Registration List

Workshop:

Biomolecular Computation:

Its Potential and Applications

Program Chair: John Reif, (Project), Computer Science Dept, Duke University, reif@cs.duke.edu.

Location of Meeting: Room 340, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1145, Arlington, VA 22203.

Date: October 1, 1999, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Meeting URL: www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/BMC/NSFBMCmeeting.html

Agenda.

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Registration List

Nearest airport: Washington/Reagan (previously known as National Airport).

Recommended Hotel: Holiday Inn Arlington Ballston, 4670 N Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia. Phone: 703-243-9800. A block of single and double rooms at $109.95/night will be held under the meeting code "NSF-BMC meeting" from Sept 30-Oct 3, 1999. The deadline for hotel reservations at these rates was Sept 15, but there may be more remaining. This hotel is 2 1/2 blocks from the meeting location at NSF.

Collaborative Biomolecular Computation Projects in Europe, Japan, & the US.

Registration List: University Faculty & Students

(Note: This list has only University personnel. The registration list of Government Program Directors & Managers immediately follows this list.)

Carter Bancroft, Ph.D.

Title: Professor of Physiology and Biophysics

Surface Address: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029

Phone: (212)241-8604

Fax: (212)860-3369

Email: cbancro@smtplink.mssm.edu

Homepage URL: www.mssm.edu/physbio/local/primfac/bancroft.html

Project URL: www.mssm.edu/physbio/local/primfac/bancroft.html

Talk Abstract URL: http://inka.mssm.edu/cb/Abstract.NSF.htm

Talk Title: Genomic Steganography: Amplifiable Microdots

Talk Session: Applications of Biomolecular Computing

Talk URL: http://inka.mssm.edu/cb/http://inka.mssm.edu/cb/NATUREfig.pdf, http://inka.mssm.edu/cb

Talk Abstract URL: http://inka.mssm.edu/cb/Abstract.NSF.htm

Talk Title: Liposome Mediated Biomolecular Computation

Talk Session: Liposome and Cellular Computing

Talk URL: http://inka.mssm.edu/cb/liposome.pdf, http://inka.mssm.edu/cb

Nickolas Chelyapov Ph.D.

Title: Research Scientist

Surface address: University of Southern California, Molecular Biology, ACB 530, 835 W.37th St., University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Phone number: 213-740-8491

Fax number: 213-740-8631

Email address: chelyapo@pollux.usc.edu

Homepage URL: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~pwkr/

Project URL: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~pwkr/

Talk Abstract URL: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~pwkr/NSFabstract.html

Talk Title: Molecular Science: DNA Computation, Exquisite Detection

Talk URL: Talk URL: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~pwkr/NSFpresentation/

Talk Session: Applications of Biomolecular Computing

Talk Joint with: Leonard Adleman

Junghuei Chen

Title:Assistant Professor

Surface address: 105 A Drake Hall, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711

Phone number:302-831-1035

Fax number:302-831-6335

Email address: junghuei@Udel.edu

Homepage URL: www.udel.edu/chem/chen/chen.html

Project URL: www.eecis.udel.edu/~wood/

See Joint Talk with: David Wood

Russell Deaton

Title: Associate Professor

Surface Address: The Department of Electrical Engineering

The University of Memphis

Campus Box 526574

Memphis, TN 38152

Phone: 901-678-3250

Fax: 901-678-5469

Email address: rjdeaton@memphis.edu

Homepage URL: http://engronline.ee.memphis.edu/

Project URL: www.msci.memphis.edu/~garzonm/bmc.html

See Talk Joint with: Max Garzon

Andrew D. Ellington

Title: Associate Professor

Surface Address: University of Texas at Austin, 2500 Speedway/ICMB A4800, Austin, TX 78712

Phone number: 512-232-3424

Fax number: 512-471-7014

Email address: andy.ellington@mail.utexas.edu

Home Page URL: http://speak.icmb.utexas.edu/ellington/links.html

Project URL: http://speak.icmb.utexas.edu/ellington/main.html

Talk Abstract URL: http://speak.icmb.utexas.edu/ellington/dnacomputing.html

Talk Title: Aptazymes as signal transducers from the biological to the electronic world.

Talk URL: http://speak.icmb.utexas.edu/ellington/

Talk Session: Evolutionary Methods in Biomolecular Computation

Max Garzon

Title: Professor

Address: Computer Science Department, 373 Dunn Hall, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-6429 U.S.A.

Phone: 901-678-3136 or 901-678-2482 (secretary)

Fax: 901-678-2480

Email: mgarzon@memphis.edu

Homepage URL: www.msci.memphis.edu/~garzonm

Project URL: www.msci.memphis.edu/~garzonm/bmc.html

Abstract URL: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~garzonm/nsf-bmc.html

Talk Title: Evolution of a Protocell for molecular computers

Talk URL: www.msci.memphis.edu/~garzonm/nsf-bmc

www.msci.memphis.edu/~garzonm/protocell.html

or engronline.ee.memphis.edu/rdeaton/protocell.html

Talk Session: Evolutionary Methods in Biomolecular Computation

Talk Joint with: Russell Deaton.

David Gifford

Title: Professor

Surface address: 545 Technology Square, Lab for Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone number: 617-253-6039

Fax number: 617-253-7512

Email address: gifford@mit.edu

Homepage URL: www.psrg.lcs.mit.edu

Project URL: www.psrg.lcs.mit.edu/biocomp/

Talk Abstract URL: http://www.psrg.lcs.mit.edu/biocomp/research.html

Talk Title: DNA + Enzymes + Thermal Cycling = Computation

Talk URL: www.psrg.lcs.mit.edu/biocomp/

Talk Session: Computation via DNA editing and Mutagenesis

Elizabeth Goode

Title: Research Fellow

Surface Address: CIS Dept, University of Delaware, 19716

Phone number: 302-831-1946

Fax number: 302-831-8458

Email address: goode@mail.eecis.udel.edu

Home Page URL: www.cis.udel.edu/~goode

Project URL: www.cis.udel.edu/~dna3/DNA/

Tom Head

Title: Professor

Surface address: Department of Mathematics, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Phone number: 607-777-2278

Fax number: 607-777-2450

Email address: tom@math.binghamton.edu

Homepage URL: http://math.binghamton.edu/tom/index.html

Project URL: http://math.binghamton.edu/tom/DARPA/index.html

Talk Abstract URL: http://math.binghamton.edu/tom/DARPA/talk1.html

Talk Title: Computing by Writing on Plasmids

Talk URL: http://math.binghamton.edu/tom/DARPA/talk1.html

Talk Session: Computation via DNA editing and Mutagenesis

Natasha Jonoska

Title: Associate Professor

Surface address: Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Av., PHY 114, Tampa Fl, 33620-5700

Phone number: 813-974-9566

Fax number: 813-974-2700

Email address: jonoska@math.usf.edu

Homepage URL: www.math.usf.edu/~jonoska

Project URL: http://www.math.usf.edu/~jonoska/bio-comp www.math.usf.edu/~jonoska/bio-comp

Talk Abstract URL: URL:www.math.usf.edu/~jonoska/nsf10199.html

Talk Title: Computation with 3D DNA structures

Talk URL: http://www.math.usf.edu/~jonoska/nsf10199.html http://www.math.usf.edu/~jonoska/talknsf/

Talk Session: DNA Nanostructures and Self Assembly

Lila Kari

Title: Assistant Professor

Surface address: Dept of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7 Canada

Phone number: (519) 679-2111 ext.6894

Fax number: (519) 661-3515

Email address: lila@csd.uwo.ca

Homepage URL: www.csd.uwo.ca/~lila

Talk Abstract URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~lfl/CiliateComputer/abstract.html

Talk Title: On the computational properties of gene assembly

Talk URL: ftp://rnaworld.princeton.edu/pub/export/CiliateSlides

ftp://rnaworld.princeton.edu/pub/export/Ciliate_PNAS_folder/figures.pdf

Talk Session: Computation via DNA editing and Mutagenesis

Talk Joint with: Laura Landweber

Thom LaBean

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor

Surface address: D230 LSRC, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0129

Phone number: 919-660-6553

Fax number: 919-660-6519

Email address: thl@cs.duke.edu

Homepage URL: www.cs.duke.edu/~thl

Project URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~thl/BMC, www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/BMC/Reif.BMCproject.html

Talk Abstract URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~thl/BMC/NSFworkshop.talk http://www.cs.duke.edu/~thl/BMC/NSFworkshop.abstract

Talk Title: DNA Lattice Self-Assembly and Formation of Gold Nanowires

Talk URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~thl/BMC/NSFworkshop.talk http://www.cs.duke.edu/~thl/BMC/NSFworkshop.htm

Talk Session: DNA Nanostructures and Self Assembly

Talk Joint with: John Reif

Laura Landweber

Title: Assistant Professor

Surface address: Dept of EEB, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544

Phone number: 609-258-1947

Fax number: 609-258-1682

Email address: lfl@princeton.edu

Homepage URL: www.princeton.edu/~lfl

Project URL: www.princeton.edu/~lfl

Talk Abstract URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~lfl/DNA2DNA/RNAcomputer.html

Talk Title: Constructing an RNA Computer with examples from chess

Talk URLs: http://rnaworld.princeton.edu/~fadirk/Knight.html

http://rnaworld.princeton.edu/~fadirk/Knight.html

ftp://rnaworld.princeton.edu/pub/export/Ciliate_PNAS_folder/figures.pdf

http://www.princeton.edu/~lfl/DNA2DNA/RNAcomputer.html

http://www.princeton.edu/~lfl/DNA2DNA/RNAcomputer.pdf,

ftp://rnaworld.princeton.edu/pub/export/RNAcomputer

Talk Session: Biomolecular Boolean Processing