Program/Schedule

SfRBM 2026 Vermont: North American Redox Symposium
Redox-based processes in chronic disease: From target discovery to clinical application
Hotel Champlain, Burlington, VT | 13-16 September 2026

Meeting activities will take place in the Adirondack Ballroom as well as adjacent prefunction space for poster exhibits.

All times are listed in Eastern Time (ET)

Sunday, September 13

2:00-4:00 pm 
Registration

4:00-4:15 pm 
Opening comments 
Albert van der Vliet and Brian Cunniff

4:15-5:14 pm
Session 1: Keynote Lecture
Session Chair: Albert van der Vliet, University of Vermont
Rafael Radi (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) - Peroxynitrite 35 Years Later: Novel Aspects in Biochemistry and Medicine

6:00 pm
Welcome reception
Hotel Champlain

Monday, September 14

8:00-9:00 am 
Breakfast

8:00-9:00 am 
Panel discussion/workshop
(organized by SfRBM trainee council)

9:00-10:30 am 
Session 2: Mitochondria, Redox Metabolism and Cancer
Session chair: Silvina Bartesaghi (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) 

• Nadine Hempel (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
• Andrew Wojtovich (University of Rochester, USA) – Mapping mitochondrial ROS dynamics
• Ryan Mailloux (McGill University, Canada)
• 1 selected talk from abstracts (15 min)

10:30-10:45 am
Coffee Break

10:45 am-12:30 pm 
Session 3: Redox mechanisms in chromatin remodeling
Session chair: Priyamvada Rai (University of Miami, USA)

• Young-Joon Surh (Seoul National University, South Korea) - SIRT1 promotes colon cancer growth and progression through deacetylation-dependent activation of Snail
• Steven Roberts (University of Vermont, USA)
• Marcelo Bonini (Moffit Cancer Center, USA)
• 2 speakers selected from abstracts (15 min each)

12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch

1:30-3:30 pm 
Session 4: Polysulfur species in redox metabolism, aging, and cancer
Session chair: Robert Hondal (University of Vermont, USA)

• Takaaki Akaike (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
• Peter Nagy (National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary)
• 2 speakers selected from abstracts (15 min)

3:00-5:00 pm 
Poster session

6:30-8:00 pm 
Dinner on own

Tuesday, September 15

8:30-9:00 am 
Breakfast

8:00-9:00 am 
Panel discussion/workshop

9:00-10:30 am 
Session 5: Novel approaches in redox biology and drug-seeking platforms
Session chair: Carola Neumann (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

• Edward Chouchani (Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Liron Bar-Peled (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
• Kate Carroll (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
• 1 selected speaker from abstracts (15 min)

10:30-10:45 am
Coffee Break

10:45 am-12:30 pm 
Session 6: Redox mechanisms in cell signaling and cancer biology
Session chair: Kimberly Dunham-Snary (Queens University, Canada)

• Marcia Haigis (Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Benoit Boivin (University of Albany, USA)
• Reem Aboushousha (University of Vermont, USA)
• 2 speakers from abstracts

12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch

1:30-3:00 pm 
Session 7: Peroxiredoxins/glutaredoxins in health and disease
Session chair: Cristina Furdui (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA)

• Todd Lowther (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA)
• Yvonne Janssen-Heininger (University of Vermont, USA)
• Carsten Berndt (Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany) – Impact of Glutaredoxin 2 on brain disorders
• 1 speaker from abstracts (15 min)

3:00-5:00 pm 
Poster session

5:45-8:00 pm* 
Dinner cruise
Spirit of Ethan Allen
*Cruise boards at 5:45 pm; cruise begins at 6:00 pm

Wednesday, September 16

8:30-9:00 am 
Breakfast

9:00-10:15 am 
Panel discussion

10:15-10:30 am
Coffee Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm 
Session 8: Metabolite homeostasis in health and disease
Session chair: Vikas Anathy (University of Vermont, USA)

• Thales Papagiannakopoulos (New York University, USA)
• Hozumi Motohashi (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) – Supersulfidation as a new regulatory layer for protein synthesis and quality control
• 2 selected speakers from abstracts (15 min)

12:00-12:30 pm
Closing remarks

12:30 pm
Lunch and adjourn