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8th International Meeting on Recognition Studies in Nucleic Acids
The first NACON (Nucleic Acid Conference) meeting was held at The University of
Sheffield in 1989. There have been subsequent meetings since then in 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007. The eighth meeting will be held under the auspices of the Nucleic Acids Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and will take place as follows:
Sunday 12th to Thursday 16th September 2010 at The Edge, The University of Sheffield
For the latest version of the programme (updated Sept 6th) and updated NACON news see relevant pages.
As before, the themes of the Conference will be
devoted to interactions between:
Nucleic Acids : Nucleic Acids
Small molecules : Nucleic Acids
DNA
: Proteins
RNA
: Proteins
The focus of the meeting is on all aspects of Nucleic
Acid Recogniton. The Meeting will include more than twenty internationally
renowned invited speakers who will deliver either forty-minute plenary or thirty-minute invited lectures. The confirmed
speakers for NACON VIII are:
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Shankar Balasubramanian (Cambridge) | |
Peter McGlynn (Aberdeen) |
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Marvin Caruthers (Boulder) | |
David Millar (Scripps) |
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Peter Burgers (Washington) | |
Richard Roberts (NEB) |
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Thomas Carell (Munich) | |
Carol Robinson (Oxford) |
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Nynke Dekker (Delft) | |
Marina Rodnina (MPI Göttingen) |
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Mark Dillingham (Bristol) | |
Marshall Stark (Glasgow) |
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Aidan Doherty (Sussex) | |
Alison Smith (Cambridge) |
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Keith Fox (Southampton) | |
Scott Strobel (Yale) |
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Steve Halford (Bristol) | |
Mark Szczelkun (Bristol) |
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Laurence Hurley (Arizona) | |
John Tainer (Scripps) |
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Caroline Kisker (Würzburg) | |
Elmar Weinhold (Aachen) |
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Dagmar Klostermeier (Basel) | |
Malcolm White (St Andrews) |
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David Lilley (Dundee) | |
Dale Wigley (CRUK) |
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Reinhard Lührmann (Göttingen) |
As well as the above plenary speakers we are, as usual, eager for you to submit abstracts to NACON VIII for inclusion in the programme as either short (20 minute) talks or poster presentations. We are particularly keen to encourage younger scientists to participate
If you would like to sponsor or exhibit
at NACON VIII please contact us. The organisation committee for NACON VIII
are: Dr Jane Grasby, Dr David Williams, Prof David Hornby, Prof Mike Blackburn, Dr John Rafferty, Dr Mark Dickman, Prof
Chris Hunter, Dr Nick Williams and Dr Jim Thomas
To contact us click here.last
updated 6th
September 2010