Canterbury Plains

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Invited Speakers

Sir John Walker FRS Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997 Mark Morrison Learning from the Locals – Methane, Macropods, and Meta-genomics Chris Hawes Imaging secretory pathway dynamics in living cells
Vern L. Schramm Enzymatic transition states and inhibitor design Doug Eaton Why we don't drown every day; a new paradigm for lung fluid balance Yair Shachar-Hill Insights into plant central metabolism and biomass production using metabolic flux analysis
Janet L. Smith Enzyme domains in assembly lines for antibiotic biosynethesis Misha Perouansky Mechanisms of anesthetic action - why we know so much and understand so little John Grace The links between the nitrogen and carbon cycles under climate change
David Ornitz Fibroblast growth factors in development and disease Caroline McMillen Fetal and postnatal programming of obesity and metabolic disease Guillaume Tcherkez Isotopic fractionation in plant metabolism
Benjamin Geiger Mechanisms underlying environmental sensing via focal adhesioins Pankaj Sah Generation of patterned neuronal activity in the brain Aled Edwards Genome-scale studies of the structure and function of protein families
Nadia Rosenthal Regeneration of muscle in mice Tim Wiltshire Genetic variation in mice: modeling disease, pharma-cogenetics, and basic biology Rudi Amann Analyzing the microbial catalysis of biogeochemical cycles by combining quantitative diversity studies with (meta) genomics
Peter Lobel Lysosomal Proteomics and Disease Wan Lam Cancer Genome Architecture Terry Yamaguchi Wnt signaling in morphogenesis
Steve Maharey What scientists should know about science policy and delivery: Perspectives of a Cabinet Minister and a Vice-Chancellor Peter Koopman Asbmb Medallist Speaker Bostjan Kobe Asbmb Medallist Speaker
Brent Helliker Oxygen isotopes and the temperature of tree canopies Patrick
Sullivan		 Genome-wide Studies of Psychiatric Disease Yves Desjardins Ecological and physiological functions of fruits and vegetables bioactive molecules in plants and exploration of new potential mode of action in the human body
Christine Winterbourn Hydrogen Peroxide Metabolism by Peroxiredoxins        

 

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