Preliminary Announcement:
AMS
1999 Fall Central Sectional Meeting special session on DNA Topology
October 8-10, 1999
University of Texas
at Austin
Austin, TX
Sponsored by:
Organizers: Isabel Darcy and Makkuni Jayaram
Many biological processes including replication, transcription, and
recombination affect topological properties of DNA. Enzymes such as topoisomerase
and recombinase can cut and reseal DNA and thus often change the topology
of circular DNA. For example, these enzymes can change the linking number
of double stranded DNA and can form DNA knots and links. The mathematics
of topology and geometry has been very useful in modeling both enzyme action
on DNA and the DNA itself.
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This special session is part of a larger American Mathematical Society
(AMS) meeting. The AMS web page for this meeting can be found at http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2041_program.html
Additional information regarding other conference events, location,
SPECIAL AIRFARES,
lodging, austin weather, directions, etc, please see
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Tentative special
session schedule: Note tutorials start at 8:30am, Friday morning,
Oct. 8.
List of Speakers:
Francisco Javier
Arsuaga
Dorothy
Buck
Hugo
Cabrera
Ibarra
Corinne Cerf
Bernard Coleman
Sean Colloms
Richard W
Deibler
Marcia
Fenley
Erica Flapan
Ian Grainge
Kenny Hunt
Natasha Jonoska
Louis Kauffman
Steve Levene
David Lilley
David Miller
Ken Millett
Jack Quine
Joaquim Roca
Jon Simon
Andrzej Stasiak
David Swigon
Mariel Vazquez
Alexander Vologodskii
E. Lynn Zechiedrich
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