BM1 • Advances in Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Organizers: Dipankar Sen, Simon Fraser University and Yingfu Li, McMaster University

Confirmed invited speakers:

John Brennan, McMaster University

Masad Damha, McGill University

Robert Hudson, The University of Western Ontario

Philip Johnson, York University

Jeremy Lee, University of Saskatchewan

Yi Lu, University of Illinois

Andrew MacMillan, University of Alberta

Melanie O'Neill, Simon Fraser University

Jean-Pierre Perreault, Université de Sherbrooke

David Perrin, University of British Columbia

Nadrian Seeman, New York University

Snorri Sigurdsson, University of Iceland

Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University

Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo

Peter Unrau, Simon Fraser University

Christopher Wilds, Concordia University

Zhen Xi, Nankai University

Yi Zhang, Wuhan University

Confirmed invited speakers:

Zhongwu Guo, Wayne State University

John Klassen, University of Alberta

David Vocadlo, Simon Fraser University

Confirmed invited speakers:

Chris Barden, Dalhousie University

Jack Bikker, Pfizer Global Research and Development

Jason Cross, Affinium Pharmaceuticals

Jeffrey Sutherland, Lilly Research Laboratories

Jean-François Truchon, Merck Frosst Canada Inc.

Chris Williams, Chemical Computing Group

Confirmed invited speakers:

Cameron Black, Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research

Simon Fricker, AnorMED

Geoff McKay, Targanta Therapeutics

Mario Pinto, Simon Fraser University

Scott Taylor, University of Waterloo

Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia

Confirmed invited speakers:

Brian Bahnson, University of Delaware

Jeffrey Keillor, Université de Montréal

Ronald Kluger, University of Toronto

David Palmer, University of Saskatchewan

Frank Raushel, Texas A & M University

Martin Tanner, University of British Columbia

Richard Wolfenden, University of North Carolina

Confirmed invited speakers:

Robert Campbell, University of Alberta

Matthew Francis, University of California, Berkeley

Hideo Iwai, University of Helsinki

Mark Nitz, University of Toronto

Marc Ostermeier, Johns Hopkins University

Joelle Pelletier, Université de Montréal

Boris Steipe, University of Toronto

Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia

David Zechel, Queen's University

Russell Kerr, Florida Atlantic University

Peter Leadlay, University of Cambridge

Brian Pagenkopf, The University of Western Ontario

Soledade Pedras, University of Saskatchewan

John Vederas, University of Alberta

Confirmed invited speakers:

Lewis Kay, University of Toronto

Chad Rienstra, University of Illinois

Gerhard Wagner, Harvard Medical School

Anthony Watts, Oxford University

Gang Wu, Queen's University

Robert Ben, University of Ottawa

Robert Campbell, University of Alberta

Susan Douglas, Institute for Marine Biosciences

Richard Epand, McMaster University

Stephen Hanessian, Université de Montréal

Kamaljit Kaur, University of Alberta

David Perrin, University of British Columbia

Phaedria St. Hilaire, Carlsberg Research Center

Nicole Sampson, Stony Brook University

Frank Schweizer, University of Manitoba

Mark Spaller, Wayne State University

Arie Zask, Wyeth Research