Fairmont Le Château Montebello, Québec, Canada

November 2-4, 2023

We are pleased to welcome you at Le Château Montebello, the 22nd Annual Great Lakes G Protein-Coupled Receptor Retreat held jointly with the Club des Récepteurs à Sept Domaines Transmembranaires du Québec. The meeting will be held on Nov. 2-4, 2023 at the Chateau Montebello, Québec.

The Chateau Montebello is an exceptional venue, and is located 1 hr from Ottawa, or 1.5 hr from Montreal in the beautiful Laurentian Mountains of Canada. The fall colors of the leaves are spectacular, and the weekend of science is an intense and interactive experience, and a great training environment for our students and post-doctoral fellows.

The meeting is launched on Thursday with two Trainee Symposia and the Plenary Lecture, followed by 6 symposia on Friday and Saturday and the closing Keynote Lecture. The deadline for registration is September 21, 2023. 

For the 22nd edition, the Organizing Committee has again lived up to the expectations by putting together an outstanding program with a special thought for Marc Caron (1946-2022) to commemorate his great contributions to the GPCR and Neurosciences fields. Dr. Kathleen Caron of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, unquestionably one of the pioneers involved in deciphering how receptor activity-modifying proteins or RAMPs regulate GPCR function, is confirmed as Plenary Speaker of the inaugural Marc G. Caron keynote lecture on November 2nd.

Additionally, there will be a Marc G. Caron Honorary Symposium by Caron Lab alumni to honor his memory. We have also confirmed Dr. Arthur Christopoulos of Monash University in Australia, one of the pioneers in the medicinal chemistry, computational and mathematical modelling of GPCRs, as Plenary Speaker of the Hyman B. Niznik keynote lecture, which will close the conference. The program will include also world-class and diverse GPCR scientists working in the arenas of structure and signaling, neuroscience, cancer, translational and model systems.

As in previous editions, trainees are more than welcome to this unique meeting. Indeed, for the Montebello 2023 edition, we have organized two trainee symposiums to acknowledge formally the participation of our graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Additionally, each symposium of the GPCR Retreat 2023 will include one trainee short talk selected from abstracts. Trainees of diversity groups are strongly encouraged to register to the meeting and submit an abstract for consideration for the trainee symposia and selected trainee short talks.

Your participation has already made this unique event a success. We are thrilled by the overwhelming interest in this event by the GPCR research community. We trust that the collegial and intimate atmosphere provided by Le Château Montebello will be suited for an environment where graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and principal investigators can have stimulating discussions and debates on GPCR research presented at this meeting.

We would like to thank all our Sponsors for their ongoing generous support of the meeting. Without their support, this meeting will not be possible.

If you have any suggestions or comments for either this Retreat or future meetings, we look forward to receiving your feedback. Finally, Bienvenue and we hope you will enjoy your stay in Montebello and find the Retreat stimulating and satisfying.

Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee