GPCR RETREAT 2025
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY MAY 15th
REGISTRATION
11:00 Arrival and registration
13:30 Welcome Remarks
TRAINEE SESSION (10 min talks, 5 min Q/A)
13:00-15:45
MARC G. CARON KEYNOTE LECTURE (60 min)
16:30 Mark Von Zastrow, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
17:00 Jeffrey L Benovic, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA’ USA
17:30 Welcome reception and poster session I (odd numbers)
19:30 Dinner
FRIDAY MAY 16th
6:30-8:30 Breakfast
SESSION 1: STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF GPCRs
8:30 Georgios Skiniotis, Stanford University, CA, USA
8:55 Andrew Kruse, Harvard, MA, USA.
9:20 Daniel Wacker, Mount Sinai, NYC, USA
9:45 To come
10:10 Coffee Break
SESSION 2: GPCR SIGNALING AND TRAFFICKING I
10:30 Roshanak Irannejad, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
10:55 Christine Lavoie, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
11:20 Bianca Plouffe, Queen’s university Belfast, UK
11:45 To come
12:10 Lunch (BBQ on the terrasse)
SESSION 3: GPCR SIGNALING AND TRAFFICKING II
14:00 Mikel Garcia-Marcos, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
14:25 Patrick Giguère, University of Ottawa, Canada
14:50 To come
15:15 Coffee Break
SESSION 4: Hubert Van Tol session on PHYSIOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE AND MODEL ORGANISMS
15:30 Mannix Auger-Messier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada .
15:55 Stéphane Angers, University of Toronto, Canada
16:20 To come
16:45 To come
17:00 Poster session #2 (even numbered posters)
19:30 Dinner and Music
21:30 Board Meeting (to discuss next retreat) - All PIs are welcome to participate
FRIDAY MAY 17th
6:30-8:30 Breakfast
SESSION 5: DRUG DISCOVERY
8:30 Brian K. Shoichet, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
8:55 Terence Hébert, McGill University, Canada
9:20 To come
9:45 Coffee break
SESSION 6: NON-CONVENTIONAL ASPECTS of GPCRs
10:15 Tobias Langenhan, Leipzig University, Germany.
10:40 Demet Arac, University of Chicago, USA
11:05 To come
HYMAN NIZNIK PLENARY CONFERENCE
11:30 M Madan Babu, St-Jude Research, Memphis, TN, USA.
12:30 Closing remarks
12:45 Lunch and Farewell
