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This page contains contact information for the Chairpersons of the Project. From here
you can send e-mail to project members, or visit their personal home pages.
Names of the Chairperson and members of the organizing committee:
The organizing committee includes members from each institute and is
responsible for coordinating all activities and preparations for the conference. The
chairmen of the organizing committee are Leonard Bull from North Carolina State
University, Andrzej Legocki from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, and Stefan Jurga
from Adam Mickiewicz University. The other committee members are Paul F. Agris, Hanna
Gracz, Keith Gubbins, Edward O. Stejskal, and Dominika Wiktor from North Carolina State
University; James Peacock and Bogdan Leja from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill; Ryszard Adamiak from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; and Malgorzata
Sliwinska-Bartowiak from Adam Mickiewicz University.
 | Adamiak, Ryshard |
 | Agris, Paul |
 | Bull, Leonard |
 | Gracz, Hanna |
 | Gubbins, Keith |
 | Jurga, Stefan |
 | Legocki, Andrzej |
 | Leja, Bogdan |
 | Peacock, James |
 | Rufty, Rebeca |
 | Sliwinska-Bartowiak, Malgorzata |
 | Wiktor, Dominika |

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Professor, Head of the Laboratory of
Structural Chemistry of Nucleic Acids. Molecular modeling is the ultimate step in several
of our research projects, all based on joint applications of the total synthesis of
regioselectively modified (stable isotopes, fluorophores) RNA, thermodynamics,
multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, laser spectrofluorimetry and protein interactions. Within
the models of the bulge loop- and apical loop-modified HIV-1 TAR RNA structures the
importance of considering the long distance non-covalent interactions in solution (using
the Particle Mesh Ewald method) becomes evident. "In aqua" simulation of
molecular dynamics, magnesium binding protocols all require extensive use of super
computing.
adamiakr@ibch.poznan.pl
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Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at North Carolina State
University, chairman of the NCSU RNA Biology Faculty, and supervisor of the NCSU Nucleic
Acids Facility. He received his BS in Biology and Chemistry from Bucknell University in
1966 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.
Dr. Agris has served as Chairman of Institutional Biosafety Committee for Recombinant DNA
Technology and Director of the Division of Biological Sciences Protein Sequencing Lab at
the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also has a variety of international experiences
including working as a visiting scientist in the Biochemistry Department at the University
of Oxford, England, serving as chairman and initiator of an international symposium on
biophysical techniques at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and collaborating with
Polish scientists from Lodz and Poznan.
agris@bchserver.bch.ncsu.edu
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Leonard Bull attended the University of Massachusetts and Oklahoma State
University from 1959-64, completing a BS in Dairy Science in 1963 and a MS in Animal
Nutrition in 1964. He completed his Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition at Cornell University in
1968. Following a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow program in Medical Physiology at the University
of Virginia, 1968-70, he became an Assistant (1970-74) and Associate (1975) Professor of
Dairy Science and Nutrition at the University of Maryland. Later He served as Associate
Professor of Animal Science at the University of Kentucky from 1975-79. From 1979-81 he
was Professor and Coordinator of Nutrition Programs in Animal and Veterinary Science at
the University of Maine. In 1981 he became Professor and Chairman of Animal Science at the
University of Vermont. He became Professor and Head of Animal Science at North Carolina
State University in 1989. In 1996 he became Assistant Director, Agricultural Research, and
Assistant Dean for International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
then Associate Vice Provost and now Associate Vice Chancellor for International Programs
at NCSU and Director of the Center for Global Competitiveness. He continues in that latter
role, responsible for all international activities of NCSU.
Dr. Bull has served on many committees associated with academic
institutions, commodity organizations, and professional societies in the United States and
abroad. He has been Director of the American Dairy Science Association; a founding member
of the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS), the Registry of
Environmental and Agricultural Professionals (REAP), and the Federation of Animal Science
Societies (FASS); and a member of the American Forage and Grassland Council and the
American Society of Animal Science (ASAS). He has been President of REAP and ARPAS, and
President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ASAS and represents ASAS on the Board
of the World Association of Animal Production as Vice President. A member of the National
Research Council Board on Agriculture (1994-7), the International Committee on Policy of
the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (1996-7), and the
Advisory Committee on International Science of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (1998-), he retains close ties to agriculture at the National and
International levels. While at the University of Vermont he led development of the
Northeast Dairy Foods Research Center (joint with Cornell University) and served as the
founding Director for Vermont. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Shelburne
Farms, Vermont, the Rewards Task Force of the Center for Sustainable Agricultural Research
and Education and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. In
addition, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Governor's Global Forum in
North Carolina and is co-chair of the Education Committee. Dr. Bull has published over 175
scientific journal papers, abstracts, book chapters and technical articles and has trained
over 30 graduate students receiving MS or Ph.D. degrees.
leonard_bull@ncsu.edu
Hanna Gracz is currently the Laboratory Supervisor of the NMR Facility
and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at North Carolina State
University. She received her MS in Physics with a Biochemistry emphasis from Warsaw
University and her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland.
She is currently serving on the North Carolina State University International Relations
Board and maintains international collaborations with Polish scientists from Poznan and
Warsaw.
hanna_gracz@ncsu.edu
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chemistry/NMRgracz.html
Keith Gubbins is currently the W.H. Clark Distinguished University
Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He
received his BS in Chemistry from Queen Mary College and his Ph.D. from King?s College at
the University of London. Dr. Gubbins has held a variety of distinguished positions
including Endowed Chair (T.R. Briggs Professorship) in Engineering and Director of the
School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University. He has served as a Visiting
Professor in several universities in England, Canada, and Australia. His research is in
the application of statistical mechanics and molecular simulation methods to study complex
fluids and nano-porous materials. He also collaborates with Professors M.
Sliwinska-Bartkowiak, S. Jurga and T. Hilczer from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan,
Poland.
keg@ncsu.edu
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Stefan Jurga is currently Professor of Physics in the Institute of
Physics at Adam Mickiewicz University. He is also Rektor of the University, serving his
second term in this elected position. He received his M.Sci. (1969) and Ph.D. (1974) in
Physics from Adam Mickiewicz University, and his Habilitation in 1985. He held
Postdoctoral Fellowships at University of Liege, Belgium in 1974-75, and at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1975-76. He has held Visiting Professor positions at
the University of Florida, University of South Africa in Pretoria, Cornell University and
Joseph Stefan Institute, Slovenia. In addition he has been an Alexander von Humboldt
Fellow, University of Mainz, 1983-84 and a Max Planck Society Fellow at the Max Planck
Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, 1985-86. He is also the President of the Polish
Conference of the University Rectors since 1999. He is an internationally known expert in
NMR of molecular solids, liquid crystals and glasses, and has published extensively in
these areas. For the past six years he has collaborated with Professor K.E. Gubbins of
North Carolina State University.
stjurga@phys.amu.edu.pl
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Andrzej Legocki received his MS in Chemistry from Poznan University in
1961 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Agriculture in Poznan in 1965.
He continued his education and received his Docent Degree in Biochemistry in 1968 and
became a Professor of Biochemistry in 1977. From 1962 to 1970, Dr. Legocki worked in the
Department of Biochemistry and from 1970 to 1986 served as the head of the Protein
Biosynthesis Laboratory at the University of Agriculture. Since 1986 he has served as the
Director of the Institute and as the Head of the Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory at the
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznan.
Dr. Legocki has spent a considerable amount experience teaching and
working in an international environment. From 1969 to 1970, he performed his postdoctoral
studies at the Cancer Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania studying the wheat
germ system for protein synthesis. He also spent two years, from 1973-1974, at the Roche
Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, New Jersey working with translation factors. On
three separate occasions in 1976, 1979, and 1982, he spent between three and six months at
the University of Georgia as a visiting Professor. He has also been involved in
collaborative research projects with Cornell University in New Jersey and Paris University
in France.
In addition to his international experience, Dr. Legocki has been a
member of a variety of committees and societies. He became a member of the Polish Academy
of Sciences in 1986 and chairman of the Polish Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics in
1988. He served on the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology Board of Directors
from 1982-1988. He has also been a member of Plant Science since 1982, Acta Biochimica
Polonica since 1980, and the Plant Journal since 1991.Dr. Legockis current research
interests include structure organization and expression of legume plant genes involved in
biological fixation of nitrogen and organospecific expression of plane genes.
legocki@ibch.poznan.pl
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Bogdan Leja is currently Director of the Outreach Programs at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for International Studies. He received
his BA in Political Science, his Master of Organizational Management, from Central
Connecticut State University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia
University. Mr. Leja develops collaborative relations between UNC and other universities,
joint conferences, and outreach initiatives that examine a variety of global issues. He
has served as the Principal Investigator and writer in a variety of international grants
such as the TeachAsia Program, the USIA, NAFSA Association of International Educators
Cooperative Grants Program, and the U.S. Department of Education Group Projects Abroad
Program.
leja@email.unc.edu
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James Peacock is currently Director of the University Center for
International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his
BA in Psychology (1959) from Duke University and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (1965)
from Harvard University. At the UNC, Dr. Peacock has served as Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Anthropology,
Chair in the Department of Anthropology, Kenan Professor of Anthropology, and Chair of the
Faculty. He also has a variety of international experience including a Guggenheim
Fellowship and Kenan Leave at All Souls College Oxford University, England; field research
on the Muslim reformation in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia; and field research in
Surabaja, Indonesia.
peacock@unc.edu
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Dr. Rufty is the interim Associate Vice Chancellor, International
Programs and Services at NCSU. Her current research interests are in the following areas:
breeding plants for disease resistance; genetics of host x pathogen interactions;
coevolution of plants and pests; mechanisms of disease resistance in plants; plant
breeding methodology; tobacco pathology; tobacco breeding.
becky_rufty@ncsu.edu
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Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartkowiak is Professor of Physics at the Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She obtained her M.Sc. (1970) and Ph.D. (1977) in Physics
at AMU. She was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Physics, University of Liege,
Belgium from 1986-87, and was Research Associate at this same institute in 1991. Her
research specialty is in the experimental and theoretical study of near-critical liquid
mixtures, and in phase transitions in confined systems (adsorbed phases in nano-porous
materials). She is an expert in dielectric methods, including nonlinear dielectric effect
measurements and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. She has published extensively in
these areas in the physics and physical chemistry literature. Over the last 6 years she
has collaborated with Prof. Keith Gubbins at North Carolina State University (formerly at
Cornell University).
msb@phys.amu.edu.pl
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Dominika Wiktor is currently enrolled at undergraduate program in the
Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. She will receive
her bachelor Degree spring of 2001. She was recipient of Kosciuszko Foundation stipend to
study polish language in Krakow, Poland. She is currently instrumental in preparing this
grant application and she will serve as Conference secretary. She would like to be a
graduate student and take advantage of collaborations with Polish scientists from Poznan
and Warsaw and spent her tenure year in Poland.
dmwiktor@eos.ncsu.edu
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