"Scientific Oktoberfest" draws the worldwide leading researchers in the field of Chemical Biology to Munich

München (ots) - The "Scientific Oktoberfest" will be this years
meeting point for some of the internationally most distinguished
researchers in the field of Chemical Biology. The so-called "CIPSM
Fest of Chemical Biology" will be held from the 15th to the 16th 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
CIPSM 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 http://www.cipsm.de/fest/

Contact:

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