Tetraspanins are membranes proteins involved in every aspect of cell-cell interaction, including adhesion, fusion, differentiation and extracellular vesicle production. As the principal components of a type of membrane microdomain, they have therapeutic and diagnostic potential in a wide range of diseases and new imaging techniques are beginning to reveal the fine detail of these microdomains and their biophysical properties. In this Focussed Meeting, the roles of tetraspanins in cancer, development, infection and immunity will be highlighted. In addition, the role of tetraspanins in the formation and function of extracellular vesicles will be explored and an optional half-day workshop will be held, providing hands-on experience of vesicle purification and characterisation. ... [Information of the supplier]
The conference will take place from 4th - 6th of october 2019 at the Waldthausen Castle, Mainz, Germany. The aim of these conferences is to promote the growing field of tetraspanin research and to support both established and early career researchers working in this field. [Information of the supplier, modified]
It is our pleasure to host the International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry in 2015 in Kraków, Poland (ICCPB2015). Congress meetings have been successfully organized every 4 years since 1983. ICCPB2015 in Kraków will be already our 9th meeting. We hope it will attract open-minded biologists who are interested in building integrated views of organisms: 'From Molecules to Macrophysiology'. We hope that the atmosphere of the congress in Kraków will be especially stimulating. Kraków with its medieval architecture offers endless opportunities for inspiration and unconventional thinking. It is exactly here, at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where Nicolaus Copernicus started his scientific education that finally led him to his revolutionary ideas that challenged old models of the universe. ... [Information of the supplier]
Wolfsburg is waiting for you! Various institutions from Braunschweig are organizing the annual conference of the VAAM 2018 in Wolfsburg. Involved are the Braunschweig University of Technology (TU), the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), the Leibniz Institute German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ), the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (TI) and the Julius Kühn Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI). During the last years, we focused our joint microbiological research in Braunschweig on infection, biodiversity, ecology and biotechnology. Typical for Braunschweig is the trustful, close scientific cooperation across disciplinary and institutional borders. Here microbiologist are used to work with local and international engineers, physicians, bioinformaticians and chemists in joint projects. Moreover, this interdisciplinary and international approach is the basis of our common educational programmes. Consequently, you find here an innovative and friendly study and research environment. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Biochemical Society promotes the advancement of the Molecular Biosciences, representing the interests of all those working in the sector. The Society recognises that the discipline of “Biochemistry” now encompasses the entire breadth of Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences and this is reflected in the range of our activities and our strapline – “Advancing Molecular Biosciences”. We also believe that we are part of a Bioscience community with a proliferation of learned societies with whom we work to foster a community of Bioscientists, thereby delivering our mission more effectively. The Biochemical Society is one of four owner societies working together at Charles Darwin House to strengthen the voice of Biology and create a national hub for our subject. Our belief is that Biology is made stronger through collaboration that brings together the diverse skills, opinions and expertise of individual member Societies. This is the principle that underpins Charles Darwin House. ... [Information of the supplier]
Many who have taught chemistry (general, organic, biochemistry) from a traditional book invariably believe that the book would be better if it had a different organization or different conceptual framework. Few can truly cover the extent of information found in these encyclopedic tomes. All textbooks within a specialty area of chemistry have the same topic orders as well. Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic was written, in part, to deal with issues of topic order and conceptual framework. The rationales for adoption of this framework for the teaching of the first semester of a biochemistry course have been published in the manuscript below. ... [Information of the supplier]
Developed as part of the BioText project at the University of California, Berkeley, the BioText Search Engine is a freely available Web-based application that provides biologists with new ways to access the scientific literature. The interface has been carefully designed according to usability principles and techniques. Three views allow different types of browsing: (A) Abstracts (List View): Allows users to search over titles, abstracts and authors. Returns a list of abstracts showing the figures associated with each article. (B) Captions (List View): Allows users to search over captions. Returns a list of captions and their figures. (C) Captions (Grid View): Allows users to search over captions. Returns figures and truncated captions in a grid arrangement. The system uses Lucene for the underlying indexing, and users can use all the Lucene operators in their search queries. The search engine is a work in progress and more functionality will be added over time. The system indexes all open access articles available at PubMed Central. New articles are indexed daily. The current collection consists of more than 150 journals, 20,000 articles, and 80,000 figures. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (BMCD) contains crystal data and the crystallization conditions, which have been compiled from literature. The current version of the BMCD includes 5247 crystal entries from macromolecules for which diffraction quality crystals have been obtained. These include proteins, protein:protein complexes, nucleic acid, nucleic acid:nucleic acid complexes, protein:nucleic acid complexes, and viruses. ... [Information of the supplier]
BRENDA is the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community. It is available free of charge for academic, non-profit users via the internet and as an in-house database for commercial users (requests to our distributor Biobase). Today, as the large international genome sequence projects are gaining a great amount of public attention and huge sequence data bases are created it becomes more and more obvious that we are very limited in our ability to access functional data for the gene products - the proteins, in particular for enzymes. Those data are inherently very difficult to collect, interpret and standardize as they are highly distributed among journals from different fields and are often subject to experimental conditions. Nevertheless a systematic collection is essential for our interpretation of the genome information and more so for possible applications of this knowledge in the fields of medicine, agriculture, etc.. Recent progress on enzyme immobilisation, enzyme production, enzyme inhibition, coenzyme regeneration and enzyme engineering has opened up fascinating new fields for the potential application of enzymes in a large range of different areas. The enzymes are classified according to the Enzyme Commission list of enzymes. Some 3500 "different" enzymes are covered. Frequently enzymes with very different properties are included under the same EC number. Although we intend to give a representative overview on the characteristics and variability of each enzyme the Handbook is not a compendium. The reader will have to go to the primary literature for more detailed information. Naturally it is not possible to cover all the numerous literature references for each enzyme (for some enzymes up to 40000) if the data representation is to be concise as is intended. The data collection is being developed into a metabolic network information system with links to Enzyme expression and regulation information. ... [Information of the supplier]