Gairdner Symposium
Date: Monday, October 26, 4– 6pm
Location: Life Sciences Centre, Lecture Theatre 2 (LSC 2), UBC, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
This free public lecture will feature:
- Yoshinori Ohsumi DSc
Recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award, 2015
" for pioneering the molecular elucidation of autophagy, an essential intracellular, degradation system and when disordered, is linked to many diseases including neurodegeneration, cancer, and infection "
Honorary Prof, Dept. of Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Presentation Title: Lessons from Yeast - Intracellular recycling system, autophagy
For information about Dr. Ohsumi: http://www.gairdner.org/content/yoshinori-ohsumi
- Michael N. Hall PhD
Recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award, 2015
"for his discovery of the nutrient activated protein kinase TOR and elucidation of its central control of cell growth, critical to development and aging and widely implicated in cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular and immune diseases"
Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Presentation Title: TBD
To learn more about Dr. Hall: http://www.gairdner.org/content/michael-n-hall
Please see Vancouver Gairdner Symposium for more information.
Please see Gairdner Foundation for more information about the Gairdner Foundation.
For questions or more information please contact Seetha at skumaran@cmmt.ubc.ca