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Monday, 23 June 2014
09:00 – 09:45
PL-01
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Arvid Carlsson Lecture
Plenary Hall A
The ups and downs of amphetamines: A diversity of actions on cel-
lular signaling pathways
Susan G. Amara, USA
Chair: Anthony Phillips, Canada
Susan G. Amara is the Scientific Director of the NIMH intramural re-
search program at NIH. Work in her laboratory has focused on the
structure, function, and cellular physiology of neurotransmitter trans-
porters, including the biogenic amine transporters, major targets for
psychostimulant drugs and antidepressants. She received a BS in Bio-
logical Sciences from Stanford University and a PhD in Physiology
and Pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego and
has previously held faculty positions at Yale University School of Med-
icine, at the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon and as a Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Yale and in Oregon. Amara
has received the Burroughs Wellcome Hitchings Award in drug dis-
covery, the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, the
ASPET John Jacob Abel Award, a McKnight Neuroscience Investiga-
tor Award, a MERIT Award from NIDA, a NARSAD Distinguished In-
vestigator Award, and the Julius Axelrod Award from the Catechol-
amine Society. She is an elected member of the National Academy of
Sciences (2004), a fellow of the AAAS (2007) and is a past-president
of the Society for Neuroscience (2011).
Monday, 23 June 2014
14:00 – 14:45
PL-02
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Nobel Lecture
Plenary Hall A
Structural insights into G protein coupled receptor signaling
Brian Kobilka, USA
Chair: Alan Frazer, USA
Dr. Kobilka received Bachelor of Science Degrees in Biology and
Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1977. He
graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1981, and
completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the Barnes
Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mis-
souri in 1984. From 1984 – 1989 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the
laboratory of Robert Lefkowitz at Duke University. In 1990 he joined
the faculty of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Physiology at
Stanford University. He was promoted to Professor of Medicine and
Molecular and Cellular Physiology in 2000. Research in the Kobilka
lab focuses on the structure and mechanism of action of G protein
coupled receptors (GPCRs), which constitute the largest family of re-
ceptors for hormones and neurotransmitters in the human genome.
GPCRs are the largest group of targets for new therapeutics for a very
broad spectrum of diseases.
cinp brief biography of plenary speakers
Susan G. Amara
Brian Kobilka
