The Fifth Skirball Symposium


5th Annual Skirball Institute Symposium on Molecular Machines May 9, 2003
New York University Medical Center, Farkas Auditorium
Organizers: Joel Belasco, Xiangpeng Kong, Tom Neubert , David Stokes Tentative Schedule
9:30 AM		Introduction
9:45 AM		Seth Darst - Rockefeller University Structural Studies of Prokaryotic Transcription
10:35 AM		Venki Ramakrishnan - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Insights Into the Mechanism of mRNA Decoding By the Ribosome
11:25 AM		Helen Saibil - Birkbeck College Folding-Active States of Chaperonins
12:30 PM		LUNCH
2:00 PM		Jon Kull - Dartmouth College Mechanochemical Coupling in Kinesin and Myosin
2:50 PM		Keiichi Namba - Osaka University Mechanisms of Self-Assembly and Switching of the Bacterial Flagellum
3:40 PM		Coffee Break
4:00 PM		John Walker - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology The Rotary Mechanism of ATP Synthase
4:50 PM		Doug Rees - California Institute of Technology Structure of BtuCD, the ABC Transporter for vitamin B12