Award lectures for ASBMB's 2007 Annu...( erkeley will describe a new family of ...)

erkeley, will describe a new family of proteins called quino-enzymes. Most enzymes can interact with each other through small molecules called coenzymes that attach to the enzymes' surfaces, but quino-enzymes display coenzymes inside their structure. Klinman will describe some of the unexpected features of these quino-enzymes.

MONDAY, APRIL 30

Fritz Lipmann Lectureship - 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m., Ballroom C
"PPARs: Running Around Obesity"
RONALD M. EVANS, Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, Calif. will present the latest findings on the potential anti-obesity effects of a receptor located on cell nuclei called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPAR-delta). The receptor is already known to regulate inflammation, suggesting it may be an effective drug against heart disease. Evans and his team have shown that PPAR-delta helps the liver resume its normal function in obese mice. Evans will discuss how PPAR-delta activation in muscle can dramatically enhance running endurance, producing a strain of marathon mice.

TUESDAY, MAY 1

Schering-Plough Research Institute Award - 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m., Ballroom C
"Towards an RNA Splicing Code"
CHRISTOPHER B. BURGE, Associate Professor of Biology at MIT, will discuss the latest results on how a messenger RNA is modified by removing its non-coding portions before being used to produce proteins. He will present some of the key players (proteins and RNA) that induce these changes and how they interact with each other.

Howard K. Schachman Public Service Award - 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m., Room 201
"Public Policy and Biomedical Research"
MARY WOOLLEY, President and CEO of Research!America, the nation's largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance, will comment on the current public and political climate for medical research and discuss why and how researchers can becom
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Contact: Pat Pages
ppages@asbmb.org
301-634-7366
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
23-Apr-2007

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