Chairs: Zippi Shakked, W.Saenger. Bellow: Wilma Olson, P. Joshi, contd...

Keynotes: Nobel Laureates Ada Yonath, Weizmann, & Jack Szostak, Harvard.

Exciting Developments: David Shaw, Shaw Res. & Columbia Univ.; Frank Alber, USC; David Deamer, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; Dima Kozakov, Boston Univ.

Protein-Protein Interactions: Barry Honig, Columbia Univ.; Anna Panchenko, NCBI; Param-jit Arora, New York Univ; Udo Heinemann, MDC, Berlin.

Protein Interactions & Folding : George Rose, John Hopkins; Arieh Ben-Naim, Hebrew Univ., Israel; Robert Jernigan, Iowa Sate Univ.; Shoshana Wodak, HSC, Toronto, Canada.

DNA-Protein Interactions: Richard Mann, Columbia Univ.; Zhiping Weng, Univ. of Mass.; Tali Haran, Technion; Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Technion, Israel; Barry Stoddard, Stanford Univ.

Chairs contd. T. Bishop, T. Cheatham,

Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii, Angel Garcia,

Nick Hud, B. Jayram, V. Makeev, L. Marky,

J. Perez, R. Rohs, E. Di Mauro, H. Hansma.

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Igor Lednev, Univ. at Albany; Liz Rhoades, Yale Univ.; Vinod Subramanian, Univ. of Twente, Holland; Sara Bondos, Texas; Antonio del Sol, Luxembourg.

Nanopores: Meni Wanunu, Northestern Univ.; Alexander Grosberg, NYU; M. Muthukumar, Univ. of Mass.; Hagan Bayley, Univ. of Oxford, UK; Liviu Movileanu, Syracuse Univ.

Origin of Life: George Fox, Univ. of Houston; G. Caetano-Anollés, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana; P. Holliger, MRC, Cambridge, UK; Irene Chan, Harvard; Sa-manta Pino, Univ. of Rome, Italy; Linda McGown, RPI; Günter Wächtershåauser, FRG; Charlie Carter, UNC, Chapel Hill; Zakharia Frenkel, Univ. of Haifa, Israel; Sudha Rajamani, Iiser, Pune, India.

Albany 2013: The 18th Conversation, June 11-15, 2013Presented by the Dept. of Chemistry & Biological Sciences

University at Albany SUNY, Albany NY 12222http://www.jbsdonline.com/18th_Conversation.html

Contact: Prof. Ramaswamy H. Sarma: rhs07@albany.edu

Enzyme Dynamics: Michael Levitt, Stanford Univ.; Arieh Warshel, USC.