Bose Institute and SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata are organizing National Magnetic Resonance Society's (NMRS) annual meeting at Kolkata.

The NMR conference will be held on 19-20th February 2004, which will be preceded by a two-day conference on Bioinformatics (17-18th February, 2004).

The theme of both the conferences will be drug design and related areas. It is anticipated that 40 distinguished speakers, including 15 from abroad, will deliver lectures.

Speakers on bioinformatics and drug design include Dr Gautam Basu (BI, India), Dr Pinak Chakrabarti (BI, India), Dr Devapriya Chaudhury (JNU, India), Dr Swagata Dasgupta (IIT-KGP, India), Prof. Gautam Desiraju (Univ Hyderabad, India), Prof. Indira Ghosh (Univ Pune, India), Dr B. Gopalakrishnan (TCS, India), Dr Steven J Hayward (East Anglia, UK), Prof. Joël Janin (CNRS, France), Prof. B Jayaram (IIT-D, India), Prof. Mikio Kataoka (Nara, Japan), Dr A Kinjo (NIG, Japan), Dr Sekhar Mande (CDFD, India), Prof. Takaaki Nishioka (Kyoto Univ), Dr Animesh Ray (Keck Institute, USA), Prof. George Rose (Johns Hopkins, USA), Dr. Raj Srinivasan (TCS, India), Prof. Joel Sussman (Weizmann, Israel) and Dr R Varadarajan (IISc, India)

And speakers on NMR and drug design would include Prof. KVR Chary (TIFR, India), Dr DE Demco (Aachen, Germany), Dr Feng-Ni (NRC, Canada), Dr Jim Ferretti (NIH, USA), Prof. G Govil (TIFR, India), Prof. Maurice Gueron (Ecole Poly, France), Prof. RV Hosur (TIFR, India), Prof. NR Jagannathan (AIIMS, India), Prof. Anil Kumar (IISc, India), Dr Bernd Meyer (Univ Hamburg, Germany), Dr Chaitali Mukhopadhyay (CU, India), Dr R Nagaraj (CCMB, India), Dr Gautam Sanyal (AstraZeneca, USA), Dr. Susanta Sarkar (GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, USA), Dr Shin-ichi Tate (BERI, Osaka, Japan), Dr Tai-Huang (Acad Sinica, Taiwan), and Dr David Weber (Univ Maryland, USA)

For information on registration for the conference and other additional details, one can contact department of biophysics, Bose Institute, P1/12, CIT Scheme VIIM, Kolkata - 700 054, West Bengal, India. Phone: (+91-33) 2337-9544 / 9416 / 9219 (Extn. 106 / 222). Fax: (+91-33) 2334-3886. Email: nmrs2004@bic.boseinst.ernet.in