The New York Section of the American Chemical Society.

Featured Keynote Speaker Prof. Brian Gibney CUNY Graduate Center While DNA is the blueprint for the cell, it is the proteins that do the bulk of the work. About 30% of proteins require metal ions for proper function and their dysfunction leads to human disease. The Gibney Lab takes a constructive approach toward understanding metalloprotein structurefunction relationships. Using inorganic chemistry and protein biophysics, his lab designs and synthesizes simplified metalloproteins (maquettes) to test the fundamental tenets of metalloprotein engineering.