6^th Conference on
Protein Expression in Animal Cells

Invited Speakers (confirmed)

Keynote Speaker
John Bergeron - Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Danial Wayner - Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Baculovirus and Insect Cell Technology
Chair:
Tom Kost - GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A.

• Amine A. Kamen - Biotechnology Research Institute, N.R.C., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Patrick Farrell - Syn-X Pharma Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Robert Kotin - National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.

Gene Delivery by Viral and Non-Viral Vectors
Chairs:
Kenneth Lundstrom - BioXtal, Lausanne, Switzerland
Reingard Grabherr - Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria

• Jude Samulski - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
• Bernard Massie - Biotechnology Research Institute, N.R.C., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Tom Kost - GlaxoSmithKline, TRP, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Cell Engineering I
Chair:
Michael Butler - Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Michael S. Kallos - University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Alex van der Eb - Sylvius Laboratory, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Garry Nolan - Baxter Laboratory for Genetic Pharmacology, Stanford, U.S.A.

Cell Engineering II
Chair:
Michael Betenbaugh - John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

• Hansjörg Hauser - GBF, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Germany
• Douglas Conklin - Cancer Genome Center, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, U.S.A.
• Martin Fussenegger - ETH Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland

Integral Transmembrane Proteins and GPCRs

• Jeffrey J. Clare- GlaxoSmithKline, Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, Hertforshire, UK
• Chris Tate - Medical Research Council, Cambridge, U.K.
• Kenneth Lundstrom - Bioxtal, Lausanne, Switzerland

Antibodies and other Secreted Proteins
Chair:
David Chang - IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation, San Diego, California, U.S.A.

• James Piret - University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
• Gene W. Lee - Wyeth BioPharma, Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Jim Michael - Bayer Biological Products, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

Protein Quality
Chair:
Martin Sinacore - Wyeth BioPharma, Andover, Massachussetts, U.S.A.

• Stefanie Weikert - Genentech, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
• Rebecca McCoy - Amgen, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
• Mike Butler - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

High Throughput Strategies
Chair:
Balwant Patel - Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.

• Raymond C. Stevens - The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
• Jennings Worley - Amphora Discovery Corp., Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
• Sumit Kumar Chanda - Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California U.S.A.