Dear CLC members and colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that the CLC 2012 will be held jointly with the International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) in Banff, Alberta September 4-9, 2012.

ICBL/CLC Scientific Excellence:

As many of you are aware, we have been working diligently to plan a unique conference opportunity with a world-class meeting on lipids and lipoproteins for 2012. We are very proud to advise that together with ASBMB, ICBL and the Canadian Lipoprotein Conference, we have assembled a truly international 4-day line up of invited speakers in a setting that will retain our mandate to foster excellence for our trainees.

At the 2011 CLC Awards Banquet the following people were recognized for excellence in research and presentation:

Senior Investigator

• Cheryl Wellington

Stewart Whitman Young Investigator

• Dawei Zhang

Oral Presetation

• Rabban Mangat, Post-doctoral Fellow
• Jelske van der Veen, Post-doctoral Fellow
• Iulia Iatan, Graduate Student
• Stephen Lee, Graduate Student

Poster Presetation

• Mia Golder, Post-doctoral Fellow
• Aishah Al-Jarallah, Graduate Student
• Mark Fuller, Graduate Student
• Parveer Pannu, Graduate Student

Dr. Scott Kiss of McGill University has agreed to host and organize the 2013 CLC in Quebec.

Details will be provided as appropriate as they become available.