Speakers

Stephen Kent, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago. “Bringing the Science of Proteins into the Realm of Organic Chemistry”
Lars Baltzer, Department of Chemistry – BMC, Physical Organic Chemistry, Uppsala Universitet “The conjugation of small molecules to polypeptides and the role of polypeptide conjugates in drug development”
Jean-Louis Banères, Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron, Universities of Montpellier 1 and 2. “Signaling through a G protein-coupled receptor: a matter of conformational adaptations”
Christian Becker, Department of Chemical Biology, University of Vienna, “Chemical Protein (Semi-)Synthesis – Generating Tailor-Made Proteins for Biology and Biotechnology”
Alicia Boto, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología CSIC, Tenerife, “Creating Diversity in Peptide Libraries: New Customizable Units for the Site-Selective Modification of Peptides”
Ashraf Brik, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ubiquitin Signal using Chemical Protein Synthesis”
Nedjliko Budisa, Department of Chemistry, Berlin Institute of Technology/TU Berlin, “Coupling Bioorthogonal Chemistries with Artificial Metabolism”
Philip E. Dawson, Departments of Cell Biology and Chemistry, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla California (USA), “Mimicking viral surface glycoproteins using synthetic nanoparticles”
Assaf Friedler, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Intrinsically disordered proteins as drug targets”
Fernando Formaggio, Department of Chemistry, University of Padova, “Peptaibiotics: investigation of their membrane action by an integrated synthetic and spectroscopic approach”
Aphrodite Kapurniotu, Fachgebiet Peptidbiochemie, Technische Universität München, “Cross-amyloid peptide inhibitors of protein aggregation in cell degenerative diseases”
Galia Maayan, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, “Metallopeptoids: from structure to function”
Giancarlo Morelli, Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy),” Peptides as delivery tools of supramolecolar carriers for diagnostic and therapeutic applications”
Derek Woolfson, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, De novo proteins: faster, better, fitter”