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Scientific programIn planning the 31st EPS, the organizers aimed at creating the strongest possiblescientific program broadly within peptide science. There was more emphasis on new,enabling developments in peptide chemistry than in some previous peptide symposia.in addition the organizers wanted to highlight peptides as drugs and had a dedicatedsession towards this topic, chaired by Thomas Hoeg-Jensen and Waleed Danho.The plenary and invited speakers were Herbert Waldmann, Tom W. Muir, ErnestGiralt, William F. DeGrado, Ivan Huc , Fernando Albericio, Horst Kessler, PaulAlewood, Annette Beck-Sickinger, William Lubell, Ronald Raines, and RichardDiMarchi, who were invited to present the latest developments in peptide science fromaround the world. in addition the two awardees, Helma Wennemers and Stephen B. H.Kent contributed to the strong program. The speakers were invited to present newdevelopments in peptide synthesis, both in SPPS and in ligation methods, peptidechemical biology including the role of farnesylation and palmitoylation, peptidemedicinal chemistry, foldamers related to peptides, structural aspects of peptides andproteins and more.The scientific <strong>com</strong>mittee ranked all abstracts. Based on their ranking, thespeakers for the oral and young investigator presentations were selected.The young investigator sessions as well as the Zervas and Rudinger awardsessions were all integrated into the main program to encourage attendance. Thesessions covered were: Peptide biochemistry and biology; synthetic chemistry ofamino acids and peptides; young investigator session; general peptide science; ligation;peptides as drugs; peptidomimetics; protein design and protein modification; peptidematerials and peptide properties; antibacterial and cell penetrating peptides;lipopeptides; signaling, hormones and neuro-peptides; peptide biology; chemicalbiology and proteomics. Needless to say, the actual lecture topics covered a widerrange than this. The parallel sessions Monday and Wednesday were a success, in spiteof some initial technical problems on Monday afternoon.In summary, there were 5 plenary lectures, 7 invited lectures, 2 award lectures,12 young investigator lectures and 52 oral presentations. Finally, as mentioned abovethere were close to 600 poster presentations, and two afternoons in the program werededicated to poster sessions. There were generally lively discussions after lectures,which contributed to a scientifically very strong program.ix

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