Quadruplex Nucleic Acids

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We are holding a one-day Symposium on 'Quadruplex Nucleic Acids' at the School of Pharmacy on Wednesday 24th September 2008, which will be open to everyone interested in this area. There will be a number of invited talks, together with short contributed talks and a Poster Session. There is no Registration fee for the meeting, although we are asking all participants to register and pay £15 towards the cost of refreshments and a sandwich lunch. If you are interested in attending please complete the Registration Forms.

Programme for One-Day Symposium
Wednesday 24th September 2008
The School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square London

Quadruplex Nucleic Acids

10.00am - Arrival & Coffee - Area adjacent to Refectory

10.30am - Introduction - Stephen Neidle

10.35am - 11.05am - Shankar Balasubramanian
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
"G-quadruplexes and gene regulation"

11.05am - 11.35am - Jean-Louis Mergny
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle USM 503
Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes (Laboratoire de Biophysique), Paris
"RNA and DNA quadruplexes"

11.35am - 12.05pm - Sylvain Ladame
ISIS, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
"Evidence of a functional interaction between DNA quadruplexes and hPARP1"

12.05pm - 12.35pm - John Moses
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham
"A Click Chemistry approach towards G-Quadruplex stabilising Ligands"

12.35pm - 1.05pm - Jean-Francois Riou
Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Paris
"Cellular effects of G4 Ligands"

1.05 - 2.00pm - LUNCH - Area adjacent to Refectory

2.00pm - 2.30pm - Julian Huppert
BSS, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
"G-quadruplexes and the genome"

2.30pm - 3.00pm - Alan Todd
CR-UK Biomolecular Structure Group, The School of Pharmacy
"Detecting RNA quadruplexes by free energy minimisation"

3.00pm - 3.45pm - Afternoon Refreshments - Area Adjacent to Refectory

3.45pm - 4.15pm - Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou
Institute Curie, Orsay, France
"Recent developments in metallo-organic G-quadruplex ligands"

4.15 - 4.45 - Ramon Vilar
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
"Interaction of metal complexes with quadruplex DNA"

4.45 pm - General Discussion & Posters