2009 Christmas Meeting
Wednesday 16th December 2009, 10.00 - 16.30
Institute of Child Health, London
The meeting will include presentations covering recent developments in small molecule characterisation, metabonomics and molecular biology.
Programme
10.00 – 10.25 Registration and refreshments
10.25 – 10.30 Introduction and welcome
10.30 – 11.15 Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College, London
Understanding Metabolic Supersystems via Statistical Spectroscopy
11.15 – 11.35 Adolfo Botana, University of Manchester
Oneshot.45 and T1-DOSY: the gun and the knife of mixture analysis
11.35 – 12.10 Glyn Williams, Astex Therapeutics
From Clone to Clinic: Biophysical Methods in Fragment-Based Drug Design
12.10 – 12.30 John Griffin, University of St. Andrews
Disorder and Dynamics in Inner-Earth Minerals Probed by DFT Calculations and Solid-State NMR
12.30 – 12.45 NMRDG Business
12.45
– 13.50 Buffet Lunch
Afternoon session chair: David Neuhaus, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
13.50 – 14.40 Gary Martin, Schering-Plough, USA
Smaller Samples of Small Molecules in Tiny Tubes and Other Things of Interest
14.40 – 15.15 David Middleton, University of Liverpool
Solid-state NMR studies of biomolecular complexes and assemblies
15.15 – 15.50 Steve Homans, University of Leeds
What drives ligand-protein interactions?
15.50 – 16.25 Mike Williamson, University of Sheffield
Chemical shifts – little changes tell us big things
16.25 – 16.30 Closing remarks
16.30 - Refreshments and departure