Division Activities: Meetings

The Division works actively to support meetings that are of interest to our members, and to provide travel support to students and postdocs to attend the ACS National meeting.

ACS National Meeting

The 239th ACS Meeting, March 21 - 25, 2010, San Francisco, CA

The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry will organize a program of talks and posters for the ACS Spring National Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The program will consist mainly of oral sessions composed of short 20 minute talks and poster sessions

Planned Symposia

New Chemical Tools for the Detection & Analysis of Biological Systems
Natural Products Biosynthesis
New Drug Targets
Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry: In Honor of Stephen J. Benkovic
Frontiers in Chemical Biology
Chemical Biology & Biomolecules
ACS Chemical Biology Lectureship
Research by ACS Scholars (cosponsored with PRES)
Undergraduate Research Poster Session (cosponsored with CHED)
Catalysis for Sustainability (cosponsored with CATL)

Poster Presentations: Posters will be presented at several sessions during the week of the ACS meeting. The division encourages submission of abstracts for posters. Contributions on topics related to the themes of the organized symposia are particularly encouraged.
Submission of Abstracts: Abstracts for invited talks and poster presentations should be submitted online. This will record the abstract in the automated PACS system that is used to organize this meeting. Abstracts for the San Francisco meeting can be submitted starting August 25th and ending on January 14, 2010, at which time the website will be closed to submissions. Instructions for authors, including procedures for incorporating graphics or equations in the abstract, can be accessed at this website.

Gordon Research Conferences

Bioorganic Chemistry

June 13 - 18, 2010. Proctor Academy, Andover, NH

The Gordon Research Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry was founded in 1992 to bring together scientists from a range of disciplines to present and discuss cutting-edge research at the interface between chemistry and biology. Both fundamental and applied research relevant to academia and industry are highlighted. To maintain a balance between these areas, the conference is organized by two co-chairs, one from academia and one from industry. We emphasize the presentation of techniques or approaches that are broadly applicable across multiple areas of chemical and biological research. Traditionally, small molecules that probe, modulate, or mimic cellular components or processes as well as studies of biology at the molecular level have been of particular interest.

Enzymes Coenzyme and Metabolic Pathways

July 18 - 23, 2010. Waterville Valley Resort, Waterville, NH

This conference will focus on molecular mechanisms of biochemical processes. In addition to the usual survey of enzyme catalysis, sessions will address new developments in metabolic pathways and natural product biosynthesis, examine exciting new breakthroughs in the evolution and design of enzymes, and explore recent advances in industrial enzymology, including novel pharmacological applications of enzymes. Topics include bacterial toxins, motor proteins, protein dynamics and metabolic engineering.

Isotopes In Biological & Chemical Sciences

February 14-19, 2010. Hotel Galvez - Galveston, TX

This multi-disciplinary conference explores the frontiers of science in isotope research between chemistry and biology, with links to physics and other areas of the natural and applied sciences. The goal is the exchange of novel concepts and ideas between these scientific areas in order to stimulate future research that otherwise may not occur. The sessions and talks are arranged so that participants from different research areas, including students, are gradually introduced into the strongly developing field of the use of isotopes, starting from physical chemistry to biochemistry, with a special emphasis on hydrogen transfer and hydrogen bonding.

Metals in Biology

January 31 - February 5. 2010 Four Points Sheraton, Ventura, CA

MIB brings together biologists, biochemists, chemists, and biophysicists interested in exploring the multitude of roles played by metal ions in biological systems. Topics typically include: the chemistry of metalloenzymes and proteins, metal homeostasis, metal-DNA interactions and signaling, metals in medicine, small molecule metal chelate complexes that mimic biological systems, and spectroscopy. The broad base of the conference leads to vigorous discussions, and often, long-term collaborations. Poster sessions allow everyone to participate. An associated GRS designed for students entitled Bioinorganic Chemistry immediately follows the GRC.

Conferences on Enzyme Mechanisms

Enzymology is a dominating interest of many of the members of the Division of Biological Chemistry. There are several national and regional conferences that highlight advances in our understanding of enzyme structure, function and mechanism.

Winter Enzyme Mechanisms Conference

January 2 - 6, 2011 - Don CeSar Beach Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida

The Enzyme Mechanisms Conference was founded in 1969 by Tom Bruice, Bill Jencks, and Myron Bender. The tradition of this biannual conference is to present the most recent advances in our understanding of the chemical mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The conference attracts a large audience from academia, industry, and government and is supported entirely by gifts from generous corporate sponsors and registration fees. Over the last 25 years, a tradition has been established that this winter conference alternates between coasts in a warm weather setting.

Trends in Enzymology 2010

June 13-17, 2010 - Centro Stefano Franscini Ascona, Switzerland

The third Trends in Enzymology meeting follows on successful meetings in Como, Italy, in 2006 and St. Malo, France, in 2008. The main goal of the conference is to bring together scientists from Europe and overseas to share their newest results and insights into the workings of nature’s chemical catalysts in a relaxed informal atmosphere resembling that of the American-based Gordon Research Conferences. We project to gather close to 120 participants to discuss the latest ideas on topics ranging from novel chemical and physical mechanisms of enzymes, new methods to monitor and modulate how they work, to novel applications. A second purpose of the Trends in Enzymology philosophy is to provide a European forum to enhance the participation of scientists, especially at the junior level, who rarely have the opportunity to attend the similarly stimulating and informal Gordon conferences. The program is designed to allow ample time for participants to interact socially and scientifically.

Please contact the Secretary of the Division of Biological Chemistry if you would like information about a conference of symposium added to this page (oakley@indiana.edu).

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