Program Schedule

 

Jun 9th

 

 

8:30                  Registration & Breakfast Pastries with Coffee/Teas

 

9:00                  Welcome

                        Dong Liang, PhD, CEO, Aurora Biomed

 

9:05                  Chairperson's Opening Remarks

                        Min Li, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

                       

Keynote Addresses

 

9:10                  Ion Channels: What HTS Needs

                                    Tina Garyantes, PhD

                                    Head of Automated Screening, Aventis Pharmaceuticals

 

9:55                  Nonradioactive Rubidium Efflux Assay And Emerging Technologies In Ion Channel Drug Discovery

                                    Georg Terstappen, PhD

                                    Vice President, Discovery Research, Siena Biotech

             

10:40                Refreshment Break and Poster Viewing

             

Various Approaches For Screening Ion Channel (Part 1)

 

11:00                New Development of Non-Radioactive Flux Assays for Screening Ion Channels

                                    Sikander Gill, PhD

             

11:30                Nonradioactive Ion Flux Assay Using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy For Identifying Ion Channel Modulators

                                    Shephali Trivedi, PhD

                                    Principal Scientist, Astrazeneca, DE

             

12:00                Luncheon Break In Ballroom D

             

1:00                  Pharmacology of a Ligand-gated Cation Channel: Rb+ Efflux versus Fluorescence, Luminescence, and 45Ca2+

                                    Byron Taylor

                                    HTS / Molecular Pharmacology, Amgen

             

1:30                  Development of Plate Based High Throughput Assays for Voltage Gated Sodium Channels: One size does not fit all

                                    David Cronk, PhD

                                    Group Leader, Molecular Pharmacology, Ionix Pharmaceuticals

             

2:00                  Improving Ion Channel Drug Discovery by Conducting High Throughput Screening in Physiological-Relevant In Vivo Assays

            Geert Plaetinck, PhD

            Director of Biology, deVGen

             

2:30                 Refreshment Break and Poster Viewing

             

3:00                  Alternative Eukaryotic Systems for High Throughput Studies of Ion Channels

            David Fedida, MD, PhD

            Professor, Dept. Physiology, UBC

                                    Sr. Director of Experimental Medicine, Cardiome Pharma Corporation

             

3:30                  Ion Channel Drug Discovery for Novel Atrial Fibrillation & Pain Drugs

            Pravin R. Chaturvedi, PhD

            President and CEO, Scion Pharmaceuticals

 

             4:00                 A Novel Platform for Discovery of Therapeutics for Epilepsy

            Steven Petrou, PhD

            VP CNS Research, Bionomics, Ltd

             

4:30                  Structure and Function of a Binary Insecticidal Protein Complex

            Victor Guzov, PhD

            Senior Research Scientist Monsanto Company

             

 

7:00                  Dinner Function 

Venue   : MacDonald Ballroom A

 

 

Lillooet Lake BBQ

 

Salads

Tossed Valley Greens with Chateau Dressings

Chunky Vegetable Slaw with Sun-Dried Fruits

Roma Tomato & Bocconcini with Fresh Basil & Oil Dressing

Country Fresh Bread Basket

 

On the BBQ

Maple Marinated Salmon Steaks

Peppered 3 oz New York Steaks

Alder Smoked Free-Range Chicken with House BBQ sauce

 

Hot Dishes

Baked Potatoes with appropriate condiments

Buttered Corn on the Cob

Vegetarian Chili with Sour Cream & Salsa

Grilled Zucchini, Eggplant & Roma Tomatoes

 

Desserts

Our Pastry Chef's selection of Cakes, Pies & Pastries

Nanaimo Bars & Decadent Chocolate Brownies

Freshly Cut Fruit & Berries

 

Wines

Mission Hill Fairmont Select Chardonnay

Mission Hill Fairmont Select Merlot

Jun-10

 

 

 

 

8:30                  Registration & Breakfast Pastries with Coffee/Teas

 

9:00                  Chairperson’s Recap of Day One

                        Georg Terstappen, Vice President, Siena Biotech

 

9:10                  BC Biotech Chairperson Remarks’

Paul Stinson

                         

Keynote Address

 

9:30                 Structure and Molecular Pharmacology of Sodium Ion Channels

                        William Catterall, PhD

                        Professor and Chair, University of Washington

                         

Ion Channels as Therapeutic Targets

 

10:15                CNS Sodium Channel Defects and Epilepsy

                        Alan Goldin, PhD

                        Professor, University of California, Irvine

                         

10:45               Refreshment Break and Poster Viewing

                         

11:00                Alveolar Epithelial Cell Chloride Transport and the Resolution of Pulmonary Edema

                        Scott O'Grady, PhD

                        Professor, University of Minnesota

                         

11:30                Ovarian Granulosa K+ Channels: Model Complexes, Novel Targets, or Safety Concern?

                        Lisa Freeman, DVM, PhD

                        Associate Professor, Kansas State University

                         

12:00               Luncheon Break in Ballroom D

                         

1:00                  Functional Validation and Antagonists Screening for an Oncogenic K+ Channel

            Lin Pei, PhD

            Scientist, Tularick, Inc.

 

                         

1:30                 Psedechetoxin - a Probe for CNG Ion Channels

                        Lane Brown, PhD

                        Assistant Scientist, Neurological Sciences Institute

                       


 

Jun-11

 

 

 

8:30                  Registration & Breakfast Pastries with Coffee/Teas

 

9:00                  Chairperson’s Recap of Day Two

Tina Garyantes, PhD, Head of Automated Screening, Aventis Pharmaceuticals

 

Keynote Address

                         

9:10                  Potassium Channels - The Wanted And Unwanted  Targets

                        Min Li, PhD

                        Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 

Various Approaches For Screening Ion Channels (Part II)

                         

10:15                Cardiac Ion Channel Pharmacology and Structure-Function Analysis

                        Robert Spencer, PhD

                        Senior Research Biochemist, Molecular Pharmacology

                        Merck Research Laboratories

                         

10:45               Refreshments and Poster Viewing

                         

11:00                Drug-Acquired Long QT Syndrome and Preclinical Assays for Assessment of QT Liability

                        Anthony Bahinski, PhD, MBA

                        Senior Scientist, Pfizer, Worldwide Drug Safety Evaluation

                         

11:30               Assay Development for Ion Channel Targets

                        Wei Min Tang, PhD

                        Principle Scientist, RW Johnson Pharmaceutical Research

                         

12:00                Trinity of Assay Technologies for Ion Channels

                        Rolf Vajna, PhD

                        Aventis Deutschland GmbH