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Frontiers in Chemical Biology
15 September 2011
A meeting on chemical biology has been co-organised by NIMR scientist John Offer.
The workshop, called Frontiers in Chemical Biology, is organised under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry by John Offer, from NIMR's Division of Physical Biochemistry and Ali Tavassoli, from the University of Southampton.
The meeting will be held on 10 October 2011 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London.
Programme
| 11.00 | Arrival | |
| 11.30 | Prof. Rudolf Allemann, Cardiff University | Mechanistic and structural studies of sesquiterpene synthases for an expansion of the terpenome |
| 12.15 | Prof. George Attard, University of Southampton | Transcription in structured environments and its application in synthetic biology |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 | Sir Greg Winter, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge | The incredible shrinking antibody |
| 14.30 | Prof. Dek Woolfson, University of Bristol | New peptide structures for protein design and synthetic biology |
| 15.15 | Prof. Kim Nasmyth, Oxford University | How are chromosomes held together? |
| 16.00 | Tea | |
| 16.30 | Prof. Thomas Carell, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich | The chemistry of genome maintenance and development |
| 17.15 | Prof. Stephen Benkovic, The Pennsylvania State University, USA | The purinosome, biochemistry in the cell |
| 18.00 | Meeting closes |
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