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2008 Welch Conference on Chemical Research
"Biological Macromolecules:  From Structure to Function"

Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel, Houston, Texas
October 27-28, 2008

         
William N. Lipscomb, Jr.           Jianpeng Ma        
         Conference Chairman              Conference                
                                       Co-Chairman    
  

Monday, October 27, 2008
Session I
 8:40 AM

Discussion Leader:  Johann Deisenhofer,
                          The University of Texas Southwestern
                           Medical Center at Dallas

   8:50 AM Speaker:  Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University
Lecture:  "Unknown"
 9:35 AM Speaker:  Roger D. Kornberg, Stanford University
Lecture:  "Unknown"
10:35 AM

Speaker:  Joan A. Steitz, Yale University School of Medicine
Lecture:  "MicroRNAs:  Versatile Regulators of Gene Expression
               
in Vertebrate Cells"

11:20 AM Speaker:  Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture:  "Mechanisms of Small RNA Processing and Targeting"
Session II
 1:15 PM Discussion Leader:  Theodore G. Wensel, Baylor College of Medicine
 1:25 PM Speaker:  Roderick MacKinnon, The Rockefeller University
Lecture:  "Ion Channels and Cell Membranes"
 2:10 PM Speaker:  Jianpeng Ma, Baylor College of Medicine
Lecture:  "Unknown"
 3:10 PM Speaker:  Douglas C. Rees, California Institute of Technology
Lecture:  "The Structural Basis of Biological Nitrogen Fixation"
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Session III
 8:00 AM Discussion Leader:  Florante A. Quiocho, Baylor College of Medicine
 8:10 AM Speaker:  Wayne A. Hendrickson, Columbia University
Lecture:  "Unknown"
  8:55 AM Speaker:  Robert M. Stroud, University of California, San Francisco
Lecture:  "Unknown"
 9:55 AM Speaker:  Joseph D. Puglisi, Stanford University Medical School
Lecture:  "Unknown"
10:40 AM

Speaker:  Ada E. Yonath, Weizman Institute of Science
Lecture:  "The Stunning Architectural Mobility of the Ribosome and
              Its Implication in Initial Protein Folding, Evolution and
              Therapeutical Effectiveness"

2008 Welch Award Lecture
11:25 AM Speaker:  Alexander Rich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecture:  "The Role of Z-DNA Binding Proteins in Interferon
              Induction and Infection"
 
Session IV
 1:30 PM Discussion Leader:  B. Montgomery Pettitt, University of Houston
 1:40 PM Speaker:  Michael Levitt, Stanford University
Lecture:  "Mesoscale Modeling of Macromolecular Machines"
 2:40 PM Speaker:  Xiaoliang S. Xie, Harvard University
Lecture:  "Probing Gene Expression in Living Cells at the
              Single Molecule Level"
 3:25 PM Speaker:  Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology
Lecture:  "4D Microscopy - Visualizing Materials and Biological Function"