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Y.I. Mini-Symposium UpdateProtein Society Special Session

Conference Schedule and Scientific Program

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2005

GRAND BALLROOM SPECIAL SESSION
Co-sponsored by the Protein Society and the American Peptide Society
Organized and Chaired by Jeff W. Kelly

08:00 - 08:30  LS1 PROTEIN DESIGN INFORMATION FROM EVOLUTION
William Russ

08:30 - 09:00  LS2 STRUCTURE OF AMYLOID FIBRILS TOWARDS DESIGN
Roland Riek

09:00 - 09:30  LS3 PROTEIN DESIGN
Homme W. Hellinga

09:30 - 10:00  LS4 COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO PROTEIN DESIGN
Steve Mayo

10:00 - 10:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK IN LECTURE HALL

10:30 - 11:00  LS5 BETA-HAIRPIN DESIGN
Andrea Cochran

11:00 - 11:30  LS6 DESIGN OF BETA-SHEETS THAT FOLD AT THE SPEED LIMIT
Marcus Jager

11:30 - 12:00  LS7 STRUCTURE BASED DESIGN OF PEPTIDE BOND ISOMERASES
Felicia Etzkorn

12:00 - 12:30  LS8 DESIGNING SEQUENCES THAT DO NOT AGGREGATE INTO AMYLOID
Fabrizio Chiti

YIMS
GRAND BALLROOM
THE DR. BERT L. SCHRAM YOUNG INVESTIGATORS' MINI-SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by the ESCOM SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Chairs: John P. Mayer and Alain Fournier

13:00 - 13:15  LY1 CAGED PHOSPOSERINE PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS
Deborah Rothman - Barbara Imperiali
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

13:15 - 13:30  LY2 INTERACTION BETWEEN A MINIMUM HEVEIN DOMAIN AND CHITOOLIGOSACCHARIDES STUDIED BY NMR AND A NOVEL SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE METHOD
Miquel Vila-Perello - Nuria Aboitiz - Ricardo Gutiérrez-Gallego - Francisco Javier Canada - Jesus Jimenez-Barbero - David Andreu
Department of Experimental and Health Sciences; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Centro Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC; Pharmacology Unit; IMIM

13:30 - 13:45  LY3 CROSS-REACTIVITY STUDIES OF rMOGED WITH SYNTHETIC PUTATIVE AUTOANTIGENS CSF114(Glc) AND [N31(Glc)]hMOG(30-50) IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS’ SERA
Barbara Mulinacci - Constanz Breithaupt - Prajna Paramita Pal - Nediljko Budisa - Marta Pazzagli - Benedetta Mazzanti - Paolo Rovero - Luis Moroder - Anna Maria Papini
Laboratory of Peptide & Protein Chemistry & Biology; Polo Scientifico; University of Florence; Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie; D-82152 Martinsried; Germany.; Laboratory of Peptide & Protein Chemistry & Biology.; Laboratory of Peptide & Protein Chemistry & Biology; Universitŕ di Firenze.

13:45 - 14:00  LY4 SITE SPECIFIC INTRODUCTION OF UNNATURAL AMINO ACIDS AT SITES CRITICAL TO INSULIN RECEPTOR RECOGNITION AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY
Beili Quan - Dave Smiley - Vasily Gelfanov - Richard DiMarchi
Indiana University

14:00 - 14:15  LY5 HELICAL PEPTIDE ANALOGS OF GP41 TO DEVELOP AN HIV VACCINE
Florence Brunel - Michael Zwick - Dennis Burton - Phil Dawson
The Scripps Research Institute; Department of Immunology; The Scripps Research Institute; La Jolla; CA; 92037; U.S.A.; Department of Chemistry; The Scripps Research Institute; La Jolla; CA; 92037; U.S.A.

14:15 - 14:30  LY6 NMR STRUCTURE OF C-TERMINAL PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS FROM E COLI OSMOREGULATORY PROTEIN PROP
David Zoetewey - Janet Wood - Robert Hodges
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; University of Guelph Canada

14:30 - 14:45  LY7 PEPTIDE-DERIVED (SULFONYL) AZIDES AS VERSATILE SYNTHONS IN CHEMOSELECTIVE BIOCONJUGATIONS
Remco Merkx - Dirk TS Rijkers - Arwin J Brouwer - J. Kemmink - RMJ Liskamp
Department of Medicinal Chemistry; Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences; Utrecht University; P.O. Box 80082; 3508 TB Utrecht; The Netherlands

14:45 - 15:00  LY8 Design and Synthesis of Piperazine-Based Small Molecule Peptide Mimetics Targeting the Melanocortin Receptors
James Cain - Alexander V. Mayorov - Yeon-Sun Lee - Minying Cai - Jinfa Ying - Victory Hruby
University of Arizona

15:00 - 15:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK IN LECTURE HALL

15:30 - 15:45  LY9 BASIS FOR SELECTIVITY OF CATIONIC ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES FOR BACTERIAL VS. MAMMALIAN MEMBRANES
Evgenia Glukhov - Charles M. Deber
Structural Biology & Biochemistry; Research Institute; Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto; Ontario; Canada

15:45 - 16:00  LY10 TOTAL SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS OF THE MARINE CYCLODEPSIPEPTIDE IB-01212
Luis J. Cruz, Marta Martinez, Julia Perez, Marta Trujillo, Ricard Rodriguez, Ernest Giralt, Carmen Cuevas, Librada M Cańedo, Fernando Albericio
Barcelona Science Park; University of Barcelona; 08028-Barcelona; Spain; Instituto Biomar S. A.; 24231 Onzonilla; León. Spain; Phama Mar; 28770-Colmenar Viejo; Madrid; Spain

16:00 - 16:15  LY11 STUDY OF FUNCTION(S) AND POSSIBLE DESTABILIZING MECHANISMS OF WILDTYPE OP18/STATHMIN AND MUTANT Q18--E IN MICROTUBULE DYNAMICS.
Hope Wilson - Douglas A. Thrower - Leslie Wilson
California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP)

16:15 - 16:30  LY12 A NEW CLASS OF BETA STRAND MIMETICS
John Blankenship - William D. Lubell
University of Montreal

16:30 - 16:45  LY13 SELF-ASSEMBLED HYDROGELS FROM B-HAIRPIN PEPTIDES: TUNING RESPONSIVENESS AND BULK MATERIAL PROPERTIES BY PEPTIDE DESIGN
Karthikan Rajagopal - Bulent Ozbas - Darrin Pochan - Joel Schneider
University of Delaware

16:45 - 17:00  LY14 CELLULAR UPTAKE OF CELL-PENETRATING PEPTIDES (CPP) IS DIFFERENTIATION RESTRICTED
Christina Foerg
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

17:00 - 17:15  LY15 IN VITRO TRANSLATION OF ALL-UNNATURAL PEPTIDES
Matthew Hartman - Kristopher Josephson - Jack Szostak
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School

18:00 OPENING RECEPTION IN ROYAL PALM COURTYARD
Sponsored by SynPep Corporation


SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2005

08:00 - 08:07 WELCOME BY THE AMERICAN PEPTIDE SOCIETY PRESIDENT
Jane V. Aldrich

08:07 - 08:15 WELCOME BY THE 19TH AMERICAN PEPTIDE SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
Jeff Kelly & Tom Muir

SESSION I:
GRAND BALLROOM
PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS STRATEGIES
Chair: Richard A. Houghten

08:15 - 08:45  L1 NEW APPROACHES FOR SEQUENCE SCANNING TO IDENTIFY SECONDARY STRUCTURE IMPORTANT FOR PEPTIDE BIOLOGY
Damien Boeglin - Rosa Melendez - Fabrice Galaud - Ramesh Kaul - Simon Surprenant - Mandar Bodas - William Lubell
University of Montreal

08:45 - 09:05  O1 SYNTHESIS OF CYCLIC PEPTIDES VIA TRANSITION METAL CATALYZED C-C BOND FORMATION.
Dirk TS Rijkers - Hefziba T ten Brink - Nourdin Ghalit - Jan Tois - Rob MJ Liskamp
Department of Medicinal Chemistry; Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences; Utrecht University; POBox 80082; 3508 TB Utrecht; The Netherlands

09:05 - 09:25  O2 SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS OF PHOSPHORYLATED CIS AND TRANS 3-PEPTIDYL-4-(4''-HYDROXYPHENYL) BETA-LACTAMS
David Coleman - Kumar Kaluarachchi - John S. McMurray
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Department of Neuro-Oncology; 1515 Holcombe Blvd.; Houston; TX 77030; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; Department of Experimental Therapeutics; 1515 Holcombe Blvd.; Houston; TX 77030

09:25 - 09:55  L2 PEPTIDE-BASED CATALYSTS FOR ASYMMETRIC REACTIONS
Scott Miller
Boston College

ATLAS BALLROOM
10:00 - 10:30

REFRESHMENT BREAK IN EXHIBITION HALL

10:30 - 11:00  L3 CONSTRUCTION OF COMPLEX PROTEINS AND GLYCOPROTEINS USING CHEMICAL LIGATION
Philip Dawson
The Scripps Research Institute

11:00 - 11:20  O3 SWITCH ON AMYLOID b PEPTIDE SELF-ASSEMBLY BY ENZYME-TRIGGERED ACYL MIGRATION
Manfred Mutter - S. Dos Santos - A. Chandravarkar - B. Mandal - R. Mimna - K. Murat - L. Saucede - M. Camus - G. Tuchscherer
Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL); Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering

11:20 - 11:40  O4 CUSTOMIZABLE SOLID-PHASE PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS
Fernando Albericio
Barcelona Science Park; University of Barcelona

11:40 - 12:00  O5 FERTILINbeta OLIGOPEPTIDES: DEPENDENCE OF FERTILIZATION INHIBITION ON LENGTH AND DENSITY
Keith Baessler - Youn-Joo Lee - Kenny Roberts - Nicole Facompre - Nicole Sampson
Stony Brook University; Leheigh University

12:00 - 12:20  O6 A NOVEL CHEMICAL LIGATION STRATEGY FOR THE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF PROTEINS WITH NATIVE STRUCTURE
Paolo Botti
Geneprot Inc.; Geneva; Switzerland; University of Geneva; Switzerland

ATLAS BALLROOM
12:30 - 14:00
POSTER SESSION I & LUNCH IN EXHIBITION HALL
Presenting Posters P001 - P150 odd numbers only

SESSION II:
GRAND BALLROOM
BIOSYNTHESIS OF BIOACTIVE PEPTIDES
Chair: Wilfred van der Donk

14:00 - 14:30  L4 REASSIGNING SENSE CODONS FOR RIBOSOMAL SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL TEMPLATE ENCODED POLYMERS
Stephen Blacklow - Anthony Forster - Zhongping Tan - Virginia Cornish
Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Vanderbilt University; Columbia University

14:30 - 15:00  L5 PEPTIDE MODULATORS OF G PROTEIN SIGNALING
Richard Roberts - W. W. Ja - A. P. West - P. J. Bjorkman - S. Benzer
Caltech Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Caltech Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Division of Biology California Institute of Technology

15:00 - 15:20  O7 RINGING THE CHANGES WITH VANCOMYCIN: A P450 CATALYZED OXIDATIVE PHENOL COUPLING REACTION
John Robinson - Katharina Woithe - Dong Bo Li - Francesca Vitali - Laurent Bigler - Katja Zerbe
University of Zurich

15:20 - 15:50  L6 CHEMOENZYMATIC APPROACHES TO NEW PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTICS
Mohamed Marahiel
Philipps University Marburg; FB Chemie

15:50 - 16:20  L7 SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF INSULIN-LIKE ANALOGS WITH DIFFERENTIAL ACTIVITY AT THE INSULIN AND IGF-1 RECEPTORS
Jie Han - Amy Hoffman - Richard DiMarchi
Indiana University

OPENING KEYNOTE:
GRAND BALLROOM

16:20 - 17:20 L8
AN EXPANDED GENETIC CODE
Peter G. Schultz
The Scripps Research Institute; Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

ATLAS BALLROOM
17:20 - 19:00
POSTER SESSION II & SOCIAL HOUR IN EXHIBITION HALL
Presenting Posters P001 - P150 even numbers only
Presenting Posters PYI - all Poster Competition participants


MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2005

SESSION III:
GRAND BALLROOM
NEW THEMES IN ANTIMICROBIALS AND QUORUM SENSING
Chair: Tom W. Muir

08:00 - 08:30  L9 THREADED RINGS AND COMPLEX TOPOLOGIES IN NOVEL ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES: NATURE’S BIO-ENGINEERING TEMPLATES
David Craik
University of Queensland

08:30 - 09:00  L10 A MINIMALIST APPROACH TO ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS WITH THIONIN AS A TEMPLATE
David Andreu - Miquel Vila-Perelló - Sabrina Tognon - Andrea Sanchez-Vallet - Antonio Molina
Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona; Spain; UPM-ETSIA; Madrid; Spain

09:00 - 09:20  L10 DISCOVERY OF ADDITIONAL CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS FOR 3-OXO-N-ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONES
Gunnar Kaufmann - Rafaella Sartorio - Sang-Hyeup Lee - Claude Rogers - Michael Meijler - Jason Moss - Bruce Clapham - Andrew Brogan - Tobin Dickerson - Kim Janda
The Scripps Research Institute

09:20 - 09:50  L11 ANTIVIRAL CYCLIC DL-a-PEPTIDES: TARGETING A GENERAL BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY IN VIRUS INFECTIONS
W. Seth Horne - Christopher M. Wiethoff - Chunli Cui Cui -Keith M. Wilcoxen - Manuel Amorin - Glen R. Nemerow - Reza Ghadiri
The Scripps Research Institute

09:50 - 10:10  O10 COMPARING ANTIMICROBIAL AND MEMBRANE PERMEABILIZING ACTIVITY OF PEPTIDES DERIVED FROM HUMAN CATIONIC PROTEINS
Sylvie Blondelle - Susana Sánchez-Gómez - Jose Leiva-Leon - Ignacio Moriyon - Karl Lohner - Guillermo Martinez de Tejada
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies; Medical School of the University of Navarra; Institute for Biophysics and X-ray Structure Research; Austrian Academy of Sciences

ATLAS BALLROOM
10:10 - 10:30

REFRESHMENT BREAK IN EXHIBITION HALL

10:30 - 11:00  L12 QUORUM SENSING AND INTERFERENCE BY BACTERIAL AUTOINDUCING PEPTIDES
Richard Novick - J. Wright
NYU School of Medicine

11:00 - 11:30  L13 POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS DURING LANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS
Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois; Department of Chemistry

MERRIFIELD AWARD
AND LECTURE

11:30 - 12:30  L14
FROM TENS TO TRILLIONS: ADVANCES IN SYNTHETIC COMBINATORIAL AND DIVERSITY ORIENTED METHODS OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS
Richard A. Houghten
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies

ATLAS BALLROOM
12:30 - 14:00
POSTER SESSION III & LUNCH IN EXHIBITION HALL
Presenting Posters P151 - P300 odd numbers only

SESSION IV:
GRAND BALLROOM
POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS OF PEPTIDES AND PROTEIN
Chair: Philip Dawson

14:00 - 14:30  L15 CHEMICAL APPROACHES TO SORTING OUT PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION
Philip Cole
Johns Hopkins University

14:30 - 14:50  O11 ENZYMATIC INCORPORATION OF PRENYL AZIDES INTO PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS: TOOLS FOR SELECTIVE PROTEIN LABELING
Mark Distefano
University of Minnesota

14:50 - 15:20  L16 PROTEIN SEMI-SYNTHESIS AND ITS APPLICATION TO STUDIES OF STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF GTPASES
Kirill Alexandrov - A Rak - O Pylypenko - T Durek - A Watzke - H Waldmann - RS Goody
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology; Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11; 44227 Dortmund; Germany

15:20 - 15:40  O12 N-ALKYLAMINOOXY AMINO ACIDS AS VERSATILE DERIVATIVES FOR 'POST-TRANSLATIONAL' MODIFICATIONS OF SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES
Michael Carrasco
Santa Clara University

15:40 - 16:00  O13 INFLUENCE OF POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS ON BETA-HAIRPIN STABILITY
Marcey Waters
Department of Chemistry; UNC Chapel Hill

16:00 - 16:30  L17 CHEMICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION IN THE BRAIN
Linda Hsieh-Wilson
California Institute of Technology

ATLAS BALLROOM
16:30 - 18:00
POSTER SESSION IV & SOCIAL HOUR IN EXHIBITION HALL
Presenting Posters P151 - P300 even numbers only
Presenting Posters PYI - all Poster Competition semi-finalists

18:30 SPEAKERS' DINNER AT SCRIPPS BIRCH AQUARIUM
(by invitation only)


TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2005

SESSION V:
GRAND BALLROOM
GOODMAN MEMORIAL SESSION
Sponsored by BACHEM, Inc.
Chairs: Joseph P. Taulane and Richard A. Houghten

07:55 - 08:05  L18 MURRAY GOODMAN: PROFESSOR
Joseph P. Taulane
University of California; San Diego

08:05 - 08:30  L19 PROFESSOR MURRAY GOODMAN: A PIONEER OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE
Fred Naider
College of Staten Island; CUNY; Macromolecular Assemblies Institute

08:30 - 08:55  L20 PEPTIDES IN THE DAYS OF PHOTONICS
Luis Moroder
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry

08:55 - 09:20  L21 IT ALL STARTED IN BROOKLYN FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO!
Claudio Toniolo
Department of Chemistry; University of Padova; 35131 Padova; Italy

09:20 - 09:45  L22 PEPTIDE APPROACHES TO FOLDING AND ASSEMBLY OF TRANSMEMBRANE HELICES IN PROTEINS
Charles M. Deber
Structural Biology & Biochemistry; Research Institute; Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto

09:45 - 10:05  L23 OPIOID PEPTIDE ANALOG DESIGN: FROM CYCLIC ENKEPHALINS TO ORALLY ACTIVE ANALGESICS
Peter W. Schiller
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal; University of Montreal

10:05 - 10:15  L24 MURRAY GOODMAN: FORMIDABLE SENIOR FIGURE, FRIENDLY COLLEGIATE PEER, FATHERLY AND GENEROUS MENTOR
Richard A. Houghten
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies

ATLAS BALLROOM
10:15 - 10:45

REFRESHMENT BREAK IN EXHIBITION HALL

SESSION VI:
GRAND BALLROOM
TOWARDS PEPTIDES AS POTENTIAL THERAPEUTICS I
Sponsored by Senn Chemicals USA
Chair: William D. Lubell

10:45 - 11:05  O14 CYCLIC MODULAR ß-SHEETS.
James Nowick - Justin O. Brower - Omid Khakshoor - Wade A. Russu - R. Jeremy Woods
University of California; Irvine

11:05 - 11:25  O15 IMPROVING ON NATURE: CONTROLLING THE SHAPE AND FUNCTIONALITY OF CYSTEINE RICH CONOTOXINS
Paul Alewood
Institute for Molecular Bioscience; The University of Queensland

11:25 - 11:55  L25 TARGET-BASED PROTEOLYTIC PROFILING FOR CHARACTERIZING CANCER PROGRESSION
Gregg Fields
Florida Atlantic University

11:55 - 12:15  O16 APOLIPOPROTEIN A-1 MIMETIC PEPTIDES
G.M. Anantharamaiah - Mohamad Navab - Srinivas Reddy - Susan Hama - Greg Hogh - Mayaknoda Palgunachari - Geeta Datta - David Garber - Alan Fogelman
University of Alabama at Birmingham; David Geffin School of Medicine at Los Angeles; University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center

12:15 - 12:45  L26 FROM SIMPLE CONSENSUS PEPTIDES TO HIGH AFFINITY LIGANDS: A STEPWISE DIVERSITY-ORIENTED STRATEGY FOR THE ACQUISITION OF POTENT SIGNALING INHIBITORS
David Lawrence
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

ATLAS BALLROOM
12:45 - 14:00
POSTER SESSION V & LUNCH IN EXHIBITION HALL
Presenting Posters P301 - P600 odd numbers only

SESSION VII:
GRAND BALLROOM
PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN DESIGN
Chair: Jeff W. Kelly

14:00 - 14:30  L27 CONFORMATIONAL DIVERSITY AND CATALYSIS
Donald Hilvert
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Hönggerberg

14:30 - 15:00  L28 FUNCTIONALIZED POLYPEPTIDES FOR PROTEIN RECOGNITION
Lars Baltzer
Department of Chemistry; Uppsala University

15:00 - 15:20  O17 BETA HAIRPIN MINIMIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION
Niels Andersen - R. Matthew Fesinmeyer - K. A. Olsen
University of Washington; same

15:20 - 15:50  L29 DESIGNED PEPTIDE MICROARRAYS FOR PROTEIN DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION
Hisakazu Mihara - Kenji Usui - Kin-ya Tomizaki - Kiyoshi Nokihara
Tokyo Institute of Technology; HiPep Laboratories

15:50 - 16:10  O18 ANALOGUES OF INTERLEUKIN 8 CONTAINING A beta-PEPTIDE SEGMENT SHOW HIGH BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY
Ralf David - Annette G. Beck-Sickinger
University of Leipzig; Institut of Biochemistry; University of Leipzig

16:10 - 16:40  L30 PROBING MINIPROTEIN STABILITY VIA BACKBONE THIOESTER EXCHANGE
Samuel H. Gellman
University of Wisconsin

ATLAS BALLROOM
16:40 - 18:00
POSTER SESSION VI & SOCIAL HOUR IN EXHIBITION HALL
Presenting Posters P301 - P600 even numbers only
Presenting Posters PYI - all Poster Competition finalists

18:30 MERRIFIELD AWARD DINNER AT TRELLISES GARDEN GRILLE
(by invitation only)


WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2005

SESSION VIII:
GRAND BALLROOM
PEPTIDE QUATERNARY STRUCTURES IN MATERIAL SCIENCE AND DISEASE
Chair: Samuel H. Gellman

08:00 - 08:30  L31 DESIGNING NANO-TO-MICRON SCALE PEPTIDE-BASED SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS FROM THE BOTTOM UP
Dek Woolfson - Maya Pandya - Max Ryadnov - Andrew Smith
University of Sussex

08:30 - 09:00  L32 MECHANISMS OF AMYLOIDOGENESIS
Evan Powers
The Scripps Research Institute

09:00 - 09:20  O19 Peptide Reptation as a Mechanism for Rearrangements with a Beta-sheet Aggregate
Sarah Petty - Sean Decatur
Mount Holyoke College

09:20 - 09:50  L33 Cytocompatibility and antimicrobial activity of self-assembled beta hairpin hydrogels
Joel Schneider - Juliana Kretsinger - Lisa Haines
University of Delaware

ATLAS BALLROOM
09:50 - 10:30

REFRESHMENT BREAK IN EXHIBITION HALL

MAKINENI AWARD
AND LECTURE

10:30 - 11:15  L34
MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO A SYNTHETIC PROTEIN: THE PREVENTION OF INFECTION BY HIV
Robin Offord
Department of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics; University of Geneva

  LUNCH ON OWN - FREE AFTERNOON
POSTER AND EXHIBITION HALL DISMANTLING


Please check the bulletin board for reunion announcements


THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2005

SESSION IX:
GRAND BALLROOM
PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN ARRAYS
Chair: Hisakazu Mihara

08:00 - 08:30  L35 A WIRING DIAGRAM FOR TYROSINE KINASE-MEDIATED SIGNALING USING PROTEIN MICROARRAYS
Gavin MacBeath
Harvard University

08:30 - 08:50  O20 HIGH DENSITY PEPTIDE CHIP FOR QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF PROTEIN BINDING AND ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES
Xiaolian Gao
Department of Biology&Biochemistry; The University of Houston

08:50 - 09:10  O21 DNA-PROTEIN ARRAYS AS TOOLS FOR DETECTION OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY
Christian F.W. Becker - Ron Wacker - Werner Bouschen - Ralf Seidel - Branko Kolaric - Hendrick Schroeder - Christof Niemeyer - Bernhard Spengler - Roger Goody - Martin Engelhard
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology; Chimera Biotec GmbH; Emil-Figge-Str. 76A; 44227 Dortmund; Germany; Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen; Schubertstr. 60; 35392 Giessen; Germany; Max-Planck-Insitut für molekulare Physiologie; Otto-Hahn-Str. 11; 44227 Dortmund; Germany; Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie; Otto-Hahn-Str. 11; 44227 Dortmund; Germany; Universität Dortmund; Otto-Hahn-Str. 6; 44227 Dortmund; Germany

09:10 - 09:40  L36 MONITORING AND MANIPULATING THE PROTEOME WITH PEPTIDES AND PEPTOIDS
Thomas Kodadek
UT-Southwestern Medical Center

09:40 - 10:00  O22 NEW TOOLS FOR THE SITE-SPECIFIC ATTACHMENT OF PROTEINS TO SURFACES
Julio A. Camarero - Youngeun Kwon - Matthew A. Coleman
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; University of California

GRAND FOYER
10:15 - 10:45

REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION X:
GRAND BALLROOM
TOWARDS PEPTIDES AS POTENTIAL THERAPEUTICS II
Chair: Fernando Albericio

10:30 - 10:50  O23 UNDERSTANDING BBB TRANSPORT USING GLYCOSYLATED ENKEPHALINS & ENDORPHINS
Robin Polt - M. Dhanasekaran - I. Alves - C.M. Keyari - L. Yeomans - R.E. Egleton - J.M. Bidlack - H.I. Yamamura - V. J. Hruby - E.J. Bilsky
The University of Arizona; Carl S. Marvel Laboratories of Chemistry; Dept. of Pharmacology; Univ. of Arizona; Tucson; AZ 85721; U.S.A.; Univ. of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester; NY 14642; U.S.A.; Dept. of Pharmacology; University of New England; Biddeford; ME 04005

10:50 - 11:10  O24 T CELL SPECIFICITY EXAMINED IN A SYSTEMATIC AND COMPREHENSIVE MANNER USING PEPTIDE POSITIONAL SCANNING LIBRARIES
Clemencia Pinilla - Mireia Sospedra - Yindong Zhao - Richard Simon - Roland Martin
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies; NINDS; NIH; NCI

11:10 - 11:30  O25 SCREENING BIOSYNTHETIC PEPTIDE LIBRARIES FOR ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY
Lisa Nilsson - Mostafa Louassini - Ernesto Abel-Santos
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

11:30 - 11:50  O26 DESIGN AND STUDY OF NOVEL PEPTIDE INHIBITORS AGAINST SARS-COV ENTRY
Brian Tripet - Robert Hodges - Zhe Yan
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Fitzsimons

11:50 - 12:10  O27 A BI-DIRECTIONAL PEPTIDE SWITCH: ƒŃ-HELICAL COILED COIL INTERACTION VERSUS ƒŇ-SHEET FORMATION
Beate Koksch
Free University Berlin; Department of Chemistry - Organic Chemistry; Takustr. 3; 14195 Berlin

12:10 - 13:10 LUNCH ON OWN

SESSION XI:
GRAND BALLROOM
PROTEOMICS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: Tom Kodadek

13:10 - 13:30  O28 RDC AS A NEW NMR-PARAMETER FOR PEPTIDES
Horst Kessler - Burkhard Luy - Kyryl Kobzar - Christoph Freudenberger - Sebastian Knor - Dominik Heckmann
Department Chemie; TU Munich; Lichtenbergstr.4; 85747 Garching; Department Chemie; TU Munich; Lichtenbergstr.4; 85747 Garching; Germany

13:30 - 14:00  L37 NEW APPROACHES IN PROTEIN SPLICING TO CONTROL PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Henning Mootz
Philipps-Universität Marburg; Fachbereich Chemie; Hans-Meerwein-Str.; D-35032 Marburg

14:00 - 14:20  O29 EXAMINATION OF THE ROLE OF LIPID RAFTS IN GPCR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION USING PLASMON WAVEGUIDE RESONANCE (PWR) SPECTROSCOPY
Victor J. Hruby - Isabel D. Alves - Zdzislaw Salamon
University of Arizona; American Chemical Society; American Peptide Society; Department of Chemistry University of Arizona; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics University of Arizona

14:20 - 14:40  O30 IMAGING PROTEASE ACTIVITY USING NOVEL FLUORESCENTLY QUENCHED PROBES
Galia Blum - Georges von Degenfeld - Kinneret Keren - Helen Blau - Matthew Bogyo
Stanford University

14:40 - 15:10  L38 CHEMICAL GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CELLULAR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
Kevan Shokat
Department of Cellulalar and Molecular Pharmacology; UC San Francisco; Department of Chemistry; UC Berkeley

CLOSING KEYNOTE:
GRAND BALLROOM

15:10 - 16:10  L39
ENZYMATIC HALOGENATION OF AMINO ACID MOIETIES IN NATURAL PRODUCTS: OXIDATIVE STRATEGIES
Christopher Walsh
Harvard University

18:15 CLOSING BANQUET FESTIVITIES BEGIN IN THE ROYAL PALM COURTYARD
19:15 CLOSING BANQUET IN THE GRAND BALLROOM
20:15 SAN DIEGO'S VINTAGE AND CLASSIC ROCK BAND: ROCKOLA