Dear all, A reminder that the Inaugural Symposium of the Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy will take place on Friday, 9 September 2011 at King's College London. All welcome. If you would like to attend but have not yet registered, please could you do so by writing to [log in to unmask] by 1 August - registration is free but we do need to know who will attend so that we can organise catering. The programme for the day is as follows: ----------------- 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 17:15 Inauguration by Professor Sir Richard Trainor KBE, Principal of King’s College London, followed by drinks (Wolfson Wing) ----------------- Feel free to download and display the poster in your workplace - http://tiny.cc/2n402 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