Conference Series

Unwinding mechanisms
(Helicase Function and Mechanism)

Chair:

Tim Lohman, St. Louis, USA

Speakers:

Smita Patel, New Jersey, USA

Poster session 1

Helicases in repair and recombination

Chair:

Wolf Heyer, Davis, USA

Speakers:    

Ginger Zakian, Princeton, USA
Xavier Veaute, Fontenay aux Roses, France
Stephen Kowalczykowski, Davis, USA

Translocation mechanisms
(Morning session, 3 invited speakers + short talks)

Chair:

Mark Szczelkun, Bristol, UK

Speakers:  

Dale Wigley, London, UK.
Vincent Croquette, Paris, F;
David Sherratt, Oxford, UK
Selected short talks

RNA helicases and translocases

Chair:

Anna Pyle, Yale, USA

Speakers:  

Hervé LeHir, Paris, France
Jean Beggs, Edinburgh, UK
Eckhard Jankowsky, USA

Helicases and translocation in RNA processing, transcription, and translation

Chair:     

Frances Fuller-Pace,Dundee UK,
Speakers:  

Beate Schwer, NY, USA
Karl-Peter Hopfner, München, Germany
Selected short talks

Poster session 2

Helicases in replication

Chair:

Ken Marians, NY, USA

Speakers:  

Silvia Onesti, Trieste, Italy
Steve Benkovic, University Park, USA

Helicases in cancer and aging

Chair:

Ian Hickson, Oxford, UK

Speakers:    

Angelos Constantinou, Lausanne, CH
Pavel Janscak, Zürich, CH
Selected short talks

Chromatin and remodeling

(RNA, DNA, and Chromatin Remodeling)

Chair:      

Tom Owen-Hughes, Aberdeen UK,
Speakers:    

John van Noort, Leiden, NL
Alexander Brehm, Marburg, Germany
Selected short talks