European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference
The European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, or EUROBIC as it is most commonly called, is a biannual conference on Bioinorganic chemistry founded in 1992. The conference is held in Europe but attracts scientists from all over the world. EUROBIC was the result of a merger of the Swiss-Italian SIMBIC conference and the French-German SAMBAS conference. The aim is to create a forum and promote collaboration between scientists in the highly multidisciplinary field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, ranging from biology to inorganic chemistry.
EUROBIC usually span over five days and include around a hundred oral presentations and a few hundred poster presentations. Oral presentations are divided into "plenary lectures" (≈1 hour) that are joint for the entire conference and parallel sessions including "keynote lectures" (≈30 min), "session lectures" (≈25 min) and "oral lectures" (≈15 minutes).
Since 1994 (EUROBIC-2), the European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, also called the EUROBIC award, is presented in conjunction with the conference, customary as part of the closing ceremony.
EUROBIC Conferences to date
- 2016 EUROBIC-13: Budapest, Hungary
- 2014 EUROBIC-12: Zurich, Switzerland[1]
- 2012 EUROBIC-11: Granada, Spain
- 2010 EUROBIC-10: Thessaloniki, Greece
- 2008 EUROBIC-9: Wroclaw, Poland
- 2006 EUROBIC-8: Aveiro, Portugal
- 2004 EUROBIC-7: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
- 2002 EUROBIC-6: Lund, Sweden
- 2000 EUROBIC-5: Toulouse, France
- 1998 EUROBIC-4: Seville, Spain
- 1996 EUROBIC-3: Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
- 1994 EUROBIC-2: Firenze, Italy
- 1992 EUROBIC-1: Newcastle, United Kingdom
Topics covered
- Metals in Medicine - Therapeutic and Diagnostic Agents
- Bioinspired Catalysis
- Biomimetic Systems
- Metal Trafficking
- Metals and Oxidative Stress
- Metals and Nucleic Acids - Chemical and Biological Aspects
- Metal - Based Environmental Chemistry
- Metal Related Diseases
- Metals and Neurodegeneration
- Computational Aspects and Metal Containing Molecules
- Chemical Bioinformatics
- Metals - Light and Life
- Metalloproteins
- Structure - Function Correlation in Metal Containing Biomolecules
- Bioinspired Coordination Chemistry
- Biopharmaceuticals-Drug Delivery
References
- ↑ John Dawson, Roland Sigel and Eva Freisinger, ed. (July 2015). "12th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC 12) in Zurich, Switzerland, August 24-28, 2014". J. Inorg. Biochem. 148: 1–120. ISSN 0162-0134.
EUROBIC-9 proceedings ISBN 978-83-60043-10-3
Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry website