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  Main Topic

  • New approaches in peptide/protein synthesis 

  • Biosynthesis of Bioactive Peptides 

  • Post-translational Modifications of Peptides and Proteins 

  • Peptide & Protein Design 

  • Proteomics and Emerging Technologies 

  • Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) ¨C synthesis and applications 

  • Peptides/Peptidomimetics combinatorial chemistry 

  • Novel endogenous peptides 

  • Peptide/peptidomimetics therapeutics 

  • Peptide-protein interactions 

  • Nucleic acids-peptide interactions 

  • Peptide-lipid membrane interactions 

  • Structure-activity relationship 

  • Molecular modelling of peptide/protein structures and their interactions 

  • Peptide/protein structural studies and folding 

  • Role of peptides in genomics, proteomics and peptidomics 

  • Peptide drug discovery and design 

  • Peptide pharmacology and immunochemistry 

  • Peptides as diagnostic tools 

  • Analytical techniques in peptide research 

  • Peptide-based biomaterials 

  • Peptides in nanotechnology 


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Following professors have agreed to give invited lectures at this symposium. More invited speakers will be added.

Saburo Aimoto, Osaka University
David Craik, University of Queensland
Nobutaka Fujii , Kyoto University
Zhongwu Guo, Wayne State University

Kyung-Soo Hahm, Chosun University
Richard A. Houghten, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies 
Ziwei Huang, The Burnham Institute
Yanxing Jia, Insitut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS
Madeleine Joullie , University of Pennsylvania 
B. Moon Kim , Seoul National University
Yoshiaki Kiso , Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Kit S. Lam , University of California, Davis
Jean Martinez , NRS, Universities de Montpellier I et II 
Hisakazu Mihara , Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naoto Minamino , National Cardiovascular Center, Japan
Victor J. Hruby , University of Arizona
Tomi Sawyer , ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
Masahiko Shishido , Okayama University
Takayuki Shioiri , Meijo University
A. Ian Smith, Monash University
James P Tam , The Scripps Research Institute-Scripps Florida
John Wade, University of Melbourne
Shaomeng Wang, University of Michigan
Xumu Zhang, Pennsylvania State University



Besides invited lectures (30 min), oral presentations (15-20 min) and posters will be arranged.¡¡

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