The meeting "Biophysics of ligand binding to drug targets will take place at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Illkirch/Strasbourg, France, from May 14 till May 16, 2007.
Detection of ligand binding is a critical process in the identification of leads during the drug design process. During this meeting, speakers will survey the different biophysical methods used to detect ligand binding to pharmaceutical targets, such as crystallography, differential calorimetry, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance and plasmon resonance. They will also describe the modelling approaches which integrate this information into an atomic description of the ligand-target interactions. The emphasis of the meeting will be placed on the comparison of the different methods, in particular on the reasons of their apparent discrepancy which occurs sometimes.
Twenty two conferences will be given by international experts on the different techniques, coming both from the academic and industrial backgrounds. Attendance from EU students is strongly encouraged, and 20 studentships are available, covering all staying expenses as well as 200 of travel expenses. Registration fees (covering all staying expenses) are 400 for academic participants and 800 for industrial participants.
All details of the meeting are available at the URL
http://biobinding.u-strasbg.fr
On behalf of the local committee
Looking forward to seeing you in Illkirch
Alberto Podjarny
Alberto D. Podjarny
IGBMC
UMR 7104 - U596
LGBS
1, rue Laurent Fries
67404 Illkirch
TE: (33) 3 88 65 33 11
FAX: (33) 3 88 65 32 01
