Darrin York will be delivering the closing Plenary talk at the QM/MM Methods and Applications: Probing complex systems in biology and materials conference at the University of Manchester, UK. The title of this talk is "Insights into the amazing world of RNA catalysis from hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulations." An abstract can be found below.

This conference is held September 4-6, 2017 at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. The conference brings together leading scientists in the field of hybrid quantum mechanics (QM)/molecular mechanics (MM) approaches, to discuss recent advances in QM/MM methodology and applications to systems of ever-increasing complexity and scale, ranging from exquisite enzyme catalysis to the chemistry and physics of smart materials. For more information, please see the conference website:

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Richard.Bryce/qmmm2017/index.html