Introduction

Challenges in Chemical Biology will be the second event in the International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) series in 2013. Building upon the success of ISACS 5: Challenges in Chemical Biology, which took place in 2011, the meeting will bring together leading scientists from across the world to discuss the latest applications of chemical tools and techniques for probing biological problems.

The conference will take place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part in ISACS 11 and looks forward to welcoming you to Boston.

Aims 

The conference will bring together exceptional researchers - all leading names in their field - for an outstanding plenary programme, complemented by contributed talks, together with extensive poster sessions that will provide many networking opportunities.

Themes

• Immunology and Microbiology
• Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics
• Cancer Biology
• Systems Biology
• Neuroscience     

Committee

Ben Davis
University of Oxford, UK, (Chair)

Alice Ting
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

James Bradner
Harvard Medical School, USA

Tom Muir
Princeton University, USA

Molly Stevens
Imperial College London, UK