| Session A: A Historical Perspective Discussion Leader 	Richard Hill (Georgia) A Personal View of the Evolution
	of Total Synthesis 	Gilbert Stork (Columbia)
 Session B: 	Synthetic Methods and/or Total Synthesis Discussion Leader 	Dee Casteel (Bucknell) Computational Organometallic Chemistry:
	Synthesis of (+)-4-Androstene-3,16-dione 	Doug Taber (Delaware)
 General Approach for the Synthesis of
	Sarpagine/Ajmaline Alkaloids 	Jim Cook (Wisconsin)
 O'Donnell's Schiff Bases in Organic Synthesis: Amino Acids
	as Chiral Starting Materials for Natural Products 	Robin Polt (Arizona)
 Novel Cycloaddition Strategies for
	Natural Product Synthesis 	Jim Rigby (Wayne State)
 Session C:  Medicinal Chemistry Discussion Leader 	David Uehling (Glaxo Wellcome) Chemical Adventures with Benzodiazepine
	CCK-A Agonists 	Elizabeth Sugg (Glaxo Wellcome)
 Design and Synthesis of Novel Nonsteroidal
	Ligands for the Glucocorticoid Receptor 	Phil Kym (Abbott)
 The Chemistry, Isolation, and
	Characterization of ABT-281 	Steve Wittenberger (Abbott)
 Novel Selective Adrenergic Modulators for the
	Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Diseases 	Tony Shuker (Eli Lilly)
 Session D: Isolation and Total Synthesis Discussion Leader	Ada Casares (Stockton State) New Antitumor Agents firom Blue-Green Algae 	Dick Moore (Hawaii)
 Synthetic Studies with
	Novel Marine Ionophores 	Gerald Pattenden (Nottingham)
 Session E: Biorganic and/or Medicinal Chemistry Discussion Leader 	Frank Fang (Eisai Research Institute) Enantioselective Total Synthesis ofAvarol and AvaroneEmmanuel A. Theodorakis (Univ. of California at San Diego)
 Synthesis, Solid State and Solution Characterization
	and Anti-diabetic Properties of Vanadium Compounds 	Debbie Crans (Colorado State)
 Targeting the DNA Major Groove
	with Helical Proteins 	Jumi Shin (Pittsburgh)
 Organometallic Photonucleases:
	Novel DNA-Cleaving Agents 	Debbie Mohler (Emory)
 Session F: Synthetic Methods and/or Total Synthesis Discussion Leader 	Agnes Kim-Meade Enantioselective Conjugate Additions
	in Natural Product Synthesis 	Mukund Sibi (North Dakota)
 Synthetic Approaches to Several Natural Products
	Possessing Quaternary Amine Centers 	Yasafumi Ohfune (Osaka City)
 A Radical Approach to
	1,3,5 	(2n+1) Polyol Synthesis Phil Garner (Case Western Reserve)
 Session G: Total Synthesis and Chemical Biology Discussion Leader 	Tappey Jones (Virginia Military Institute) Complex Molecule Total Synthesis:
	Recent Advances 	Amos Smith (Pennsylvania)
 Desperately Seeking Chemistry in Nature 	Jerry Meinwald (Cornell)
 Session H: Synthetic Methods and/or Total Synthesis Discussion Leader 	Bill Donaldson (Marquette) Synthesis of Substances Influences
		Plant Protection and Physiology 	Takeshi Kitahara (Tokyo)
 Studies Toward the Tricyclic Core of Phomactin A 	Nancy Totah (Iowa)
 AIterative Approaches to Fused
		Ether Natural Products 	Jon Rainer (Arizona)
 Chemistry and Biology of Epothilones 	Dieter Schinzer (Magdeburg)
 Session I: Medicinal Chemistry Discussion Leader 	Susan Saboloy (Pfizer) Design, Synthesis and Anti-Tumor Activity of
	Conformationally Constrained, Nonpeptide
	Farnesyl Transferase Inhibitors 	Theresa Wiliams (Merck)
 A New Class of Uridyl Peptide Antibiotics:
	Stereochemical Elucidation, Total Synthesis,
	and Structure -Activity Relationships 	Remy Lemoine (Microcide)
 Oxazolidines Derivedfrom Dipeptides as
	Potent Inhibitors of Calpain 	Norton Peet (Hoechst Marion)
 Heterocyclic MMP Inhibitors:
	Synthesis, SAR and Efficacy 	Mike Natchus (Procter and Gamble)
 Session J: Synthetic Methods and Total Synthesis Discussion Leader 	Rebecca Hoye (Macalester College) Asymmetric Two-Center Catalysis-Application
	to Natural Product Synthesis 	Masakatsu Shibasaki (Tokyo)
 The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum:
	New Reactions and Novel Medicinal Leads 	Paul Wender (Stanford)
 Session K: Synthetic Methods and/or Total Synthesis Discussion Leader 	Cynthia McClure (Montana State) The Evolution of the Synthesis
	of PNU-95666E 	Peter Wuts (Pharmacia & Upjohn)
 3 -Amino-1, 5-dioxaspiro[3.2]hexanes:
	Versatile Templates for Sphingolipid Synthesis 	Amy Howell (Connecticut)
 A Formal Cycloaddition Strategy
	for Natural Product Synthesis 	Richard Hsung (Minnesota)
 Studies Towards the Synthesis
	of the Spongistatins 	Ian Paterson (Cambridge)
 Session L: Synthetic Methods and/or Total Synthesis Discussion Leader 	David Becker (Florida Int.) Lactam-Based Synthetic Methodology 	Mike Smith (Connecticut)
 Synthetic Studies of Correolide 	Bill Parsons (Merck)
 Bromobenzene: How Sweet It Is! 	Carl Johnson (Wayne State)
 Efficiency Factor in the Synthesis
		of Complex Molecules 	Tomas Hudlicky (Florida)
 Session M: Synthetic Methods and Bioorganic Chemistry Discussion Leader 	John Leonard (Salford) Mercuric Triflate-induced
		Olefin Cyclization 	Mugio Nishizawa (Tokushima Bunri)
 Bio-organic Studies on Vision 	Koji Nakanishi (Columbia)
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