2009 Martin and Winifred Ehlers Symposium
"Protein Folding and Disease"

Monday, October 26, 2009

Mayo Clinic Rochester
Leighton Auditorium (Second Floor - Siebens Building)
Lunch at Rochester Marriott ballroom

Guest Speakers

• Byron Caughey, Ph.D.

  NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories
  Prions and the transmissibility of protein misfolding

• Bill Eaton M.D., Ph.D.

  NIH (NIDDK)
  Single molecule FRET trajectories of protein folding and unfolding

• Ulrich Hartl, M.D., Ph.D.

  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried Germany
  Chaperone mechanisms in normal and aberrant protein folding

• Randy Kaufman, Ph.D.

  University of Michigan
  Protein folding, oxidative stress and cell death

• Rick Morimoto, Ph.D.

  Northwestern University
  Protecting the proteome by chaperone networks and stress responses in aging and neurodegenerative disease

• Bill Skach, M.D.

  Oregon Health Sciences University
  Is the Sec61 translocon a membrane protein chaperone?