| Jerry Pelletier Symposium |
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| 03-May-24 |
McGill Faculty Club |
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| 8:00-8:30 |
Registration |
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Section 1_Chair_Thomas Duchine |
| 8:30-8:40 |
Welcome & introduction
Thomas Duchaine (McGill University) |
| 8:40-8:50 |
Martha Crago (McGill University) |
| 8:50-9:30 |
"Jerry Pelletier: IRES and many other notable discoveries"
Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University) |
| 9:30-10:10 |
"Therapies for Neurological Diseases"
David Housman (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) |
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| 10:10-10:25 |
coffee break |
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Section 2_Chair_Ivan Topisirovic |
| 10:25-11:05 |
"From Poliovirus to Bacteriophage-Based Drug Discovery at Phagetech (1997~2005)
Philippe Gros (McGill University) |
| 11:05-11:45 |
"What’s up Yitz! From undergrads to professors, a journey inspired by Jerry"
Isaac Edery (Rutgers University) |
| 11:45-12:25 |
"DAP5/eIF3d mediated mRNA translation involves m6A 3’noncoding region recognition"
Robert Schneider (NYU Langone Health) |
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Buffet lunch |
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Section 3_Chair_Marc Fabian |
| 14:00-14:40 |
"Chemical Synthesis and Biological Studies of Rocaglates and Derivatives"
John Porco (Boston University) |
| 14:40-15:20 |
"Jerry Pelletier – the RNA chemist in him"
Masad Damha (McGill University) |
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| 15:20-15:35 |
coffee break |
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Section 4_Chair_Sidong Huang |
| 15:35-16:15 |
"Catching p53 in the act"
Scott Lowe (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) |
| 16:15-16:55 |
"Paradoxical roles of eIF4F inhibition in breast cancer metastasis"
Josie Ursini-Siegel (McGill University) |
| 16:55-17:10 |
Closing Note
Morag Park (McGill University) |
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| 17:15-18:15 |
Social hour |
