The 24th International Conference on Arginine and Pyrimidines (ICAP2014)

Gabriel Aughey
University of Oxford, UK
Title: Determining the mechanisms of CTP synthase filament formation in Drosophila.

Ljubica Caldovic
Children's National Medical Center, USA
Title: The evolution of NAGS and urea cycle, NAGS deficiency in humans.

Elizabeth Carrey
University College London, UK
Title: TBC

Zee-Fen Chang
National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC
Title: Ribonucleotide reductase promotes genomic instability and tumor heterogeneity via increasing dUTP misincorporation.

Daniel Charlier
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Title: Regulation of the E. coli carAB operon by RutR and PepA.

Richard Christopherson
University of Sydney, Australia
Title: The mechanisms of action of purine analogs such as fludarabine on B-lymphoproliferative disorders.

Lola Gonzalez
Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina, Spain
Title: Role of dUTPase in the occurrence of uracil-containing DNA in Trypanosoma brucei.

Adrian Harris
University of Oxford, UK
Title: Hypoxia effects on metabolism as targets for synthetic lethality.

Lewis E. Kay
University of Toronto, Canada
Title: TBC

Wolfgang Knecht
Lund University, Sweden
Title: Deoxyribonucleoside kinases – biodiversity and practical use.

Lakshmi Kotra
University of Toronto, Canada
Title: Peptidyl arginine hypermodification and potential for the development of disease modifying agents.

Paloma Liras Padin
University of Leon, Spain
Title: ArgR, a versatil regulator affecting primary and secondary metabolism on Streptomyces coelicolor.

Monika Loeffler
Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Title: Orotic acid: not merely an intermediate of pyrimidine synthesis.

Carol Lovatt
University of California (Riverside), USA
Title: Coordinated regulation of pyrimidine and arginine biosynthesis in plants.

Torsten Mohlmann
University Kaiserslautern, Germany
Title: TBC

Hiroki Morizono
Children's National Medical Center, USA
Title: TBC

Leif D. Nelin
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, USA
Title: Arginase and the arginine metabolome in pulmonary hypertension.

Li-Mei Pai
Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC
Title: Cbl regulates endoreplication by controlling cytoophidium.

Santiago Ramon-Maiques
Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Spain
Title: Towards deciphering the architecture of CAD: structure of human ATCase and DHOase.

Vicente Rubio
Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain
Title: Human carbamoyl phosphate synthetase: structure, function and pathology.

Andriy Sibirny
Institute of Cell Biology, NAS of Ukraine
Title: Construction of the recombinant producers of bacterial arginine deiminase and human arginase and their use for arginine deprivation.

Li-Ying Sung
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
Title: Both CTP synthase 1 and 2 form the cytoophidia in mammalian cells.

Staffan Svard
Uppsala University, Sweden
Title: The role of arginine during infections by the intestinal parasite Giardia intestinalis.

Peter Szlosarek
Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Title: Targeting arginine in human cancers: from the lab to the clinic.

Omur Y. Tastan
University of Oxford, UK
Title: Potential role for CTP synthase in Drosophila optic lobe development.

Jim Wilhelm
University of California (San Diego), USA
Title: TBC

Jun Yan
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Title: Purine metabolism, cell cycle and circadian clock.

Barbara Zimmermann
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Title: Pyrimidine biosynthesis in Toxoplasma gondii.