"Scientific Oktoberfest" Draws the Worldwide Leading Researchers in the Field of Chemical Biology to Munich

MUNICH, September 9, 2011 -

The “Scientific Oktoberfest” will be this year’s meeting point for some of the internationally most distinguished researchers in the field of Chemical Biology. The so-called “CIPS^M Fest of Chemical Biology” will be held from the 15^th to the 16^th of September in the Department of Chemistry of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München.

At the two-day conference, 400 researchers from around the world will discuss state-of-the art research in various fields spanning from chemistry to biology and present their latest results in the fight against diseases like cancer or bacterial infections.

Speakers will be:

• Shankar Balasubramanian
  Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cambridge UK
  “Sequencing Nucleic Acids: A Passage from Chemistry to Science and Medicine“
• Thomas Carell
  CIPS^M at the Dept. of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
  “The chemistry of genome development“
• Chris Chang
  Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
  “Molecular imaging approaches to understanding metal and redox biology in the brain“
• Jon Clardy
  Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard Med. School, Broad Inst., Harvard University
  “Bacterial Conversations“
• Benjamin F. Cravatt III
  Dept. of Chemical Physiology, The Skaggs Institute, The Scripps Research Institute
  “Activity-based proteomics: applications for enzyme and inhibitor discovery“
• François Diederich
  ETH Zürich, Lab. of Organic Chemistry
  “Molecular Recognition at Enzyme Active Sites“
• Wilfred A. van der Donk
  Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  “Posttranslational modifications in natural product biosynthesis“
• Michael Famulok
  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Lab. of Chemical Biology
  “Insight into ErbB receptor signaling from a Chemical Biology perspective“
• Itaru Hamachi
  Dept. of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University
  “Protein labeling and engineering in live cell systems“
• Julius Rebek
  The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps La Jolla
  “Molecular Behavior in Small Spaces“
• Peter G. Schultz
  The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla
  “Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology“
• Mitsuhiko Shionoya
  Dept. of Chemistry, University of Tokyo
  “Bio-inspired Molecular Design of Supramolecular Architectures“
• Hiroshi Sugiyama
  Dept. of Chemistry, Kyoto University
  “Chemical Biology that Controls DNA Structure and Function“
• Christopher T. Walsh
  Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
  “Thiazole Peptide Antibiotic Biosynthesis: A Cascade of Posttranslational Modifications“

For more information please visit www.cipsm.de/fest/

Contact:
Dr. Oliver Baron
Managing Director of the
Center For Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPS^M) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
Department of Chemistry
81377 Munich
Germany
Tel: +49(0)89-2180-77880
E-mail: oliver.baron@cipsm.de 

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