CanBic-10 Confirmed speakers in 2026

*Please check back for more details/speakers as the list is updated for CanBIC-10 later in 2026

Plenary speaker in 2027 for CanBIC-10 will be Prof Clotilde Policar (Ecole normale superiere-psl) ​

Symposium 1
Advances in TETRAPYRROLE Chemistry 


Organizers:
Nagao Kobayashi, Ochanomizu University, ​Japan,
Soji Shimizu, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Bernhard Kräutler, University of Innsbruck, Austria

 kobayashi.nagao@ocha.ac.jp
ssoji@cstf.kyushu-u.ac.jp
bernhard.kraeutler@uibk.ac.at
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Symposium 2  
Heme Proteins and Analogues 

Organizer:
John Dawson,
University of South Carolina, USA
jdawson@mailbox.sc.edu



Symposium 3 
spectroscopy insight into the mechanisms of heme proteins and models

Organizer:
Piotr Mak, Saint Louis University, USA
piotr.mak@slu.edu


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Symposium 4
Pharmaceutical bioinorganic chemistry

Organizers:
Tim Storr & Charles Walsby,
Simon Fraser University, Canada
tim_storr@sfu.ca
cwalsby@sfu.ca




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Symposium 5
Metalloproteins

Organizer:
Claudia Blindauer, University of Warwick, UK
c.blindauer@warwick.ac.uk


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symposium 6
biological aspects of toxic metals

Organizers:
Andrea Hartwig
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany and, 
and Wing-Kee Lee,
Bielefeld University, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
andrea.hartwig@kit.eduLee,
​wing-kee.lee@uni-bielefeld.de



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symposium 7
instrumental probes of metal coordination binding sites

Organizer:
Carolyn Dillon
Wollongong University, Australia
sralph@uow.edu.au
carolynd@uow.edu.au






symposium 8
theoretical aspects of bioinorganic chemistry

Organizer:
Andreas W. Goetz      
San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA


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symposium 9
student ORAL symposiUM

Organizer:
Zhifeng Ding
The University of Western Ontario
​zfding@uwo.ca


symposium 10
POSTER symposiUM

Organizer:
Zhifeng Ding
The University of Western Ontario
​zfding@uwo.ca


CANBIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING TEAM

Martin Stillman (chair)
University of Western Ontario, Canada
martin.stillman@uwo.ca
Nagao Kobayashi
Ochanomizu University,
​Japan
kobayashi.nagao@ocha.ac.jp
John Dawson
University of South Carolina,
​USA
jdawson@mailbox.sc.edu
Zhifeng Ding
University of Western Ontario, Canada
ZFDing@uwo.ca
REVISED:2026ULY16