The International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will be held in conjunction with the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Francisco, CA, on August 24-29, 1997. The ABRF prepared fourteen sessions with both a symposium and workshop and three additional stand-alone workshops, using experience gained from organizing the annual, jointly sponsored symposium on emerging technologies that have been well attended at past ASBMB annual meetings. For this international meeting, ABRF members Ruth H. Angeletti, Mark Lively, and Ronald L. Niece assembled an entire day of technology symposia and workshops presenting the use of modern technologies to solve today's and tomorrow's scientific problems. These "Technology Corners" will occupy one full day of the meeting and will highlight technological advances that underlie success in scientific discoveries. It is a truly international program with speakers from five different continents; including six ABRF members from three continents. Browse through the Technology Corners program on the ABRF WWW Homepage (http://www.abrf.org ) or directly at ASBMB's Web page (http://www.faseb.org/meetings/iubmb/tech.htm) for details.
Organizers of the individual minisymposia and workshops developed their programs of speakers in order to highlight the methods, technology, automation, computer control, instrumentation, or other bench topics forming the basis for the science presented. Symposia speakers will articulate the importance and significance of their topic in a manner that is understandable to the general scientific audience, yet retain the interest of the specialist. Workshops will focus more on the technical aspects of implementing the technologies, emphasizing strategies, experimental design, development of novel tools, interpreting and evaluating data, instrumentation, organization, and costs. One of the goals of these workshops is to provide an expert forum for those wishing to incorporate these technologies into their research programs.
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Minisymposium |
Workshop/Tutorial |
Organizer |
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Atomic Force Microscopy |
Fluid Trapping-Mode Atomic Force Microscopy of Biomaterials |
Eric Henderson, BioForce Laboratory & Iowa State University |
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Biotechnology of Viral Diseases |
Title to be announced |
Steven Monroe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Carbohydrate Biochemistry |
How to Prepare Glycoproteins for Carbohydrate Analysis |
R. Reid Townsend, University of California, San Francisco |
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Combinatorial Biochemistry |
Design and construction of combinatorial peptide libraries |
Mark Navre, Affymax |
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Computational Biology |
Title to be announced |
Helen Berman, Rutgers |
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Gene Knockouts and Epitope Tagging |
Which epitope should I use? |
Michael R. Sussman, University of Wisconsin |
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Genome Sequencing |
Genomics and mapping basics |
Bruce Roe, University of Oklahoma |
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Mass Spectrometry |
Mass spectrometry for biochemists |
A. L. Burlingame, University of California, San Francisco |
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Protein Chemistry |
From gels to structure |
Kenneth A. Walsh, University of Washington |
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Rational Targets for the Control of Parasitic Diseases |
Techniques to answer biochemical questions in parasites |
David Parkin, ILRI, Kenya |
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Survey of Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy and Stable Isotope Facilities Program |
How NMR Can Aid Your Research |
John L. Markley,University of Wisconsin |
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Transgenics and Conditional Gene Mutagenesis |
Practical approaches to creating transgenic and gene-targeted models |
Jamey Marth, HHMI/University of California, San Diego |
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Two-Dimensional Gels |
Title to be announced |
Joël Vandekerckhove, University of Ghent |
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X-Ray Crystallography |
Recent Developments in Phase Determination Programs |
Kosuke Morikawa, Biomolecular Engineering Research Institute, Japan |
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The role of the Internet in biochemistry and molecular biology |
Kenneth I. Mitchelhill, University of Melbourne |
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Laboratory data management |
Judith Nolan, Genentech |
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Quantitative PCR |
James Snider, Perkin-Elmer/Applied Biosystems
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