American Peptide Symposia Peptides: Frontiers of Peptide Science Book 5 (Hardcover)

The Fifteen American Peptide Symposium (15APS) was held in Nashville Tennessee on June 14-19 1997. This biennial meeting was jointly sponsored by the American Peptide Society and Vanderbilt University. The attendance of 1 081 participants from 37 countries was lower than the two previously held Symposia. However the number of participating countries was the largest. Thus it was gratifying to see that this meeting retained both its international flavor and participant loyalty at a time when there are many more symposia held each year on similar subjects. The scientific program thanks to the insights and efforts of the Program Committee as well as Dr. Peter Schiller the President of the American Peptide Society was extraordinarily rich diverse and exciting. It was comprised of 124 oral and 550 poster presentations. Three prominent format changes were installed. First the Symposium started on Saturday instead of Sunday. Second the program opened on Saturday afternoon with a Mini-symposium by the Young Investigators to give them an early start and attention. Finally 40 short and definitive reports were given in two parallel sessions. The expanded format permitted an unprecedented number of lectures and enabled wider participation by the attending delegates.