6th Annual Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Symposium

Please join us for the 6th Annual Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Symposium on October 7, 2019, at the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium, on the University of Michigan Medical Campus! This year, our keynote speakers are Xiangdong William Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at the California Institute of Technology, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles and Ron Kopito, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.

Our schedule is as follows:

Morning

8:30 am - Light Refreshments

8:50 am - Opening Remarks

9:00 am - Keynote Speaker X. William Yang, M.D., Ph.D.

9:50 am - Sokol Todi, Ph.D.

10:10 am - Jillian Pearring, Ph.D.

10:30 am - Break and Poster Review

11:35 am - Federica Brandizzi, Ph.D.

11:55 am - Data Blitz

Afternoon

12:30 pm - Lunch and Poster Review

1:45 pm - Nils Walter, Ph.D.

2:05 pm - Ron Kopito, Ph.D.

2:55 pm - Break

3:15 pm - Amanda Garner, Ph.D.

3:35 pm - Amy Chang, Ph.D.

3:55 pm - Closing Remarks and Poster Awards

4:00 pm - Reception