EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY

On April 12, ITQB (Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biológica) welcomed researchers from IECB for a one day Symposium  under the framework of INTERBIO. Fourteen lectures were delivered by members of either institute.

The atmosphere of the meeting chaired by Miguel Teixeira and Cláudio Gomes was warm with very friendly relations among participants, despite the heavy program :

(http://www.itqb.unl.pt/events/meetings/frontiers-in-chemical-biology).

This was a good opportunity for fruitful discussions and hopefully the starting point for a sustained relationship between these two institutes. It is expected that scientific collaborations will shortly blossom and all the participants already agreed on a mirror meeting soon to take place in Bordeaux.

Foldamers are artificial molecular architectures inspired by biopolymers. They are defined by their ability to adopt folded conformations. This symposium will focus on synthetic foldamers, their design and preparation, the characterization of their structures and folding propensity, and their properties and function, with an emphasis on biological properties and protein recognition. Attendance will be limited to ca 100 participants.

Go to website.

Pr Bernd Giese, University of Basel, Switzerland and Pr Dinshaw Patel (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Canceer Center, New York, NY, USA will contribute to the next SAB meeting (September 3-4).