ANNUAL MEETING CANBERRA 2 – 5 May 2000
Symposium themes
Overview
Changes in the global environment
Mind and brain
Energy
Molecular structure and recognition
IT, telecommunications and control in the Web era
Genetic engineering of plants and animals
The universe: Looking out looking forward
Ageing
Molecular structure and recognition
This session looks at structural genomics, describing what is known about protein structures to date and the problem of filling in the huge gaps that will emerge from the Human Genome Project. It covers the development of new medicines from protein structures (the so-called 'rational drug design'); and molecular recognition, the interactions between proteins and the complexity that this introduces in understanding living systems.
Speakers
Dr Tom Garrett
Biomolecular Research Institute
Structural genomics – giving some shape to the flood of information
Abstract
Dr Jenny Martin
University of Queensland
Designer medicines – molecules of the future
Paper
Dr Doug Hilton
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the Cooperative Research Centre for Cellular Growth Factors
Liberation! Biomedical science in the post-genome era
Paper
