Session: Nucleic Acids as Drug Targets


CARB		Monday, August 20, 2007

8:00 AM-11:50 AM BCEC -- 208, Oral
Nucleic Acids as Drug Targets
Structure and Function
Organizer:	Dev P. Arya
Presiding:	Danith Ly
8:00 AM		Introductory Remarks
8:10 AM	16	Progress toward a chemical code for targeting RNA Matthew D. Disney
8:40 AM	17	Interplay of chemical modifications and hydration in RNA studied using osmotic stress Eriks Rozners
9:10 AM	18	Targeting nucleic acid structures Jonathan B. Chaires
9:40 AM		Intermission
9:50 AM	19	The chemical and biological consequences of deoxyribose oxidation in DNA Peter C. Dedon
10:20 AM	20	Structure-based identification of functional regions in the human genome Thomas D. Tullius, Stephen C. J. Parker, Eric Bishop, Loren Hansen, Elliott H. Margulies
10:50 AM	21	Nucleic acid derivatization with selenium for structure and function studies of nucleic acids as drug targets Zhen Huang, Jiansheng Jiang, Jia Sheng, Jozef Salon, Julianne Caton-Williams
11:20 AM	22	Optical spectroscopic properties of DNA aptamers G. Reid Bishop

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