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Registration Deadline for IBBI 12 – October 15th The deadline is approaching for the 2012 Conference on Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions (IBBI 12), which will take place in Les Diablerets, Switzerland on January 22-27, 2012 (http://ibbi12.epfl.ch). The deadline for registration at the early-bird rates is October 15th. Registration will still be possible until November 1st, space permitting, but at increased rates. IBBI 12 is a continuation of a series of successful meetings held in Les Houches, France (2000), Wildbad Kreuth, Germany (2002), Exeter, UK (2004), Prague, Czech Republic (2006), Valladolid, Spain (2008) and Berlin, Germany (2010). It will bring together leading scientists working in diverse fields related to isolated biomolecules and their interactions. The goal of the meeting is to facilitate exchange between the different communities and approaches, leading to a better understanding of biological molecules. Topics include experiments and theory on: - Structures of isolated peptides - Fundamental aspects of intra- and intermolecular interactions - Spectroscopic techniques for studying isolated biomolecules - Biomolecular ions, mass-spectrometry and ion mobility - Folding, unfolding and aggregation of proteins - Dynamics of biomolecular systems - New experimental and theoretical techniques The conference will take place in the picturesque mountain resort of Les Diablerets, Switzerland, which is approximately 2.5 hours by train from Geneva airport. The program will feature invited lectures, posters as well as a number of "hot topic" presentations. Hot topic speakers will be chosen from among the registered participants who have summited abstracts. Invited speakers: Peter Armentrout (Utah) Energetics and Mechanisms of Protonated Peptide Fragmentation Perdita Barran (Edinburgh) Measuring Disorder in Proteins Hagan Bayley (Oxford) Single-molecule chemistry in a protein nanoreactor Justin Benesch (Oxford) Structural dynamics of the protein folding machinery Volker Blum (Fritz Haber, Berlin) Polyalanine-based secondary structure in the gas phase: First-principles structure, dynamics and spectroscopy Petr Bour (IOCB, Prague) Computational Approaches to Vibrational Optical Activity of Biomolecules Steen Brondsted Nielsen (Aarhus) Absorption by DNA single strands: The role of multiple chromophores Julia Chamot-Rooke (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) Multiple factors influence ECD fragmentation pathways David Clemmer (Indiana) Relating populations of structures in gas-phase ions to populations in solution Stephan Denifl (Innsbruck) Low energy electron collisions with biomolecules and biomolecular clusters Philippe Dugourd (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon) Formation, fragmentation and spectroscopy of radical peptides and proteins Pavel Hobza (IOCB, Prague) Noncovalent interactions and In silico drug design Mark Johnson (Yale) Isolating site-specific, non-covalent interactions of small molecules to peptides using cryogenic ion vibrational spectroscopy Kai Johnsson (EPFL) Spying on biomolecules in living cells Seong Keun Kim (Seoul National Univ.) Single Molecule Bio-Spectroscopy: Deoxyribozyme Folding, Genetic Assay, and Real-time Observation of Enzymatic Reactions John McLean (Vanderbilt) Advanced structural mass spectrometry for the analysis of complex biological systems: unraveling dynamic biology Brooks Pate (Virginia) Substitution Structures of Molecular Complexes from Broadband Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy Nick Polfer (Florida) Dissociation products interrogated by vibrational spectroscopy Frederic Rosu (Liege) IR and UV spectroscopy of DNA Higher-Order Structures in the gas phase Joan Shea (UCSB) Simulations of Protein Aggregation in the Cellular Milieu Yury Tsybin (EPFL) Cross Sections, Ionization Energies and Structures of Multiply Charged Proteins Revealed by Electron-Induced Ionization and Dissociation Gert von Helden (Fritz Haber, Berlin) Proteins in the fridge: Embedding biomolecular ions in liquid helium droplets Evan Williams (UC Berkeley) Supercharging Proteins from Native Solutions: Mechanisms and Applications Timothy Zwier (Purdue) Single-conformation spectroscopy of neutral and ionized biomolecules: Synthetic foldamers and lignin oligomers For more information or to register, please visit the website (http://ibbi12.epfl.ch). To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html