Early booking deadline - 18 July

This is a new type of conference being organized by RSC under the leadership of the Chemistry-Biology interface Forum with support from the Materials Chemistry Forum.

It will explore a number of new and inter-related research areas at the interfaces between the physical sciences and biology. 

The EPSRC and the BBSRC are both sponsoring this conference and will both have a presence there. This is because they expect to invest increasing amounts of funding in these areas over the coming years.

Themes and invited speakers:

• Theme 1: Creating New Biological Systems and Functions:
  Ron Weiss (Princeton, USA)
  Jason Chin (Cambridge, UK)
  Victor de Lorenzo (Madrid, Spain)
• Theme 2: Novel Biomolecular Devices:
  Henry Hess (Florida, USA)
  Luc Jaeger (Santa Barbara, USA)
  Andrew Turberfield (Oxford, UK)
• Theme 3: Assembling Custom Bionanomaterials:
  Joshua Edel (London, UK)
  Dek Woolfson (Bristol, UK)
  Duncan Graham (Glasgow, UK)
• Theme 4: Augmenting Tissue through Chemistry:
  Jacob Klein (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
  Milan Mrksich (Chicago, USA)
  Samuel Stupp (Northwestern University, USA)          

Join us at this unique event. You may wish to make a poster presentation, or simply come along to hear about the latest science from our excellent speakers. To present a poster at the conference, submit an abstract by 18 July 2008. 

You will also be able to talk to members of the research councils about funding of research in these areas, and meet with many other scientists who will be joining us at this event.

For more details on each theme, to register and how to submit a poster abstract, please see the In this Section links.