Biological Structure Sessions at BCA '97

Provisional Program

This year's BCA Spring meeting will be held at the University of Leeds. The registration fee is 75GBP (40 GBP for students) before March 3rd. Further information about registration and submission of poster abstracts can be found on our WWW site under http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/conferences/BCA97. The meeting will start on Monday, 14.04.97, 1:30 pm, with a plenary lecture on "Area detectors in chemical and protein crystallography" (by J.R.Helliwell)

Presentations are subdivided into a plenary lecture and three sessions:

PLENARY LECTURE (BSG)
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Tuesday, 15.April 1997, 9:00

Speaker:
A.C.T.North (Leeds) - " The lipocalins and molecular recognition -
how can we recognize them and how do they recognize their ligands?"

Enzymes: Structure and Mechanism
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Tuesday, 15.April 1997, Morning

Speakers:
L.Brady (Bristol) - "Plasmodium falciparum LDH - a new target for anti-malarials."
R.A.Pauptit (Zeneca) - "N-myristyl transferase (NMT- Need More Time): novel structure of an antifungal target."
L.Sawyer (Edinburgh) - What's at the bottom of the barrel? Structure and mechanism of 3-dehydroquinase."
C.M.Wilmot (Leeds) -"Crystallographic Investigation of the Catalytic Mechanism of the Quinoenzyme amine oxidase."

Protein/Nucleic Acid Interactions
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Tuesday, 15.April 1997, Afternoon

Speakers:
T.A.Steitz (Yale) - "DNA and RNA-polymerases - Structural Diversity and Common Mechanisms."
D.Moras (Strasbourg) - "tRNAAsp-aspartyl-tRNA synthetase: two base-pairs make the differences."
J.Rafferty (Sheffield) - "Structure of E.coli RuvA protein and a model for its binding to the Holliday junction."
D.B.Wigley (Oxford) - "Common structure and mechanism for DNA ligase and mRNA capping enzyme."

Hot Structures / Special Topics
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Wednesday, 16.Arpil 1997, Morning

Speakers:
M.Gorman (London) - " "The structure of the human DNA repair enzyme AP endonuclease""
A.J.Wilkinson (York) - "The Structure of the Cofactor Binding Domain of a LysR-type Transcription Activator."
S.R.Price (Cambridge) - "Crystal Structure of the Spliceosomal U2A' U2B'' Proteins in Complex With Their Cognate RNA."
N.H.Keep (Cambridge) - "The structure of RhoGDI: A G protein effector."
L.Carpenter (MRC Mill Hill, London) - "The crystal structure of dehydroquinate synthase at 1.8 A resolution"