ESBOC

The ESBOC Symposia (European Symposia in Bio-Organic Chemistry), established by Cedric Hassall in 1967, has previously taken place each May at Gregynog Hall, in mid-Wales.

Following our decision to hold ESBOC in Continental Europe in alternate years, the next ESBOC Symposium will be held at Gregynog Hall, Wales from May 28th to 30th May 2025.

The Chair is Olalla Vázquez (Marburg University).

Confirmed speakers:

  • Barbara Imperiali (MIT)
    Rolling Out Glycan Biosynthesis: A Tale of Two Topologies
  • Peter Seeberger (MPI Potsdam)
    Synthetic Glycans as Tools for Molecular Glycobiology
  • Yimon Aye (University of Oxford)
    The Many Guises of Reactive Metabolite Signalling
  • Concepción González Bello (Universidade de Santiago de Compostella)
    Exploring New Bacterial Niches for Facing the Silent Pandemic
  • Louise Walport (Imperial College London, Francis Crick Institute)
    Adventures in Covalency using mRNA-display
  • Marc Vendrell (University of Edinburgh)
    Activatable Fluorescent Probes for Imaging Immune Cells
  • Péter Kele (Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest)
    Bioorthogonal Modulation of Photoresponsivity and Vice versa
  • Cathleen Zeymer (TU Munich)
    De novo Lanthanide Enzymes for Photoredox Catalysis
  • Anthony Green (University of Manchester)
    Building Enzymes with New Function
  • Oliver Thorn-Seshold (Technical University Dresden)
    Rethinking Photoswitches for Biology: Imaging, Pharmacology, and the NIR
  • Nicole Biber (Merck Gruppe)
    Targeted PROTAC Delivery: Principles of Crafting PROTAC-ADCs and Self-assembling PROxAb Shuttles

The symposium is organised in conjunction with the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group.

A programme is available.

The satellite pre-ESBOC event will be held as a hybrid meeting, with the option for online attendance. To register, please contact Louis at lukly@cardiff.ac.uk