| Sunday Evening |
Cyanobacteria |
Discussion Leader: Valerie Paul
- William H. Gerwick, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
"Structural and Biosynthetic Studies of Bioactive Marine Cyanobacterial Metabolites"
- Richard Moore
"New Developments on the Cryptophycins, New Antitumor Agents from Blue-Green Algae"
- Greg Patterson
"Competitor Elicited Generation of Cyanobacterial Secondary Metabolites: Implications for Ecology and Natural Products Screening"
| Monday Morning |
Marine Fungi |
Discussion Leader: Ted Molinski
- Dr. E.B. Gareth Jones, City University, Hong Kong
"Fifty years of Marine Mycology, the Present and Future Industrial Use of Marine Fungi"
- Kelly Jenkins
"Chemical Ecology of Marine Microorganisms: An Emerging Subdiscipline of Marine Chemical Ecology"
| After Break |
Marine Natural Products, Pharmacological Studies |
Discussion Leader: Steven Coval
- Kazuo Tachibana
"Structure-Based Studies on Mechanisms of Hemolytic Action by Lipogrammistin A, a Defense Substance of Soapfishes"
- Ian Spector
"Marine Natural Products That Target the Actin Cytoskeleton as a Novel Therapy for Prostate Cancer"
- Alejandro Mayer
"Marine Natural Products That Target Inflammatory Mediator-Production by Activated Rat Microglia"
- Brent Copp
Naamidine A: Antagonist of EGF-Dependent Cell Proliferation and in vivo Active Antitumor Agent
4:30 - 6:00 - Poster Session I
| Monday Evening |
Frontiers in Collecting |
Discussion Leader: D. John Newman
- Patrick L. Colin, Coral Reef Research Foundation, Palau, PW
"Marine Natural Products Collections: What's Left to Sample?"
- Charles Fisher, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
"Sampling from Extreme Environments in the Deep Sea: Brine Pools, Hydrocarbon Seeps, and Hydrothermal Vents"
- Mark Hamann
"Use of Closed Circuit Rebreathers in the Acquisition of Marine Samples'
- Poster Session I, further discussion
| Tuesday Morning |
Biofouling |
Discussion Leaders: Nobuhiro Fusetani, John Cronan
- Catherine Unabia, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
"Surface-Microbe-Invertebrate Interactions in Marine Biofouling"
- Yoshikazu Shizuri, Director, Marine Biotechnology Institute Shizuoka
"Research on Marine Biofouling Using Chemical and Biotechnological Methods"
Discussion Leaders: John Cronan, Niels Lindquist
- Barry Wright
"Impact of Biofouling in Selected Industrial and Biomedical Contexts"
- Kiyotaka Matsumura
"Involvement of Settlement-Inducing Protein Complex in Larva-Larva Interaction During Larval Settlement of the Barnacle Balanus amphitrite"
- Sachihiko Tsukamoto
"Lumichrome, a Putative Chemical Cue to Larval Metamorphosis in the Ascidian Halocynthia roretzi"
4:30 - 6:00 - Poster Session I
| Tuesday Evening |
Developments in Marine Natural Products |
Discussion Leader: Bill Baker
- D. John Faulkner
"Addressing Cellular Processes Using Marine Natural Products"
- Yoel Kashman
"New Marine Isoprenoids"
| Paul J. Scheuer Award Presentation and Address |
Discussion Leaders: Paul Scheuer, John Cardellina
- Presentation of Award to Jon Clardy
- Jon Clardy
Award Address: "Natural Products and Their Macromolecular Receptors"
| Wednesday Morning |
Marine Microorganisms |
Discussion Leaders: Michael Kelly, D. John Faulkner
- Francesco Pietra, Universita' di Trento / Universita' di Pisa, Italy
"Secondary Metabolism and Genetics of Marine Free Living and Metazoan-Associated Microbes"
- Joann Burkholder, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
"Chronic Impact of Harmful Marine Microalgae on Fish and Mammals, with Emphasis on the Biology and Toxicity of Pfiesteria piscicida"
Discussion Leaders: D. John Faulkner, Marc Slattery
- Bradley Moore
"Toward Engineering Bioversity in Marine Streptomyces"
- Alison Butler
"New Siderophores from Marine Bacteria"
- Michael Kelly
"Marine Microorganisms as a source of New Antibiotics Active Against Drug Resistant Pathogens"
4:30 - 6:00 - Poster Session II
| Wednesday Evening |
Developments in NMR Analyses |
Discussion Leaders: John Blunt, Kirk Gustafson
- Jeremy K. Nicholson, University of London, United Kingdom
"Development and Application of Hyphenated NMR Spectroscopic Techniques in Bioanalysis"
- Carole Bewley, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
"New Methods for Determining 3-D Structures by NMR: Application to the Anti-HIV Protein Cyanovirin"
- Steve Bobzin, Searle Monsanto Co., St. Louis, MO
"LC-NMR: A New Technique in the Marine Natural Products Chemist's Dereplication Toolbox"
- Poster Session II, further discussion
| Thursday Morning |
Developments in Marine Natural Products |
Discussion Leader: Dale Nagle
- Junichi Kobayashi
"Isolation, Structure and Biogenesis of New Manzamine Alkaloids from the Sponge Genus Amphimedon"
- Michael Davies Coleman
"Natural Product Research in a South African Marine Preserve"
- Russell Kerr
"Biosynthetic Production of Natural Products from Gorgonians of the Genus Pseudopterogorgia"
| After Break |
Supercritical Fluids Technology |
Discussion Leader: Murray Munro
- Larry T. Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg,VA
"Supercritical Fluid Chromatography of Natural Products"
- Trevor Castor
"Super Fluids® Fractionation of Diverse Marine Microorganisms for Drug Discovery"
4:30 - 6:00 - Poster Session II
| Thursday Evening |
Frontiers in Collecting |
Discussion Leader: D. John Newman
- Chris Battershill
Deep Sea Benthos: the Resource of the Future
- Shirley Pomponi
Accessing Deep Water Organisms by Manned Submersibles
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