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Forty Years of NMR in Biological Systems
A Symposium to Honor James A. Ferretti, Ph.D.

April 21, 2006 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

8:30a.m.	Welcome	Robert Balaban, Ph.D. Scientific Director, LRP-DIR
8:45 a.m.	NMR Studies on the Metabolism of Spermatozoa	Girjesh Govil, Ph.D. TIFR, Mumbai, India
9:15 a.m.	Positional Information in the Developing Nervous System: Role of the vnd/NK-2 Hoemobox Gene	Marshall Nirenberg, Ph.D. LBG, NHLBI
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	NMR Studies of Slow Functional Dynamics of Proteins	Dennis Torchia, Ph.D. OD, NIDCR
11:00 a.m.	Metal Ions in Integrated Proteomics: an NMR Contribution	Ivano Bertini, Ph.D. University of Florence, Italy
11:30 a.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	The Responsibility of Scientist in view of a Beneficial Future for all Global Citizens	Richard Ernst, Ph.D. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
1:45 p.m.	A Non-invasive Approach to Detect Cardiac Rejection by Cellular and Functional MRI	Chien Ho, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, PA
2:15 p.m.	How Regulatory Proteins Interact with DNA: the lac Repressor System	Robert Kaptein, Ph.D. Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2:45 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	Mapping protein-protein interactions	David Cowburn, Ph.D. New York Structural Biology Center
3:45 p.m.	Weak alignment offers a new NMR view of biomolecular structure	Ad Bax, Ph.D. LCP, NIDDK
4:15 p.m	Closing Remarks	Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. Director, NHLBI