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abstract: Systems Chemistry is the joint effort of prebiotic and supramolecular chemistry together with theoretical biology and complex systems research to address problems relating to the synthesis of life. The emerging field can be viewed as the bottom up pendant of systems biology towards synthetic biology. A major focus is laid on the study of autocatalytic reaction systems, such as chemical self-replicating, self-reproducing, and chiral symmetry breaking systems. The field aims at the construction of dynamic supersystems embedding at least one autocatalytic subsystem. Subsystems may be classified as genetic, metabolic, or compartiment-building. Pairwise integration into higher organized supersystems is expected to yield the knowledge enabling later the triple integration into minimal chemical cells. Finding the chemical roots of Darwinian evolvability is seen as a key challenge for the field.

The conference will convene internationally leading experts from various relevant areas to elucidate where we stand in 2008. Facets from this intriguing and truly interdisciplinary endeavour come from fields as diverse as geochemistry and organocatalysis, biomolecular chemistry and liposome technology, metal-organic chemistry and the theory of networks and evolution. Joining these facets by the unifying principle of autocatalysis leads to a new view which may be especially attractive for the next generation of chemists.

abstract: The third Annual BIO-Europe Spring™ conference is the premier springtime partnering conference for the biotechnology industry. For its 2009 edition, BIO-Europe Spring returns to Milan/Italy on March 16-18, 2009. The conference annually attracts the international “who’s who” from bio-tech, pharma and finance for three days of high caliber networking. BIO-Europe Spring’s world-class workshops, panels and active exhibition along with thousands of pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings make this event an unrivalled forum for companies across the bio¬tech value-chain to meet and do business. Attend BIO-Europe Spring and experience how you can have more partnering meetings in the three days of the conference than in the rest of the year. The most recent BIO-Europe Spring in April 2008 was held in Madrid, Spain, and brought together 1,400 executives from 850 biotechnology, pharmaceutical and finance companies from 35 countries around the world, who engaged in over 5,800 partnering meetings. Partnering at BIO-Europe Spring is powered by partneringONE™, the leading conference solution for helping life science delegates meet efficiently and effectively. partneringONE™ has the unique ability to manage the complex interactions between thousands of executives from many different companies. This sophisticated Web-based partnering system enables delegates to screen potential partners, pre-arrange meetings and manage the entire conference partnering process. Delegates can log-in and connect with the conference community, anytime, anywhere.