Announcing a NATO Advanced Science Institute, the
International School of Structural Biology and Magnetic Resonance
3rd Course: Protein Dynamics, Function and Design
April 16-28, 1997
Directors: Professors Jean-Francois Lefevre and Oleg Jardetzky
to be held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture
Erice, Sicily, Italy.
COURSE SUMMARY: Our Course will integrate structure and dynamic
information on proteins that has been obtained by different
methods (x-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance and
molecular modeling) and provide a perspective on the major
research questions in structural biology. Our aim is to provide
the student with a critical appreciation of the principal
methods that can be brought to bear on problems of protein
structure, dynamics and function.
Introductory lectures will cover the basic principles of the
methods of study of protein structure and dynamics, followed
by presentations of specific examples of protein structure
determination, studies of protein dynamics, protein-ligand
interactions, structure-function relations in proteins, and
protein and protein-analog design.
SPEAKERS
Ivano Bertini, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Christopher M. Dobson, University of Oxford, England
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA
Angela M. Gronenborn, National Institutes of Health, USA
Jeffrey C. Hoch, Rowland Institute for Science, USA
Oleg Jardetzky, Stanford University, USA
Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Genentech Inc., USA
Jean-Francois Lefevre, Universite Louis Pasteur, France
Michael Levitt, Stanford University, USA
William N. Lipscomb, Harvard University, USA
John L. Markley, University of Wisconsin, USA
Gregory A. Petsko, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Andreas Pluckthun, Universitat Zurich, Switzerland
Joseph D. Puglisi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Rudolf Rigler, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Brian D. Sykes, University of Alberta, Canada
URL with Course details and on-line application form is:
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/SMRL/Erice97.html
Course Fee (includes board at the Ettore Majorana Centre, all
meals during the School and transportation from Palermo Airport
to Erice and back) $1,200 US. Some financial aid available.
For more information contact
Robin Holbrook
holbrook at smi.stanford.edu
Tel: 415/723-6270
Fax: 415/723-2253
