43rd European Symposium on Bio-Organic Chemistry
April 24-26th 2009, Gregynog, Powys, Wales
Chairman: Dr. Ted McDonald (Institute of Cancer Research, UK)
The invited speakers include:
- Chris Abell (Cambridge), ‘’Pantothenate enzymology: from discovery to drug target’’
- Tadhg Begley (Cornell)
- Dominic Campopiano (Edinburgh), ’’Pyridoxal phosphate and sphingolipid biosynthesis’’
- Theresa Fitzpatrick (Geneva), ”Vitamin B6 biosynthesis: steps toward unravelling a complex puzzle”
- Bernard Golding (Newcastle), ’’The Evolution of Mechanisms for Vitamin B12’’
- Bernhard Krautler (Innsbruck), “B12’s switch RNA’s switch B12’s”
- Finian Leaper (Cambridge), “The use of Thiamine Pyrophosphate Analogues to study TPP-dependent Enzyme Mechanisms”
- Gerald Richter (Cardiff)
- Peter Roach (Southampton), “The Role of ThiH in Thiamine Biosynthesis”
- Alison Smith (Cambridge), ‘’Riboswitching metabolism: thiamine pyrophosphate riboswitches in algae and bacteria’’
- Martin Warren (Kent), ” Recent advance in cobalamin (vitamin B12) biosynthesis and biology”