The workshop will be held at the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS) in Split Croatia, 9-13 Aug 2010, and it is organized by the University of Split, Faculty of Science, with a participation of MedILS. Together with several other institutions, the two have recently established an international PhD programme in biophysics at the University of Split. The workshop is intended to be an official summer school for the students in the programme, with additional wider participation.

There are several groups working on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in Split, and we have put together a program with lecturers primarily from Australia and Croatia. Croatia’s strength is in theoretical approaches to modelling structure, activity and selectivity of AMPs, while Australian expertise is focused on isolation, synthesis and structure/activity measurements of AMPs. The workshop will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians interested in understanding the mechanism of action of AMPs and their possible applications as peptide antibiotics.

The workshop is not limited to Australian and Croatian researchers, but will be open to researchers and post-graduate students from other countries and has broad scope with respect to included research topics.

Principal organizer:
Professor Davor Juretić
Physics Department, Faculty of Science,
University of Split, Nikole Tesle 12, 21000 Split, Croatia
Telephone: +385 21 385 133
Fax: +385 21 385 431
Email: juretic@pmfst.hr

Australian co-organizer:
Professor Frances Separovic
School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute
University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2447 or 6492
Fax: +61 3 9347 8189 or 5180
Email: fs@unimelb.edu.au