SESAME SMB Workshop in Morocco

Publish Date
30 September, 2002

Proteins: Structure and Function

Following the SESAME workshop on structural Molecular Biology (Cyprus, December 6-7 2000), participants from several SESAME member countries began planning for several future activities. In Morocco SMB research in now starting with some groups and many Universities and Institutes are becoming aware of the importance of SMB research. The present workshop aims to bring scientists from Maghreb (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria), together with scientists from Mediterranean and Middle East countries as part of the SESAME project. This workshop will be held in Casablanca in September/October 2002. It will be organised by Professor Abdelaziz Soukri together with SESAME Interim Council member Professor Abdessalam Houmada within the RUPH (Materials Sciences) network. The workshop will be sponsored by University Hassan II and UNESCO.

Specific Topics:

SESAME facility
Molecular structure of proteins
Protein function
Bioinformatics
Proteins and drugs
Protein interactions

Tentative participants:

Morocco A. Soukri, M.S. El Kebbaj
Tunisia Said Jawa
Algeria ?
Italy M. Cristina Albertini, Lina Ghibelli
Spain Aurelio Serrano, Javier Sancho
Greece Metaxia Vlassi
Turky Zahra Sayers
Plestinian Nael Mahmoud Hasan
Israel Joel Sussman, Michal Harel
USA Herman Winick
We expect participation of scientists from other SESAME countries.
More details will be given in the second announcement:
For further information please contact:
Pr Abdelaziz Soukri: Email address : a_soukri@hotmail.com

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