Joohong Ahnn
Areas of Expertise: Development Genetics of C. elegans

Professor
Department of Life Science
Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology
ph. 82.62.970.2488
fax. 82.62.970.2484
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Currently
Visiting Professor
c/o Dr. Noelle L'Etiole
Department of Neuroscience
UC Davis
1515 Newton Ct.
Davis, CA 95616
Tel: 530-902-7127

Martin Bootman
Areas of Expertise: cellular Ca2+ signals, Ca2+ release channels, Ca2+entry mechanisms

Head of Laboratory of Molecular Signaling
Babraham Institute
Babraham Research Campus
Babraham, Cambridge, CB24AT, UK
ph. 01223.496443
fax. 01223.496033
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Karl-Heinz Braunewell
Areas of Expertise: neuronal calcium sensor (NCS)-proteins

Lecturer in Physiology
Charité-Universitatsmedizin Berlin
Neuroscience Research Center
Signal Transduction Research Group
Tucholskystr. 2, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
ph. 49.30.450.528051
fax. 49.30.450.528927
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Walter J. Chazin
Areas of Expertise: structural biology, biophysical chemistry

Professor of Biochemistry and Physics
Vanderbilt University
5140 MRBIII/BIOSCI
465 21st Avenue
Nashville, Tennesee 37232 USA
ph. 615.936.2210
fax. 615.936.2211
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A. Kristina Downing
Areas of Expertise: solution NMR, protein structure, calcium binding EGF domains, modular proteins

Reader in Biochemistry
University of Oxford
Department of Biochemitry
South Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
ph. 44.0.1865.285322
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Angela Dulhunty
Areas of Expertise: muscle calcuim

Professor
John Curtain School of Medical Research
P.O. Box 334
Canberra City, ACT 2601
ph. 61.2.6125.4491
fax. 61.2.6125.4781
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Tim Elliot
Areas of Expertise: immunology, protein folding and targeting

Professor of Experimental Oncology
University of Southampton
Cancer Sciences Division
Somers Cancer Research Building, Mml Point 824
Southampton General Hospital
Southampton 501664 D UK
ph. 023.8079.6193
fax. 023.8079.5152
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Mitsori Fukuda
Areas of Expertise: molecular and cell biology, neurochemistry

Professor
Laboratory of Membrane Trafficking Mechanisms
Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences
Graduate School of Life Sciences
Tohoku University
Aobayama, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
Tel +81-22-795-7731
Fax +81-22-795-7733
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Antony Galione
Areas of Expertise: calcium release mechanisms

Professor of Pharmacology
University of Ocford
Department of Pharmacology
Mansfield Road
Oxford, OX1 3QT, UK
ph. 44.1865.271633
fax. 44.1865.271853
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Mitsuhiko Ikura
Areas of Expertise: structural biology

Professor
University of Toronto
610 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
ph. 416.946.2025
fax. 416.946.2055
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Steven Marston
Areas of Expertise: contractile proteins

Professor of Cardiovascular Biochemistry
Imperial College London NHLI
Guy Seadding Building, Dovehouse Street
London SW3 6LY
ph. 0207.351.8147
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Edon Melloni
Areas of Expertise: enzyme structure, function, relationships, calpain/calpastatin system, proteolysis

Full Professor of Biochemistry
DIMES (Department of Experimental Medicine)
Biochemistry Section
University of Genoa
Viale Benedetto XV
16132 Genoa, Italy
ph. 39.010.3538128
fax. 39.010.518343
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Marek Michalak
Areas of Expertise: membrane biochemistry, calcium binding chaperones, cardiovascular research

Department of Biochemistry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7 Canada
ph. 780.492.2256
fax. 780.492.0886
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Joanne E. Murphy-Ullrich
Areas of Expertise: cell adhesion, extracellular matrix, calreticulin, thrombospontin

Professor of Pathology
Director of Cell Adhesion and Matrix Research Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
VH668 1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0019 USA
ph. 205.934.0415
fax. 205.975.9340
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Thomas J. Nelson
Areas of Expertise: invertibrate calcium binding protein

Associate Professor
Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute
9601 Medical Center Drive
Rockvile Maryland 20850 USA
ph. 301.294.7178
fax. 301.294.7007
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Jennifer Pocock
Areas of Expertise: cell calcium in neurodegenerative diseases

Cell Signaling Laboratory
Department of Neuroinflammation
Institute of Neurology
University College Lindon
London, WC1N 1PJ, UK
ph. 44.0.20.7679.4031
fax. 44.0.20.7278.6572
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Arthur S. Polans
Areas of Expertise: calcium binding proteins in cancer, cell death and retinal disease

Jules and Doris Stein RPB Professor
Department of Opthamology and Visual Science
Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rm K6/466 Clinical Science Center, 600 Highland Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53792 USA
ph. 608.265.4423
fax. 608.265.6021
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Kenneth B.M. Reid
Areas of Expertise: immunology

Professor
Director MRC Immunochemistry Unit
Oxford University
Department of Biochemistry
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
ph. 44.0.1865.275353
fax. 44.0.1865.275729
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Jeffrey L. Salisbury
Areas of Expertise: centrin, centrosomes, centrioles, cell cycle

Professor
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
200 First Street SE
Rochester, MN 55905
ph. 507.284.3326
fax. 507.284.1767
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Robert A. Schulz
Areas of Expertise: heart and muscle development, hematopoiesis, genetics of calcineurosin signaling

Professor and Deputy Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77030 USA
ph. 713.792.2558
fax. 713.563.2968
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Beat Schwaller
Areas of Expertise: Ca2+ buffers, Parvalbumin, calbindin, calretinin, Ca2+ homeostasis, Ca2+ -binding proteins
Associate Professor
Division of Histology
Department of Medicine
University of Fribourg
14, chemin du Musee
1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
ph. 0041.26.300.84.90
fax. 0041.26.300.97.32
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Gary S. Shaw
Areas of Expertise: protein structure, NMR spectroscopy, S100 proteins

Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6ASC1
ph. 519.661.4021
fax. 519.661.3175
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Marianne Sommarin
Areas of Expertise: plant Ca2+ lipid signaling, membrane transport

Professor
Department of Plant Biochemistry
Lund University
P.O. Box 124
SE-221 Lund, Sweden
ph. 46.46.222.7792
fax. 46.46.222.4116
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Koichi Suzuki
Areas of Expertise: calpain, proteolysis

Senior Director
Toray New Frontiers Research Laboratories
1111 Tebiro, Kamakura
Kanagawa, 248-8555, Japan
ph. 81.467.32.2111 ext. 3000
fax. 81.467.32.9393
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David Y. Thomas
Areas of Expertise: protein folding, ER molecule chaperones

Professor
Department of Biochemistry
McGill University
3655 promenade Sir William Osler
McIntyre Medical Sciences
Montreal H3G 1Y6, Quebec, Canada
ph. 516.398.2973
fax. 516.398.7386
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José-Maria Trifaro
Areas of Expertise: Ca2+ -dependent F-actin severing proteins, Ca2+ -dependent proteins in secretion

Emeritus Professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of Ottawa
451 Smyth Road
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5
ph. 613.954.6499
fax. 613.941.1365
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Rudolf Valenta
Areas of Expertise: allergology, immunology

Professor of Allergology
Department of Pathophysiology
Medical University of Vienna
Waehringerguertel 18-20
A-1080 Vienna, Austria
ph. 43.1.40400.5108
fax. 43.1.40400.5130
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Antonio Villalobo
Areas of Expertise: cell proliferation and signaling, cancer

Research Scientist CSIC and Honorary Professor
Institute of Biomedical Investigations, CSIC and UAM
Arturo Duperier 4
E-28029 Madrid, Spain
ph. 34.91.585.4424
fax. 34.91.585.4401
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Hans J. Vogel
Areas of Expertise: stuctural biology and spectroscopy

Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
ph. 403.220.6006
fax. 403.289.9311
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Jenny J. Yang
Areas of Expertise: protein design, structural biology, NMR calmodulin

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Georgia State University
50 Decatur Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
ph. 404.651.4620
fax. 404.651.2751
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