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December 1, 1999 Biophysics symposium Friday and SaturdayWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers from colleges and universities throughout the Midwest will be on the Purdue University campus Friday and Saturday (12/3-4) for the Fifth Annual Purdue Biophysics Symposium. The conference emphasizes research in the interdisciplinary fields of biophysics and structural biology. These fields are at the cutting edge of modern research in the life sciences, and the structural group at Purdue is recognized internationally for its study of viruses, proteins and nucleic acids, said William Cramer, the Henry Koffler Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue. The symposium will kick off at 8 p.m. Friday with a public lecture by W. Chiu, a professor at the Baylor University School of Medicine. Chiu's talk, "The Structural Biology of the Herpes Virus Capsid," will be followed by a reception. On Saturday, Purdue students and postdoctoral scholars will make research presentations from 9:30 to 11:40 a.m. and from 1 to 5 p.m. All sessions will be in Room 1-136, Lynn Hall, and are open to the public. Details on the symposium and abstracts of the presentations are available on the World Wide Web. The annual symposium is made possible by a training grant in biophysics from the National Institutes of Health. This year's event also received funding from the Molecular Structure Corp. and Schering-Plough Corp. The event is sponsored by Purdue's Biophysics/Structural Biology Program, the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program, the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Departments of Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Physics and Statistics. Source: William A. Cramer, (765) 494-4956, wac@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu Writer: Susan Gaidos, (765) 494-2081; susan_gaidos@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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