NMR and Structural Biology: Preparing for the New Millennium

Shepard Hall City College of New York 138-139th St. and Convent Ave.

Lectures in Music Recital Hall (95 Shepard Hall)

Lunch, Posters, and Mixer in the Great Hall - 2nd Floor Shepard Hall)

8:30-9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00-0:05	Welcome Dennis Weiss Dean of Science City College of New York
	Chair: Art Palmer, Columbia Unversity Dept. of Biochem and Molec. Biophys.
9:05-9:40	David Cowburn, Rockefeller University Towards understanding larger and dynamic protein structures.
9:40-10:15	Mark Girvin, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Conformational Changes Related to Proton Translocation in Subunit c of the ATP Synthase
10:15-10:45	coffee
10:45-11:20	Michael Rosen, Sloan-Kettering: Autoinhibition and Activation Mechanisms of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein, an Effector of the Cdc42 GTPase
11:20-11:55	Ruth Stark, CUNY Staten Island: Solid-State NMR Studies of Structure and Dynamics in Fruit Cuticle Polyesters
12:00-12:15	Willa Appel: an update on the plans for the center
12:15-1:00	Tour of Park Gym site of New York Structural Biology Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility. architect Gerry Schiff; meeting at Shepard Hall Convent Ave (1 block east of Amsterdam Ave.) between 138th and 139th
12:45-2:15	LUNCH AND POSTERS in the Great Hall
2:20-2:30 2:30-2:35	Richard Rifkind Chairman of the Board New York Structural Biology Center Stanford A. Roman, Jr. President of CCNY: Welcome
2:35-2:45	Chancellor Matthew Goldstein: Greetings
	Chair: Ann McDermott, Columbia Dept. of Chemistry
2:45-3:20	Susan Baxter, Wadsworth Center: Interactions of the yeast transcriptional regulators: a1 and alpha2
3:20-3:40	coffee
3:40-4:15	Ming-Ming Zhou, Mt. Sinai/NYU: NMR Structural Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions in Signal Transduction and Chromatin Remodeling
4:15-5:05 5:05-6:30	John Markley, University of Wisconsin: Challenges and rewards of research at a biomolecular NMR facility Mixer and Posters In the Great Hall