Bio-Organic Group

Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products V

May 31st, 2009

Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products V will be held in the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol on Wednesday June 17th. Registration includes 11 great talks, lunch, all refreshments, a poster session and a wine reception. Registration and further details can be found on the symposium website at: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/org/RJCox/Site/2009.html

The programme for the day is:

10.00 Registration and Tea

10.30 Tobias Knobloch - Kirschning Group Hannover

Exploiting the flexibility in Ansamitocin biosynthesis: From natural to custom-made cytotoxic compounds.

11.00 Dr Barry Murphy - Rawlings Group Leicester

In vivo production of amphotericin B analogues.

11.30 Amelia Kanari - Willis Group Bristol

Synthesis of Putative Intermediates to Monocerin.

12.00 Tom Elliott - Conway Group Oxford

The synthesis of natural and unnatural inositol phosphates as probes for the pleckstrin homology domain.

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Dr Tillmann Weber - Wohlleben Group Tuebingen

Molecular insights into kirromycin biosynthesis - news of an old antibiotic.

2.00 James Marshall - Cox / Simpson Group Bristol

The Strange Case of Fluorocinnamate Metabolism in Photorhabdus luminescens.

2.30 James Galman - Hailes Group UCL

Adventures with Transketolases.

3.00 Christophe Homer - Blundell Group, Cambridge

Crystal Structure of btrH; a key protein in Butirosin Biosynthesis

3.30 Tea

4.00 Martin Challand - Roach Group Southampton

Mechanistic Aspects of Thiamine Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli.

4.30 Paulina Sydor - Challis Group Warwick

Remarkable oxidative cyclisation reactions in prodiginine biosynthesis.

5.00 Juan Faraldos - Allemann Group Cardiff

Synthesis and Evaluation of Aza-terpenoid transition state analogues of aristolochene synthase.

5.30 Wine Reception and Prize-Giving

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