BBA - Molecular Cell Research -The 10th European Symposium on Calcium-Binding Proteins in Normal and Transformed Cells

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External linkThe 10th European Symposium on Calcium-Binding Proteins in Normal and Transformed Cells
Edited by J. Haiech, C. Heizmann and J. Krebs     
Volume 1793, Issue 6, Pages 931-1114 (June 2009)

The 10th European Symposium on Calcium-Binding Proteins in Normal and Transformed Cells was held at K.U. Leuven, one of the oldest University in Europe, from 17th–20th of September 2008. The meeting was organized by our Belgian colleagues Humbert De Smedt, Philippe Gailly, Bernd Nilius, Jan Parys, Roland Pochet, Thomas Voets and Frank Wuytack. They put together such an attractive program that more than 300 scientists from 26 different countries attended the meeting including participants from Australia, Japan, and North- and South America. The scientific program was divided into 7 different symposia and 4 poster sessions with more than 150 posters with the consequence that the poster prizes were doubled! The meeting was opened with the first Sir Michael Berridge Lecture delivered by Chikashi Toyoshima and sponsored by Biochimica et Biophysica Acta.

 

Dr. Jacques Haiech is a professor at the School of Biotechnological Engineer of Strasbourg (FRANCE). He is also an expert in biotechnology and bioinformatics and acts as an expert counselor of the French Ministry of Research in life science domain. His main area of research is the role of calmodulin in deciphering calcium signal. He obtained his Master in mathematics in 1974 and his PhD in biochemistry in 1978. In 1987 and 1993, he was a visiting associate professor of the Pharmacology Department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and a visiting professor at Northwestern University in the Molecular Pharmacology Department, Chicago (USA). He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and awarded 'Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite', a high French distinction for outstanding services to the country.
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Dr. Claus W. Heizmann is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He received his Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Basel and his Ph.D. degree in 1970 from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Subsequently he was trained as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Edmond Fischer at the University of Washington, Seattle and at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. 1989-2007 he was Director of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the structure and functions of calcium-binding proteins and RAGE in health and disease.
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Dr. Joachim Krebs has been working in the field of calcium-binding and calcium-transporting proteins for many years. After receiving his PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, he spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Lab of Prof. R.J.P. Williams at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Oxford, UK. In 1977 he accepted a position at the Institute of Biochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. He has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous articles in international journals and books in the field of calcium biochemistry and calcium signaling. After his retirement from the ETH he continued his research at the Department of NMR based Structural Biology of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. Recently, he edited together with Marek Michalak from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, the book “Calcium: A matter of life or death”, published by Elsevier in 2007.

 
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