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Bioinorganic Chemistry (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

January 23 - 25, 1997
Chair Shari U. Dunham
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express
1050 Schooner Drive
Ventura, California, United States
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This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Metals in Biology" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Thursday: January 23, 1997

  • 2:00-6:00 pm - Registration (again at 7:00-9:00 pm)
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner

    Joint Program with Metals in Biology Conference

  • 7:30 pm - James Fee: Comments
  • 7:45 pm - David Dolphin: "Photodynamic Therapy with Porphyrins. From Discovery, to the Clinic, to FDA Approval"
  • 8:45 pm - Poster Session I (All posters )

Friday: January 24, 1997

  • 7:30-8:30 am - Breakfast
  • 8:30 am - Group Picture/Introductory Remarks: Chair

    Session I: Iron Oxidases

  • 9:00 am - Stephen Lippard: Comments
  • 9:15 am - Lijin Shu: "EXAFS of the Fe2O2 Diamond Core in Models and Ribonucleotide Reductase"
  • 10:00 am - Ann Valentine: "The Soluble Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath): Mechanistic Probes and Spectroscopic Studies"
  • 10:45 am - Break
  • 11:00 am - Lei Fu: "Functional and Structural Models for Cytochrome C Oxidase"
  • 11:45 am - Pierre Kennepohl: "Understanding Fe K-edge XAS Pre-edge Features: A Multiplet Analysis of the Is to 3d Final States"
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner

    Session II: Copper Proteins

  • 7:30 pm - David Dooley: Comments
  • 7:45 pm - Maja M. Ivkovic-Jensen: "Kinetics and Trajectories of the Protein Rearrangement that Controls the Gated Electron Transfer Reactions between Cytochrome C and Plastocyanin"
  • 8:30 pm - Shoulian Dong: "Isotope Mapping Resonance Raman Studies of Plastocyanin: Electronic and Vibrational Structures of Blue Copper Proteins"
  • 9:15 pm - Claire Stutter: "Characterizing the CUA center of thermus Cytochrome C Oxidase"
  • 10-11 pm - Poster Session II

Saturday: January 25. 1997

  • 7:30-8:30 am - Breakfast

    Session II: Iron-Sulfur Proteins I

  • 8:30 am - Eckard Münck: Comments
  • 8:45 am - Catalina Achim: "Double-exchange in a 2Fe-2S Ferredoxin from C. pasteurianum with a Cys56Ser Mutation: Experimental and Theoretical Considerations"
  • 9:30 am - Sophia Kazanis: "NMR Studies of 2Fe-2S Ferredoxins Reconstituted with Gallium"

    Session III: Iron-Sulfur Proteins II

  • 10:15 - Break
  • 10:45 am - Stephen Ragsdale: Comments
  • 11:00 am - Kshama Natarajan: "Mechanism of Assembly of Protein-Bound Iron-Sulfur Cluster Centers"
  • 11:45 am - Saurabh Menon: "Unleashing Hydrogenase Activity in Pyruvate Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase and CO Dehydrogenase/Acetyl-CoA Synthase"
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner

    Session IV: Inorganic Regulation of Biological Function

  • 7:30 pm - Victoria DeRose: Comments
  • 7:45 pm - Matthew Posewitz: "Biophysical Studies of the Cu-Activated Transcription Factor AMT1"
  • 8:30 pm - Bernhard Hansert: "Chemical Origins of the Cytotoxicity of Peroxynitrite"
  • 9:15 pm - Jinbo Lee: "Peroxynitrite Permeability Across Phospholipid Membranes and Its Implications"
  • 10-11 pm - Poster Session III

Sunday: January 26, 1997

  • 7:30-8:30 am - Breakfast

    Session V: Small Molecule-DNA Interactions

  • 8:30 am - Stephen Dunham: Comments
  • 8:45 am - Shana O. Kelley: "Photophysical and Electrochemical Investigations of DNA-Mediated Electron-Transfer Reactions"
  • 9:30 am - Business/Planning Meeting
  • 10:15 am - Ulrich Bierbach: "NMR and Molecular Mechanics Studies on the DNA-Binding Properties of trans-Platinum Complexes"
  • 11:00 am - Shari U. Dunham: "Sequence Effects on Protein Recognition of Cisplatin-Modified DNA
  • NOON - Lunch/Farewell"

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