We are pleased to announce ZOMES VII “Ubiquitin family proteins and their cognate PCI complexes”, a conference, which will take place in Munich, Germany from September 18 – 21, 2012.

The ZOMES conference series started in 1998 and has since taken place in Israel, Turkey, Germany, the United States, and Japan.

In 2012, ZOMES VII will be organized together with the annual meeting of the DFG priority program SPP1365 “Ubiquitin family network: The regulatory and functional network of ubiquitin family proteins.”  and the conference focus will be on the biology of ubiquitin-like proteins and their conjugation and deconjugation machineries including the 26S proteasome and the COP9 signalosome. An impressive list of speakers has already agreed  to present their work at this conference and all participating groups of the SPP1365 will present their current data on ubiquitin(-like) protein research.

ZOMES VII will take place in Munich from 14:00 h on Sept. 18 until 13:00 h on Sept. 21, 2012, just days before the opening of the famous “Oktoberfest”. Munich is an important centre for history, art, and science and is home to two major German universities, the Technische Universität München and the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, as well as several leading research centers including the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry.

ZOMES VII will be held in one of the most interesting venues of downtown Munich, the “Hochschule für Musik and Theater München”. The Munich music conservatory is located at the Königsplatz next to the Technische Universität München and next to several of the town’s most important art collections such as the “Pinakotheken”