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Cold Spring Harbor "Protein Structure Based Drug Design" Conference
http://www.csh-asia.org/drug11.html

Protein Structure Based Drug Design
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
September 19 - 23, 2011
Abstract Deadline: July 29, 2011

Arranged by:
Arthur P. Grollman, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Hualiang Jiang, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China
Israel Silman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Joel L. Sussman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Soichi Wakatsuki, Photon Factory Synchrotron Radiation Facility Tsukuba, Japan

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Protein Structure Based Drug Design which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7.30pm on the evening of Monday September 19, and will conclude after lunch on Friday September 23, 2011.

This conference is similar in design to the famous Cold Spring Harbor meetings series, a program now in its 76th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in protein structure research. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Topics:
- Rational drug design
- Structure-based drug design
- Predicting function from sequence
- Docking ligands to proteins
- Molecular dynamics and drug design (includes conformational flexibility)
- Mechanistic-based drug design (includes pathway or signaling- based drug design
- High throughput screening (not the old fashioned kind)
- Genomics and drug design

Keynote Speakers:
Samir K. Brahmachari, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), INDIA
Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL

Invited Speakers:
Ravi Acharya, University of Bath,UNITED KINGDOM
Lucia Banci, University of Florence,ITALY
Stephen K. Burley, Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Peter Colman, Walter & Eliza Hall Inst. of Medical Research,AUSTRALIA
Jianping Ding, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences,CAS,China
Keith Dunker, Indiana University School of Medicine,USA
Aled Edwards, University of Toronto,CANADA
David Eisenberg, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Alan Fersht, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,UNITED KINGDOM
Wim Hol, University of Washington, Biomolecular Structure Center,USA
Victor Hruby, University of Arizona, USA
Tony Kossiakoff, University of Chicago,USA
Luhua Lai, Peking University,CHINA
Huilin Li, Brookhaven National Laboratory,USA
Jianpeng Ma, Baylor College of Medicine,USA
Andrew McCammon, University of California San Diego,USA
John Moult, University of Maryland,USA
Gregory Petsko, Brandeis University, USA
Carlos Simmerling, State University of New York Stony Brook, USA
Hachiro Sugimoto, Kyoto University, Japan
Raymond Stevens, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Palmer Taylor, University of California San Diego, USA
Daan van Aalten, University of Dundee,SCOTLAND
Mark von Itzstein, Griffith University,AUSTRALIA

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit http://www.csh-asia.org/stipends.html

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in September 2011.