WSN: Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society - 1995

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39th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society - 1995 

Dates: February 12-16, 1995
Location: Moscone Center - San Francisco, CA

NATIONAL LECTURER 
Dr. James A. Spudich - Stanford University School of Medicine
"Mechanism of Action of a Molecular Motor"

SYMPOSIA AND ORGANIZERS 
   De Novo Protein Design - William deGrado (duPont Merck Pharmaceuticals)
   Catalytic RNA: Mechanism and Structure - Ignacio Tinoco (California, 
      Berkeley)
   Emulation and Simulation of Neuronal Function - Eve Marder (Brandeis)
   Chaperonin-mediated Protein Folding - Ulrich Hartl (Sloan-Kettering)
   Light-dependent Proteins: Function and Structure - Richard Henderson 
      (Medical Research Council Laboratory, Cambridge)
   Mechanisms of Metal Binding and Selectivity - Joseph J. Falke (Colorado)
   Mechanisms of Exocytosis - Frederick Cohen (Rush Medical College)
   Electrostatic Forces in Macromolecular Function - Stuart G. McLaughlin 
      (SUNY)
   Complex Ion Channel Interactons - Lorna Role (Columbia)
   A Tale of Two Motors: Myosin and Kinesin - H. Lee Sweeney (Pennsylvania)
   Porin and VDAC - Marco Colombini (Maryland)
   Nucleic Acid Motifs for Protein Recognition - Dixie Goss (Hunter College)

WORKSHOPS 
   Quantitative Footprinting in DNA Binding Interactions - 
      Jonathan B. Chaires (Mississippi)
   Two-Photon Techniques - Winfried Denk (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
   Caged Compounds in Molecular Biophysics - Jack H. Kaplan (Oregon)
   Osmotic Stress - V. Adrian Parsegian (NIH)
   Emerging Techniques in Electrophysiology - James A. Fox (Axon Instruments)
   Fractils in Biological Physics - Larry S. Liebovitch (Florida Atlantic) 

TUTORIALS 
   Multidimensional NMR - Stanley Opella (Pennsylvania)
   Peer Review and Grant Writing - Nancy Lamontagne (NIH) 

Program Chairman - Christopher Miller (Brandeis University)

Local Chairman - Roger Cooke (University of California)

For more information contact: 
The Biophysical Society Office - 301-530-7114 (Phone) - 301-530-7133 (Fax) -
Society@biophysics.faseb.org (e-mail)