The 1997 Albany Conference: Biomolecular Motors and Nanomachines

[1997 Albany Conference]

[1997 Albany Conference]

[1997 Albany Conference]

ALBANY CONFERENCE ON BIOMOLECULAR MOTORS AND NANOMACHINES

RENSSELAERVILLE, NY
SEPT 4-7, 1997

P R O G R A M

SEPT 4 - THURSDAY PM

4:00-5:30

Wine and cheese social

5:30-7:00

Dinner

7:30

WELCOME
Carmen Mannella
Wadsworth Center

7:45

KEYNOTE
Conly Rieder
Wadsworth Center
The machinery of cell division

SEPT 5 - FRIDAY

7:15-8:30

Breakfast

9:00

KEYNOTE
Ralph Merkle
Xerox Corp.
(title tba)

10:00-12:00

SESSION I - MOVING BLOCKS
(chair: Conly Rieder)

10:00

Samuel Bowser
Wadsworth Center
Foraminifera: Ancient nanofabricators

10:30

Break

10:50

Ari Requicha
University of Southern California
Assembly of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) with a scanning probe microscope

11:30

Michael Koonce
Wadsworth Center
Structure-function relationships of a dynein ATPase

12:30-1:45

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Open period

4:00-5:30

Posters

5:30-7:00

Dinner

7:15-9:25

SESSION II - ASSEMBLING DEVICES
(chair: Nadrian Seeman)

7:15

Nadrian Seeman
New York University
DNA nanotechnology as a route to engineering molecular mechanical devices

7:55

Bruce Smith
Nanodevices
DNA-guided assembly of proteins as a pathway to an assembler

8:35

Break

8:55

Terence Allen
University of Manchester, England
The nuclear pore complex: conduit, pump or turnstile?

SEPT 6 - SATURDAY

7:15-8:30

Breakfast

9:00-12:00

SESSION III - STEPPING MOTION
(chair: Joachim Frank)

9:00

Joachim Frank
Wadsworth Center
The ribosome -- a macromolecular machine par excellance

9:40

Darrell Reneker
University of Akron
Molecular mechanisms, operating at the segmental scale, that transport mass and molecular rotation through a polymer crystal

10:10

Break

10:30

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

11:10

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

11:40

Michael Holwill
Kings College London, UK
Introduction for biomotors workshop

12:30-1:45

Lunch

2:00-4:00

Workshop on Biomolecular Motors
chair: Michael Holwill

Ernestina Guevera - King's College London
Helen Taylor - King's College London
Eberhard Unger - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Germany
Smita Patel - Ohio State University
George Robillard - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Peter Satir - Albert Einstein College of Medicine

4:00-5:30

Open period

5:30-6:45

Dinner

7:00-9:30

SESSION IV - MUSCLES AND NERVES
(chair: Bryant Chase)

7:00

Kevin Burton
Carnegie Mellon University
Forces produced by myosin and actin-containing subcellular structures

7:30

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

8:10

Break

8:30

Bryant Chase
University of Washington
Myosin and actin: functional tuning via motor diffusion and compliance

9:00

Robert Davis
Cornell University
Microscopically patterned surfaces for directed neural cell placement

SEPT 7 - SUNDAY

7:15-8:30

Breakfast

9:00-11:50

SESSION V - TUBES AND TURNS
(chair: Terence Allen)

9:00

Ching-Hwa Kiang
University of California
Single-walled carbon nanotubes: from discovery to application

9:30

Deepak Srivastava
NASA Ames Research Center
Carbon nanotubes: nanomachines and switches

10:00

Break

10:20

Shahid Khan
Albert Einstein Medical School
A model for the flagellar motor switch suggested by its 2-ring architecture

10:50

David Morgan
Brandeis University
Motors from bacterial flagella: structural analyses and a structure-based model of a biological rotary motor

11:20

Peixuan Guo
Purdue University Cancer Center
Inter-RNA interaction and communication of phage phi29 pRNA in the formation of hexameric complex as a DNA translocation motor

12:00-1:30

Lunch and departures

For further information contact... Carmen Mannella: carmen@wadsworth.org
Last change: September 2, 1997

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