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Structural methods in chemistry, biology and medicine, Chicago, Aug 10-13, 2007
(workshop in memory of Prof. Yuri Struchkov)

Program


This is the scientific program of the Workshop. There may still be some corrections or additions.
Presentations will be made either in Russian or in English. Translation will not be provided.
PC Windows computer linked to the projector with PowerPoint software will be available for the presenters.
If you need any other facilities, please contact the Organizing Committee.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

09:00-09:45 M.Yu.Antipin (Institure of Organoelement Compounds, Moscow, Russia):
Opening remarks. History of the Society
 
09:45-10:30 V.E.Shklover (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Swtzerland):
Photonic materials: fabrication, modeling, and applications
 
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
 
11:00-11:45 I.L.Dubchak (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA):
Comparative genomics - what is it?
 
11:45-12:30 A.B.Zolotoy (Astrum therapeutics, Melbourne, Australia):
Charge and charge shielding as the main determinants of drug-induced HERG channel blockade. Approach to reduce potentially lethal effect of HERG channel inhibition
 
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
 
2:00-2:45 M.Yu.Antipin (Institure of Organoelement Compounds, Moscow, Russia):
Structural studies at the X-Ray Structural Center INEOS: then and now
 
2:45-3:30 T.V.Timofeeva (New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, USA):
Compounds for photodynamic therapy: structure and properties
 
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
 
4:00-4:45 S.V.Lindeman (Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA):
Crystallographic feedback to chemistry - beyond just pictures
 
4:45-5:30 O.Ya.Borbulevych (University of Notre Dame, IN, USA):
Cross-reactivity of TCR A6 on haptenated HTLV-1 Tax11-19 peptides presented by HLA-A2
 
5:30-5:45 I.A.Guzei (University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA):
Announcement and registration for the Bruker-AXS visit on 8/13/07 (see Social events page)
 
6:00 Departure for the banquet

 

Sunday August 12, 2007

09:30-9:45 M.Yu.Antipin (Institure of Organoelement Compounds, Moscow, Russia):
Opening remarks
 
09:45-10:30 S.K.Byram (Bruker-AXS, Madison, WI, USA):
Evolution of hardware and software for single-crystal X-ray diffractometry
 
10:30-11:15 C.F.Campana (Bruker-AXS, Madison, WI,USA):
New tools for the solution and refinement of problem structures
 
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
 
11:45-12:30 S.E.Nefedov (Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia):
Binuclear transition-metal trimethylacetato complexes as structural analogues of the active site of metalloenzymes
 
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
 
2:00-2:45 E.G.Mednikov (University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA):
Pd10 Cluster chemistry
 
2:45-3:30 E.Skrzypczak-Jankun (Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH, USA):
Toward understanding of human lipoxygenases
 
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
 
4:00-4:45 I.I.Vorontsov (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA):
Structural genomics at Midwest Center for Structural Genomics
 
4:45-5:00 M.Yu.Antipin (Institure of Organoelement Compounds, Moscow, Russia):
Closing remarks