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 237th ACS Meeting, March 22 - 26, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT

The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry will organize a program of talks and posters for the ACS Spring National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. The program will consist mainly of oral sessions composed of short 20 minute talks and poster sessions. The short talks will be chosen from the poster abstracts, according to their appropriateness for presentation at one of the four oral symposia listed below. James Stivers will serve as the Chair of the Program Committee for this meeting jstivers@jhmi.edu).

Planned Symposia

Frontiers in Chemical Biology
Frontiers in Protein Science and Enzymology
New Drug Targets
Nucleic Acids

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 OASYS system that is used to organize this meeting. Abstracts for the Salt Lake City meeting can be submitted starting August 25th and ending on October 20th, 2008, 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. Questions about the spring program should be directed to James Stivers, the program chair jstivers@jhmi.edu).

Other Meetings

Gordon Research Conferences

Bioorganic Chemistry

June 14 - 19, 2009. 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 5 - 10, 2009. 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 3 - 6, 2009. Loews Ventana Canyon Resort - Tucson, AZ
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.

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

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