Autofluorescent proteins: the colorful revolution of modern biology.

 

 

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In 2008 the Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery and development of the Green Fluorescent Protein, a true landmark in the field of molecular biology, biophysics, and many other disciplines. To celebrate this event, it seemed appropriate to take advantage of the EBSA 2009 Conference to offer European and World scientists an opportunity to gain an overview on how this discovery has changed, and will change, our scientific perspective.

 

For this reason, a one-day Satellite Meeting of EBSA entitled “Autofluorescent Proteins: the Colorful Revolution of Molecular Biology” (AFP2009) has been organized by two chairpersons of EBSA 2009, Ranieri Bizzarri and Cristiano Viappiani. AFP2009 will take place on July 10^th, the day immediately before opening of EBSA 2009, in one of the most splendid Genova’s locations, Palazzo Tursi. We are extremely pleased to announce that we were successful in gathering some of the most famous scientists involved in this incredibly exciting field such as James Remington. More details on the meeting programme can be found on the meeting website.

 

We are even more pleased to announce that all participants to EBSA 2009 can also participate to AFP2009 without any additional fee to that due for EBSA. If you have already registered to EBSA 2009 and you also wish to participate to AFP2009, just send an e-mail to: afp2009@sns.it specifying your name, address, EBSA confirmation number, and writing “registration to the Autofluorescent protein meeting“ in the body text of e-mail. Within one-day, an e-mail reply from our secretariat will confirm your registration, that will become effective once your registration to EBSA 2009 is complete.

 

Ranieri Bizzarri and Cristiano Viappiani, AFP2009 and EBSA 2009 chairpersons

email contact: afp2009@sns.it 

 

 

 

From genomics to proteomics: the challenge of in-vivo dynamic studies. Experimental and theoretical approaches.

a Symposium in Honour of Giancarlo Baldini

 

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In the past ten years we have seen the appearance of new “-omics” concepts. The first and most far-reaching ones are genomics and proteomics. Fostered by the huge genomic data acquired from the human genome sequencing project and the clinical need for global analytical tools to study and treat complex diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, the genomic and proteomic technologies have evolved rapidly, providing large amount of data available to clinical cancer research and valuable insight of the molecular processes.

 

The most profound message of these “-omics” concepts is to address the biomedical studies in a global view in contrast to the reductionistic view prevailing in earlier studies. This implies to face the challenge of cellular and in–vivo investigations also aided by the comparison to numerical simulation results. The new possibilities offered in this way, are in large part due to the development of new methodologies, which see the definitive merging of biology and medicine with physical and chemical research.

 

The satellite meeting is devoted to the exploration of the new possibilities offered by the developments in spectroscopy, microscopy and numerical simulation for the study of DNA-protein interactions from the structural and dynamical point of view.

 

Giuseppe Chirico and Maddalena Collini, chairpersons

email contact:

giuseppe.chirico@mib.infn.it

maddalena.collini@mib.infn.it