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ANNOUNCE: Perspectives Protein conference: Programme & reduced rates

M J Geisow biodigm at dial.pipex.com
Fri Mar 14 01:32:19 EST 1997



The Programme for the Perspectives on Protein Engineering Conference
(Norwich Norfolk, UK 28 June - 1 July 1997)  is published, with
speaker abstracts the Web site:
http://www.biodigm.com/pope/pope6.htm

A reduced conference rate for non-profit organisations and further
reductions for pre-doctoral students is posted at the site

Day 1 Genome - Proteome

 Opening speakers:
 J Craig Venter (TIGR)
 Amos Bairoch (Geneva)
 Mike Bevan (Norwich)
 (EBI speaker)

Minisymposia
1. Membrane protein expression & structure
   Reinhard Grisshammer
2. Collaboration in bioinformatics via WWW
3. Protein characterisation


Day 2 Protein Design & Expression
Iain Campbell (Oxford)
 Structure & Evolution of Protein Domains
Marius Clore (NIH, Bethesda))
 Structure of Protein-DNA complexes as the basis of de novo design
Rik Wierenga (EMBL, Heidelberg)
 Redesigning protein loops
Shuguang Zhang (MIT Boston)
 Designing novel peptide biomaterials
Peter Leadlay (Cambridge)
 Tailoring new antibiotics by pathway engineering
Peter Laing (Peptide Therapeutics, Cambridge)
 Generation of pharmacophoric models from peptide libraries)
Kiyota Shiba (Tokyo, Japan)
 Creation of Protein Libraries by polymerization
 of designer microgenes
John MacCafferty (CaT, Cambridge)
 Isolation of antibodies to Cell surface receptors
 from Phage display repertoires
John Holbrook(Bristol)
 Structure of P. falciparum LDH: a new target for
 anti-malarial design
George Lomonossoff (JI Centre Norwich)
 Structure-based design of peptide presentation on a plant virus
Denis Murphy (JI Centre Norwich)
 Expression of Engineered proteins by Molecular Pharming


Day 3 Structure-function:
biocatalysis & plant protein engineering

Chris Schofield (Oxford)
Dioxygenases
Richard Pickersgill(Reading)
 Papaya Proteases
Geof Fincher (Adelaide)
 beta-glucanses
Birte Svensson (Carlsberg labs)
 Amylases
Mike Williamson (Sheffield)
 Glucoamylase
L Mario Amzel (johns Hopkins)
 Lipoxygenases
John Rafferty (Sheffield)
 Fatty acid synthetases
Gunter Schneider (Karolinska, Stockholm)
 Modification of chain-length specificity
 of a protein acyl-acyl carrier desaturase
Didier Marion (Nantes, Fr)
 Lipid binding proteins
Udo Conrad (Gatesleben, Germany)
 Expression of antibody fragments in transgeneic tobacco
Mike Lawrence (Parkeville, Australia)
 7S/11S Globulins
Lazlo Tamas (CSIRO Australia)
 Properties of genetically-engineered storage proteins in dough making
Peter Shewry (Ling Ashton)
 Structure & Function of glutens

http://www.biodigm.com/pope/pope6.htm

POPE 6 Secretariat biodigm at dial.pipex.com
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M Geisow(UK Structural Biology CEC Contact Group representative)



M Geisow(UK Structural Biology CEC Contact Group representative)




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