> home > Neuroscience Events

Neuroscience Events

Joint Neuroscience Events (June 10 - June 11, 2013)

2013 CPIN Research Day on June 10, 2013 (Medical Sciences Building)
(Joint event with the International Symposium on Structural Neurobiology on June 11, 2013)

Link to the Program Booklet.


Eleventh Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture

Speaker | Dr. Brian Kobilka, Stanford University
Date | June 10, 2013
Time | 4:30 pm
Title| Structural Insights into the dynamic process of G-protein coupled receptor activation
Location | JJR MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building 2158
Host | Oliver Ernst, Professor, Department of Biochemistry

 

Joint Neuroscience Event Program

Monday, June 10, 2013
Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto
1 King's College Circle

Collaborative Program In Neuroscience (CPIN) Research Day
9:30 Pre-event: Career Workshop: Non-conventional careers (MSB2172)
   Dr. Christa Studzinski, Senior Program Lead of Research Programs, OBI 
   Dr. Ruslan Dorfman, Co-Founder, Geneyouin Inc. 
   Dr. Alison Denney, Senor Program Lead for Industry Relations, OBI 
   Dr. Philip Caffrey, Public Policy and Programs Analyst, Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario 
   Dr. Kirk Nylen, Acting Director of Operations and Outreach, OBI 
   Theme of the Workshop | Alternative career options of Neuroscience Graduates
 11:00 Refreshments - Meet with Workshop speakers (Stone Lobby)

11:30 Registration and poster set-up (Stone Lobby) 

12:00 Opening remarks
    Dr. Zhong-Ping Feng, Director, CPIN
    Dr. Alison Buchan, Vice Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine
    Dr. Sandy Welsh, Vice Dean (Graduate Studies), Faculty of Arts and Science
    Dr. Peter Lewis, Associate Vice President (Research), University of Toronto
12:15 Poster presentation grouping, judges, and judging process of Poster Presentation Awards
    Dr. Janice Robertson / Dr. Albert Wong
    Rules of Student’s Choice Awards
    Dr. Lili-Naz Jazrati

12:30 CPIN Poster Presentation and evaluation 
   (Lunch boxes and refreshments are provided)

16:00 CPIN Group Photo (outside of MSB, by JJR Macleod Auditorium)

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture (JJR MacLeod Auditorium)
(Co-organized with International Symposium on Structural Neurobiology, July 11, 2013)
16:30 Welcome remarks
16:45 Professor Brian Kobilka (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
   Structural Insights into the Dynamic Process of G-protein-coupled Receptor Activation

17:45 Poster presentation awards announcement

Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Room B-150 (1 floor below ground level)
Pharmacy Building, University of Toronto
144 College St.
 

International Symposium on Structural Neurobiology
(Organized by Oliver Ernst, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Structural Neurobiology, University of Toronto)

9:00 - 10:30 Session 1
G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs)
Chair: Brian Kobilka (Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.)
9:00 Opening remarks
9:10  Scott Prosser (University of Toronto, Canada), Understanding the Role of Ligands on GPCR Activation by Using 19F NMR
9:35  Oliver Ernst (University of Toronto, Canada), Structural Insights into First Steps of Seeing
10:00  Dwayne Miller (University of Hamburg, Germany/University of Toronto, Canada), Rhodopsin Family of Sensory Proteins Breaks Speed Records – New Questions on the Role of Quantum
 Effects in Biology10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 Tom Sakmar (Rockefeller University, New York, U.S.A.), Probing Receptor Activation with Genetically-Encoded Unnatural Amino Acids
11:35 Brian Shoichet (University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A./University of Toronto, Canada), Structure-Based and Chemoinformatics Discovery of GPCR Ligands and Pharmacology

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 15:35 Session 2
Transporters and Ion channels
Chair: Reinhart Reithmeier (University of Toronto, Canada)
14:05 Da-Neng Wang (New York University School of Medicine, New York, U.S.A.), Structure and Mechanism of a Bacterial INDY Homolog — A Sodium-dependent Carboxylate Transporter Involved in Fatty Acid Synthesis and Obesity
14:40  Ernst Bamberg (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany), Light-gated ion channels and pumps in optogenetics
15:15  Emil Pai (University of Toronto, Canada), Analysis of the Bacterial Mg2+ Channel CorA in the Presence and Absence of Divalent Ions
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:10 Session 3
Approaches to Drug Discovery
Chair: Ruth Ross (University of Toronto, Canada)
16:05 Ron Dror (DEShaw Research, New York, U.S.A.), How Drugs Bind and Control their Targets: Characterizing GPCR Signaling Through Atomic-level Simulation
16:40 AndrewDoré, Heptares Therapeutics Ltd (Welwyn Garden City, UK), StaR’s® and Structures: Enabling GPCR Drug Discovery

17:15 Closing remarks - end of the scientific meeting


Upcoming Events (April  - June)