Conference Description
The Cell Biology of Metals GRC started in 2005 to bridge significant gaps in our understanding of biological metals in the cellular and organismal context. The conference provides a highly interactive forum for junior and senior investigates to learn about the latest advances in metal homeostasis. This keystone meeting has been instrumental in identifying major knowledge gaps; overcoming intractable research barriers; nucleating new technological advancements; and establishing emerging concepts. The goal of the 2019 Cell Biology of Metals meeting is to accelerate this trajectory by bringing together clinicians, chemists, physicists, biologists, and engineers with expertise in solving outstanding problems at the interface of cellular and chemical biology of metals. The 2019 program will be organized around the theme of "Organismal Biology of Metals and Related Metal Complexes". Each session will be led by leaders in their respective fields with speakers representing an international cadre of investigators. Cutting-edge talks will be presented ranging from metals at the host-pathogen interface to metallo-sensation and homeostasis to metal -omics in normal and pathological states across phyla. The meeting will provide unique opportunities for established and early-stage investigators to present their work and exchange ideas, learn where the field is heading, and establish new cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Speakers will be present throughout the week providing attendees with ample opportunities for personal interactions. Based upon submitted abstracts, short talks will be identified for each session from junior investigators, including postdocs and students. The collegial atmosphere of this conference, with robust discussions, poster sessions, and informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provides an excellent venue to develop multi-discipline collaborations. By engaging the research community to actively participate in discussing research at the frontiers of cell biology of metals, conclusions can be generated which can synergize and drive discoveries and positively impact human health.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by March 14, 2019. Please check back for updates.
Metals in the Omics Era
Discussion Leaders
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Vadim Gladyshev (Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA)
Speakers
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David Eide (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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Chu Wang (Peking University, China)
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Lucia Banci (University of Florence, Italy)
Metals at the Host-Pathogen Interface
Discussion Leaders
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Angela Wilks (University of Maryland, USA)
Speakers
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Anirban Banerjee (National Institutes of Health, USA)
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Amanda Oglesby-Sherrouse (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA)
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Duncan Wilson (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
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Paul Sigala (University of Utah School of Medicine, USA)
Cellular Metal Sensation and Homeostasis
Discussion Leaders
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Nigel Robinson (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Sergi Puig (Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technologies, CSIC, Spain)
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Elizabeth New (The University of Sydney, Australia)
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David Giedroc (Indiana University, USA)
Systemic Metal Sensing
Discussion Leaders
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Caroline Philpott (National Institutes of Health, USA)
Speakers
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Scot Leary (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
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Jodie Babitt (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA)
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Byung-Eun Kim (University of Maryland, USA)
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Samira Lakhal-Littleton (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Cellular Metal Partitioning
Discussion Leaders
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Sabeeha Merchant (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Speakers
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Paul Cobine (Auburn University, USA)
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Adam Hughes (University of Utah, USA)
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Amit Reddi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Metallocofactors
Discussion Leaders
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Ralf Mendel (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany)
Speakers
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Martin Warren (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
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Gunhild Layer (University of Freiburg, Germany)
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Guenter Schwarz (University of Cologne, Germany)
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Amy Medlock (University of Georgia, USA)
New Paradigms in Metal Metabolism
Discussion Leaders
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Valeria Culotta (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Speakers
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Dennis Thiele (Duke University School of Medicine, USA)
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Peng Chen (Cornell University, USA)
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Amy Palmer (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Metals in Physiology and Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Svetlana Lutsenko (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Speakers
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Martina Muckenthaler (Heidelberg University, Germany)
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Herve Puy (Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Nord Val de Seine, France)
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Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Keynote Session: Cellular Metal Compartmentalization and Regulation
Discussion Leaders
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Michael Petris (University of Missouri, USA)
Speakers
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Mary Lou Guerinot (Dartmouth College, USA)
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Roland Lill (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Power Hour
Organizers:
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Amy Medlock (University of Georgia, USA)
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Caryn Outten (University of South Carolina, USA)
