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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

Pause

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

9:00 – 9:40

Cecilia Paris
“Photochemical studies and time resolved experiments on synthetic nucleoside derivatives and ketoprofen thymine dyads”

9:40 – 10:20

Jerome Trzcionka
“Cycloreversion of pyrimidine oxetanes through single electron transfer from excited carprofen derivatives”

10:20 – 11:00

Pause

11:00 – 13:00

Chairman: Simone Arnold

11:00 – 11:40

Herve Menoni
"DNA-DNA crosslinking at guanines: a new and major class of oxidatively generated damage by UV laser biphotonic ionization in DNA"

11:40 – 12:20

Dr Andrij Khobta
“Repair kinetics of clustered oxidative DNA lesions in mammalian cells"

12:20 – 13:00

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

Lunch

15:00 – 17:00

Chairman: Prof. Dr . Peter O'Neill

15:00 – 17:00

Business meeting

 

 

20:30

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