Roles of Metals in the Environment, Physiology and Human Disease

The 11th meeting of this preeminent conference series will span a diversity of scientific interests from genetics, biochemistry, structural biology, and inorganic chemistry, to proteomics, metallomics and bioinformatics, microbial pathogenesis, and clinical translational medicine. Session topics will focus on the acquisition, trafficking, regulation, reactivity and utilization of metals in proteins, cells, tissues, and organisms from microbes to humans, and the role of metals in physiology, disease, and host-pathogen interactions. In addition, the conference will also cover the impact of biological metals in the environment and their effects on organismal physiology. As metal acquisition and homeostasis greatly impacts human health and disease as well as microbial pathogenesis, the ultimate goal of this conference series is to determine the pathological mechanisms underlying dysfunctional metal metabolism in order to advance the development of cutting-edge diagnostic approaches and therapeutic treatments for metal-related diseases and disorders.