott-Schwartz – by Dr. John Presley

4:20 PM        Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

 Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

‘Navigating the cellular landscape with new optical probes, imaging strategies and technical innovations’

5:00 PM       Concluding Remarks.

6:30 PM            Reception