We are currently finalizing the program for BioMetals 2018. Please check back for more information as it becomes available!
List of Confirmed Speakers
Greg Anderson - "Mechanisms and regulation of iron intake in early infancy"
Head, Iron Metabolism Laboratory
QIMR Berghofer
http://www.qimrberghofer.edu.au/people/gregory-anderson/
Simon Andrews - "Bacterial iron export combats innate immunity"
Head of the Biomedical Sciences Section and Microbiology Research Group
University of Reading
https://www.reading.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/about/staff/s-c-andrews.aspx
Judith Behnsen - "Probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 Uses Zinc Transporters and a Product of the Yersiniabactin Operon to Acquire Zinc in the Inflamed Gut"
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine
https://sites.google.com/uic.edu/behnsen/people/judith-behnsen
Rachel Codd - "Generating siderophores with new properties and new functions from precursor-directed biosynthesis"
Professor
The University of Sydney
http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/rachel.codd.php
Jean-François Couture - "Structural insights into a metalloregulator"
Canada Research Chair in Structural Biology and Epigenetics
University of Ottawa
http://med.uottawa.ca/oisb/research-oisb/principal-investigators/jean-francois-couture
Debbie C. Crans - "Metal speciation: exploring different forms of the metal ions and their different biological activities"
Professor
Colorado State University
http://wp.natsci.colostate.edu/crans/
David Eide - "Meeting the quota: the Zap1 transcription factor and the cellular economy of zinc"
Professor
University of Wisconsin - Madison
https://genetics.wisc.edu/staff/eide-david/
David Giedroc - "Molecular mechanisms of bacterial transition metal homeostasis"
Professor
Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~dpglab/
David E. Heinrichs - "Iron acquisition in the S. aureus-infected phagocyte"
Professor
University of Western Ontario
http://publish.uwo.ca/~deh/Heinrichs_Lab/Home.html
John Helmann - "Zinc buffering, mobilization and chaperone-dependent trafficking in Bacillus subtili"
Professor and Chairman
Cornell University
https://micro.cornell.edu/research/helmann-lab
Jian Hu - "Crystal structures of a ZIP zinc transporter reveal a binuclear metal center in the transport pathway"
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
https://bmb.natsci.msu.edu/faculty/jian-hu/
Tricia Kiley - "The effect of O2 on iron homeostasis”
Professor and Chair
University of Wisconsin
https://bmolchem.wisc.edu/staff/kiley-tricia/
Isabelle Michaud-Soret - "The tetrameric family of the FUR metalloregulators: from DNA-dependent tetramer dissociation to virulence"
Team Leader
CEA-Grenoble
http://big.cea.fr/drf/big/Pages/CBM/BioMet/Accueil.aspx
Marvin J. Miller - "Exploiting Microbial Iron Transport for Development of Targeted Antibiotics: Synthetic Sideromycins"
Professor Emeritus
University of Notre Dame
https://chemistry.nd.edu/people/marvin-j-miller/
Michael Murphy - "Heme extracted from hemoglobin by IsdB at the cell surface Staphylococcus aureus is shuttled to SbnI to regulate siderophore biosynthesis"
Professor
University of British Columbia
http://www.microbiology.ubc.ca/research/labs/murphy
Shelley Payne - "Feo: New insights into an ancient iron transporter"
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/paynelab/
Prem Ponka - "The Path of Iron from Plasma Transferrin to Hemoglobin"
Professor
McGill University
http://www.ladydavis.ca/en/premponka
Tracey Rouault - "Unsuspected regulatory roles of iron sulfur clusters in multiple mammalian pathways"
Associate Scientific Director
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
https://irp.nih.gov/pi/tracey-rouault
Manuela Santos - "Iron supplements modulate gut microbiota composition and probiotic efficiency in mice"
Professor
Université de Montréal
http://crchum.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/researchers/santos-manuela
Stefano L. Sensi - "The Ying and Yang of brain zinc in dementia"
Professor
University “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara - Italy
http://molecularneurology.unich.it/
Frank Thévenod - "Channels, transporters and receptors for cadmium and cadmium complexes: Facts and alternative facts"
University Professsor and Institute Director
Universität Witten/Herdecke
http://www.uni-wh.de/gesundheit/lehrstuhl-fuer-physiologie-pathophysiologie-und-toxikologie/
Hans J. Vogel - "Calcium binding to plastins/fibrins; regulation of actin-bundling"
Professor
University of Calgary
http://contacts.ucalgary.ca/info/bio/profiles/124-1217
Timothy Wencewicz - "New Membrane Transport Paradigms for Iron Revealed by Siderophore Probes"
Assistant Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
https://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/faculty/wencewicz
Anthony White - "Glial cell copper regulation as a key target to control neuroinflammation"
Group Leader
QIMR Berghofer
http://www.qimrberghofer.edu.au/people/anthony-white/
Sebastian Winter - "Precision editing of the gut microbiota"
Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/winter-sebastian/
Deborah Zamble - "The mechanisms of action of nickel-selective homeostasis factors from E. coli and H. pylori"
Professor
University of Toronto
