The 1997 Albany Conference:
Biomolecular Motors and Nanomachines

Terence Allen
CRC Department of Structural Cell Biology
Paterson Institute, Christie Hospital, Univ of Manchester, UK
The nuclear pore complex: conduit, pump or turnstile?

Montserrat Barcena
Biology Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Replicative helicases

Samuel Bowser
Laboratory of Cell Regulation
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Foraminifera: Ancient nanofabricators

Kevin Burton
Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Forces produced by myosin and actin-containing subcellular structures

P. Bryant Chase
Departments of Radiology and Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Myosin and actin: functional tuning via motor diffusion and compliance

Robert C. Davis
Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
Microscopically patterned surfaces for directed neural cell placement

Karen A. Fahrner
Biolabs, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Bacterial motility

Joachim Frank
Structural Biology Program
Wadsworth Center, Albany NY
The ribosome -- a macromolecular machine par excellance
Structure-function relationships of a dynein ATPase

Ernestina Guevara
Department of Physics
Kings College London, Strand, London
Computer modelling of assemblies of ciliary motor molecules
Modelling the axoneme

Peixuan Guo
Purdue University Cancer Center
West Lafayette, IN
Inter-RNA interaction and communication of phage o29 pRNA in the formation of hexameric complex as a DNA translocation motor

David Hackney
Department of Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Interaction of kinesin head domains and processive movement along microtubules

Michael E.J. Holwill
Physics Department
King's College London, Strand, London
Computer modelling of assemblies of ciliary motor molecules
Modelling the axoneme
Modelling the inner rows of dynein motors in the cilium

Ganesh Iyer
Dept. of Chemistry, RPI
Troy, NY
Protein crystal-based nanomaterials

Shahid Khan
Dept of Physiology & Biophysics
Albert Einstein Med School
A model for the flagellar motor switch suggested by its 2-ring architecture

Ching-Hwa Kiang
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Single-walled carbon nanotubes: from discovery to application

Michael Koonce
Laboratory of Cell
Wadsworth Center, Albany NY
Structure-function relationships of a dynein ATPase

Markus Krummenacker
Nanodevices
Palo Alto, CA
DNA-guided assembly of proteins as a pathway to an assembler

John Madden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Nanofabrication of conducting polymer-based artificial muscle

Carmen A. Mannella
Laboratory of Structural Pathology
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Gated pores in biomembranes

Ralph Merkle
Xerox PARC
Palo Alto, CA
Long and medium term goals in molecular nanotechnology

David Morgan
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center
Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Motors from bacterial flagella: structural analyses and a structure-based model of a biological rotary motor

Smita Patel
Department of Biochemistry
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Enzyme motors: helicases

Darrell H. Reneker
Institute of Polymer Science
The University of Akron, Akron, OH
Molecular mechanisms, operating at the segmental scale, that transport mass and molecular rotation through a polymer crystal

Aristides A.G. Requicha
Computer Science Department and Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Assembly of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) with a scanning probe microscope

Conly Rieder
Laboratory of Cell Regulation
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Biomolecular motors - kinetochores

G. T. Robillard
Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Mechanism of action of membrane-bound transport proteins

Peter Satir
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Computer modelling of assemblies of ciliary motor molecules
Modelling the axoneme
Modelling the inner rows of dynein motors in the cilium

Nadrian C. Seeman
Department of Chemistry
New York University
DNA nanotechnology as a route to engineering molecular mechanical devices

Bruce Smith
Nanodevices
San Rafael, CA
DNA-guided assembly of proteins as a pathway to an assembler

Deepak Srivastava
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA
Carbon nanotubes: nanomachines and switches

Sen-fang Sui
Dept. Biol. Sci. & Biotech.
Tsinghua University, China
Interaction of 80S rat liver ribosome with lipid monolayers studied by electron microscopy

Helen Taylor
Physics Department
King's College London, Strand, London
Modelling the axoneme
Modelling the inner rows of dynein motors in the cilium

Eberhard Unger
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Jena, Germany
Co-factor optimization of kinesin-driven microtubule gliding

James R. Von Ehr
Zyvex LLC, Richardson, TX
Nanotechnology research and development

Richard Wade
Institut de Biologie Structurale
Grenoble, France
Motor proteins: how does kinesin move along microtubules?