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)
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
Vern Schramm, Transition state analogues and dynamics in catalysis
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.