The 44th Esboc Symposium has been announced:
14th-16th May 2010
Highlights in Biological and Organic Chemistry
Chairpersons for 2010 meeting: Prof Rudolf Allemann (Cardiff University) and Dr Helen Hailes (University College London)
The Cedric Hassall lecture will be given by Duilio Arigoni on ‘Chiral t-butyl groups as a tool for the study of biosynthetic reaction steps’
The RSC’s BioOrganic Group lecture will be given by Vern Schramm on ‘Transition state analogues and dynamics in catalysis’
Other speakers include:
Dirk Trauner, Controlling Neural Activity with Molecular Switches
Kai Johnsson, Observing and manipulating protein function through chemistry
Dek Woolfson, Rational Protein Design in Synthetic Biology
John Ward, Synthetic Biology: Building New Pathways
Jonathan Waltho, Investigating the mechanism of enzyme phosphoryl transfer using metal fluorides
David O’Hagan, The fluorinase, related enzymes and their mechanisms
Florian Hollfelder, What makes a catalyst promiscuous?
Barry Carpenter, Limits on the Applicability of Transition State Theory in Organic Chemistry
Nigel Scrutton, Chemistry and biophysics of enzyme catalysis: insights from redox systems
Joern Piel, Investigating and engineering biosynthetic pathways from invertebrate-associated bacteria
Greg Challis , Elucidating and exploiting new pathways for natural product biosynthesis
Marcel Jasper, From the Deepest to the Driest Place on Earth - Extreme Environments as a Source of Natural Products
Russell Cox, New Modes of Programming Fungal Iterative Polyketide Synthases.