ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference
Natural Products Chemistry, Biology and Medicine IV
28 August - 2 September 2011
Final Programme |
This is the agenda as of 25 July 2011. 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 28 August | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Registration at ESF-COST Desk |
| 19:00 | Welcome Drink |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Monday 29 August | |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Conference Opening |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | Introduction by ESF/ COST |
Session 1 | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Timothy C. Gallagher - University of Bristol, UK Natural Products as Leads to Nicotinic Agonists |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Franz von Nussbaum - Bayer Schering Pharma AG, DE Chemical Postevolution of Natural Antibiotics |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Nuno Maulide - Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, DE Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyclobutenes: Towards the Synthesis of Natural Products |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Erik Van der Eycken - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE Microwaves in the Synthesis of Medium-Sized Ring-Containing Natural Products and Analogues |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
Session 2 | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | William J. Kerr - University of Strathclyde, UK Emerging Metal-mediated Methods; Applications in Natural Product Synthesis |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Tomas Hudlicky - Brock University, CA Biocatalytic Syntheses of Natural Products and Derivatives in the Area of Pain Control, Cancer, and Viral Infections |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Coffee Break |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Poster Session 1 - Chaired by: Jef K. De Brabander and Trond Vidar Hansen |
20:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 30 August | |
| Session 3 Chair: Arthur Catino - Harvard University, US | |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Hans-Joachim Knölker - TU Dresden, DE Synthesis of Highly Specific Inhibitors of beta-Secretase and Myosin ATPase – New Prospects for Drug Development |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Peter Gmeiner - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE Privilleged Structures for the Activation of G-protein Coupled Receptors |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Hartmuth Laatsch - University of Göttingen, DE Metabolites are the Words of Nature. But who is Listening, and what is the Grammar? |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Anthony Burgett - Harvard University, US Oxysterol Binding Proteins Are the Cellular Targets of the Antiproliferative Natural Products Cephalostatin 1, OSW-1, Ritterazine B and Schweinfurthin A |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Jiong Yang - Texas A&M University, US Toward the total synthesis of norzoanthamine |
| 13:10 - 13:30 | Martin E. Maier - Tuebingen University, DE Towards the total synthesis of pladienolide B |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 4: Chair: Bruno Botta - Sapienza University, IT | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Francesco Nicotra - University of Milano Bicocca, IT Tools for Biomedical Applications Decorated with Natural Products and Mimetics |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Alba Silipo - University of Naples, IT Microbial Glyco-conjugates and Eukaryotic Innate Immunity |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Coffee Break |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | Matthew John Fuchter - Imperial College London, UK Natural Product Inspiration for Epigenetic Inhibition |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | Markus Kalesse - Leibniz University of Hannover, DE The Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites from Myxobacteria |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | Evgeny Prusov - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, DE Ripostatin Analogs: The Quest for Stability and Activity |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Poster Session 2 - Chaired by: Ari Koskinen and Dieter Schinzer |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| 22:00 | Football match |
Wednesday 31 August | |
| Session 5 Chair: Stephen Clark - University of Glasgow, UK | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Hans-Jürgen Federsel - AstraZeneca, SE Driving a Green Chemistry Agenda in Pharmaceutical Process Development and Scale Up |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Raffaele Riccio - University of Salerno, IT Nature Aided Drug DiscoveryApproaches to Target Identification Based on Chemical Proteomics and Inverse Virtual Screening |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Thomas E. Nielsen - Technical University of Denmark, DK Synthesis of Heterocycles through a Ruthenium-Catalyzed Tandem Ring-Closing Metathesis-Isomerization-Cyclization Sequence |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Jim Thomas - The University of Manchester, UK Lecture Title TBA |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| 15:30 - 19:00 | Half-day excursion to Maratea |
| 19:30 | Pizza party & live music evening |
| Thursday 1 September | |
Session 6 | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Hisashi Yamamoto - University of Chicago, US Asymmetric Catalysis |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Antonio M. Echavarran - Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, ES Building Molecular Complexity via Gold Catalysis |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Gong Chen - The Pennsylvania State University, US Streamlined Syntheses of Natural Products via Catalytic C-H Functionalization |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Stephen Clark - University of Glasgow, UK Approaches to the Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products that Contain Medium-Sized Rings |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Uttam Tambar - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, US Stereoselective Catalysis of [2,3]-Rearrangements |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session 7 Chair: Jef K. De Brabander - The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, US | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Jon D. Rainier - University of Utah, US Targeting Heterocyclic Natural Products at 4700 Feet Above Sea Level |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Paul Wender - Stanford University, US The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum: First-in-class Strategies for Eradicating HIV/AIDS, Overcoming Cancer Resistance and Treating Alzheimer's Disease |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Coffee break |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Forward Look Plenary Discussion |
| 20:00 | Get-together and Conference Dinner |
| Friday 2 September | |
| 08:00 | Breakfast and Departure |
