June 17,  Tuesday

8:30- 11:00 PM Wine & Cheese Reception, Howard Johnson

June 18, Wednesday

8:00-8:10         Welcome by the University at Albany

8:10-8:25         On Bernard Pullman by Harold Scheraga, Cornell Univ

Theoretical Session in Honor of Bernard

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Chair: David Beveridge, Wesleyan Univ.

8:25-8:45         P. Hobza, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

8:45-9:05         D. R. Langley, Bristol Myers-Squibb

9:05-9:20         T. Cheatham III, National Institutes of Health,

Chair: Ruth Nussinov, Tel Aviv Univ. and NIH

9:20-9:40        M. Soumpasis, Max-Planck Insti, Goettingen, Germany

9:40-10:00      P. Agarwal, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals

10:00-11:00  Poster Session, First Set of 35 Posters and Coffee Break

RNA Session I

Chair: D. M. J. Lilley, Univ. of Dundee, UK

11:00-11:20      C. E. Kundrot, Univ of Colorado, Boulder

11:20-11:40      J. R. Williamson, Mass. Institue of Tech.

11:40-11:55      C. Correll, Yale University

Chair: J. Chattopadhyaya, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden

11:55-12:15      J. D. Puglisi, Univ. California, Santa Cruz

12:15-12:35     A. M. Pyle, Columbia Univ.

LUNCH AT HOWARD JOHNSON

RNA Session II

Chair: Udo Heinemann, Max-Delbruck Centrum, Berlin, Germany

1:55-2:15         D. Moras, IGMC Parc d'Innovation, France

2:15-2:35         M. Safro, Weizmann, Israel

2:35-2:50         C-S. Tung, Los Alamos National Lab.

Chair: Rein, Roswell Park Cancer Institute,

2:50-3:10         R. H. Sarma, The University, Albany

3:10-3:30         J. M. Burke, Univ. of Vermont

Chair: Naoki Sugimoto, Konan Univ, Japan

3:30-3:45        W. H. Gmeiner, Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center

3:45-4:00         L. Pappalardo, Syracuse Univ.

4:00-4:15        B. Johnston, Somagenics

4:15-5:15   Poster Session, Second Set of 35 Posters and Coffee Break

Imaging of Biological Macromolecules

Chair: Bengt Norden, Chalmers Univ. of Tech., Sweden

5:15-5:35       D. C. Schwartz, New York Univ., USA

5:35-5:55       H. Htun, National Institutes of Health

Chair: W. -V. Meister, Martin Luther Univ, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

5:55-6:10       S. M. Lindsay, Univ. of Arizona, Tempe

6:10-6:25       M. Dlakic, Univ. of Nevada, Reno

DINNER AT HOWARD JOHNSON

Wednesday Evening Session

Chair: P. Sigler, Yale University

8:10-8:50       Alexander Rich, Mass. Institue of. Tech.

8:50-9:30       Peter Dervan, Calif. Institute of Tech

June 19, Thursday

DNA-Protein Interactions; Bending and Kinking of DNA

Chair: W. Saenger, Free University of Berlin, Germany

8:30-9:10       P. Sigler, Yale University

9:10-9:30       P. Rice, National Institutes of Health

Chair: Emil Palecek, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

9:30-9:50      L. Beese, Duke University

9:50-10:05   T. Haran, Technion, Israel

10:05-11:05 Poster Session, The Third Set of 35 Posters and Coffee Break

Chair: Richard Lavery, Institut de Biologie Phy.-Chemiq, Paris, France

11:05-11:20    Anne LeBrun, Institut de Biologie Phy. Chemie, France

11:20-11:35    O. Norbreto de Souza, Pacific Northwest National Lab

Chair: Ed. Trifonov, Weizmann Institute, Israel

11:35-11:50    R. E. Harrington, Univ of Nevada, Reno

11:50-12:05    V. Zhurkin, National Institutes of Health

12:05-12:25    A. A. Salzberg, Mass. Insti. of Technology

LUNCH AT HOWARD JOHNSON

Current Trends in Solution Structures of Nucleic Acids and Proteins I

Chair: E. Taillandier, Univ. of Paris, Bobigny, France

1:45-2:05      Jean Louis Leroy, Ecole Polytechnique, France

2:05-2:20      S. Robidoux, McGill Univ., Canada

2:20-2:35      N. V. Hud, Univ. of California Los Angeles

Chair: N. R. Kallenbach, New York University

2:35-2:55     A. G. Redfield, Brandeis University

2:55-3:15     A. Palmer, Columbia Univ.

3:15-3:35     J. Cavanagh, New York State Dept of Health, Albany

Chair: Irina Russu, Weselyan University

3:35-3:50     M. W. Germann, Thomas Jefferson University, USA

3:50-4:00     X. H. Zhang, Rutgers University, USA

4:00-4:10     R. Michalczyk, Wesleyan University, USA

4:10-5:00 Poster Session: The Fourth Set of 35 Posters and Coffee Break

DNA Supercoils; Chromosomes

Chair: H. H. Klump, Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa

5:00-5:20     M. Bradbury, Los Alamos National Lab

5:20-5:40     N. R. Cozzarelli, Univ. of California Berkeley

5:40-5:55     H. Wang, New York University

Chair: M. D. Frank Kamenetskii, Boston Univ.

5:55-6:15     J. Widom, Northwestern University

6:15-6:35    W. Olson, Rutgers University

6:35-6:50    S. D. Levene, Univ. of Texas, Richardson

DINNER AT HOWARD JOHNSON

Keynote Address

Chair: Alexander Rich, Mass. Institute of Technology

8:30-9:30  Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp, Mass. Institute of Technology

June 20, Friday

DNA Session

Chair: Z. Shakked, Weizmann Institute, Israel

8:30-9:10       R. E. Dickerson, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

9:10-9:30       Ben F. Luisi, Univ. of Cambridge, UK

9:30-9:45       H. Rozenberg, Weizmann, Israel

9:45-10:45 Poster Session: The Fifth Set of 35 Posters and Coffee Break

Chair: V. Ivanov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

10:45-11:05    H. Berman, Rutgers University

11:05-11:25    M. Sundaralingam, Ohio State Univ.

11:25-11:40     L. Malinina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Chair: S. Harvey, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

11:40-11:55    Andrei Gabrielian, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy

11:55-12:10    M. Young, Wesleyan Univ.

Chair: Lu-Sing Kan, Academia Sinica, Republic of China

12:10-12:25    D. Sen, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada

12:25-12:40    P. Wittung, Chalmers Teknisska Hogskola, Sweden

LUNCH AT HOWARD JOHNSON

Current Trends in Solution Structures of Nucleic Acids and Proteins II

Chair: S. Pongor, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy

2:00-2:20     M. Weiss, Univ. of Chicago

2:20-2:35     N. B. Ulyanov, Univ. of California, San Francisco

2:35-2:55     P. J. Domaille, duPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company

Chair: Rick Ornstein, Pacific Northwest National Lab.

2:55-3:15      L. K. Nicholson, Cornell University

3:15-3:35     D. Cowburn, Rockefeller Univ. 

Chair: Christopher J, Turner, Mass. Institute of Tech.

3:35-355       T. C. Pochapsky, Brandeis Univ

3:55-4:15      J. Moore, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

4:15-4:45 Poster Session: The Sixth Short Set of Posters and Coffee Break

Mcrosymposium: DNA-Drug Interactions

Chair: C. Zimmer, Friedrich-Schiller Univ., Jena, Germany

4:45-5:00     M. Kopka, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

5:00-5:15      J. W. Lown, Univ. of Alberta, Canada

Chair: G. Bischoff, Martin-Luther Univ., Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

5:15-5:30      R. Shafer, Univ. of California, San Francisco

5:30-5:45      J. Caceres-Cortes, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

Chair: A. Wang, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

5:45-6:00      W. D. Wilson, Georgia State Univ.

6:00-6:15       K. T. Douglas, Univ. of Manchester, UK

Chair: Marc Leng, Centre Biophys. Molec. , Orleans, France

6:15-6:30       T. R. Krugh, Univ. of Rochester

6:30-6:45       K. Vickery, Macquaire Univ., North Ryde, Australia

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Italian Feast 7:30-12 midnight continuing conversation ********

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June 21, Saturday Morning

Chromosome Aberrations; Molecular and Structural Basis of Birth Defects

Chair: G. Maass, GBF, Germany

9:00-9:40       A. D. Riggs, Beckman Research Institute, Duarte CA

9:40-10:00     E. Sia, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chair: Tom Tullius, Johns Hopkins Univ.

10:00-10:05     Introduction by M. Mitas to triplet repeat DNA's

10:05-10:25     R. Sinden, Texas A & M Univ.

10:25-10:40     C. E. Pearson, Texas A & M Univ

10:40-11:00     G. Gupta, Los Alamos National Lab

11:00-11:20 Coffee Break

Chair: M. Mitas, Oklahoma State Univ.

11:20-11:35     X. Huang, Univ. of Houston

11:35-11:50     I. Haworth, Univ. of Southern Calif.

Chair: Ian Haworth, Univ. of Southern California

11:50-12:05    Tang-Shan Suen, Oklahoma State

12:05-12:25    C.. T. McMurray, Mayo Foundation

12:25-12:45    S. K. Brahmachari, Indian Institute of Science, India

12:45-1:00 John H. Weisburger, American Health Foundation on Bernard Pullman

1:00 Alberte Pullman, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique Closes the Tenth Conversation

LUNCH AT HOWARD JOHNSON