Thursday 15 December 2011
14:00 - 14:30 Registration
Welcome and introduction from President of the Biochemical Society
Professor Sir Tom Blundell
Perspectives in Biochemistry
Sir Tim Hunt (London Research Institute, CRUK, United Kingdom)
Presentations to New Honorary Members
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture (The Centenary Award)
Signalling to the translation initiation machinery
Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University, Canada)
17:45 - 19:00 Drinks reception and poster session
10:00 - 10:30 Registration with coffee/tea and poster viewing
Early Career Research Award - Genes
Specificity of cell signalling: the case of Notch
Alena Krejci (University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic)
From protein interactions to gene expression distributions
Sarah Teichmann (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
The Biochemical Society Award
Inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) and calcium signalling
Michael Berridge (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and posters
Early Career Research Award - Signal Transduction
Dynamic clustering of IP3 receptors by IP3 - drying the timbers for the bush-fire
Taufiq Rahman (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Super experiments and the application of proteomics in cell biology
Angus Lamond (University of Dundee, United Kingdom)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break
The Sir Philip Randle Lecture
Common human metabolic disease: lessons from the extremes
Stephen O'Rahilly (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)