ESBOC

European Symposium on Bio-Organic Chemistry

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Vitamins and Cofactors

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”