Biometals Conference Schedule July 30th – August 6th 

Sunday July 30th    
4:00pm – 7:00pm: Registration and hotel check-in  
7:00pm – 9:00pm: Cocktail reception  
     
Monday July 31st    

7:30am

Continental breakfast  
8:30am-8:45am

Jorge H. Crosa, Oregon Health and Science University, USA:
Welcome and Opening remarks

 
8:45am – 12:45pm:

Session I: Biochemical, Genetic & Structural Basis of Metal Uptake I
Chair:  Hans Vogel

 
     
8:45am-9:20am Dick van der Helm, University of Oklahoma, USA: The Beauty of Biometals  
9:20am-9:55am Jose M. Arguello, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US: Structure-function of metal-binding and ATP-binding domains in P1B-type heavy metal transport ATPases  
9:55am-10:30am Susan Buchanan, National Institute of Health, USA: Transport of siderophores and colicins across bacterial outer membranes  
10:30am-11:00am Coffee Break  
11:00am-11:35am Ranjan N. Chakraborty, East Tennessee State University, USA: Molecular mechanism of ferric-siderophore passage through the outer membrane receptor preoteins of E.coli  
11:35am-12:10pm Nick LeBrun, University of East Anglia, UK: Copper-binding properties of the soluble domains of B. subtilis CopA  
12:10pm-12:45pm Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke, EMBL Hamburg, Germany: Metal binding sites in Fur characterized by X-Ray absorption spectroscopy  
1:00pm  – 3pm: Complimentary lunch and free time  
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Additional time for posters to go up  
3pm – 7pm:

Session II: Metal Homeostasis I
Chair:  Guenther Winkelmann

 
     
3:00pm-3:35pm  Greg Anderson, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia: Regulation of systemic iron homeostasis: How the body responds to changes in iron demand  
3:35pm-4:10pm Larry Barton, University of New Mexico, USA: Metal stress response in bacteria and stabilization of the metalome  
4:10pm-4:45pm Caroline Enns, Oregon Health & Science University, USA: Hereditary hemochromatosis: A dysfunctional family of proteins  
4:45pm-5:15pm Coffee Break  
5:15pm-5:50pm Paul Fox, Cleveland Clinic, USA: Ceruloplasmin and iron metabolism: still more surprises  
5:50pm-6:25pm Tomas Ganz, UCLA, USA: The role of hepcidin in iron homeostasis  
6:25pm-7:00pm Zena Leah Harris, Johns Hopkins Hospital & School of Medicine, USA: Iron homeostasis and the multicopper oxidases  
7pm – 8:30pm: Dinner  
8:30pm – 10:00pm: Poster Session I  
     
Tuesday Aug 1st    
7:30am Continental breakfast  
8:30am – 1:15pm: Session III: Cell Response to Metal Misbalance; Metal & Disease I
Chair:  Klaus Hantke
 
     
8:30am-9:05am Jim Camakaris, University of Melbourne, Australia: Role and regulation of the Menkes copper-translocating ATPase in health and disease  
9:05am-9:40am Sandra Armstrong, University of Minnesota, USA: Bordetella iron transport and virulence  
9:40am-10:15am Nick Cianciotto, Northwestern University Medical School, USA: Iron acquisition by Legionella pneumophila  
10:15am-10:45am Coffee Break  
10:45am-11:20am Eric Skaar, Vanderbuilt University, USA,: Intracellular metalloporphyrin metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis  
11:20am-12:05pm Dominique Expert, Institut National Agronomique, France: Metabolism of iron during infection of Arabidopsis thaliana by the phytopathogen Erwinia chrysanthemi  

12:05pm-12:40pm

Anne Marie Roussel, University Joseph Fourier, France: Is selenium a predictive factor of longevity?  
12:40pm-1:15pm Susan Hayflick, Oregon Health & Science University, USA: Genetic factors in neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation
1:15pm  – 3pm: Complimentary lunch and free time  
3pm – 6:25pm: Session IV: Metal Transport I
Chair:  Berthold Matzanke-Markstein
 
     
3:00pm-3:35pm Jack Kaplan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: Copper entry into human cells: The role of hCTR1  
3:35pm-4:10pm Luis Actis, Miami University, USA: Iron acquisition in the dental pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. What does it use as a source and how does it get this essential metal?  
4:10pm-4:45pm Phillip E. Klebba, University of Oklahoma, USA: Mechanism of ferric enterobactin transport through FepA  
4:45pm-5:15pm Coffee Break  
5:15pm-5:50pm Mark S. Thomas, University of Sheffield, UK: Genetic analysis of iron uptake pathways in Burkholderia cenocepacia  
5:50pm-6:25pm  Guenther Winkelmann, University of Tuebingen, Germany: Ecology of siderophores  
7:00pm – 8:30pm: Dinner  
8:30pm: Free Evening  
     
Wednesday Aug 2nd    
7:30am Continental breakfast  
9:00am – 1pm: Session V: Regulation I
Chair:  Jorge H Crosa
 
     
9:00am-9:35am  Igor Stojiljkovic Memorial Lecture: Volkmar Braun, University of Tuebingen, Germany: Fec-type transcription regulation in bacteria  
9:35am-10:10am Rick Eisenstein, University of Wisconsin, USA: The Fe-S cluster is not required for iron regulation of iron regulatory protein 1  
10:10am-10:45am Arnoud van Vliet, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands: Metal-responsive gene regulation in Helicobacter pylori via regulatory cross-talk: Hierarchical structure or organized chaos?  
10:45am-11:15am Coffee Break  
11:15am-11:50am John Helmann, Cornell University, USA: Functional specialization within the Fur family of metalloregulators  
11:50am-12:25pm Andy Johnston, University of East Anglia, UK: Living without Fur: The subtlety and complexity of iron-responsive gene regulation in the symbiotic bacterium Rhizobium  
12:25pm-1:00pm  Elizabeth Theil, CHORI & UC Berkely, USA: Coordinating oxygen and iron stress responses with DNA and mRNA promoters: The ferritin story  
1:00pm  – 2:30pm: Complimentary lunch and free time  
3pm – 7pm: Session VI: Metal Homeostasis II
Chair:  Svetlana Lutsenko
 
     
3:00pm-3:35pm Ann Hubbard, JHU School of Medicine, USA: Cu-ATPases in polarized epithelia  
3:35pm-4:10pm Simon Labbe, University of Sherbrooke, Canada: Molecular control of iron homeostasis in fission yeast  
4:10pm-4:45pm Berthold F. Matzanke-Markstein, Medizinische Universitaet Luebeck, Germany: Iron minerals in archaea and bacteria: old functions and novel insights  
4:45pm-5:15pm Coffee Break  
5:15pm-5:50pm Tracey Rouault, National Institue of Health, USA: The role of iron regulatory proteins in mammalian iron homeostasis  
5:50pm-6:25pm Gary Sawers, John Innes Centre, UK: Maturation of metalloproteins  
6:56pm-7:00pm  Hajo Haase, RWTH Aachen University, Germany: Signal transduction in monocytes: the role of zinc ions  
7:00pm – 8:30pm: Dinner  
8:30pm – 10:00pm: Poster Session II  
     
Thursday Aug 3rd    
7:30am Continental Breakfast  
9:00am – 12:25pm: Session VII: Metal Transport II
Chair:  Wolfgang Koester
 
     
9:00am-9:35am Andrew T. McKie, Kings College London, UK: Recent advances in transmembrane heme transport  
9:35am-10:10am  Michael Vasil, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA: How we learnt about iron acquisition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a series of very fortunate events  
10:10am-10:45am Francis Biville, Institut Pasteur, France: Hemophore-mediated heme acquisition and signalling in Serratia marcescens  
10:45am-11:15am Coffee Break  
11:15am-11:50am Klaus Hantke, University of Tuebingen, Germany: Salmochelin, a disguised Enterobactin  
11:50am-12:25pm Manuel Lemos, University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain: Hemin, an iron supply for vibrio species  
1:00pm  – 2:30pm: Complimentary lunch and free time  
3pm – 7pm: Session VIII: Cell Response to Metal Misbalance; Metal & Disease II
Chair:  Caroline Enns
 
     
3:00pm-3:35pm Svetlana Lutsenko, Oregon Health & Science University, USA: Molecular events associated with copper accumulation in the liver of Wilson disease gene knock-out mice  
3:35pm-4:10pm Mattias Hentze, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany: The IRE/IRP Regulatory System in Cellular, Organ, and Systemic Iron Homeostasis.  
4:10pm-4:45pm Robert C. Hider, Kings College London, UK: The application of chelators in the treatment of neurodegeneration  
4:45pm-5:15pm Coffee Break  
5:15pm-5:50pm Robert Maier, University of Georgia, USA: Nickel binding accessory proteins involved in the maturation of nickel enzymes in Helicobacter pylori  
5:50pm-6:25pm Robert Perry, University of Kentucky, USA: Roles of the Yfe and Feo transporters of Yersinia pestis in iron uptake and intracellular growth  
6:25pm-7:00pm Elizabeth Wyckoff, University of Texas at Austin, USA: Iron uptake and regulation in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae  
7pm – 8:30pm: Dinner  
8:30pm: Free Evening  
     
Friday Aug 4th    
7:30am Continental breakfast  
9:00am – 1pm: Session IX: Biochemical, Genetic & Structural Basis of Metal Uptake II
Chair: Dick van der Helm
 
     
9:00am-9:35am Hans Vogel, University of Calgary, Canada: TonB, or not TonB: That is the question  
9:35am-10:10am Kathleen Postle, Pennsylvania State University, USA: TonB-dependent energy transduction between membranes  
10:10am-10:45am Vinzenz Unger, Yale University, USA: What does the structure of hCTR1 tell us about the mechanism of copper uptake  
10:45am-11:15am Coffee Break  
11:15am-11:50am William E. Walden, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: Crystal structure of the IRP1:IRE complex: Insights into the FeS cluster switch  
11:50am-12:25pm Dennis Winge, University of Utah, USA: Assembly of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase: Involvement of a novel matrix copper pool  
12:25pm-1:00pm Iain Lamont, University of Otago, New Zealand: Siderophore Uptake and Signalling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa  
1:00pm  – 2:30pm: Complimentary lunch and free time  
3pm – 7pm: Session X: Igor Stojiljkovic Memorial Fellowship Award Presentations
Chair:  Jorge H Crosa
 
3pm – 3:35pm: Post-Doc 1  
3:35pm – 4:10pm: Post-Doc 2  
4:15pm – 4:50pm: Grad Student 1  
4:50pm – 5:25pm: Grad Student 2  
5:30pm – 7:30pm: Free Time  
7:30pm – 9:00pm: Banquet  
9:00pm - on Music with Pat O'Neal Jazz Band and Drinks  
     
Saturday Aug 5th    
7:30am Continental breakfast  
12:00pm – 1:30pm: Complimentary lunch  
2:00pm Buses Leave for Excursions  
Rest of day: Free Time    
     
Sunday Aug 6th Departure  
     

 

 

 

Symposium Organizer
Dr. Jorge H. Crosa

International Committee
Chair, Jorge H. Crosa, OHSU

Larry Barton, University of New Mexico

Volkmar Braun, Tübingen University

Caroline Enns, OHSU

Svetlana Lutsenko, OHSU

Gunther Winkelmann, Tübingen University

Symposium Coordinator
Michael Rose
Phone: (503) 418-4161
Fax: (503) 494-6862
metals@ohsu.edu