19th Enzyme Mechanisms Conference

January 5th-9th, 2005

Conference Speakers

 

New Ways to Look at Intermediates

Discussion Leader: Chris Walsh

 

Speakers

 

Poster Talks

 

Neil Kelleher

 

Sean Elliot

University of Illinois Boston University
Kinetic and Regiospecific Interrogation of Polyketide and Lantibiotic Intermediates using Large Molecule FT Mass spectrometry Probing Enzyme Mechanisms with Protein Film Voltammetry

 

Brian Hoffman

 

Zeyne Oekten

Northwestern University Stanford University
Characterizing the Invisible: EPR and ENDOR Studies of Enzymatic            Intermediates, Nitrogenase Myosin VI Walks Hand over Hand
 

Stephen J. Benkovic

 
Pennsylvania State University  
A Kinetic Sampler  

 

 

Macromolecular Machines

Discussion Leader: Irene Lee

 

Speakers

 

Poster Talks

 

Peter Walter

 

Stuart Licht

University of California at San Francisco Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mechanism of SRP-Dependent Protein Targeting How a Processive Protease Measures Product Size Mapping Active Sites in Complex Proteomes

 

Robert T. Sauer

 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
ATP-Dependent Proteases at Work  

 

 

New Chemical Transformations

Discussion Leader: Cathy Drennan

 

Speakers

 

Poster Talks

 

Squire Booker

 

J. M. Bollinger

Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University
Lipoic Acid Biosynthesis: Understanding Sulfur Insertion into Unactivate Alkyl Chains Dissection of the Mechanism of the Fe(II) a Ketoglutarate Dioxygenase: TauD

 

Rolf Thauer

 

Ruma Banerjee

Max-Planck Institute of Microbiology University of Nebraska
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase and the anaerobic oxidation of methane Radical Enzymes and their Escorts
 

 

Wolfgang Buckel

  Philipps-Universitat
  Characterization of an enzyme bound ketyl radical anion

 

 

New Approaches to Design of Therapeutics

Discussion Leader: Brian Hubbard

 

Speakers

 

 

 

K. Barry Sharpless

 

 

The Scripps Research Institute  
"In Situ: Click Chemistry: Enzyme Inhibitors Made to Their Own Specifications  

 

J. Wells

 

Sunesis  
Drug Discovery at Adaptive Surfaces  
 

Benjamin F. Cravatt

 
The Scripps Research Institute  
Mapping Active Sites in Complex Proteomes  
 

 

Genomics and Structure: Understanding Specificity

Discussion Leader: Tadhg Begley

 

Speakers

 

Poster Talks

 

John Blanchard

 

Brian Miller

Albert Einstein School of Medicine University of Wisconsin-Madison
Structure and Function of Bacterial N-Acetyltransferaces Identifying Latent Enzyme Activities: Substrate Ambiguity within Modern Bacterial Sugar Kinases

 

Tadgh Begley

 

Vahe Bandarian

Cornell University University of Arizona
Tryptophan Catabolism: Gene Identification and Mechanistic Studies  
 

Reinhard Sterner

 
University of Regensburg  
Evolution and design of (ba) 8-barrel enzymes  

 

 

Computational Methods

Discussion Leader: Tom Bruice

 

Speakers

 

 

 

Rama Ranganathan

 

University of Texas Southwestern  
Determining Structural Motifs for Allosteric Communication in Proteins  

 

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

 

Pennsylvania State University  
Impact of Enzyme Motion on Activity  
 

F. Neese

 
Max-Planck Institute of Bioinorganic Chemistry  
Identifying Intermediates in Enzymatic Reaction Cycles through Quantum Chemical Calculation of their Spectroscopic Properties: Recent Progress and Perspectives  

 

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