You are cordially invited to the Inaugural Symposium of the King’s Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy on Friday, 9 September 2011 at New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London. If you have not already registered, please do so by replying to [log in to unmask] by 1 August - registration is free but is required for organisational purposes. 

The programme for the day is as follows:

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09:15 Coffee

10:00 Welcome - Roger Morris

10:15 Morning session - Chair: Brian Sutton

Brian Sykes FRS (University of Alberta) - “Using NMR to unravel cardiac function: Ischemia and drug design”
Sasi Conte (King’s College London) - “Structure and RNA biology of the La-related proteins”
Sheena Radford (University of Leeds) - “Folding intermediates: Friend or foe?”

12:15 Lunch - posters

13:30 Afternoon session I - Chair: Mark Pfuhl

Rainer Kuemmerle (Bruker Biospin) - “CryoProbe applications for BioNMR”
Chris Dobson FRS (University of Cambridge) - "Life on the edge: the nature and origins of protein misfolding diseases"
Alex Drake (King’s College London) - “The multi-mode optical spectrometer: applications in biophysics”

15:15 Tea and coffee - posters

15:45 Afternoon session II - Chair: James Mason

Tony Watts (University of Oxford) - “Peering into the binding sites of membrane drug targets”
Jim McDonnell (King’s College London) - “Structure, interactions and inhibitors of the IgE network”

17:00 Closing remarks - Brian Sykes FRS

17:05 Inauguration by Professor Richard Trainor, Principal of King’s College London, followed by drinks (Wolfson Wing)
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Feel free to download and display the poster in your workplace - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/research/corefacilities/smallrf/nmr/news

We would like to acknowledge the financial support for this symposium of Applied Photophysics Ltd, Bruker UK Ltd, CortecNet, Goss Scientific Instruments Ltd, Sigma-Aldrich Company Limited, VWR International and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Best wishes,

Andrew Atkinson
Sasi Conte
Jim McDonnell
Brian Sutton