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Physico-Chemical Methods in Biotechnology and Material Science

List of abbreviations:
The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry- IBC
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - UNC-CH
North Carolina State University- NCSU
Polish Academy of Sciences- PAS
Adam Mickiewicz University-AMU
Duke University-Duke

Monday, June 5, 2000 at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

Time

Speaker

Topic

5:00 pm Registration & refreshments  
5:30 pm Professor, Andrzej Legocki, IBC Head of the Laboratory of Plant Pathology mailto:legocki@ibch.poznan.pl Welcoming Remarks
5:45 pm Dr. Rebecca Rufty, NCSU Vice Chancellor for International Studies. The importance of international collaboration
6:00 pm Dr. Stefan Jurga, Rector AMU Adam Mickiewicz University and its role in international collaborative activities.
6:15 UNC-CH Senior Representative Topic TBA
6:30 Dr. Mark Fountain, Lecturer History Dept.,
NCSU
The History of Research Triangle Universities
6:45   Evening Reception

Tuesday, June 6, 2000 at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

8:30 am   Registration and Coffee
9:00 am Professor, Steve Lommel, NCSU Agriculture & Life Sciences Plant Pathology Additional Information at: http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/exp.cgi?id=209987 Mechanisms of Plant Virus Gene Expression and Disease Induction.
9:30 am Professor, Wlodzimierz Krzyzosiak , IBC Head of the Laboratory of Cancer Genetics. mailto:wlodkrzy@ibch.poznan.pl RNA structures of trinucleotide repeats in transcripts of genes undergoing dynamic mutations.
10:00 am Assistant Professor, Cynthia Hemenway, NCSU Department of Biochemistry. Additional Information at: http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/exp.cgi?id=536369 The potato virus X (PVX) system as a model for understanding general mechanisms of RNA replication.
10:30 am   POSTER SESSION & morning break
11:30 am Professor, Zofia Gdaniec IBC 19F NMR study of RNA - ligand interaction. Application to the HIV-1 TAR RNA.
12:00 noon Professor, Paul Wollenzien NCSU, Department of Biochemistry. Email: mailto:wollenz@bchserver.bch.ncsu.edu Additional Information at: http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/exp.cgi?id=546478 TBA
12:30 pm Professor, Barbara Ramsy-Shaw, Duke Department of Chemistry. Additional Information at: http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/exp.cgi?id=543758 Boranophosphates: A New DNA Backbone
1:00 pm   Lunch
2:00 pm Professor, Paul Agris NCSU Department of Biochemistry. Additional information AT: http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/exp.cgi?id=530100 The structure-function relationships for nucleic acids in biology and in biomedical science.
2:30 pm Professor, Ryszard Adamiak, IBC Head of the Laboratory of Structural Chemistry of Nucleic Acids. Email to: adamiakr@ibch.poznan.pl Structure, dynamics, and hydration pattern of singe stranded regions of RNA: The HIV-1 TAR RNA case.
3:00 pm Professor, Ryszard Kole, UNC-CH Department of Pharmacology. Email to: kole@med.unc.edu Additional Information at: http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/exp.cgi?id=333160 TBA
3:30 pm   POSTER SESSION & afternoon break
4:30 pm Professor, Wojciech Markiewicz, IBC

Emil to: markwt@ibch.poznan.pl

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
5:00 pm Hanna Gracz, NCSU Laboratory Supervisor of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility. Please click on Curriculum Vita Additional Information at: http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chemistry/NMRgrach.html Structure of the IRE (Iron Regulatory Element) in Ferritin mRNA Studied by Co(III)hexammine and Mg2+ binding, molecular modeling and NMR spectroscopy
5:30 pm Anna Astriab-Fisher Peptide -antisense oligonucleotide conjugates.
6:00 pm   POSTER SESSION & refreshments
7:00 pm   Dinner
     

Wednesday, June 7, 2000 at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

8:30   Morning Coffee
9:00 am Stefan Franzen Spectroscopic Analysis of Purine Oxo-Lesions in DNA
9:30 am Adam Kraszewski TBA
10:00 am Dennis Brown TBA
10:30 am   POSTER SESSION & morning break
11:30 am Wieslaw Kazimierski The medicinal chemistry of discovery and development of the HIV-protease inhibitors
12:00 noon Jerry Bernholc  
12:30 pm Jan Barciszewski TBA
1:00 pm   Lunch
2:00 pm Stefan Jurga TBA
2:30 pm    
3:00 pm Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartowiak TBA
3:30 pm   POSTER SESSION & afternoon break
4:30 pm Tadeusz Hilczer TBA
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm   Workshop one and Workshop two
6:00 pm   POSTER SESSION & refreshments
7:00 pm   Dinner

Thursday, June 8, 2000 at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

9:00 am Stefan Jurga Closing remarks
9:30 am   Tours of labs at Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Adam Mickiewicz University
12:00 - 4:00 pm   Free Time
 

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Last updated: March 13, 2000.