Chemical Tools for Decoding Biology and Advancing Medicine

The Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, established in 1992, brings together highly diverse scientific disciplines that interface chemistry and biology. The attendees, drawn from industry, academia and other research institutions, convene to discuss broadly applicable techniques and approaches, including cellular and molecular processes, challenges in drug discovery, application of new techniques to understand chemical biology, new target identification and interdisciplinary research tools and probes.

The 2015 meeting will broadly focus on innovative chemical technologies that have deepened our understanding of cell biology and have led to the development of new therapeutic strategies. Sessions will cover strategies for forward and reverse chemical genetics, the design of new cellular tools to probe biology, strategies for drug discoveries’ most difficult targets, lessons from microbiology, peptides and proteins with novel functions, and molecular recognition of nucleic acids "beyond the base pair". We will also highlight areas of rapid progress in therapeutics and chemical biology, including chemical modulation of the epigenome, protein quality control networks in health and disease, and harnessing the immune system for cancer therapy. Conferees are encouraged to present posters; poster presenters should submit an abstract with their applications on the GRC web site. As this meeting usually oversubscribes, submission of applications in early 2014 is strongly encouraged. A number of poster presenters from among the early applications will be invited to present short talks.