Subject: Invitation for Enzyme Catalysis Submissions

From: "watoc05" <watoc05^at^science.uct.ac.za>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:16:17 +0200

Dear Colleague,

We invite you to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation in the Enzyme Catalysis theme.   There are a limited number of contributed oral and poster slots available in the Enzyme Catalysis theme.   Our current speaker list for this theme includes:

Plenary Speakers:

Prof. Jill Gready            - Elusive Players in enzyme catalysis:  
                                     defining protonation states and proton shuttles.

Prof. Michele Parrinello   - Pushing back the frontiers of molecular dynamics 
                                      simulations.

Session Leaders:

Prof. Leo Radom            - Radicals in Biology

Prof. Kendall Houk         -  Quantum mechanical prediction of enzyme 
                                        mechanisms.

Invited Speakers:

Prof. Vincenzo Barone, Universita Federico II, Naples, Italy
Prof. Russell Boyd, Dalhousie University, Canada
Prof. Leif Eriksson, Orebro University, Sweden
Prof. Arvi Rauk, University of Calgary, Canada
Prof. Sason Shaik, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Per Siegbahn, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Prof. Hendrik Zipse, LMU Munich, Germany
Prof. David Smith, Institute Rudier Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Arieh Warshel, Univ. S. California, U.S.A.
Prof. William Jorgensen, Yale University, U.S.A.
Prof. Graham Richards, Oxford University, UK.
Prof. Yun-Dong Wu, UST Hong Kong.

Our website gives full information on registration and bookings:  www.sun.ac.za/watoc05 or http://webhost.sun.ac.za/watoc05/
We anticipate a very exciting programme, with top calibre speakers in Cape Town in January.   We invite you to register for the meting (http://www.acitravel.co.za/app.php?conf_id=18) and submit your abstracts (http://webhost.sun.ac.za/watoc05/) before the closing date (October 2004)

Sincerely,

Kevin J. Naidoo, Chairman WATOC05

Associate Professor Kevin Naidoo (Computational Chemistry)
Centre for High Performance Computing and
Department of Chemistry
University of Cape Town

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