The “ international conference on Metal-Binding Peptides” is an interdisciplinary congress related to metal-binding peptides, the methodologies used and applications specific to this kind of peptides. The general scope of this first conference on metal-binding peptides will be dedicated to:

• The Peptides and peptidomimetics study: from the chemical synthesis of MBP to the biological production either by biocatalysis or living organisms (bacteria, plants, etc.),
• The methodologies used for the screening and/or separation of MBP in complex mixtures of biomolecules,
• The technics and methods used to investigate the MBPs and to study their interaction with metals
• Considering metal in general or under various forms, i.e. ionic, complexes or present in nanoparticles (essential metals, toxic metals, metals for medicine, ionic metals, metal-nanoparticules, metal-complexes).

All the fields of application of Metal Binding Peptide will be addressed during such interdisciplinary congress: chemistry, biology, medicine, environment, nutrition, material science, etc.

Two main sessions will be considered either on a methodological point of view or on an application point of view, each one being divided under more focused and specific sessions.

Session 1. Methodologies-related sessions

• MBP produced from chemical synthesis, from micro-organisms or plants or using biocatalysis from various proteins ressources
• Development of techniques and methods for MBP screening (SPR, …) and separation (IMAC chromatography) and Identification,

–    Development of techniques and methods for MBPs study (spectroscopic technics, potentiometric titration, ITC, SPR,…),and of their interaction with metals (non-covalent or covalent interactions, complexation, ionic interactions, etc.)…..

Session 2. Applicative-related sessions

• MBP in milk products, in Foods and Nutrition (Nutraceutics such as as antioxidant),
• MBP in cosmetics and cosmeticals,
• MBP as drugs (antimicrobial peptides?),
• MBP in diagnostic and diseases (neurosciences, neuro-degenerative illness, chelation therapy)
• MBP in environmental sciences (depollution, biosorption)
• MBP in biomaterials
• MBP in microbiology (antimicrobial peptides, siderophoreous peptides)
• MBP for imaging (MRI, PDT, etc.)
• MBP and nanoparticles
• MBP for catalysis (chemical and biological or as models of metalloenzymes/-proteins)