10-12 January 2012
Annual Symposium - Frontiers in Biological Catalysis
Robinson College Cambridge, UK
Poster abstract deadline: TBC Poster abstract submission will be available shortly Earlybird registration deadline: 9 December 2011.
Registration will be available shortly.
Oral communication slots are available at this meeting. All attendees, particularly researchers in the early stages of their career, are invited to submit a poster abstract for consideration as an oral communication.
Student Travel Grants are available for this meeting. The proceedings of the meeting will be published as a stand-alone issue of Biochemical Society Transactions (online and in print) and a stand-alone volume of the online Symposia Series. Meeting background: The symposium places great emphasis on the role of catalysis in key biological processes, ranging from signalling, apoptosis, respiration and photosynthesis, to antibiotic synthesis and related secondary metabolism. The topic is timely in view of the challenges facing the wider enzymology community: the meeting will seek to emphasise the detailed/unique information emerging from reductionist approaches, and how to integrate with high-throughput approaches characteristic of the systems biology era. Reductionist approaches are particularly powerful when applied in a multidisciplinary setting, and there is the need to transcend the inherent limits of individual disciplines (e.g. crystallography, molecular modelling) to provide state-of-the-art dynamic insight into enzyme function. The residential nature of the meeting is ideal to stimulate wide-ranging discussions between delegates from a multidisciplinary background on the ongoing developments and increasing complexity of the subject matter. Topics: Hot topics and recent approaches in biological catalysis Biological catalysis in action: linking enzyme dynamics, structure and function Synthetic biology and enzyme biotechnological application Enzymes, pathways and metabolism Enzymes in drug discovery
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