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

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Athel Cornish-Bowden: Bringing Chemistry to Life: What Does it Mean to be Alive?

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Stephen J. Haggarty: The Principle of Complementarity: Chemical versus Biological Space

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Wilhelm Boland: Herbivore-induced Volatiles in Plant Defence: Early and Late Events in Enemy-recognition and Response

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Session Chair: Achim Zielesny

Joelle N. Pelletier: Modifying Enzyme Specificity by Combinatorial Active Site Mutations

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Oliver Seitz: DNA-directed Ligation – Chemistry for Genetic Analyses

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Nediljko Budisa: Reprogrammed Protein Translation and Expanded Genetic Code

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Marcey L. Waters: Controlling Biomolecular Recognition with Designed Peptides

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Session Chair: Karl-Heinz Baringhaus

Martin J. Field: Molecular Simulations of Enzyme Catalysis

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Tim Clark: Biological Communication via Molecular Surfaces

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Jonathan P. Clayden: Remote Control of Stereochemistry – Communicating Information via Conformation

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Gisbert Schneider: Designing Natural Product-derived Focused Libraries

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Session Chair: Kevin Lawson

Jonathan W. Essex: Coarse-grained Modelling of Membrane Systems

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Mark S.P. Sansom: Molecular Simulations of Membrane Proteins

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Andreas Hirsch: Artificial Micelles and Liposomes

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Sijbren Otto: Bringing Supramolecular Chemistry to Life

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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

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Richard A. Goldstein: Modelling the Evolution in Influenza

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Peter H. Seeberger: Chemical Glycomics: From Carbohydrate Arrays to a Malaria Vaccine

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Holger Wallmeier: Summary and Closing Remarks