English International experts to discuss scientific advances in the field of Proteomics from 10th to 14th February at the Science Museum
Feb 4, 2007
The keynote speech of the 2002 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry, John B. Fenn, is to inaugurate the meeting, in which 300 specialists and students in the field of Proteomics will be taking part and that is organised by the Santiago Grisolia Professorship and the City of Arts and Sciences Foundation in collaboration with the Spanish Proteomics Society.
From 10th to 14th February, the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum will be hosting the congress “Proteomics & Pathology- from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean”, in which more than 300 specialists and students in the field of Proteomics will be discussing the scientific and technological progress made in that scientific discipline. The congress has been organised by the Santiago Grisolia Professorship and the City of Arts and Sciences Foundation in collaboration with the Spanish Proteomics Society. Proteomics includes the set of techniques for identifying and characterising the primary structure, the post-translational modifications and protein. Moreover, the comparative proteomic study of normal cells and pathological cells enables one to discover the biomarkers of illnesses and possible therapeutic targets.
Studying the cellular proteinic complement constitutes a fundamental theme for going deeper into the biochemical bases of cellular functions given that, although all the cells of an organism contain the same genetic information, the cellular identity is based on a set of proteins that expresses itself at any given moment.
The keynote speech “Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants”, given by John B. Fenn, the 2002 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry for his contribution to the development of the electrospray macro-molecule ionisation method, will open the congress next Saturday, 10th January.