Merging Chemistry & Biology: Perspectives, Progress, and Innovations

Molecular Biophysics, Biotechnology, and Chemistry-Biology Interface Joint Training Grant Symposium

May 28, 2003, 8 AM - 5 PM
Earle Brown Center, St. Paul Campus

On behalf of the chemistry, biochemistry, and physics graduate students at the University of Minnesota, it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in this year's training grant symposium. For the first time, this symposium is student-organized, and we wish to facilitate interactions between graduate students and distinguished faculty. The day's events will include several talks about research at the interface of chemistry and biology, a mid-day poster session, and a banquet at the McNamara Alumni Center.

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Organizing Committee:
Bethany Buck
Aimee Erickson
Kevin Koehntop
Abbey Rosen
Troy Ryba
Amy Saenger

Contact Information:
Nancy Hagberg
hagberg@chem.umn.edu
612.625.2503

The symposium speakers are:

    Nancy Allbritton, University of California, Irvine
         "Profiling Signaling Pathways in Single Cells"

    Richard Armstrong, Vanderbilt University
         "Chemistry and Genomics of Antibiotic Resistance in Pathogenic Microorganisms"

    Peter Belshaw, University of Wisconsin, Madison
         "Strategies for Isoform Selective Regulation of Protein Function"

    Robert Clegg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
         "Imaging Biological Cells, Skin Tissue and Plants: Using Photons and Fluorescence Lifetimes to Identify Probes and Quantify Spectral Informaton"

    Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin, Madison
         "Multivalent Carbohydrate - Protein Interactions"

    Michael Sadowsky, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
         "Newly Evolved Enzymes and Pathways for the Bacterial Biodegradation of Atrazine"

    Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
         "Structure and Interactions of Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy"

    Carston R. Wagner, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
         "Chemical Biology of Drug Delivery: The Future of Drug Design"

 
Sponsors of the 2003 symposium include:
Lillehei Heart Institute
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
The Molecular Biophysics, Biotechnology, and the Chemistry-Biology Interface NIH Training Grants