NEW MILLENNIUM BIOMEDICAL SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION SERIES

9th International Symposium
SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS, COMPLEMENTARY SOLUTION METHODS & COMBINATORIAL LIBRARIES
(Peptides, Proteins, Nucleic Acids, etc...)

Incorporating the
2nd International Satellite Symposium on

PROTEOMIC, COMBINATORIAL & OTHER METHODS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT & DELIVERY
Complementary Vaccine Strategies

Some Confirmed Lectures Titles

Strategy and Advances in Synthesis

"New Tricks for Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis"
- Prof Fernando Albericio (IRBB-PCB, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)

"Structure-breaking Dipeptides and Depsipeptides for Expediting the Fmoc SPPS of Complex and Difficult Peptides"
- Dr Peter White, (Merck Chemicals Ltd., Nottingham, NG9 2JR, UK)

"A Novel Approach to the Chemical Synthesis of PNA"
- Dr Ravi Vinayak, Hyunil Lee, Sung Kee Kim, Jae Hoon Jeon, Jong Chan Lim, Hoon Choi, Yeohong Yoon and Hey Yeon Kim (PANAGENE INC., 100, Sinsung-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-345, Korea)

Synthetic Assemblies with Therapeutic & Drug Potential (I) - Applications, Targeting & Delivery

"Peptides for Tumour Targeting"
- Prof Alex Eberle (University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland)

"Cell-Penetrating Peptides and Applications in Gene Regulation"
- Prof Ulo Langel (Dept. Neurochemistry, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Synthetic Peptide Epitopes for Antibody and Vaccine Strategies

"Functional Reconstruction of Structurally Complex Epitopes Using CLIPS-Technology"
- Dr Peter Timmerman, W.C Puijk and R.H. Meloen, (Pepscan Therapeutics B.V., Runderweg 4-6, P.O. Box 2098, Lelystad, The Netherlands)

"Synthesis and Application of Peptide Epitope Conjugates for Diagnosis/Therapy of Infectious Diseases"
- Prof Dr Ferenc Hudecz
[a,b] , Annamária Jakab [a] , Gábor Mezo [a] , Kata Horváti [a] , Szilvia Bosze [a] , Nadia Caccamo [c] , Francesco Dieli [c] , Matty Feijlbrief [d] , Sytske Welling-Wester [d] , Dimitrios Krikorian [e] , Vassilios Tsikaris [e] , Miquel Vila Perello [f] and David Andreu [f] ([a] Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös L. University, [b] Department of Organic Chemistry, Eötvös L. University, 1518 Budapest 112 POB 32, H-1518, Hungary, [c] Department of Biopathology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, [d] Laboratory for Medical Microbiology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, [e] Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, [f] Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain)

"Synthetic Mimicry of the CD4-Binding Site of HIV-1 gp120 for the Design of Immunogens"
Raimo Franke, Tatjana Hirsch, Heike Overwin and Dr Jutta Eichler (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany )

"Mass Spectrometric Identification and Immuno-Analytical Characterization of beta-Amyloid Epitopes"
Dr Marilena Manea [1], Raluca Stefanescu [1], Gábor Mezo [2], Ferenc Hudecz [2] and Michael Przybylski [1] ([1] University of Konstanz, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Biopolymer Structure Analysis, Universitaetsstrasse 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany, [2] Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös L. University, 1518 Budapest 112 POB 32, H-1518, Hungary)

Support Matrix Developments and Techniques

"A Novel Approach to Encapsulation of Soft Gel Polymers for Peptide, Oligonucleotide and Combinatorial Chemistry"
- Dr Donald Wellings (Chromatide Ltd, Runcorn, Cheshire, UK)

" PEG Update: An Old Fellow in New Applications"
- Dr Wolfgang Rapp (Rapp Polymere GmbH, Ernst-Simon-Strasse 9, Tuebingen, Germany)

"Automated SPS Workflows"
- Dr Jake Grace [1], Joseph Schroder [2], Jerome Giovannoni [2], Nhat Quang Nguyen-Trung [2], Peter White [3], Anthony Clouet [4], Estelle Delort [4], Jean-Louis Reymond [4], Michael Calerini [5], Stefan Bender [5], Hans-Peter Buchstaller [6] ([1] Chemspeed Technologies, Northampton, England, UK, [2] Chemspeed Technologies, Augst, Switzerland, [3] CN Biosciences, Nottingham, England, [4] University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, [5] Merck, Darmstadt, Germany)

Combinatorial Libraries and Microarrays

"Advancement and Application of High-density Chemical Microarrays to Probe for Protein-Drug Interactions"
Ulrike Beutling, Antonius Dikmans, Edelgard Schmeisser, Sabine Thiele, and Dr Ronald Frank (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, D-38124, Braunschweig, Germany)

"Construction of Structured Labeled Peptide Libraries for Peptide Arrays Focusing on Protein Detection Systems"
- Prof Dr Kiyoshi Nokihara [1,2], Takafumi Ohyama [1], Noriko Ono [1], Hirochika Kawakami [2], Noboru Kawahira [2], Yukiko Kodama [2], Naeko Miyazato [2], Kanae Suzuki [1], Tetsuya Sogon [1], Akiyoshi Hirata [1], Midori Miyajima [1], Takayasu Kawasaki [1], Yasushi Takebayashi [3] and Yasuo Oka [3] ([1] HiPep Laboratories, Kyoto, 602-8158, Japan, [2] HiPep Laboratories, Okinawa, 904-2234, Japan, [3] Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd., Shizuoka 421-3291, Japan)

Synthetic Assemblies with Therapeutic & Drug Potential (II) - Applications, Targeting & Delivery

"Synthesis of Peptide Conjugates of PNA with High Splicing Redirection Activity and Inhibition of MicroRNA"
Gabriela D. Ivanova [1], Andrey A. Arzumanov [1], Martin M. Fabani [1], Saïd Abes [2], Rachida Abes [2], Donna Williams [1], David Owen [1], Bernard Lebleu [2] and Dr Michael J. Gait [1] ([1] Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH UK and [2] UMR 5235 CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, cedex 5, France)

"Protein and Protein Conjugate - based Medicines"
- Prof Stephen Brocchini (Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, 29/39 Brunswick Square, London, UK)

"Inhibiting Proteins by Shifting their Oligomerization Equilibrium: Application for HIV-1 Integrase"
Zvi Hayouka [1], Joseph Rosenbluh [2], Aviad Levin [2,3], Shoshana Loya [4], Mario Lebendiker [5], Dmitry Veprintsev [6], Moshe Kotler [3], Amnon Hizi [4], Abraham Loyter [2] & Dr Assaf Friedler [1] ([1] Department of Organic Chemistry, [2] Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; [3] Department of Pathology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel; [4] Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; [5] Protein Purification Unit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;[6] Centre for Protein Engineering, MRC Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK)

Advanced Diagnostic Assemblies

"Direct Synthesis of Oligonucleotides on Metallic Nanoparticles and Their Use as Diagnostic Probes"
- Prof Duncan Graham, Julian Sikorski, David Thompson, Jennifer Dougan, Karen Faulds and Fiona McKenzie (Centre for Molecular Nanometrology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XL, Scotland, UK)

"Synthesis of beta-Amyloid-binding Peptides as Contrast Agents for MRI-Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease"
Yeser Mohammad and Prof Brian Austen (Basic Medical Sciences, St George's University of London. Tooting, London SW17 ORE, UK)

Synthetic Studies of Significance for Drug Development

"Towards Drug Development of Insulin-like Peptide3, A Potential New Fertility-regulating Peptide"
Fazel Shabanpoor [1,2], Suode Zhang [1], Feng Lin [1], R. Tony Hughes [3], Ross A. Bathgate [1] and Prof John D. Wade [1] ([1] Howard Florey Institute, [2] School of Chemistry and [3] Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia)

"Novel Amino Acid Derivatives and Their Applications in Drug Discovery"
- Dr Ram P. Sharma and Patrick Kanda (ActivotecSSP Ltd, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Bassett Crescent East, Southampton, SO16 7PX, UK)

"Solid Phase Synthesis of Cyclic Peptide Chitinase Inhibitors"
M.J. Dixon [a], A. Nathubhai [a], O.A. Andersen [b], D.M.F. van Aalten [b] and Dr Ian M. Eggleston* [a] ( [a] Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK, [b] School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK)

"The Synthesis of MDa Polypeptides Using Self-assembled Templates"
- Dr Maxim G. Ryadnov [1] and Derek N Woolfson [1,2] ([1] School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK, [ 2] Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK)

"Toll-like Receptor Ligands Synthesized by Combinatorial Lipopeptide Chemistry"
- Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Wiesmueller (EMC Microcollections GmbH,Sindelfinger Str. 3, D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany)