The scientific program will consist of: Plenary lectures Invited lectures Oral communications Poster communications

PROGRAM TOPICS

1. Metal import and trafficking - metallochaperons, channels, regulation, maturation factors.

2. Metal activated gene expression- Regulators and sensors.

3. Metals and energy transduction systems (molecular motors, pumps and channels, electron/proton transfer complexes).

4. Calcium, magnesium and zinc: signalling and motion.

5. Organometallic centres in Biology.

6. Protein misfolding - prion diseases

7. Metals in medicine- MetalloProteins and Human Health , toxicity, drugs, imaging.

8. Oxidative and nitrosative stress responses

9. Metals and Host-Pathogen Interactions

10. Enzymatic and biomimetic catalysis

11. Biomineralization and Biocompatible inorganic materials

12. Metalloproteins in the post-genome decade: evolution, phylogeny, environmental  and economic significance.

13. Bioinorganic catalysis for sustainable (renewable) energy and chemicals production.

14. Physical techniques- Recent Developments

"SCIENCE AND SOCIETY- A VIDA E OS METAIS " (Life and Metals)