Conferences
10–12 January 2012, Robinson College Cambridge, UK
Annual Symposium - Frontiers in Biological Catalysis
Symposium background:
The symposium places great emphasis on the role of catalysis in key biological processes, ranging from signalling, apoptosis, respiration and photosynthesis, to antibiotic synthesis and related secondary metabolism. The topic is timely in view of the challenges facing the wider enzymology community: the meeting will seek to emphasise the detailed/unique information emerging from reductionist approaches, and how to integrate with high-throughput approaches characteristic of the systems biology era. Reductionist approaches are particularly powerful when applied in a multidisciplinary setting, and there is the need to transcend the inherent limits of individual disciplines (e.g. crystallography, molecular modelling) to provide state-of-the-art dynamic insight into enzyme function.
The residential nature of the meeting is ideal to stimulate wide-ranging discussions between delegates from a multidisciplinary background on the ongoing developments and increasing complexity of the subject matter.
Topics
- Hot topics and recent approaches in biological catalysis
- Biological catalysis in action: linking enzyme dynamics, structure and function
- Synthetic biology and enzyme biotechnological application
- Enzymes, pathways and metabolism
- Enzymes in drug discovery
http://www.biochemistry.org/tabid/379/MeetingNo/SA127/view/Conference/default.aspx
