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 “CIPSM Fest
of Chemical Biology” will be held from the 15th to the
16th 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
CIPSM 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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