DEADLINE FOR HOTEL REGISTRATION IS OCTOBER 15th

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Thanks to Prof. Ada E. Yonath for attending to the FLASH conference


Prof. Yonath was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level. All three have used X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.

Ada E. Yonath, Israeli citizen. Born in 1939 in Jerusalem, Israel. Ph.D. in X-ray Crystallography in 1968 from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology and Director of Helen & Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure & Assembly, both at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

From materials to sensing and catalysis, from organic to inorganic and materials chemistry, nature has served as an endless source of new ideas. The 7th ERA-Chemistry FLASH conference is dedicated to biology-inspired chemistry, including (but not limited to): Biomaterials and bioconjugation, Coordination complexes as metalloenzyme models, Molecular machines, Supramolecular chemistry, Biomolecular recognition, and DNA-based materials.

The 7th FLASH conference will Start on Sunday October 24th, 2010 at 6 pm, and registration will be possible from 3 pm on. The meeting will be over on Wednesday 27th of October. Participants should make travel arrangements accordingly.

Meeting sessions will take place in the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Santiago, which is located just a few minutes away from the town center and the cathedral.

The meeting hotel will be the Hesperia Peregrino, very close to the South campus and the meeting venue. We have arranged special prices for the participants.
Contact information:
M. Eugenio Vázquez or Concepción González
Phone: +34 981 563 100 ext. 14368
FAX: +34 981 595 012
For more information about Santiago:
Main Tourist Office:
Rúa do Vilar, 63
Phone: 981 555 129
www.santiagoturismo.com
Pilgrims' Information Center:
Rúa do Vilar, 30-32
Phone: 981 584 081
Galicia is situated in the northwest part of Spain. around 1,300 kms of coastline, which provides a bounty of seafood for the Galician cookbook. The most famous Galician dishes are octopus (pulpo a la gallega), seafood stew (caldeirada de pescado) and scallops (vieira).
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Santiago de Compostela is one of the most atmospheric cities in the whole of the country. According to legend, the burial place of the corpse of St James, this is the destination each year for thousands of tourists who have followed the Camino de Santiago. As you walk the streets you will see countless people, of all ages and nationalities, carrying their pilgrim’s staff and looking for the scallop signs marking the way – many of them having completed all 480 miles of the walk. The city itself, aside from the lavish Baroque cathedral, is full of charming medieval streets and rich architectural jewels; this outstanding cultural legacy earned the distinction of being declared a Wold Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.