3rd Semi-Annual ClustoxDNA Meeting
29 September - 2 October 2005
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kostis Palamas Building
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PROGRAM
29 September, Thursday
18:00 – 21:00
Welcome Coctail – Buffet
Kostis Palamas Building, 2nd floor
30 September, Friday
9:00 – 11:00
Chairman: Dr. Sophie Bellon
9:00 – 9:40
Dr. Crina Cismas “Glycogen phosphorylase as a "tool" for the structure determination and distribution pattern of oxidized DNA bases”
9:40 – 10:20
Dr. Antonio Salgado “Independent synthesis of modified nucleosides, products of guanine oxidation”
10:20 – 11:00
Pause
11:00 – 13:00
Chairman: Aaron Alt
11:00 – 11:40
Simone Arnold“ A new approach for the incorporation of the FaPy.dA lesion into oligonucleotides”
11:40 – 12:20
Dr Maria Izquierdo “Synthesis of a carbocycle analogue of the 5-hydroxy-5-methylhydantoin, incorporation into oligonucleotides and comparison with the natural DNA lesion”
12:20 – 13:00
Dr. Boleslaw Karwowski “Effect of (5'S)-5',8-cyclo-2'deoxyadenosine on the conformation of di and trinucleotides. Influence of cdA on base-excision repair system. Experimental and theoretical approaches”
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 15:50
Chairman: Dr. Yiannis Lykakis
14:30 – 15:10
Dr. Maria Luisa Navacchia “An insight into the stereoselectivity of the C5'-adenosyl radical cyclization onto the purine moiety”
15:10 – 15:50
Maria Luisa Russo “Chemical Radiation Studies of 8-Bromo-2'-deoxyinosine and 8-bromoinosine in aqueous solutions”
15:50 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:50
Chairman: Siobhan Cuniffe
16:30 – 17:10
Dr. V. Tamara Perchyonok “Structural and chemical properties of 2'-deoxyadenosin-1'-yl radical”
17:10 – 17:50
Antonio Manetto "Excess electron transfer through DNA investigated with differently strong electron acceptors reveals complex sequence dependence"
20:30
Dinner at the "Strofi" Tavern, 25 Rovertou Galli & Propyleon str.
1 October, Saturday
9:00 – 10:20
Chairman: Dr. Crina Cismas
Cecilia Paris “Photochemical studies and time resolved experiments on synthetic nucleoside derivatives and ketoprofen thymine dyads”
Jerome Trzcionka “Cycloreversion of pyrimidine oxetanes through single electron transfer from excited carprofen derivatives”
Chairman: Simone Arnold
Herve Menoni "DNA-DNA crosslinking at guanines: a new and major class of oxidatively generated damage by UV laser biphotonic ionization in DNA"
Dr Andrij Khobta “Repair kinetics of clustered oxidative DNA lesions in mammalian cells"
Dr Sophie Bellon “Thymine glycol within clustered DNA damage: influence in damage excision by glycosylases, and the base excision repair of an abasic site or a single strand break by XRS5 nuclear extracts ”
13:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 17:00
Chairman: Prof. Dr . Peter O'Neill
Business meeting
Dinner at the "Acropol" Restaurant (3 Filomoussou str. Plaka)
2 October, Sunday
10:00 – 12:00
Guided tour to the Acropolis and surrounding archaeological sites.
and...Beautiful Conall