Nikolaos Fotopoulos – författare

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules. It provides a critically comparative review of research progress in the field of molecular structure, chemical bonding, and dynamics of biological molecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, membranes, enzymes and drugs. The spectroscopic methods employed to study the above systems are mainly infra-red and Raman, including NMR, CD, absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies. Molecular graphics simulations and other theoretical methods are also included. Presenting current research on the spectroscopy of biological molecules, this volume, dedicated to E.D. Schmid, a pioneer and leading research worker in this area of study, considers molecular structure and evolution from this broad perspective.

The series of Conferences on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules aims to stimulate research and development in this area of Science. The relationship between the structure and the biological activity of such materials as proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids is fundamental. The 5th European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules (ECSBM) is held at the Hotel Poseidon Club, Loutraki, Greece, on 5-10 September 1993. The scientific contents are remained the same as in the past conferences. Emphasis is given to vibrational spectroscopy, mainly infrared and Raman applied to the study of structure and dynamics of proteins, nucleic acids, porphyrins, carbohydrates, membranes, etc. Most of the contributions describe molecular dynamics and excitation processes, in particular the electronic-vibrational excitations, which are studied by Fr-Raman, Fourier Transform Infrared (Fr-IR) coupled often with microscopy and chromatography. Contributions also include Fr-Raman and FT-IR instrumentation and new developments in this area, and applications in Biology and Medicine. Furthermore, there is a plenary lecture in Mass Spectrometry and its applications in biomedical analysis, and a session devoted to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and its application in the study of biological molecules. Several contributions are devoted to other methods, such as CD, optical absorption, fluorescence and molecular graphics simulations. This volume of ECSBM contains shon articles by the invited and contributed lectures as well as from the Poster presentations from many European and non-European countries.