“Scientific Oktoberfest” Draws the Worldwide Leading Researchers in the Field of Chemical Biology to Munich

MUNICH, September 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —

The “Scientific Oktoberfest” will be this year’s meeting point
for some of the internationally most distinguished researchers in
the field of Chemical Biology. The so-called “CIPS^M Fest
of Chemical Biology” will be held from the 15^th to the
16^th of September in the Department of Chemistry of the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München.

At the two-day conference, 400 researchers from around the world
will discuss state-of-the art research in various fields spanning
from chemistry to biology and present their latest results in the
fight against diseases like cancer or bacterial infections.

Speakers will be:

• Shankar Balasubramanian

  Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cambridge UK

  “Sequencing Nucleic Acids: A Passage from Chemistry to
  Science and Medicine“

• Thomas Carell

  CIPS^M at the Dept. of Chemistry,
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München

  “The chemistry of genome development“

• Chris Chang

  Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

  “Molecular imaging approaches to understanding metal and
  redox biology in the brain“

• Jon Clardy

  Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard Med. School,
  Broad Inst., Harvard University

  “Bacterial Conversations“

• Benjamin F. Cravatt III

  Dept. of Chemical Physiology, The Skaggs Institute, The Scripps
  Research Institute

  “Activity-based proteomics: applications for enzyme and
  inhibitor discovery“

• François Diederich

  ETH Zürich, Lab. of Organic Chemistry

  “Molecular Recognition at Enzyme Active
  Sites“

• Wilfred A. van der Donk

  Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urba

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