Physical Chemistry of Isotopes
- Max Wolfsberg (University of California, Irvine), Discussion Leader
- Myung W. Lee (Westinghouse, Savannah River), "Isotope effects in metal hydrides"
- Alex van Hook (University of Tennessee), "Isotope effects on polarizability in liquids"
Tunneling in Biologic Systems
- Dick Schowen (University of Kansas), Discussion Leader
- Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (University of Notre Dame), "Including quantum effects in the simulatipn of photon transfer: How the hydrogen hops"
- Casey Hynes (University of Colorado), "Quantum proton and hydride transfer in enzymes"
- Dexter Northrop (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "Pressure effects on isotope effects in enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
Isotope Effects in Biologic Radical Generating Systems
- Bridgette Barry (University of Minnesota), Discussion Leader
- Jerry Babcock (Michigan State University), "Electron magnetic resonances, isotopes, and amino acid radical cofactors in enzyme catalysis"
- John Kozarich (Merck & Co., Inc.), "Pyruvate formate lyase: Isotope effects on enzyme activation and catalysis"
Enzymatic H-Transfer Catalysis
- Maurice Kreevoy (University of Minnesota), Discussion Leader
- William Bachovchin (Tufts University), "Do serine proteinases use low barrier hydrogen bonds?"
- Perry Frey (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "Low barrier hydrogen bonds in chymotrypsin and simple compounds"
- David Silverman (University of Florida), "Proton transfer in the catalytic mechanism of carbonic anhydrase"
Isotopes on Atmospheric Geoscience
- Stanley Tyler (University of California, Irvine), Discussion Leader
- Paul Quay (University of Washington), "The increase of atmospheric methane concentration: Determining the source from isotopic measurements"
- Mark Thiemens (University of California, San Diego), "Recent applications of mass independent isotope effects: From the lab to Mars and beyond"
Isotope Effects as Probes of Mechanism
- Martin Saunders (Yale University), Discussion Leader
- Floyd Romesberg (University of California, Berkeley), "Temperature-independent kinetic isope effects: Contribution of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) to proton transfer in polyatomic molecules"
- Helmut Schwarz (Technischen Universitat, Berlin, Germany), "Mechanisms of transition metal mediated C-H/C-C bond activations as probed by isotope effects"
- Ken Westaway (Laurentian University, Canada), "Factors affecting the magnitude of secondary alpha hydrogen-deuterium kinetic isotope effects"
Isotopic Fractionation in Biologic Systems
- Al Mildvan (Johns Hopkins University), Discussion Leader
- Vern Anderson (Case Western Reserve University), "Quantifying ground state enzyme-substrate interactions: A role for equilibrium isotope effects on binding"
- John Markley (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "Measurement of isotopic fractionalization factors by NMR spectroscopy"
- Hanns-Ludwig Schmidt (Technischen Universitat, Munchen, Germany), "Kinetic isotope effects on enzyme-catalyzed key reactions in plants and isotopic patterns in natural products"
Heavy Atom Effects in Biological Systems
- Gerhard Gebauer (Universitat Bayreuth, Germany), Discussion Leader
- Mo Cleland (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "The use of 13C, 15N, and 18O isotope effects in determining enzyme mechanisms"
- Anette Giesemann (Institut fur Productions und Oekotoxologie Bundesforschungsanstalt fur Landwirthshaft, Germany), "Stable sulfur isotopes in terrestrial ecosystem research: Methodological aspects and examples of application"
- Vern Schramm (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), "Isotope effects and transition states for N-ribohydrolases"
Dinosaur Paleobiology
- Jake Bigeleisen (SUNY at Stony Brook), Discussion Leader
- Reese Barrick (North Carolina State University), "The use of oxygen isotopes in assessing thermal regulation of the Dinosauria"
- Yehoshua Kolodny (Hebrew University, Israel), "The limits of stable isotope paleobiology - Can we reconstruct dinosaur physiology from phosphatic fossils?"
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