Four day meeting will begin with tutorials on experimental design and data analysis for isothermal titration and differential scanning calorimetry
Experts in the field of ultrasensitive calorimetry will converge at the 2005 Current Trends in Microcalorimetry conference, 27-30 July 2005 at the Best Western Boston Inn at Longwood, Boston, USA.
The conference will be held immediately preceding the annual symposium of the Protein Society, giving attendees the opportunity to attend both meetings.
Scientific organisers Brad Chaires of the University of Louisville and Jim Thomson of Pfizer have put together what is described as an exciting and diverse line-up of speakers from both industry and academia.
The four day meeting will begin with tutorials on experimental design and data analysis for isothermal titration (ITC) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), for researchers new to the field or wanting a refresher.
Topic areas for subsequent days include nucleic acid binding and stability, drug discovery, formulations, protein stability and binding and macromolecular interactions.
Keynote speakers Alan Cooper of University of Glasgow and Adrian Parsegian of the National Institutes of Health will be joined by Richard Remmele of Amgen, John Ladbury of University College London, Matthew Todd of Johnson and Johnson, Arne Schon of Johns Hopkins University and many more.
In addition, there will be a poster session in which all attendees may participate.
"We've taken into account comments and suggestions from previous years about how to improve the conference," says Matt Potter, director of marketing and sales for MicroCal, financial and logistics organiser of the conference.
These changes include a lower conference price (including a student price), a less expensive hotel room, and easy online registration.
"We want to be able to give everyone, including students, an opportunity to participate.
"They are the calorimetrists of the future," Potter says.
The growing interest in microcalorimetry in the life sciences has necessitated an annual meeting on the subject, says the company.
Structural biologists, crystallographers, medicinal chemists and others are discovering that the data generated by microcalorimetry can provide important information unavailable from any other technique.
