Thursday, 11 November 2004: 1:10 PM-5:00 PM

Sandhills (Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center)

Nucleic Acids: Structural Motifs and Applications (General Session)

Organizers:Barbara Ramsay Shaw
David E. Graves
1:10 PM Introductory Remarks
1:20 PM Genetic Screens and Selections for a Small Molecule Based on a Synthetic Riboswitch that Activates Protein Translation
Justin P. Gallivan
1:40 PM Boranophosphate siRNA: enzymatic synthesis and function
Jing Wan, Allison H. S. Hall, Erin E. Shaughnessy, Kenneth A. Alexander, Barbara Ramsay Shaw
2:00 PM Synthesis and biophysical studies of stereoregular boranophosphate oligodeoxyribonucleotides
Joy Xin Wang, Mikhail I. Dobrikov, Barbara Ramsay Shaw
2:20 PM Utility of Small Molecule Mediated Assembly in Nucleic Acid Evolution
Swapan S. Jain, Nicholas V. Hud
2:40 PM Systematic Structural Studies of Double Chain Reversals Bridging Contiguous DNA Tetrads
Mateus Webba da Silva
3:00 PM DNA Condensation by Bull Protamine: A Model for the Role of Disulfide Bonds in Mammalian Sperm Cell Chromatin
Igor Vilfan
3:20 PM Break
3:40 PM Recent Progress on the Synthesis of Nucleoside Boranophosphate Analogues
Ping Li, Barbara Ramsay Shaw
4:00 PM Investigation of Equilibria Involving the Aflatoxin B1 Formamidopyrimidine (FAPY) Lesion in Oligodeoxynucleotides
Kyle L. Brown, Zhengwu Deng, Indrajit Giri, Constance M. Harris, Thomas M. Harris, Michael P. Stone
4:20 PM Overview of New Structures for DNA-Based Nanofabrication and Computation
Thom LaBean, Hao Yan, Sung Ha Park, Liping Feng, Pen Yin, Hanying Li, Sang Jung Ahn, Dage Liu, Xiaoju Guan, John Reif
4:40 PM Structural and energetic diversity in DNA aptamers
G. Reid Bishop

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