Richard Cheng , National Taiwan University, No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, TW, 10617 | Kazuaki Kudo | Joel Schneider | Ping-Chiang Lyu

Proteins and peptides play diverse roles in nature, stimulating the design of proteins, peptides, and peptidomimetics. Inspired by Richard Feynman's statement, "What I cannot create, I do not understand", protein and peptide design has provided impact on the fundamental understanding of protein structure and function with potential applications in pharmaceutical and material sciences. The sessions will present the most recent developments in protein, peptide, and peptidomimetics design. The topics presented would include both strategies and applications. Strategies would include synthesis and utilization of non-natural amino acids and novel scaffolds, de novo design, and computation-based methods; applications would include catalysis, diagnostics, pharmaceutics and materials.