Perspectives on Protein Engineering:
Discovery, Design & Development: Challeges for Structural Biology
28 June - 1 July 1997, John Innes Conference Centre, Norfolk, UK
http://www.biodigm.com/pope/pope6.htm
Call for abstracts for the minisymposia and free communications
Sun 29 June Bioinformatics
J Craig Venter (TIGR, USA) Genome Characterization: from Man to
Microbes
Amos Bairoch (Geneva, Switzerland) SWISS-Prot today & tomorrow
Mike Bevan (JI Centre, Norwich) Progress in plant genomes
Dave Roberts (London) The contribution of taxonomy
Minisymposia
Bioinformatics collaboration via the World Wide Web
Membrane receptor protein over-expression & purification
Advances in biomolecular characterization
Metal centres in proteins
EU Structural Biology Industry Platform
Mon 30 June Design & Expression
Iain Campbell (Oxford. UK) Design & evolution of protein domains
Rik Wierenga (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) Redesigning protein loops
Shuguang Zhang (MIT, Boston, USA ) Designing new biomaterials
Marius Clore (NIH, USA) Structures of protein-DNA
complexes in solution: the chromatin remodeling factor GAGA and the
transcription modulator HMG-I/Y.
Peter Leadlay (Cambridge) Tailoring antibiotics by pathway
engineering
Peter Laing (Peptide Therapeutics, Cambridge)
Generation of Pharmacophoric Models of Biomolecules Using Information
from Library-Derived Peptides
Jose Marcos (Barcelona, Spain) Achieving plant pathogen
resistance through combinatorial chemistry
John MaCafferty (CAT,
Cambridge) Isolation of antibodies to cell surface from phage
display repertoires.
Udo Conrad (Gatesleben, Germany) Antibody expression in plants
Denis Murphy ( JI Centre, Norwich) Use of Engineered Proteins in
Molecular Pharming
George Lomonossoff (JI Centre, Norwich) Expression of peptide
repertoires on plant virus particles.
Tuesday Enzyme engineering: Structure-function relationships
Chris Schofield (Oxford, UK) Dioxygenases
Richard Pickersgill (IFR Reading) Papaya proteases
Geoff Fincher (Adelaide, Australia) Beta-glucanases
Birte Svensson (Valby, Denmark) Amylases
Mike Williamson (Sheffield, UK) Starch recognition by a
starch-binding domain from
glucoamylases
L Mario Amzel (Johns Hopkins, USA) Lipoxygenases
John Rafferty (Sheffield, UK) Fatty acid synthetases
Didier Marion (Nantes, France) Lipid binding proteins
Mike Lawrence (Parkeville, Australia) 7S/11S Globulins
Peter Shewry (Long Ashton, UK) Structure & action of glutens
Wed 2 July Possibility of lab visits and satellite meetings
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Lastly, there is an on-line newsletter associated with EU - wide
activities in this area (Structural Biology in Europe) at
http://www.biodigm.com/strube.htm News, comments and meetings
information is welcomed for this open, on-line resource
Yours sincerely,
Michael J Geisow
UK Structural Biology CEC Contact Group representative.
Secretariat: POPE6, BIODIGM, 64 Langdale Grove, Bingham NG13 8SS, UK
Fax: 01949 876156, Conference E-mails: biodigm at dial.pipex.com
M Geisow(UK Structural Biology CEC Contact Group representative)
