CIHR STRATEGIC TRAINING PROGRAMS International Symposium on PROTEIN FOLDING: PRINCIPLES AND DISEASES University of Toronto Medical Sciences Building Room 3154 1 King’s College Circle Toronto, Ontario May 25-26, 2006 Sponsored by: Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training Program in Protein Folding: Principles and Disease CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction The Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

PROGRAM Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:00 AM BREAKFAST - Ruth Kurdyak Medical Alumni Lounge, 3rd Floor, Medical Sciences Building. 8:30 AM Opening remarks, John Glover, Symposium Chair SESSION I Aggregation and Neurodegeneration Chair: Janice Robertson 8:35 AM   Benoit Giasson, University of Pennsylvania 9:20 AM   TRAINEE (TBA) 9:35 AM   Witold Surewicz, Case Western Reserve University 10:20 AM   Coffee break 10:35 AM   David Westaway, University of Toronto 11:20 AM   TRAINEE (TBA) 11:35 AM   Peter Csermely, Semmelweis University 12:20 PM   LUNCH, Ruth Kurdyak Medical Alumni Lounge, 3rd Floor, Medical Sciences Building.   1:30 PM   POSTER SESSION SESSION II Molecular Chaperones Chair: Elisabeth Tillier 2:35 PM Walid Houry , University of Toronto 3:20 PM   TRAINEE (TBA) 3:35 PM   Daniel Hebert, University of Massachusetts 4:20 P.M.   Session ends

PROGRAM Friday, May 26, 2006 8:00 AM BREAKFAST - Ruth Kurdyak Medical Alumni Lounge, 3rd Floor Medical Sciences Building. SESSION III Biophysical and Computational Methods Chair: Régis Pomès 8:35 AM   Harold Scheraga, Cornell University 9:20 AM   TRAINEE (TBA) 9:35 AM   Lewis Kay, University of Toronto 10:20 AM   Coffee Break 10:35 AM   José Onuchic, University of California, San Diego 11:20 AM   TRAINEE (TBA) 11:35 AM   Uno Carlsson, Linökping University, Sweden 12:20 AM Closing Remarks                     (back to Symposium page )