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Call for abstracts!
We are encouraging people to submit abstracts for the poster session on Thursday. Please use the submission form to submit your abstract. The deadline is April 15th.
Plenary Speakers
James Berger,
University of California, Berkeley
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Alexander Grosberg,
New York University
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John Luecke,
University of Texas at Austin
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John Marko,
Northwestern University
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David Sherratt,
University of Oxford
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Carla Tesi,
University of Bologna
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Todd Yeates,
University of California, Los Angeles
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Program
An on-line program for the entire conference is now available.
Meeting Information
- April 22–24, UCSF Mission Bay campus
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April 22, 1:30pm–5:15pm, Genentech Hall Auditorium
April 23, 9:00am–12:20pm, Rock Hall Auditorium
April 23, 2:00pm–5:15pm, Genentech Hall Auditorium
April 23, 6:00pm–9:00pm, Poster session, Fisher Banquet Room East, Rutter Community Center
April 24, 9:00am–5:15pm, Genentech Hall Auditorium - April 25–26, 8am–6pm, San Francisco State University main campus
- SCI210 (Science building)
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Saturday and Sunday sessions will be held at San Francisco State University (main campus) as part of the Spring Section Western Meeting of the American Mathematical Society. The AMS session is entitled Applications of knot theory to the entanglement of biopolymers.Meeting Scope
DNA topology is the study of geometrical and topological properties of DNA loops and circular DNA molecules. Virtually every cellular reaction involving DNA is influenced by its topology or has topological effects. Approaches to solve problems in DNA topology arise from experimental biology, biochemistry, mathematics, computer science and physics. This meeting will focus on direct applications of topology, geometry and polymer physics to the study of biological macromolecules. Of particular interest are the entanglement of biopolymers and the action of enzymes that change the topology of DNA. The scientific sessions will cover DNA packing and chromosome organization, DNA-enzyme interactions (with special emphasis on site-specific recombinases and topoisomerases), polymer models (discrete and continuous), and applications of knot theory and low-dimensional topology to DNA and proteins.
Student and postdoc participation is strongly encouraged, as well as participation of women and underrepresented minorities. Members of these groups requesting a reduced registration fee should contact the organizers at info@dnatopology.info
Organizers
Javier Arsuaga, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Ken Millett, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rob Scharein, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Mariel Vazquez, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Registration Fees
All participants are requested to register with the AMS. The registration desk will be located on the third (main) floor of Thornton Hall, and will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and 8:00 a.m. to noon on Sunday. Talks will take place in the Science Building and Thornton Hall. Registration fees are US$40 for AMS or CMS members, US$60 for nonmembers; and US$5 for students, unemployed mathematicians, and emeritus members. Fees are payable on site by cash, check, or credit card.
In addition to this we will charge a registration fee of US$60 (US$15 for students) for the first portion of the meeting. The registration fees will be accepted on site.
Abstract submission
Abstracts (and titles) for invited talks may be submitted on the abstracts submission page. You will need the username and password that were emailed to you in the formal invitation. If you are submitting an abstract for a poster, please use the alternate submission form.
- Invited speakers
- If you have been invited to give a talk, please submit the title for your talk to info@dnatopology.info by January 31, 2009. We have planned sessions on DNA packing and chromosome organization, DNA-enzyme interactions (with special emphasis on site-specific recombinases and topoisomerases), polymer models (discrete and continuous), and applications of knot theory and low-dimensional topology to DNA and proteins. In your email, please also include if you have any preference on the session that you would speak.
- Contributed presentations
- All participants are encouraged to submit an abstract for the poster session. A few of these will be selected for short talks. We strongly encourage student and postdoc participation, with particular emphasis on women and underrepresented minorities.
Events
There will be a conference dinner in a local restaurant on Saturday April 25th
Poster session on Thursday April 23rd, 2009. (location TBA)
Arriving/Departing to/from San Francisco
San Francisco has a main international airport (SFO) located south of the city. From the airport one can go to the city of San Francisco by taxi, shuttle (e.g. SuperShuttle http://www.supershuttle.com/default.aspx?content=SanFrancisco , cost $17 SFO to Union Square) and BART (http://www.bart.gov/, cost $5.35 SFO to Powell Street Station).
Sponsors
Student Academic Affairs, University of California, San Francisco
College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University
Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
Biology Department, San Francisco State University