Organisers
Beáta Androsits, Hungarian Chemical Society
Mónika Bondár, Hungarian Chemical Society
Tamass Kiss, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
András Perczel, Hungary

Introduction
Chemistry has a strong influence on many other disciplines connected to life sciences such as biology, pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, toxicology, biotechnology, etc. While biology and medicine remain centrepieces of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of specialisations and new, often interdisciplinary fields.

The 4th European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences offers a good opportunity for researchers from different disciplines to discuss how chemistry can elucidate and illuminate biological problems, and give answers to basic questions, by mostly molecular biological methods. The conference covers all aspects of these research fielsd.

The topics will include among others: -artificial photosynthesis, -biogeochemistry, -bioinspired organocatalysis, -bioinorganic chemistry, -bio-nanotechnology, -computational aspects of biomolecules, -dynamics in biology, -genomics, -glycochemistry, -metals in medicine, -neurochemistry, -nucleic acid chemistry, -peptide/protein bioconjugates for diagnosis and therapy, -proteomics, -structure of biomolecules, -synthetic biology.

Its main goal is to bring together scientists from chemistry and biology as well as from the many borderline scientific areas represented by the sessions of the conference.

For example, glycochemistry has a very long tradition dated back to the work of Emil Fischer and even earlier, in the context of glycobiology and glycomics aiming at understanding the various roles of carbohydrate derivatives in living organisms, it has its renaissance in the past two decades. All these facts speak for direct biochemical, analytical, and synthetic studies related to the carbohydrate content and functions in any living organism, and these studies are significantly more difficult than those in genomics and proteomics. Glycochemistry and glycoscience in a broader sense needs recognition from scientists to take its place alongside genomics and proteomics.

There is another example for multidisciplinarity of proteomics, which stands on a foundation laid by genomics. It is closely connected to transcriptomic studies, and provides a time-dependent, dynamic picture on molecular processes occurring in an organism. Biochemical pathways, an important tool to understand biological and biochemical processes offers another example of the interrelation of genetic and proteomic studies.

Special emphasis will be put on novel interdisciplinary aspects of chemical biology such as bionanotechnology, bioinspired organocatalysis, peptide and protein bioconjugates and their applications, synthetic biology, artificial photosynthesis, proteomics, genomics.

The aims of this european conference are to disseminate information, help forming stronger bonds and to promote collaborations among various scientific research places and institutes and universities.

Venue
The conference will be held at Congress Centre of Eötvös Lóránd University which is located in the centre of Budapest, by the river Danube.

Speakers

Invited plenary speakers:

Prof. Iain D. Campbell (UK)
Prof. Julio Fernandez (United States)
Prof. Bernt Krebs (Germany)
Prof. Wolfgang Lubitz (Germany)
Prof. Ivano Bertini (Italy)
Prof. Dieter Seebach (Switzerland)

Invited keynote lectures:

Prof. Dieter Enders (Germany)
Prof. Ole Hindsgaul (Denmark )
Prof. Shuguang Zhang (United States)
Prof. Thomi Brunner (Switzerland)
Prof. Roger Alberto (Switzerland)
Prof. Andrea Bottoni (Italy)
Prof. Bengt Nordén (Sweden)
Prof. Sheref Mansy (Italy)
Prof. Ernest Giralt (Spain)
Prof. Henryk Kozlowski (Poland)

Draft Programme

Details of the sessions can be found here.

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Student Grants will be available for students attending 4th European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences whicch will provide funding for registration expenses.

To be eligible for the grant, a student must:

• Be a presenting author of an oral or poster presentation at the conference
• Be a full-time student (Ph.D. or undergraduate) at the time of registration and science area belong to proteomics and genomics or borderline scientific areas.
• Work/Study in a country that financially supports Frontiers of Functional Genomics (FFG) programme (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey or United Kingdom)

Grant selection will consider the scientific content of presentation and will be limited by available funds. 

Application procedure:

1. Use the online registration system to register
2. Fill out the following forms: "Personal data" and "Abstract" and on "Registration fee" form, please select "Student (appl. for bursary)"
3. Please send your Curriculum vitae (max. 1 A4 page, 12 font size) to 4eccls@mke.org.hu e-mail address
4. Note that the award winners will be asked to send a proof of full-time student status (e.g. proof of full-time registration status for current semester) 

Applications and abstracts must be received by March 31, 2011. Late applications will not be accepted. Acceptance decisions will be made by May 15, 2011. 

Note that applicants who do not receive student bursary support have to pay registration fee (200 EUR) until June 15, 2011.