Eric Guisbert presented a poster at the Keystone Symposium on Neurodegenerative Diseases: New Molecular Mechanisms" in February in Keystone, CO. Eric was also the recipient of a travel scholarship from Keystone Symposia.

Janine Kirstein spoke at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May. She is also the recipient of a YFT Travel Grant.

Patricija van Oosten Hawle spoke at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May. She is also the recipient of a YFT Travel Grant.

Elise Kikis presented a poster at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May.

Tali Gidalevitz spoke at the 13th Congress of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology in Quebec in May. She also spoke at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May.

Daniel Czyz won "Best Poster in Stress and Aging" at the 17th International C elegans Meeting at UCLA in June.

Barbara Calamini, Cindy Voisine, and Sandy Westerheide will be presenting posters at the Gordon Research Conference "Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease" in Andover, NH in June.

Meetings Attended by Lab Members in 2008

Sandy Westerheide and Veena Prahlad were chosen to give talks at the 13th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting.

Veena Prahlad, Cindy Voisine, Ning Wang, Barbara Calamini, Tali Gidalevitz, and Elise Kikis presented posters at the Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Chaperones and Stress Responses meeting.

Anna Svensson participated in the Mass Spectrometry meeting in Denver.

Tali Gidalevitz spoke at the Longevity Consortium Symposium in Boulder.

Cindy Voisine, Janine Kirstein, Patricija van Oosten-Hawle, and Jesper Pedersen attended the C. elegans Aging, Stress, Heterochrony, and Pathogenesis Meeting in Madison.

Sandy Westerheide spoke at the Jacques Monod Conference on HSF in Brittany.

Anat Ben-Zvi presented a poster at FASEB's Protein Folding in the Cell meeting in Vermont.

Meetings Attended by Lab Members in 2007

Cindy Voisine gave a talk at the annual meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology in Washington, D.C. in 2007.

Anna Svensson participated in the International Consortium on Superoxide Dismutase & Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 2007 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in October.

Elise Kikis, Monica Beam and Catarina Silva participated in the 6th Leonard Berg Symposium, Novel Therapies for Protein Misfolding Disorders in September.

Elise Kikis and Monica Beam presented posters the HDSA 11th Annual Scientific / Coalition Meeting in October in Boston .

Anat Ben-Zvi, Tali Gidalevitz, Cindy Voisine, and Catarina Silva presented posters at the 16th International C. elegans Meeting in Los Angeles in July.

Cindy Voisine gave a talk entitled "Chaperone Networks Influencing Protein Misfolding and Aggregation in C. elegans" in the Systems Biology Session at the 21st Annual Symposium of The Protein Society in Boston.

Anat Ben-Zvi and Cindy Voisine travelled to Budapest to give talks at the 3rd Congress of the Cell Stress Society International in August.

Sandy Westerheide and Veena Prahlad went to Oxford to present posters in August at the Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease Gordon Research Conference.

Awards/Honors

August 2007: Cindy Voisine was given the Hans Selye Award for distinguished young scientist at the 2nd World Conference of Stress and 3rd Cell Stress Society International Congress on Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine from August 23-26, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.

Mahoney Lecture Features Morimoto

Scientist Morimoto Named to Argonne Board

Morimoto Receives Huntington Award

Morimoto named to national advisory medical sciences council