2ND ANNOUNCEMENT
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
5. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON MOLECULAR STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
ICMSB2003
3rd-7th SEPTEMBER 2003
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
The organisers are pleased to present you with the
final programme of the ICMSB2003 (see below) and
to invite you to participate. Abstracts to any topic
related to structural biology are highly welcome
and will be presented at the ICMSB2003 as poster
or as short oral communication. Registration and
abstract upload is open now via our homepage at
http://pharmchem.kfunigraz.ac.at/icmsb2003/
Scientific Programme
Honorary Speaker:
Richard Lerner (The Scripp's Research Institute)
"Antibody catalysis, ozone, and atherosclerosis"
Protein Structures:
Stephen C. Harrison (Harvard University)
"Structures that translocate proteins and viruses
across cell membranes"
Gregory A. Petsko (Brandeis University)
"Structure and Functions of DJ-1, the Protein Whose
Gene is Mutated in Autosomal Recessive Early-Onset
Parkinson's Disease"
Cheryl. H. Arrowsmith (University of Toronto)
"Structural Proteomics: a tool for genome annotation"
Hartmut Oschkinat (FMP Berlin)
"NMR spectroscopy of membrane proteins"
Free Electron Lasers in Structural Biology:
Janos Hajdu (Uppsala University)
"Free electron lasers and biology"
Keith Hodgson (Stanford University)
"Next Generation Synchrotron Light Sources -
Structural Biology with Ultrabright and Ultrashort
X-rays"
Structural Genomics:
Udo Heinemann (Max-Delbrueck-Centrum, Berlin)
"Genome-driven structure analysis of human proteins"
Janet Thornton (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge)
"Using Structure to Elucidate Function"
Robert Konrat (University of Vienna)
"Automated Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy: New Routes
to Structures of Protein and Protein Complexes"
Gautam Sanyal (AstaZeneca R&D, Boston)
"Structural and mechanistic approaches to discovery of
novel antimicrobials targeted at genomics-derived
proteins"
Nucleic Acid Structures:
Aaron Klug (MRC Cambridge)
"Zinc Finger Proteins for the Regulation of Gene
Expression"
Juli Feigon (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Biophysical studies of telomerase RNA structure and
mutations linked to disease"
Dinshaw Patel (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
"Adaptive Recognition of RNA by Antibiotics, Peptides
and Proteins"
Folding and Disease:
Luis Serrano (EMBL Heidelberg)
"Sequence determinants of aggregation and amyloid
formation"
Christopher Dobson (University of Cambridge)
"Protein misfolding and its links with human disease"
Alan Fersht (MRC Centre for Protein Eng.,Cambridge)
"Protein folding at Atomic Resolution"
Participation Fees:
Early Fee (before 1st August 2003)
Regular................365,- EUR
GÖCH Member............295,- EUR
Student................185,- EUR
GÖCH Student...........130,- EUR
Accompanying person......45,- EUR
Late Fee (after 31st July 2003)
Regular................400,- EUR
GÖCH Member............330,- EUR
Student................220,- EUR
GÖCH Student...........165,- EUR
Accompanying person......45,- EUR
The fee for regular participants, GÖCH members,
and students, includes the full scientific
programme, the Conference Proceedings (which
will be published in book form with an ISBN number),
lunch from Thursday to Saturday, coffee breaks,
and the entertainment programme. Accompanying
persons attend only the entertainment programme.
Deadlines:
Abstract Submission......18th July 2003
Early Registration.......31st July 2003
Conference Secretariat:
Dr. Andreas Kungl
Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH),
Biochemistry Subgroup
c/o Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 1,
A-8010 Graz
Tel.: +43 316 380 5373
Fax: +43 316 382541
E-Mail: andreas.kungl at kfunigraz.ac.at
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