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 236th ACS Meeting, August 17 - 21, 2008, Philadelphia PA
The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry will organize a program of talks and posters for the ACS Fall National Meeting in Philadephia, August 17 - 21, 2008. James Stivers will serve as the Chair of the Program Committee for this meeting jstivers@jhmi.edu).
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 records the abstract in the automated OASYS system that is used to organize this meeting. Abstracts for the Boston meeting can be submitted starting in January 28 and ending on March 17, 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.
- Go to OASYS
The Division’s program will feature the following symposia to highlight the work of our members:
Award Symposia
Repligen Award honoring H. W. Liu: Learning Nature’s Strategy for Catalysis
Pfizer Award honoring Carsten Krebs: Novel Approaches in Metalloenzymology
Lilly Award honoring Paul Hergenrother: Small Molecules as Probes for Biology and Medicine
Murray Goodman Award: Honoree to be announced in January
Other Symposia
Syposium to Honor Bill Jencks
Chromatin Remodeling
Chemistry and Biology of Tuberculosis
RNA Folding and Function
Unnatural Amino Acids: Changing Nature’s Catalytic Repertoire
Nucleic Acid Chemical Biology
Gordon Research Conferences
Bioorganic Chemistry
June 15 - 20, 2008. 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.
- Go to conference web site
Enzymes Coenzyme and Metabolic Pathways
July 13 - 18, 2008. University of New England, Biddeford, ME
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.
- Go to conference web site
Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry: “From Molecular Models to Global Cycles”
June 15 - 20, 2008. Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
EBIC brings together those studying biotic-inorganic interfaces from nanometers-nanoseconds to kilometers-gigayears, mingling chemists, ecologists, geneticists, oceanographers, computational biologists, and others. Topics range from transport, enzymology, and homeostasis in single cells or organisms to the environmental processes they experience and influence. Distinct among metals meetings for its evolution and geo- and aquatic-chemistry aspects, EBIC’s view of the Periodic Table also includes radionuclides, metalloids, halides, silicon, and non-metal nutrients so as to identify cross-cutting themes in bioinorganic chemistry.
- Go to conference web site
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).