6th Beilstein Symposium on Experimental Standard Conditions of Enzyme Characterizations (ESCEC)



...Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Michaelis-Menten Kinetics



September 16 - 20, 2013
Hotel Jagdschloss Niederwald
Rüdesheim
Germany

 

Aspects covered by the Symposium:

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology coming of age: 100 years of Michaelis - Menten kinetics, 60 years of the structure of DNA, and 40 years of Metabolic Control Analysis
  • Systems Biology and Systems Medicine: the new kids on the block
  • Sequence, Structure, Kinetics, Control and Regulation
  • Physiological Meaning of Enzyme Kinetics
  • Network kinetics versus enzyme kinetics
  • Enzymes in Metabolic Collaboration
  • Pitfalls in Data Reproduction
  • The end to the tower of Babel: making biochemist speak a lingua franca



Speakers include:

  • Karen Allen (Boston, MA, USA)
  • Richard Armstrong (Nashville, TN, USA)
  • Patricia Babbitt (San Francisco, CA, USA)
  • Maria Luz Cardenas (Marseille, France)
  • Athel Cornish-Bowden (Marseille, France)
  • Holger Dobbek (Berlin, Germany)
  • John Gerlt (Urbana, IL, USA)
  • Roger Goody (Dortmund, Germany)
  • P. Fred Guengerich (Nashville, TN, USA)
  • Manfred Konrad (Göttingen, Germany)
  • Thomas Leyh ( Bronx, NY, USA)
  • Monica M. Palcic (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Frank Raushel (College Station, TX, USA)
  • Dietmar Schomburg (Braunschweig, Germany)
  • Gertien Smits (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Reiner Sterner (Regensburg, Germany)
  • Keith Tipton (Dublin, Ireland)
  • Nicholas Turner (Manchester, UK)
  • Hans Westerhoff (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Chris Whitman (Austin, TX, USA)
  • Jan-Olof Winberg (Tromsö, Norway)

 

 

Scientific Committee:

  • Richard N. Armstrong, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
  • Amos Bairoch, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Athel Cornish-Bowden, CNRS-BIP, Marseille, France,
  • Peter S. Halling, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
  • Thomas S. Leyh, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
  • Frank Raushel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
  • Johann Rohwer, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Dietmar Schomburg, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany,
  • Carsten Kettner, Beilstein-Institut, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Call for Papers

Abstracts for the poster presentation should be submitted electronically by email not later than June 28th, 2013 to the following email address:

escec@beilstein-institut.de.

The receipt of the submission will be sent to the stated email address.
Abstracts must be written in English.

The abstracts will reviewed by the Scientific Committee and selected for both poster presentation and a short oral presentation (5 mins).
Please note that poster abstracts can only be considered for scientific review if they are accompanied by the submission of the completed application form for the poster presentation.

The presenting authors will be notified if their abstracts are accepted end of July 2013.

Further details on the instructions for the presentation of posters can be found here.