| Sunday pm |
BIOCHEMISTRY OF CHLOROPHYLL BIOSYNTHESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Samuel Beale (Brown University) |
- Wolfhart Rüdiger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The Last Steps of Chlorophyll a and b Biosynthesis
- Bernhard Grimm (Gatersleben, Germany)
Control of Porphyrin Distribution for Chlorophyll and Heme Synthesis
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| Monday am |
TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN HEME AND IRON METABOLISM |
| Discussion Leader: Angela Wilks (University of Maryland) |
- Cecile Wandersman (Institute Pasteur, France)
Structure and Function of a New Family of Heme Binding Proteins: the Bacterial Hemophores
- Linda Thöny Meyer (ETH, Switzerland)
CcmE - a Heme Chaperone for Cytochrome c Biosynthesis
- Mark Fleming (Harvard Medical School)
Tails of Anemic Mice: The Siderocytic Anemia of Flexed-tail Mice
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| Monday Afternoon |
POSTER SESSION |
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| Monday pm |
TETRAPYRROLE CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Kevin Smith (University of California, Davis) |
- Wolf Woggon (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Synthetic Metalloporphyrins Catalyzing Enzymatic Reactions
- Takuzo Aida (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Molecular Design of Functional Materials based on Porphyrins
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| Tuesday am |
ENZYMOLOGY OF TETRAPYRROLE BIOSYNTHESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Gloria Ferreira (University of South Florida) |
- Kazumichi Furuyama (Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan)
ALA Synthase/Succinyl CoA Synthetase Channeling
- John Phillips (University of Utah)
A Liver Specific Inhibitor of Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase in Mice and Men
- Harry Dailey (University of Georgia)
Ferrochelatase Structure-Activity Relationships
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| Tuesday afternoon |
WORKSHOP ON CLINICAL ASPECTS OF HEME SYNTHESIS AND METABOLISM |
| Discussion Leaders: James Kushner (University of Utah) and Nancy C. Andrews (Harvard Medical School) |
- TBA: Short presentations, 6-8 speakers to be selected from the posters
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| Tuesday pm |
NOVEL ROLES FOR HEMOPROTEINS IN NO FUNCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Masao Ikeda Saito (Case Western Reserve University) |
- Robert K. Poole (University of Sheffield, UK)
Microbial Flavohemoglobins - Proteins with NO Function?
- Ann Walker (University of Arizona)
Nitric Oxide-Releasing Heme Proteins from the Saliva of Blood-Sucking Insects
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| Wednesday am |
HEME PROTEINS IN SIGNALING PATHWAYS |
| Discussion Leader: M. Almira Correia (University of California, San Francisco) |
- Robert O. Poyton (University of Colorado)
Involvement of Hemoproteins in Oxygen Regulated Gene Expression in Yeast
- Li Zhang (New York University Medical Center)
Molecular Mechanism of Heme Signaling in Eukaryotes: Hap1 and Hap1-like Factors Mediate Heme Regulation of Gene Transcription
- Judith Burstyn (University of Wisconsin)
Heme as a CO Sensor in CooA from R. rubrum
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| Wednesday afternoon |
POSTER SESSION |
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| Wednesday pm |
TECHNOLOGY AND HEMOPROTEIN FUNCTION |
| Discussion Leader: David Goodin (Scripps Research Institute) |
- Michael H. Hecht (Princeton University)
De Novo Heme Proteins From Designed Combinatorial Libraries
- Lowell Hager (University of Illinois)
Directed Evolution and Active Site Mutants Reveal New Chloroperoxidase Chemistry
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| Thursday am |
TETRAPYRROLE CATABOLISM |
| Discussion Leader: J. Clark Lagarias (University of California, Davis) |
- Thomas Poulos (University of California, Irvine)
Crystal Structures of Heme Oxygenase and CooA
- Mahin Maines (University of Rochester)
Structure and Functions of Biliverdin Reductase
- Stefan Hörtensteiner (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Chlorophyll Catabolism in Higher Plants
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| Thursday pm |
BUSINESS MEETING AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
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| Discussion Leader: Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano |
- Harry Gray (Caltech)
Electron Tunneling in Heme Proteins
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