The University, Albany, New York, June 15-19, 1999
Organizing Committee: David. L. Beveridge, Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii, Robert Jernigan, C. W. Hilbers, Neville. R. Kallenbach, David. M. J. Lilley, Dino Moras, Bengt Norden, Ruth Nussinov, Wilma. K. Olson, Alexander Rich, Wolfram Saenger, Ramaswamy. H. Sarma, Nadrian Seeman, Zippora Shakked and Victor Zhurkin
Director: Ramaswamy H. Sarma, 518-456-9362; FAX: 518-452-4955; E-Mail: rhs07@cnsvax.albany.edu
In the continuing tradition of excellence, the Eleventh Conversation will commence celebrating the triumph of structural biology with a reception on the evening of June 15th, and begin on the morning of the 16th with a series of lectures on: DNA and its complexes with proteins and drugs, DNA supercoil and function, Chromatin, DNA computing, RNA structure and its recognition by proteins, Nuclear receptors, Advancing biotechnologies, Single molecular visualization of nucleic acids, Protein design and structure, NMR of biological macromolecules, molecular biophysics and functional energetics. The sessions will be punctuated by over 250 poster discussion papers from over 20 countries.
In behalf of the University, I invite you to join the celebrations and share with us the current developments in your laboratory in the structure, dynamics, interactions and expression of biological macromolecules.
Speakers, Chairs and Guests of the Eleventh Conversation as of April 1, 1999:
Abrescia, N., ETSEIB, Spain
Aich, P., University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Andrianov, A.M., Balarus Academy of Sciences, Balarus
Andrushchenko, V., University of Calgary, Canada
Anglister, J., Weizmann , Israel
Aramani, J.M., Thomas Jefferson University
Arnez, J. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ba, S., National Foundation for Cancer Research
Balasubramanian, S., Rutgers University
Bansal, M., Indian Institute of Science, India
Bareket-Samish, A., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Benevides, J.M., Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City
Berezovsky, I.N., Weizmann , Israel
Berman, H., Rutgers University
Beveridge, D.L., Wesleyan University
Birac, J.J., New York University
Bischoff, G., Martin Luther University, Germany
Bishop, K.D., Michigan State University
Bizzaro, J.W., The BIC Group
Blake, R.D., University of Maine, Emeritus
Boczkowska, M., Polish Academy of Sciences
Bondarev, D., Rutgers University
Borisova, O.F., Russian Academy of Sciences
Broyde, S. New York University
Cantor, C., Sequennon Inc., San Diego & Hamburg, Germany
Cao, E-H., Academia Sinica, China
Carey, J., Princeton Univ.
Carlacci, L., University of South Florida
Catasti, P., Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chance, M.R., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chattopadhyaya, J., University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Chen, F.-M., Tennessee State Univ.
Chen, Y., Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA
Chiu, T., Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Chou, S.-H., Nat. Chung-Hsing Univ., Taiwan
Ciubotaru, M., SUNY @ Buffalo
Cowburn, D., Rockefeller University
Cowsik, S.M., Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Craig, N.L. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Cromsigt, J., Umea University, Sweden
Dabrowiak, J.C., Syracuse University
Danilov, V.I., Ukraine Academy of Sciences
Dickerson, R.E., University of Calif. Los Angeles
Dixit, A., Central Drug Res. Institute, Lucknow, ndia
Dixit, S.B., Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Dlakic, M., Howard Hughes Med. Inst.
Dobrikov, M.I., Russian Academy of Sciences
Douglas, K.T., University of Manchester, UK
Dubins, D.N., University of Toronto, Canada
Escude, Ch., Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Estock, M.L., Johns Hopkins University
Fedorova, O., Russian Academy of Sciences
Fenley, M.O., Continuam Dynamics Inc.
Ferris, J. P., RPI, Troy, NY
Finger, L.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Fojta, M., Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Frank-Kamenetskii, M.D., Boston University
Friedman, A.M., Purdue University
Fridman, T., Rutgers University
Fritzsche, H., F. Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany
Furrer, P., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Fushman, D., The Rockefeller University
Gabrielian, A., Inst. Mol. Bio., NAS, Armenia
Gaggelli, E., University of Siena, Italy
Gagna, C.E., UMDNJ-Med. School, New Jersey
Ganesh, V.K., University of Madras, Chennai, India
Gao, X., University of Houston
Gelbin, A., Weslayan University
Gelles, J., Brandeis Univ.
Gianni, V., University of Siena, Italy
Giese, B., University of Basal, Switzerland
Gilson, M., Ctr. Advanced Biotechnology, NIST
Gmeiner, A.H., Eppley Institute/UNMC
Godde, J. S., Brooklyn College
Goerler, A., University of California, San Francisco
Goldgur, Y., National Institutes of Health
Gorenstein, D., Univ. Texas, Galveston
Guckian, K., University of Rochester
Gueron, M., Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Guga, P., Polish Academy of Sciences
Guo, F., Univ. of Pennsylvania
Gupta, G., Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
Gursky, G.V., Russian Academy of Sciences
Hansma, H., University of California, Santa Barbara
Haran, T., Technion, Israel
Harrington, R.E., Arizona State University, Tempe
Harris, L., Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Harvey, S., University of Alabama, Birmingham
Heinemann, U., Max-Delbruck-Centrum, Berlin
Hendrickson, W., Columbia Univ.
Hilbers, C.W., Univ. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Honig, B., Columbia Univ.
Ivanov, V.I., Russian Academy of Sciences
Izvolsky, K., Boston University
James, T.L., University of California, San Fransisco
Jardine, K.J.J., New York University
Jernigan, R., National Institutes of Health
Kallenbach, N.R., New York University
Kan, L-S, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Kaptein, R., Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands
Karapetian, A.T., Inst. of Archetecture & Construction, Yeravan,
Armenia
Kearns, D.R., University of California San Diego
Kerimo, S., Univ. of Minnesota
Khomyakova, E., U-Paris XIII-Bobigny, France
Khorana, H.G., MIT
Khorasanizadeh, S., Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kim, H.K., Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden
Kim, S.K., Yeungnam University, Korea
Klump, H.H., University of Cape Town, South Africa
Kopka, M., University of California, Los Angeles
Koudelka, G., SUNY @ Buffalo, North Campus
Koval, V.V., Russian Academy of Sciences
Krafft, C., Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City
Krasteva, M., University of Calgary, Canada
Krugh, T.R., University of Rochester
Kuduvalli, P., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kuhn, H., Boston University
Kuryavyi, V.V., Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Landweber, L., Princeton Univ.
Lange, C.S., SUNY Down State Medical Center
Langley, D.R., Bristol Meyers-Squibb
Lavery, R., IBPC, Paris, France
Leng, M., Centre de Biophys. Moléc., Orleans, France
Leontis, N.B., Bowling Green State University
Lesnik, E.A., ISIS Pharmaceuticals
Lilley, D.M.J., University of Dundee, UK
Livshits, M.A., Russian Academy of Sciences
Liu, F., New York University
Lown, J.W., University of Alberta, Canada
Lu, X.J., Rutgers University
Luger, K., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Colorado
Maas, G., Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologische Forsc., Germany
Maciejczyk, M., Polish Academy of Sciences
Maizel, J.V., National Institutes of Health
Mao, C., New York University
Marx, K.A., Univ. of Massachusetts -Lowell
Masse, J., University of California, Los Angeles
McConnell, K., Weslayan University
Meister, W-V., Martin Luther University, Germany
Michalczyk, R., Los Alamos National Laboratory
Minyat, E.E., Russian Academy of Sciences
Mitra, S.N., Ohio State University
Mohanty, U., Boston College
Morales, J.C., University of Rochester
Moras, D., IGMC Parc d'Innovation, France
Moudrianakis, E., Johns Hopkins University
Mukerji, I., Wesleyan University
Murphy, C.J., University of South Carolina
Nagaich, A.K., National Institutes of Health, NCI
Nagan, M., Univ. of Minnesota
Natarajan, G., ALM Post-Grad Inst. of Basic Med. Sci., Chennai, India
Ng, H.L., Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Nishinaka, T., RIKEN, Japan
Nonin, S., Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Nordén, B., Chalmers University of Tech., Sweden
Nussinov, R., NIH & Tel Aviv. University, Israel
Olivieri, M., D'Youville College
Olson, W.K., Rutgers University
Ornstein, R., Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab.
Ostashevsky, J., SUNY Down State Med. Center
Oussatcheva, E.N., Texas A&M University
Palecek, E., Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Panyutin, I., National Institutes of Health
Pardi, A., Univ. Colorado, Boulder
Pataskar, S., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Pawlowski, D., SUNY & Buffalo
Phan, A.T., Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Pongor, S., ICGEB, Trieste, Italy
Potaman, V.N., Texas A&M University
Prevost, C., IBPC, Paris, France
Protozanova, E., University of Toronto, Canada
Rajski, S.R., California Institute of Technology
Rao, J.E., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rastinejad, F., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
Rein, R., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Rich, A., MIT
Roche, C.J., New York Medical College
Rodger, A., University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Rouzina, I.F., University of Minnesota, St. Paul
Ruben, G.C., Dartmouth College
Rudnicki, W.R., Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
Sa-Ardyen, P., New York University
Saenger, W., Free University, Berlin, Germany
Salisbury, Jr., F., National Fdn for Cancer Research
Sanders, R., University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Sauer, R., MIT
Schimmel, P., Scripps Research Insitute
Schwartz, T., MIT, 68-233
Sclavi, B., Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Seeman, N.C., New York University
Sha, R., New York University
Shafer, R., University of California, San Fransisco
Shakked, Z., Weizmann, Israel
Salisbury, F.C., Jr., National Foundation for Cancer Research
Shchyolkina, A.K., Russian Academy of Sciences
Shen, W.Q., New York University
Shubsda, M., Syracuse University
Sigler, P., Yale University
Singh, P., University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Sokolov, A.P., University of Akron
Soumpasis, M., Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sponer, J., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Srinivasan, A.R., Rutgers University
Stellwagen, N.C., University of Iowa
Streltsov, S.A., Russian Academy of Sciences
Subba Rao, G., All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi,
India
Sullivan, M.R., Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Surovaya, A.N., Russian Academy of Sciences
Sundaralingam, M., Ohio State University
Swairjo, M.A., Scripps Research Institute
Taillandier, E., Univ. Paris, Bobigny, France
Tajmir-Riahi, H.A., Univ. of Quebec, Canada
Thibaudeau, C., Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Thierry, J.-C., IGMC, Strasbourg-Illkirch, France
Timsit, Y., IBPC, Paris, France
Tjandra, N., National Institutes of Health
Tolstorukov, M.Ye., Kharkov State University, Ukraine
Tuite, E., Chalmers Univ. of Tech., Sweden
Tullius, T., BostonUniversity
Turner, C.J, MIT
Ulyanov, N.B., Univ. of California, San Francisco
van Buuren, B.N.M., Umea University, Sweden
Van Duyne, G., Univ. of Pennsylavania
Venanzi, C., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Vickery, K., Macquaire University, North Ryde, Australia
Vorobjev, Y.N., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Wang, A.H.-J., University of Illinois, Urbana
Weiss, M.A., University of Chicago
Welfle, H., Max-Dulbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine
Wemmer, D., University of California, Berkeley
White, S., Bryn Mawr College
Wijmenga, S., Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Williams, A., Wesleyan University
Williams, L., Georgia Tech.
Winfree, E., Princeton Univ.
Wojtuszewski, K., Wesleyan University
Wollman, R., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Wong, M.H., New York University
Xu, G.P., New York University
Yan, H., New York University
Yonath, A., Weizmann, Israel
Zhang, H., University of Rochester
Zhang, X., New York University
Zhurkin, V., National Institutes of Health
Zhuze, A.L., Russian Academy of Sciences
Zimmer, C., Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany