Confirmed Speakers

Up to 1 April 2014, twenty seven speakers (in surname order) have confirmed to give talks at this conference (click here to download the speaker list):

  • Gabriel Aughey
    University of Oxford, UK
    Title: Determining the mechanisms of CTP synthase filament formation in Drosophila.

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  • Ljubica Caldovic
    Children's National Medical Center, USA
    Title: The evolution of NAGS and urea cycle, NAGS deficiency in humans.

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  • Elizabeth Carrey
    University College London, UK
    Title: TBC

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  • Zee-Fen Chang
    National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC
    Title: Ribonucleotide reductase promotes genomic instability and tumor heterogeneity via increasing dUTP misincorporation.

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  • Daniel Charlier
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    Title: Regulation of the E. coli carAB operon by RutR and PepA.

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  • Richard Christopherson
    University of Sydney, Australia
    Title: The mechanisms of action of purine analogs such as fludarabine on B-lymphoproliferative disorders.

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  • Lola Gonzalez
    Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina, Spain
    Title: Role of dUTPase in the occurrence of uracil-containing DNA in Trypanosoma brucei.

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  • Adrian Harris
    University of Oxford, UK
    Title: Hypoxia effects on metabolism as targets for synthetic lethality.

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  • Wolfgang Knecht
    Lund University, Sweden
    Title: Deoxyribonucleoside kinases – biodiversity and practical use.

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  • Lakshmi Kotra
    University of Toronto, Canada
    Title: Peptidyl arginine hypermodification and potential for the development of disease modifying agents.

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  • Paloma Liras Padin
    University of Leon, Spain
    Title: ArgR, a versatil regulator affecting primary and secondary metabolism on Streptomyces coelicolor.

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  • Monika Loeffler
    Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
    Title: Orotic acid: not merely an intermediate of pyrimidine synthesis.

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  • Carol Lovatt
    University of California (Riverside), USA
    Title: Coordinated regulation of pyrimidine and arginine biosynthesis in plants.

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  • Torsten Mohlmann
    University Kaiserslautern, Germany
    Title: TBC

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  • Hiroki Morizono
    Children's National Medical Center, USA
    Title: TBC

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  • Leif D. Nelin
    The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, USA
    Title: Arginase and the arginine metabolome in pulmonary hypertension.

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  • Li-Mei Pai
    Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC
    Title: Cbl regulates endoreplication by controlling cytoophidium.

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  • Santiago Ramon-Maiques
    Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Spain
    Title: Towards deciphering the architecture of CAD: structure of human ATCase and DHOase.

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  • Vicente Rubio
    Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain
    Title: Human carbamoyl phosphate synthetase: structure, function and pathology.

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  • Andriy Sibirny
    Institute of Cell Biology, NAS of Ukraine
    Title: Construction of the recombinant producers of bacterial arginine deiminase and human arginase and their use for arginine deprivation.

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  • Li-Ying Sung
    National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
    Title: Both CTP synthase 1 and 2 form the cytoophidia in mammalian cells.

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  • Staffan Svard
    Uppsala University, Sweden
    Title: The role of arginine during infections by the intestinal parasite Giardia intestinalis.

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  • Peter Szlosarek
    Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK
    Title: Targeting arginine in human cancers: from the lab to the clinic.

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  • Omur Y. Tastan
    University of Oxford, UK
    Title: Potential role for CTP synthase in Drosophila optic lobe development.

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  • Jim Wilhelm
    University of California (San Diego), USA
    Title: TBC

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  • Jun Yan
    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Title: Purine metabolism, cell cycle and circadian clock.

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  • Barbara Zimmermann
    Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
    Title: Pyrimidine biosynthesis in Toxoplasma gondii.