Molecular and Cell Biology at Spetsai September 1-3, 2006

Molecular and Cell Biology at Spetsai September 1-3, 2006
Island of Spetses, Greece
List of topics and lecturers:
Protein structure, synthesis and maturation
Kurt W?thrich, Elena Conti, Alan Fersht, Tom Steitz, Dino Moras

Control of gene expression (and development) including miRNAs
Peter Herrlich , Walter Neupert, Joan Steitz , Mathias Springer, Glauco Tocchini-Valentini

Molecular medicine. Cell transformation including stem cells and epigenetics
Julio Celis, Alex Levitzki, Frank Gannon, Axel Ullrich, Charles Weissmann

Molecular evolution, incl. non-coding (junk) DNA
Leslie Orgel, Antoine Danchin, Giorgio Bernardi, Maxine Singer

Infectious agents, viruses and their control
Fotis Kafatos, Piet Borst, Noreen Murray, Julian Davies

Cell Biology, Membranes
Daniela Rhodes, Richard Henderson
Entrepreneurism and Importance of platform technologies
Alan Smith, Jonathan Knowles, Mathias Uhlen, Jim Wells, Gregory Winter

Public Lecture by Aaron Ciehanover: "Why our proteins have to die so we shall live"
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