ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference
Natural Products Chemistry, Biology and Medicine III
5-10 September 2010
Hotel Villa del Mare, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy
Final Programme |
This is the agenda as of 1 September 2010. The final programme may differ from the one listed below in terms of speakers, content of the presentations and speaking slots.
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| Sunday 5 September | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Registration at ESF-COST Desk |
| 19:00 | Welcome Drink |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Monday 6 September | |
| 08:35 - 08:45 | Conference Opening |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction by ESF and COST |
Session 1: | |
| 09:00 - 09.45 | Jieping Zhu - Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (CNRS), FR Total Syntheses of Complestatin and Saframycins |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Giovanni Appendino - Universita del Piemonte Orientale, IT Exploring the Chemical Space with Plant Natural Products: Bleeding Horses, Everlasting Flowers, and the Headache Tree |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Janine Cossy - École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle (ESPCI), FR Natural Products: Potential Access to Antitumor Agents |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Edward Anderson - University of Oxford, UK The Schisandra Triterpenoid Natural Products: An Inspiration for Methodology and Synthesis |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Session 2: | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Kaliappan Krishna - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN Synthetic Studies on Palmerolide A and Phostriecin (short talk) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Luisella Verotta - Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, IT New (+)-Usnic Acid Derivatives as Dual-Target Antimalarial Agents (short talk) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Rebecca Goss - University of East Anglia, UK New un-Natural Products: Gene Expression Enabling “Click?”(short talk) |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Michael Brown - Harvard University, US Development of New Chiral Catalysts for the Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Clavirolide C (short talk) |
| 17:40 - 18:25 | P. Andrew Evans - University of Liverpool, UK Unlocking Natural Secrets in Natural Product Synthesis |
19:00 | Dinner |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session |
| Tuesday 7 September | |
| Session 3: Chair: Jef K. De Brabander - The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Department of Biochemistry and Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, US | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Annemieke Madder - University Of Gent, BE Furan Modified DNA Building Blocks: A Toolbox for Crosslinking, Ligation and Secondary Structure Analysis |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | John MacMillan - UT Southwestern Medical Center, US Targeting Opportunistic Pathogens with Marine Microbe Derived Natural Products |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | John Wood - Colorado State University, US Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Oxindole-Containing Natural Products |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Karl Hansen - Amgen, US Process Synthesis of Unnatural Products |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session 4: Chair: Bruno Botta - University “La Sapienza”, IT | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Luciana Gonzaga de Olivera - University of Campinas, BR Finding Potential Antibiotic Metabolites in Endophytic Streptomyces Using Metabolic Probes (short talk) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Reem Smoum - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL Oleoyl Serine is Present in Bone and Modulates Skeletal Remodeling and Mass (short talk) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Jérôme Waser - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH Formal Homo-Nazarov Cyclization: Applications in the Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids (short talk) |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Xiaoguang Lei - National Institute of Biological Sciences Beijing, CN Exploring the Structural Diversity and Biological Activity of Complex Natural Products (short talk) |
| 17:40 - 18:25 | Dirk Trauner - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, DE Finding the Limits of Biomimetic Synthesis |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session |
Wednesday 8 September | |
| Session 5: Chair: Dieter Schinzer - University of Magdeburg, DE | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Bruno Botta - University “La Sapienza”, IT The Combination of Chemistry with Biochemistry: An Attractive Hyphenation to the Production of Aromatic Natural Compounds |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Joelle Prunet - University of Glasgow, UK Taxol: Synthesis and Metathesis |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Andreas Kirschning - Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE Total-, Semi- and Mutasynthesis - Three Faces of One Coin |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Nicolai Cramer - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), CH Molecular Complexity through Enantioselective C-H and C-C Bond Activations |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 19:00 | Excursion |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| Thursday 9 September | |
Session 6: | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Mathias Christmann - Technische Universität Dortmund, DE Organocatalytic Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Alfonso Mangoni - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, IT Glycopipids from Marine Sponge |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Paolo Melchiorre - Institut Català d’Investigació Química, ES Aminocatalytic Domino Reactions: A Cascade of Possibilities |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Timothy Donohoe - University of Oxford, UK New Synthetic Methodology Developed for the Efficient Synthesis of Natural Products |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session 7: Chair: Robert Webb - RW Consulting, US | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Anthony Burke - Universidade de Evora, PT Catalytic Enantioselective Arylation of Activated Imines: A Powerful Approach to Biologically Active Amines (short talk) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Noah Burns - Harvard University, US Scalable Total Synthesis of Haouamine A and its Atropisomer (short talk) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Victor Snieckus - Queen’s University, CA Aromatic/Heteroaromatic Metalation – Transition Metal Catalysis Partnership |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Brian Stoltz - California Institute of Technology, US Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry |
| 18:30 - 19:15 | Forward Look Plenary Discussion |
| 20:00 | Get-together and Conference Dinner |
| Friday 10 September | |
| 08:00 | Breakfast and Departure |
