Molecular Frontiers

Molecular Frontiers Symposium

Beijersalen
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Lilla Frescativägen 4 A, Stockholm
Sweden
Friday February 2, 2007

Program

9.45

Welcome address

10.00 – 12.00

Ahmed Zewail, California Institute of Technology, USA
Ultrafast Single-Electron Microscopy

Carlos Bustamante, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at University of California at Berkeley, USA
Forces, Torques and All That: Recent Advances in Single Molecule Manipulation Biophysics

12.00 – 13.00

Lunch

13.00 - 15.00

Susan Lindqvist, Whitehead Institute, USA
Folding and Misfolding of Proteins - Relation to Disease

Chris Dobson, University of Cambridge, UK
Breakthroughs in Protein-Folding versus Function

15.00 - 15.30

Coffee

15.30 - 18.00

David A. Tirrell, California Institute of Technology, USA
New Amino Acids for Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis

J. Andrew McCammon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at University of California at San Diego, USA
Molecular and Supramolecular Simulation

General discussion

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