From owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Fri Jul 18 09:01:20 2003 Return-Path: X-Original-To: btk-mca-outgoing Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CD037D221 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:01:20 +0100 (BST) X-Original-To: btk-mca-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E767D0C5 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:01:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB5D7D221 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:01:18 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.11.6+Sun/8.8.8) id h6I81Hh03163 for btk-mca-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:01:17 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: Carsten Kettner X-Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: 2. Announcement: 1st Internationl Symposium on ESCEC Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:04:40 +0200 Lines: 58 Message-ID: Reply-To: carsten.kettner@arcor.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk It is a pleasure of the Beilstein-Institut to announce the 1st International Symposium on Experimental Standard Conditions of Enzyme Characteriaztions, to be held at Ruedesheim/Rhine, Germany, Monday October 6th to Wednesday October 8th, 2003. Further information is available at http://www.beilstein-institut.de/englisch/1200/veran/events/escec/escec_index.html. Registration is open until August 31st. Please note, that, due to a fruitful atmosphere for discussions, the number of participants is limited to max. 70 persons. Functional characterization of enzymes and the subsequent computational analysis and modelling of the cellular metabolism and the interaction of cells within tissues and organs led to the foundation of a new branch within the life sciences, called systems biology. At this time, data from metabolic simulations show broad value ranges with high uncertainty because the accessible experimental data have been generated under non-standardized experimental conditions. The results from functional characterizations of enzymes are usually determined by individual laboratory-specific application and implementation of the experimental design. Thus, successful biological analysis requires comparable and reliable data from both enzyme and physiological interactions collected under standardized experimental conditions. However, as long as the quality of the in-put as well as the out-going modelling data can not be improved, the chances of success for this young discipline to escape from the verbally overused -omics-sciences are poor. Following speakers will address questions such as - are any standards used in the field of functional characterization of enzymes? - Do current repositories for enzyme characterization data meet the demands of users? - Which data types for metabolic simulations are necessary? Rolf Apweiler, EBI, UK David Fell, Oxford Brookes University, UK Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Hans-Georg Holzhütter, Charite Berlin, Germany Pedro Mendes, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, USA Dietmar Schomburg, Universitaet Koeln, Germany Stefan Schuster, Max-Dellbrueck-Center, Berlin, Germany Hans Westerhof, BioCentrum Amsterdam, The Netherlands Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University, Japan Mark Poolman, Oxford Brookes University, UK Herbert Sauro, Caltech Pasadena, USA Keith Tipton, Trinity College, Institute for Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland Detlev Kroemker, Fraunhofer Institut AGC, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Hanno Langen, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel, Switzerland Jacky Snoep, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Alisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institut, Golm, Germany If you need further information about the symposium and/or process of registration, topics, scientific topics, please do not hesitate to contact me: ckettner@beilstein-institut.de With best regards, Carsten Kettner .