Online registration for the 2012 GLDMDG meeting is available at http://www.regonline.com/gldmdg2012.

Speakers

Confirmed talks for our 7th annual meeting include:

In Vitro Approaches to Assess the Enzyme-Suppressing Effects of Therapeutic Proteins.
Andrew Parkinson, Ph.D.,CEO, XPD Consulting, Shawnee, Kansas.

Probing P450 Structure-Function Relationships using X-ray Crystallography.
Eric Johnson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California.

Clarifying the Importance of CYP2C19 and PON1 in the Mechanism of Clopidogrel Bioactivation and In Vivo Antiplatelet Response.
Romel Tirona, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Evaluation of Absorption Mediated Drug-Drug Interactions in the Oncology Setting.
Joseph Ware, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, California.

Nuclear Receptor Regulation of Hydroxysteroid Sulfotransferase (SULT2A): Implications for Metabolic Disease Mechanisms.
Melissa Runge-Morris, M.D., Director, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Metabolite Identification by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in High Throughput Drug Discovery Settings.
Jianwei Shen, Ph. D., Senior Scientist, Drug Metabolism, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois.

NMR as a Tool in Mitigating Metabolism Issues in Early Discovery.
Gregory Walker, Senior Principal Scientist, Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism, Pfizer, Inc., Groton, Connecticut.

Application of PBPK Modeling to Drug Discovery.
Daniel Mudra, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Principles of Human Food Safety with Respect to the Development, Commercialization, Evolution (and Metabolism) of Ceftiofur.
David Gottschall, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Veterinary Medicine Research & Development, Pfizer Animal Health, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Registration Fees

Poster Information

Poster size information, a PowerPoint template, and a tentative schedule can be found at http://www.greatlakesdmdg.org/?p=290.

In addition to the opportunity of presenting a poster, one graduate student and one post-doc will be nominated by the GLDMDG steering committee to give oral presentations of their poster contents. To be considered, a poster must be submitted at the online registration site (http://www.regonline.com/gldmdg2012) by Friday, April 6th. Nominated presenters will be notified by a GLDMDG committee member no later than Friday, April 13th.

Hotel Information

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Radisson Plaza Hotel at Kalamazoo Center for the GLDMDG meeting . Select the Great Lakes Drug Metabolism Di-STD1 rate at http://www.radisson.com/greatlakesmetabolismdiscussion to reserve a room at the discounted rate of $125.00 (plus tax) per night. Other room types are available at higher costs.

Area Activities

The Kalamazoo area offers various things to see and do. Links to area attractions are listed below.

• Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
• Air Zoo of Michigan
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
• Kalamazoo Nature Center
• Kalamazoo Valley Museum