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9:00 - 9:10 AM |
Welcoming Remarks
Michael Botchan - Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley |
9:15 - 9:30 AM |
Nick in 1967: The Year of Ligase
Arthur Kornberg - Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine |
9:30 - 9:50 AM |
Systems Biology of Lung Development
Mark Krasnow - Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine |
9:50 - 10:10 AM |
The Switch Between Chromatin Modification and Transcription Complex assembly
Michael F. Carey - UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center |
10:10 - 10:30 AM |
The Bacterial Type III Secretion System: A
Two-edged Mechanism of Pathogenesis
James B. Bliska - Department of Molecular Genetics, SUNY Stony Brook |
10:30 - 11:00 AM |
BREAK |
11:00 - 11:20 AM |
Action of a Genome Maintenance Machine in DNA Break Repair
Roland Kanaar - Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University |
11:20 - 11:40 AM |
Removal of a Topologically Linked DNA Damage Protein
Lisa Postow - Funabiki Laboratory, The Rockefeller University |
11:40 - 12:00 PM |
Replication Forks are Blocked by Chemotherapeutic Agents that Stabilize
Protein-DNA Complexes
Kenneth Kreuzer - Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center |
12:00 - 1:30 PM |
LUNCH |
1:30 - 1:50 PM |
When a TOP Gene is Gone
James Wang - Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University |
1:50 - 2:10 PM |
Supercoil Domain Analyses of Chromosomes Tuned to Different Levels of
Torsional Strain: E. coli and Salmonella
N. Patrick Higgins - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
2:10 - 2:30 PM |
Supercoiled Minicircle DNA as a Tool to Probe DNA Structure and the Enzymes that Act on DNA
E. Lynn Zechiedrich - Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine |
2:30 - 2:40 PM |
DNA Knots, Cats and Tangles
De Witt Sumners - Department of Mathematics, Florida State University |
2:40 - 3:00 PM |
Protein-induced Local DNA Bends Regulate Global Topological Complexity of Recombination Products
Alexander Vologodskii - Department of Chemistry, New York University |
3:00 - 3:30 PM |
BREAK |
3:30 - 3:50 PM |
The Dark Matter of the Gene Expression Program?
Patrick O. Brown - Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine |
3:50 - 4:20 PM |
Molecular Dynamics at Eukaryotic DNA Replication Fork - Lessons from Reiji Okazaki and Nick Cozzarelli
Akio Sugino - Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University |
4:20 - 4:40 PM |
Bullying DNA Around One Molecule at a Time
Paul J. Pease - Cozzarelli Lab, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley |
4:45 - 5:00 PM |
Nick at the Academy
Bruce Alberts - National Academy of Sciences |
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6:30 PM |
Reception and Dinner
Windsor Court
Hs Lordships Restaurant
During the meal we will have an open time for people
to show slides or to share remembrances for Nick.
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