Update on the International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:

Science for the 21st Century

The 17th 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 topic of the Congress is "Science for the 21st Century".

ASBMB has asked ABRF to expand on the annual jointly sponsored symposium on emerging technologies that have been well attended at past ASBMB annual meetings. ABRF has accepted the challenge to prepare for this international meeting an entire day of technology symposia and workshops that will present the use of modern technologies to solve today's and tomorrow's scientific problems. The symposia and workshops will occur on August 27 and will highlight technological advances that underlie success in scientific discoveries. ABRF members Ruth Hogue Angeletti, Mark Lively, and Ronald L. Niece have expanded the number of topics over what has previously been announced to accommodate the large international audience of scientists.

Organizers of the individual minisymposia and workshops will develop individual programs of speakers, who will highlight the methods, technology, automation, computer control, instrumentation, or other bench topics upon which the science presented is based. Symposia speakers will articulate the importance and significance of their topic in a manner that is understandable to the general scientific audience at the meeting and yet will 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. Part of the goal of these workshops is to provide a forum for those wishing to incorporate these technologies into their research programs to learn from experts in their fields.

Minisymposia and Workshops at the ICBMB Meeting

Minisymposium

Workshop/Tutorial

Organizer

Atomic Force Microscopy	Title to be announced	Eric Henderson, Iowa State University
Biotechnology of Viral Diseases	Title to be announced	Steven Monroe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Carbohydrate Biochemistry	Micro-scale glycoconjugate analysis	R. Reid Townsend, University of California, San Francisco
Combinatorial Biochemistry	Design and construction of combinatorial peptide libraries	Mark Navre, Affymax
Computational Biology	Title to be announced	Helen Berman, Rutgers
Gene Knockouts and Epitope Tagging	Which epitope should I use?	Michael R. Sussman, University of Wisconsin
Genome Sequencing	Genomics and mapping basics	Bruce Roe, University of Oklahoma
Mass Spectrometry	Mass spectrometry for biochemists	A. L. Burlingame, University of California, San Francisco
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	What could your laboratory do with NMR?	John L. Markley, University of Wisconsin
Protein Chemistry	From gels to structure	Kenneth A. Walsh, University of Washington
Rational Targets for the Control of Parasitic Diseases	Techniques to answer biochemical questions in parasites	David Parkin, ILRI, Kenya
Transgenics and Conditional Gene Mutagenesis	Practical approaches to creating transgenic and gene-targeted models	Jamey Marth, HHMI/University of California, San Diego
Two-Dimensional Gels	Title to be announced	Joël Vandekerckhove, University of Ghent
X-Ray Crystallography	Title to be announced	Kosuke Morikawa, Biomolecular Engineering Research Institute, Japan
*	The role of the Internet in biochemistry and molecular biology	Kenneth I. Mitchelhill, University of Melbourne
*	Laboratory data management	Judith Nolan, Genentech
*	Quantitative PCR	James Snider, Perkin-Elmer/Applied Biosystems

*-Workshop only