Session: Protein Engineering I: Therapeutics

The ability to create proteins with desired properties is limited by our current understanding of the relationships between protein sequence, protein structure and protein function and by our current abilities to search sequence space in an efficient manner. This session seeks presentations on emerging topics and recent successes in both the understanding and engineering of protein form and function. Experimental and computational approaches that are of scientific, medical, and industrial significance are sought after. Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to: computational design, directed evolution, protein mutations and modifications including non-natural amino acids, antibody or cytokine engineering, and protein medicinal chemistry.