Chemical biology researchers to meet at Scientific Oktoberfest in München

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 Urbana-Champaign
  "Posttranslational modifications in natural product biosynthesis"
• Michael Famulok
  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Lab. of Chemical Biology
  "Insight into ErbB receptor signaling from a Chemical Biology perspective"
• Itaru Hamachi
  Dept. of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University
  "Protein labeling and engineering in live cell systems"
• Julius Rebek
  The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps La Jolla
  "Molecular Behavior in Small Spaces"
• Peter G. Schultz
  The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla
  "Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology"
• Mitsuhiko Shionoya
  Dept. of Chemistry, University of Tokyo
  "Bio-inspired Molecular Design of Supramolecular Architectures"
• Hiroshi Sugiyama
  Dept. of Chemistry, Kyoto University
  "Chemical Biology that Controls DNA Structure and Function"
• Christopher T. Walsh
  Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
  "Thiazole Peptide Antibiotic Biosynthesis: A Cascade of Posttranslational Modifications"

SOURCE Center For Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM)