"Scientific Oktoberfest" will be this year's meeting point for some of the internationally most distinguished researchers in the field of Chemical Biology. The so-called "CIPSM Fest of Chemical Biology" will be held from the 15th to the 16th of September in the Department of Chemistry of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Muenchen.
At the two-day conference, 400 researchers from around the world will discuss state-of-the art research in various fields spanning from chemistry to biology and present their latest results in the fight against diseases like cancer or bacterial infections.
Speakers will be:
- Shankar Balasubramanian Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cambridge UK "Sequencing Nucleic Acids: A Passage from Chemistry to Science and Medicine"
- Thomas Carell CIPSMat the Dept. of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Muenchen "The chemistry of genome development"
- Chris Chang Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkeley "Molecular imaging approaches to understanding metal and redox biology in the brain"
- Jon Clardy Dept. of Chemistry&Chemical Biology, Harvard Med. School, Broad Inst., Harvard University "Bacterial Conversations"
- Benjamin F. Cravatt III Dept. of Chemical Physiology, The Skaggs Institute, The Scripps Research Institute "Activity-based proteomics: applications for enzyme and inhibitor discovery"
- Francois Diederich ETH Zuerich, Lab. of Organic Chemistry "Molecular Recognition at Enzyme Active Sites"
- Wilfred A. van der Donk Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Posttranslational modifications in natural product biosynthesis"
- Michael Famulok Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn, Lab. of Chemical Biology "Insight into ErbB receptor signaling from a Chemical Biology perspective"
- Itaru Hamachi Dept. of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University "Protein labeling and engineering in live cell systems"
- Julius Rebek The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps La Jolla "Molecular Behavior in Small Spaces"
- Peter G. Schultz The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla "Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology"
- Mitsuhiko Shionoya Dept. of Chemistry, University of Tokyo "Bio-inspired Molecular Design of Supramolecular Architectures"
- Hiroshi Sugiyama Dept. of Chemistry, Kyoto University "Chemical Biology that Controls DNA Structure and Function"
- Christopher T. Walsh Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Chemistry&Chemical Biology, Harvard University "Thiazole Peptide Antibiotic Biosynthesis: A Cascade of Posttranslational Modifications"
For more information please visit http://www.cipsm.de/fest
