Registration Deadline for IBBI 12 -- October 15
 
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 early-bird registration (and hence reduced rates) is October 15, 2011.  Registration will still be possible until Novermber 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 speakders will be chosen from among the registered participants who have submitted 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).