Organizing committee:  Barry R. Lentz, Director, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, UNC-CH; Terry Oas, Director, Duke University Molecular Biophysics Training Program; Harold Erickson, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University; Jan Hermans, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UNC-CH; Gary Glish, Chemistry Department, UNC-CH; Richard Superfine, Physics Department, UNC-CH; Richard Cheney, Molecular & Cellular Physiology Department, UNC-CH; Kenneth Pearce, Glaxo-Wellcome Corporation; Thomas A. Kunkel, Director, Environmental Biophysics Program, NIEHS

The background (compliments of Dr. Julio Fernandez) shows an AFM cantilever pulling a tandem modular protein with the unfolding of one of its modules.  To the right, you can see the characteristic sawtooth patterns of force-extension curves that result from these experiments.  In the background you can find a faint picture of a sarcomere from which the tandem modular protein titin comes. Art work by Dr. Andres Oberhauser.