Molecular Interactions - Bringing Chemistry to Life
May 15th - 19th, 2006, Bozen, Italy
Program
Martin G. Hicks: Opening Remarks and Greetings
Sesson Chair: Tim Clark
Tom L. Blundell: Protein-protein Interactions in Cell Regulation and Signalling: Targets for Drug Discovery
Athel Cornish-Bowden: Bringing Chemistry to Life: What Does it Mean to be Alive?
Stephen J. Haggarty: The Principle of Complementarity: Chemical versus Biological Space
Wilhelm Boland: Herbivore-induced Volatiles in Plant Defence: Early and Late Events in Enemy-recognition and Response
Session Chair: Achim Zielesny
Joelle N. Pelletier: Modifying Enzyme Specificity by Combinatorial Active Site Mutations
Oliver Seitz: DNA-directed Ligation – Chemistry for Genetic Analyses
Nediljko Budisa: Reprogrammed Protein Translation and Expanded Genetic Code
Marcey L. Waters: Controlling Biomolecular Recognition with Designed Peptides
Session Chair: Karl-Heinz Baringhaus
Martin J. Field: Molecular Simulations of Enzyme Catalysis
Tim Clark: Biological Communication via Molecular Surfaces
Jonathan P. Clayden: Remote Control of Stereochemistry – Communicating Information via Conformation
Gisbert Schneider: Designing Natural Product-derived Focused Libraries
Session Chair: Kevin Lawson
Jonathan W. Essex: Coarse-grained Modelling of Membrane Systems
Mark S.P. Sansom: Molecular Simulations of Membrane Proteins
Andreas Hirsch: Artificial Micelles and Liposomes
Sijbren Otto: Bringing Supramolecular Chemistry to Life
Session Chair: Christoph Steinbeck
Laurent M. Humeau: From the Bench to the Clinic: Story and Lessons from VRX496, the First Lentivector Ever Tested in a Phase I Clinical Trial
Richard A. Goldstein: Modelling the Evolution in Influenza
Peter H. Seeberger: Chemical Glycomics: From Carbohydrate Arrays to a Malaria Vaccine
Holger Wallmeier: Summary and Closing Remarks
