Theory and Applications of the Empirical Valence Bond Approach – From Physical Chemistry to Chemical Biology

Lynn Kamerlin, Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University Professor Kamerlin is a full?Professor?of Structural Biology at Uppsala University, as well as an ERC Starting Independent Researcher and a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. She is also the current Chair of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE). Her research interests span theoretical physical organic chemistry, phosphate and sulfate chemistry, the mechanisms of enzyme reactivity, specificity, promiscuity and catalysis, and computational directed evolution. Fernanda Duarte, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University Dr Duarte is the Newton Fellow at University of Oxford, UK. In November 2015, she was awarded a ?100,000 grant for research into Plagiarizing Proteins: In Silico Evolution of Catalysts for Selective Chemical Synthesis.