Table of Contents

Preface and Epilogue;Message from the President of the American Peptide Society; Murray Goodman, Teacher, Mentor, Friend; In Memoriam: Arno Spatola; People Behind Symposium; Symposium Sponsors and Exhibitors; American Peptide Society; American Peptide Symposia; The Merrifield Award: William F. DeGrado; The Makineni Lecture Award: James P. Tam; Peptide Society Travel Grants; Bert Schram Young Investigators' Mini Symposium; Young Investigator' Poster Competition; Abbreviations. Merrifield Award Lecture; Amino Acid and Peptide Synthetic Chemistry; Peptidomimetic and Psuedopeptide Synthetic Chemistry; Protein Mimcry, Engineering, Synthetic Chemistry and Structure-Function; Rao Makineni Lecture; Protease and Enzyme Substrate/Inhibitor Structure-Function; Peptide Structure-Conformation-Function and Molecular Modeling; Intracellular Signaling, Metabolism and Gene Regulation Structure-Function; Receptor and Ion Channel Agonist/ Antagonist Structure-Function; Protein Aggregation Substrate/Inhibitor Structure-Function; Peptide Drug Delivery, Targeting and Biomaterials; Peptide Combinatorial Libraries, Proteomics and Screening Methods; Peptide Antibiotic, Anticancer, Antiviral and Antifungal Structure-Function; Peptide Dendrimer, Epitope and Vaccine Structure-Function. Author Index; Subject Index.