This international, three-day symposium will focus on current and emerging methods related to protein, peptide, carbohydrate, and nucleic acid synthesis and analysis. Concurrent sessions during most of the meeting will ensure that scientists interested in a single type of biomolecular technology should find topics of interest throughout the meeting. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco, CA from March 30 to April 2, 1996.
David Speicher and Steven Carr have organized an outstanding program consisting of plenary sessions, workshops, tutorials, and presentation of study results by each of the ABRF Research Committees. Other members of the program committee are Elizabeth Fowler, Gregory Grant, William Henzel, Friedrich Lottspeich, Daniel Marshak, Betsy Nanthakumar, Darryl Pappin, Lloyd Smith, R. Reid Townsend, and Kenneth Walsh. The full program is shown on page 7 of this newsletter, and the plenary session and symposium speakers are listed below.
To receive registration materials and the Call for Abstracts, contact Jean Lash, Meeting Manager, Tel: (301) 530-7010, Fax: (301) 530-7014, E-mail: jlash@osmc.faseb.org.
Plenary Session and Symposium Speakers
Plenary Session (Sunday)--Impact of the Human Genome Project on Biotechnology
* Lee Hood, University of Washington, "Genomics and Large-Scale Analyses of Biological and Medical Challenges".
Symposium (Monday)--Quantitative Analysis of Macromolecular Shape and Interactions: (Re)emerging Thermodynamic and Kinetic Approaches
* Preston Hensley, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, "The Use of the Analytical Ultracentrifuge to Characterize the Interactions of Macromolecules in Solution".
* Michael Doyle, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, "Applications of Titration Microcalorimetry with Biopharmaceuticals".
* Maurice M. Morelock, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. "Determination of Receptor-Ligand Kinetic and Equilibrium Binding Constants using Surface Plasmon Resonance".
Symposium (Tuesday)--Present Status and Future Prospects of MS for Analysis of Biomolecules
* Brian Chait, Rockefeller University, "New Mass Spectrometric Approaches to Protein Characterization".
* Matthias Mann, EMBL, Heidelberg, "Advanced Uses of Biological Mass Spectrometry in a Core Facility".
* Steven Carr, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, "The Essential Roles of Mass Spectrometry in Characterizing Protein Biopharmaceuticals".
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