6th Protein Engineering Canada (PEC) Conference

William DeGrado - University of California, San Francisco
De novo design of proteins and peptides to understand and engineer molecular function

Joanna Slusky - University of Kansas
Computational and experimental design of membrane proteins

Nick Polizzi - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Machine leaning-guided design of enzymes for therapeutic and catalytic applications

Joelle Pelletier - Université de Montréal
Enzyme structure-function relationships and engineering

Tim Whitehead - University of Colorado, Boulder
High-throughput design of proteins for biomedicine and materials

Jamie Davey - Dalhousie University
Methodologies for modeling and predicting allostery and biomolecular interactions

Anastassia Vorobieva - Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Computational design of selective nanopores and gated channels

Stephan Hammer - Universität Bielefeld
Directed evolution and design of enzymes for industrial biocatalysis

Ai Niitsu - Riken Center for Integrated Medical Sciences
Design of peptides and proteins with controllable conformational dynamics

Nicolas Doucet - Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into enzyme function and dynamics

Lucy Colwell - University of Cambridge
Data-driven modeling of protein sequence-function relationships

Possu Huang - Stanford University
De novo design platforms for self-assembling arrays, biosensors, and enzymes

Paola Laurino - Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Evolution of cofactors, substrates and their binding proteins to manipulate protein function

Corrie daCosta - University of Ottawa
Ancestral sequence reconstruction of ligand-gated ion channels
Location
Social Sciences (FSS) Building, University of Ottawa
120 University Private Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1N 6N5
Dates
Submission period:
November 1, 2025 - 09:00 EDT - June 12, 2026 - 23:59 EDT
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact ProteinEngCan2026@gmail.com