12th International Congress on Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins, 2011, Beijing
http://conf2011.bplaced.net/

This is to invite you to participate and present in the bi-annual congress that was originally established 1989 and is linked to the journal AMINO ACIDS (IF 3.877; editor-in-chief G.Lubec), the forum for amino acid, peptide and protein research.

The meeting takes place in Beijing, China, August 1-5 (presidents Dacheng He and Jianguo Ji; management Lin Li) and you are cordially invited to submit titles and affiliation of first author until the deadline, March 31st, 2011 to Professor Gert Lubec (gert.lubec@meduniwien.ac.at).

Topics are

Biological and Medical Sciences:
Food Chemistry
Genetics and Epigenetics
Medicine and Medicinal Chemistry
Metabolism and inborn errors
Microbiology
Neuroscience (excitatory / inhibitory amino acids, receptors and transporters in the brain; neuropathobiochemistry, neurodegenerative disease)
Nutrition
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Physiology
Redox System and free radicals
Sports and Exercise
Systems Biology
Taurine
Toxicology

Chemical Sciences:
Amino Acids Transport
Analysis
Basic Chemistry
Bioinformatics
Biosynthesis
Environmental Sciences
Immunochemistry***
Plant Amino Acids
Polyamines
Posttranslational modifications (including phosphorylation etc.)
Protein Structure
Proteomics
Synthesis
Others

E.g. the analysis/immunochemistry*** (new topic) session is focussing on the revision of immunoblotting and immunochemical methods per se that is mainly no longer considered reliable in the present form, because proteins recognised by antibodies in the vast majority are not characterised in chemical terms (as e.g. by mass spectrometry; Heo S, et al. Generation and characterization of a specific polyclonal antibody against the mouse serotonin receptor 1A: A state-of-the-art recommendation on how to characterise antibody specificity. Electrophoresis 2010; DOI:10.1002/elps.201000374). In addition, methodology for in-gel determination of protein bands and spots has to replace simple densitometry with arbitrary units of optical density (Kang SU, et al. Determination of in-gel protein concentration by a ninhydrin-based method. Proteomics 2010; DOI:10.1002/pmic.201000388).

Looking forward to fruitful discussions with you at this conference.