Preliminary Program
Enzyme Engineering XVII
November 9-14, 2003
Hilton of Santa Fe
Sweeney Conference Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Conference Co-Chairs:
Professor Stephen Benkovic
Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Jeffrey Moore
Merck & Co., Inc.
Professor Chi-Huey Wong
The Scripps Research Institute
ECI
Engineering Conferences International
6 MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
T: 1-718-260-3743 - F: 1-718-260-3754
info@eci.poly.edu - www.engconfintl.org/3ae.html
Sunday, November 9, 2003
04:00 pm – 07:00 pm
Registration (Hilton Hotel)
06:00 pm – 07:30 pm
Welcome reception (Hilton Hotel)
07:30 pm
Dinner (Hilton Hotel)
Monday, November 10, 2003
07:00 am – 08:30 am
Breakfast (Hilton Hotel)
08:30 am – 08:55 am
Conference Opening
Welcome:
Conference Chairs
Allen Laskin, ECI
08:55 am
SESSION I
Directed Evolution of Biocatalysts – Part 1
Chairperson: TBD
09:00 am – 09:45 am
Richard Sterner
Evolution and design of (beta/alpha)-barrel enzymes
9:45 am – 10:30 am
Barry Stoddard
Engineering homing endonucleases to recognize novel target
sites: The creation of gene-specific reagents
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Mark Burk
Discovery and optimization of enzymes for chemical
transformations through biodiversity access and directed evolution
technologies
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Nicholas Turner
Deracemization reactions using enzymes obtained by directed
evolution
12:30 pm – 02:30 pm
Lunch
Poster Session #1
02:30 pm – 05:00 pm
Free time for recreation/ ad hoc meetings
(poster area remains open)
05:00 pm -
SESSION II
Directed Evolution of Biocatalysts – Part 2
Chairperson: TBD
05:00 pm –05:45 pm
Don Hilvert
Genetic selection as a tool for creating and characterizing
enzymes
05:45 pm –06:30 pm
George Georgiou
Engineering of highly selective, highly active enzymes
06:30 pm –07:15 pm
Ranjini Chatterjee
Applications of gene shuffling in commercial biocatalytic
processes.
08:00 pm
Dinner (Hilton Hotel)
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
07:00 am – 08:30 am
Breakfast (Hilton Hotel)
08:30 am –
SESSION III
Industrial Biocatalys