Sunday evening:

• Christopher T. Walsh (Harvard Medical School): Molecular Studies on Bacterial Resistance to Vancomycin
• Gregory A. Petsko (Brandeis): Crystallography and mechanism: where are we and where are we going?

Monday morning:

• JoAnne Stubbe (MIT): Radicals, Radicals, and Yet More Radicals
• John Lipscomb (Minnesota): Intermediates in the Substrate and Oxygen Activation Cycle of Methane Monooxygenase
• Ruma Banerjee (Nebraska): Characterization of Biradical Intermediates on Methylmalonyl-CoA Mutase
• Perry A. Frey (Wisconsin): Lysine 2,3-amino mutase: characterization of substrate-based radical intermediates

Monday evening:

• Duilio Arigoni (ETH): Recent Discoveries in the Isoprenoid Biosynthetic Pathway
• Barbara Imperiali (Cal Tech): Protein Glycosylation: Specificity and Function
• Chris Abell (Cambridge): Mechanistic Studies on Biosynthetic Enzymes

Tuesday morning:

• Chaitan Khosla (Stanford): Non-Template Based Multi-Enzyme Assemblies: ThePolyketide Synthase Example
• Mohamed A. Marahiel (Marburg): Biosynthesis, Regulation and Design of Peptide Antibiotics
• Toni N. Kutchan (Munich): New Insights into the Mechanisms of the Enzymes of Isoquinoline Alkaloid Biosynthesis
• C. Dale Poulter (Utah): Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthase. Structure and Function

Tuesday evening:

• Susan Taylor (UCSD): Structure and function relationships in the cAMP-dependent protein kinase
• Zhong-Yin Zhang (Einstein): Mechanism of Catalysis by Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases
• Gregory L. Verdine (Harvard): Keepers of the Code: Structural and Mechanistic Studies on Proteins that Decorate and Mend the Genome

Wednesday morning:

• Gerald T. Babcock (Michigan State): Water/Oxygen Metabolism in Metalloprotein Active Sites
• Shinya Yoshikawa (Himeji Institute): Structure of cytochrome c oxidase
• Dennis H. Flint (DuPont): Initial Steps in the Synthesis of Fe-S Clusters

Wednesday evening:

• Peter T. Lansbury, Jr. (MIT): Molecular Mechanism of Amyloid Formation in Neurodegenerative Diseases
• David Bramhill (Merck): The Role of the Tubulin-Like FtsZ Protein as a Component of Bacterial Cell Division Machine
• Mark Levy (Smith Kline Beecham): Cathepsin O: A Novel Cysteine Protease Selectively Expressed in Human Osteoclasts

Thursday morning:

• Thomas Scanlon (UCSF): Enzyme Design and Evolution
• David Bartell (Whitehead Institute): New Ribozymes from Random RNA Sequences
• Short talks (3) selected from posters

Thursday evening:

• Charles Craik (UCSF): Engineered Metalloregulation of Proteolytic Activity
• William F. DeGrado (DuPont-Merck/Penn): De Novo Protein Design