International Sumposium “Recent Advances in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics”

The team of the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry invites colleagues and friends to participate in an international symposium entitled “Recent Advances in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics”. The Symposium scheduled on October 15, 2015 is dedicated to Professor Wojciech J. Stec on the occasion of his 75 Birthday.

The Conference page:  http://almanac.pl/2015_cbmm_symposium/

Invited speakers:

• Gerald Zon (TriLink BioTechnologies, San Diego, CA) Hot Start PCR: Design and Applications of Thermo-Sensitive Oligonucleotide Primers and dNTPs for Improved PCR Performance
• Marvin H. Caruthers (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) Oligonucleotide Synthesis Interfaced with Molecular Biology and Nanotechnology
• Naoki Sugimoto (FIBER and Konan University, Kobe, Japan) Quadruplexes as New Targets of Nucleic Acid Drugs
• Jyoti Chattopadhyaya (University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden) Carba-LNA Modified DNA Can Control the Phosphate degradation of the Complementary Target mRNA Strand by harnessing the Relative Hydration in the Hybrid Duplex
• G. Michael Blackburn (University of Sheffield, England) Phosphate  Stability and Transferability – the Paradox of Life
• Janez Plavec (Slovenian NMR Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia) High-resolution NMR structure of a DNA quadruplex containing ALS and FTD related GGGGCC repeat
• Xianbin Yang (AM Biotechnologies, Houston, TX) Phosphate backbone-modified RNA: not an easy path to pursue
• Lihe Zhang (Peking University, Beijing, China) Study on Isonucleoside (isoNA) incorporation around cleavage site of passenger strand of siRNA and in loop region of thrombin binding aptamers
• Kazunari Taira (Tokyo University and Graduate School of Social Welfare, Tokyo, Japan) Revisit of the most stable monosaccharide “Glucose” and the most stable disaccharide “Trehalose”
• Zhen Xi (Nankai University, Tianjin, China) Nucleic acid nanoparticle construction by PCR using flexible branched primers
• Wlodzimierz Krzyzosiak (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of PAS, Poznan, Poland)  title will be given soon

More information will be available soon.
Detailed questions, please direct to Prof. Barbara Nawrot () or Prof. Piotr Guga () .