Zerner Conference

Dear Colleagues,
 The International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology, is
 organizing the Zerner Conference, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August
 17-19, 2000.
 (http://www.chem.uno.edu/Politzer_files/ISQBP.htm)
 Registration and abstract submission for poster presentations are still
 open.  Articles will be published in the Proceedings (International
 Journal of Quantum Chemistry) of The International Society of Quantum
 Biology and Pharmacology.
 Hotel Information
 The conference will be held in the Queen and Crescent Hotel, located at
 344 Camp Street. It is in a 100-year-old historic building within walking
 distance of the French Quarter, the arts district and the casino. (For
 more on-line information about New Orleans, visit http://www.nola.com.)
 The rate for a double room will be $69 per night for August 16 and 17 and
 $89 per night for August 18 and 19. A third and a fourth person can be
 accommodated in a room for an additional$10 per person per night. A block
 of rooms at these rates is being held until June 15, 2000. For room
 reservations, contact the hotel at1-800-975-6652 or 1-504-587-9700; their
 fax number is 1-504-587-9701. In order to receive the special rate,
 conference attendees should mention the University of New Orleans
 conference.
 Conference Fees:
 * ISQBP Members: $100
 * Nonmembers: $125
 * Students: $60
 Organizer
 Dr. Peter Politzer, Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans,
 New Orleans, Louisiana, 70148, USA.
 Conference Registration Form
 Name: ___________________________________________
 Mailing Address: __________________________________
 ________________________________________________
 E-mail: __________________________________________
 Telephone: _______________________________________
 Fax: ____________________________________________
 (This information will be included in the conference program unless you
 specify otherwise.)
 ISQBP member _____
 Nonmember _____
 Student _____
 Registration fee enclosed? _____ Yes _____ No
 Please make check payable to the International Society of Quantum Biology
 and Pharmacology;
 it should preferably be drawn on a U.S. bank.
 Do you wish to present a poster? _____ Yes _____ No
 Tentative Title: _____________________________________
 __________________________________________________
 Do you plan to submit a contribution to the proceedings of the conference?
 _____Yes _____ No
 (Manuscripts should be written in the usual IJQC format and submitted
 on-site during the conference.)
 Plenary Sessions and Speakers:
 Enzyme Function:
 * David Beratan (University of Pittsburgh) -
 * Tim Clark (University of Erlangen) - Hybrid QM/MM Simulations of Enzyme
 Reaction Mechanisms.
 * Gilda Loew (Molecular Research Institute, Palo Alto) - Homology Modeling
 and Substrate Binding Study of Human CYP450 Enzymes.
 * Kenneth Merz (Penn State University) - Combined QM/MM Methodologies and
 Applications.
 Biochemical Nanocomputer Technologies:
 * Robert Birge (University of Connecticut) - Protein-Based Volumetric
 Memories and Associative Processors.
 * John Reif (Duke University) - Recent Advances and New Applications for
 Biomolecular Computations.
 * Joel Schnur (Naval Research Laboratory) - Sub-Micron Lipid Tubules and
 their Applications.
 Protein Structure:
 * Harold Scheraga (Cornell University) - Prediction of Protein Structure
 by Global Optimization of a Potential Function.
 * Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard University) - Universally-Conserved
 Positions in Protein Folds: Reading Evolutionary Information about Protein
 Stability, Folding Kinetics and Function.
 * Jeffrey Skolnick (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis) -
 Prediction of Structure and Function on a Genomic Scale.
 * Devarajan Thirumalai (University of Maryland) - Stretching Proteins.
 Proton Pumps:
 * Daniel Borgis (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) - Transport and
 Spectroscopy of Protons in Aqueous Media.
 * Mark Tuckerman (New York University) - Identifying Quantum Effects in
 Aqueous Proton Transport and in "Intermediate-Barrier" Intramolecular
 Proton Transfer.
 * Arieh Warshel (University of Southern California) - Computer Simulations
 of Proton Transfer Processes in Proteins. The Energetics of Proton
 Translocation Processes.
 Membrane Proteins:
 * Frank Blaney (SmithKline Beecham) - Modelling of Voltage-Gated Calcium
 Channels and their Interactions with Small Peptide Neurotoxins.
 * Benoit Roux (Cornell Medical School) - Theoretical Studies of Ion
 Permeation.
 * Peter Tieleman (Oxford University) - Molecular Dynamics Simulations of
 Antimicrobial Peptides: From Membrane Binding to Transmembrane Channels.
 * Harel Weinstein (Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York) - Computer
 Experiments Reveal Signaling Mechanisms in Membrane Proteins: From
 Structural Motifs to Functional Microdomains.
 Modelling of Electrostatic Interactions:
 * Sergio Hassan (Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York) - Description of
 Solvent Effects in Proteins: A New and General Continuum Approach for
 Structure Calculations.
 * Ferran Sanz (IMIM/Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Automatic Exploration of
 Similarities between Distributions of Molecular Interaction Potentials.
 * Rebecca Wade (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg) -
 Electrostatic Interactions in Protein-Protein Association: Insights from
 Brownian Dynamics Simulations and Protein Interaction Property Similarity
 Analysis.