To launch the Institute of Structural Molecular Biology (ISMB) at UCL and Birkbeck, an international symposium was held on 3-4 June 2004 at University College London. The programme (below) was very popular and the symposium was a great success.

Some photos from the ISMB Lunch Symposium are now available.

Programme


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	Programme | Day 1 | Thursday 3 June
	Welcome and introductions
09.30 - 09.35	Opening comments and welcome
	Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL
09.35 - 09.40	The Institute of Structural Molecular Biology
	Gabriel Waksman, ISMB Director
	Structural Biology Programme
09.40 - 10.30	Phosphoinositide binding domains: High fyve for NMR
	Michael Overduin, University of Birmingham, UK
10.30 - 11.20	Mechanics of chaperonin action
	Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College, UK
11.20 - 11.50	Tea and coffee break
11.50 - 12.50	Structural Analysis of the Mechanism of DNA Polymerase Sliding Clamp and Clamp Loaders
	John Kuriyan, University of California Berkeley, USA
	Chemical Biology Programme
14.00 - 14.50	SMART Drug Design: Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Oncogenic Protein Kinase Src
	Tomi Sawyer, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, USA
14.50 - 15.40	Non-Viral Gene Delivery Vectors
	Helen Hailes, UCL, UK
15.40 - 16.00	Tea and coffee break
16.00 - 17.00	Chemical Biology of Protein Lipidation
	Herbert Waldmann, Max Planck Institute, Germany
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	Programme | Day 2 | Friday 4 June
	Welcome and introduction for the second day
09.30 - 09.35	Opening comments and welcome
	David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck College
	Biophysics Programme
09.35 - 10.25	Adaptive Ligands: A New Design Paradigm
	Ernesto Freire, Johns Hopkins University, USA
10.25 - 11.15	Searching for Specificity in Tyrosine Kinase-Mediated Signal Transduction
	John Ladbury, UCL, UK
11.15 - 11.45	Tea and coffee break
11.45 - 12.45	From Fundamental Protein Folding to Novel Therapies for Cancer
	Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge, UK
	Bioinformatics Programme
14.00 - 14.50	Shedding Light on GPCR Signal Transduction
	Garland Marshall, Washington University, USA
14.50 - 15.40	Predicting novel folds for globular and membrane proteins
	David Jones, UCL, UK
15.40 - 16.10	Tea and coffee break
16.10 - 17.10	Inferring Protein Function from 3D Structure
	Janet Thornton, EBI, UK
17.10 - 17.15	Concluding remarks
	Gabriel Waksman, ISMB Director