Suddath Symposium

2020 Suddath Symposium - "Redox Homeostasis and Signaling in Human Health and Disease"
January 9-10, 2020
Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Tech

Reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species play important roles in intra- and inter-cellular signaling by dynamically regulating protein structure and function via reversible oxidative post-translational modifications. However, the initiation, propagation, and transmission of redox signals are poorly understood. The purpose of the 2020 Suddath conference is to bring together chemical biologists, bioengineers, cell biologists, and biochemists to discuss the latest tools and approaches to probe and model redox signaling events in the context of human health and disease.

The Suddath Symposium is held annually to celebrate the life and contribution of F.L. "Bud" Suddath by discussing the latest developments in the fields of bioengineering and bioscience. The speakers include leading researchers from across the world. This successful symposium has been taking place for 28 years! Each year the symposium topic changes.

2020 Symposium Co-Chairs
Melissa Kemp, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Amit Reddi, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech

Suddath Speakers

Daniel Beard, Ph.D.
Carl J. Wiggers Collegiate Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan Medical School
"Mitochdrondrial Metabolic Capacity Determines Maximal Myocardial Mechanical Power Output in Health and Disease"
Kate Carroll, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Florida Campus
Scripps Research Institute
"Cysteine-mediated Redox Signaling: Chemical Tools for Biological Discovery"
Cristina Furdui, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Molecular Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine
"Opportunities for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment through Integrated Redox Biology"
Young Jang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Tech
"Regulation of Redox Homeostasis through Mitochondrial Domain Remodeling"
Dean Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care; Professor, Biochemistry; Director, Clinical Biomarkers Lab
Emory University School of Medicine
"Antagonistic Pleiotropy in Redox Signaling and Control"
Melissa Kemp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar - Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Tech/Emory University
"Patient-specific Computational Modeling of Redox Metabolic Systems"
Vamsi Mootha, M.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; Professor, Department of Systems Biology; Professor, Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital
"Systems Approaches to Mitochondrial Biology and Disease"
Andrew Neish, M.D.
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
"Tissue Redox Signaling Induced by the Microbiota"
Rakesh Patel, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology, and Director, Center for Free Radical Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Redox-dependent Regulation of the Endothelial N-Glycome: Implications for Inflammatory Cell Trafficking"
Mike Pluth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Oregon
"Chemical Tools for Investigating Reactive Sulfur Species"
Amit Reddi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Tech
"The Dual Roles of Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase (SOD1) in Defense Against Oxidative Stress and Redox Signaling"
Susan Smith, Ph.D.
Professor and Foundation Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Kennesaw State University
"Prokaryotic Noxes: Bigger Hammers for Structure-function Basics"
Masuko Ushio-Fukai, Ph.D.
Professor, Vascular Biology Center, Department of Medicine, Cardiology; Director of the Redox Signaling Program
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
“Redox Signaling through NOX and Mitochondria in Angiogenesis and Ischemic Disease”
Qiang Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health; Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
"Computational Modeling of Bistability in H2O2 Signaling and the Redox Circadian Rhythm of Mitochondrial Peroxiredoxin"