1995 Meeting

Friday July 21st

• Stephan Grzesiek (NIH, Bethesda, USA)

Methodological advances in protein NMR
• Gordon Roberts (University of Leicester, UK)

NMR and molecular recognition: enzyme-substrate interactions
• David Craik (University of Queensland, Australia)

Structural studies of plant proteins by NMR

• Philip Kuchel (University of Sydney, Australia)

Pulsed field gradient NMR studies of molecular diffusion
• Piotr Fajer (Florida State University, USA)

ESR studies of energy and signal transduction in muscle
• Garry King (University of NSW, Australia)

Structure and dynamics of the HIV-1 transactivator response RNA

Saturday July 22nd

• Bill Sawyer (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Fluorescence footprinting of a DNA-protein interaction
• Tim Havel (Harvard Medical School, USA)

Backbone dynamics of the actin-severing protein villin
• Michael Kennedy (Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA)

750 MHz NMR studies of DNA structure/dynamics: correlations with observed molecular interactions
• Keith Junius (University of Sydney, Australia)

The leucine zipper domain of c-Jun: structure and dynamics

• Dudley Williams (University of Cambridge, UK)

Intermolecular interactions in the killing of superbugs
• Greg Ralston (University of Sydney, Australia)

Analytical ultracentrifugation: probing the size, shape, and interaction behaviour of macromolecules

• Peter Chantler (Royal Veterinary College, London, UK)

New insights into myosin-linked regulation
• John Viles (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)

1H and 113Cd studies of metal binding to isolated albumin and albumin in blood plasma

• Gerald Stockton (American Cyanamid Company, USA)

Rational design of herbicide resistant acetohydroxyacid synthase mutations
• Nico van Nuland (University of Oxford, UK)

Refolding of proteins monitored by NMR in real time
• Mark O'Donoghue (Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, Melbourne, Australia)

Modelling conformational changes in cyclosporin A
• Bridget Mabbutt (University of NSW, Australia)

NMR characterisation of a novel cell surface receptor

• Separate listing

Sunday July 23rd

• Tony Watts (University of Oxford, UK)

Resolution of structural details of integral membrane proteins by non-crystallographic, solid-state NMR methods
• Michael Parker (St Vincent's Inst. of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia)

Crystal structures of proteins that interact with membranes
• Wendy Russell (University of Queensland, Australia)

A dual role for photosystem II in the regulation of photosynthesis
• Frances Separovic (CSIRO Div. of Food Research & Technol., Sydney, Australia)

Effect of lipid headgroup and acyl chain saturation on membrane packing

• Hans Coster (University of NSW, Australia)

Electrofusion without electroporation
• Leann Tilley (La Trobe University, Australia)

Protein sorting during vesiculation as studied using fluorescence-imaged microdeformation
• Peter Cusack (CSIRO Division of Applied Physics, Sydney, Australia)

A broadband ultrasonic method for determination of erythrocyte deformability
• Joseph Huff (CRC for Eye Research & Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Proton NMR relaxation times and swelling pressures of Hydrogel biomaterials as for water mobility and ease of hydration

• NMR methods - Gordon Roberts (5 min)
• EPR methods - Piotr Fajer (5 min)
• Crystallographic methods - Michael Parker (5 min)
• Fluorescence methods - Cris dos Remedios (5 min)
• Computer modelling - To be decided (5 min)
• Mass spectrometry - To be decided (5 min)
• CD/FTIR methods - Michael Morris (5 min)
• Open discussion (20 min)