Conference Description
The Marine Natural Products GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products will welcome diverse researchers at all career stages from academia, government and industry to discuss frontier and emerging strategies for identifying and characterizing natural product structure and function, harnessing the biosynthetic potential of marine organisms, ensuring adequate production of marine natural products to rigorously explore the pharmacology, and facilitating their development and application for human health and well-being. Presentations and discussions will address themes from various perspectives, including technologies, disease indications, biological targets and applications as well as ecological context. A Gordon Research Seminar preceding the Gordon Research Conference will again pave the way for early-career scientists to network and build expertise in oral and poster presentations, before engaging with collegial research leaders across scientific disciplines. Natural products research is a highly interdisciplinary field that is being accelerated by multidisciplinary collaborations to address the central methodological and technical hurdles impeding translation of complex natural products. Dynamic discussions in a range of formal and informal settings will catalyze new, cross-disciplinary research directions in marine natural products science.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by November 11, 2023. Please check back for updates.
Enabling Technologies and Data Platforms for MNP Research
Discussion Leaders
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Marcel Jaspars (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Justin J.J. van der Hooft (Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands)
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Shantanu Singh (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States)
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Eunyong Park (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
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Craig Butts (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
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John Cort (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory & Washington State University, United States)
Genomics-Driven Discovery
Discussion Leaders
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Melanie Higgins (University of Alabama, United States)
Speakers
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Jörn Piel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Wenjun Zhang (University of California Berkeley, United States)
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Nadine Ziemert (University of Tübingen, Germany)
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Elizabeth Parkinson (Purdue University, United States)
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Laura Ióca (Princeton University, United States)
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Bradley Moore (University of California, San Diego, United States)
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Aya Yoshimura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Synthetic Biology for Natural Product Production
Discussion Leaders
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Amy Lane (University of North Florida, United States)
Speakers
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Yousong Ding (University of Florida, United States)
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Helge Bode (MPI for terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
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Yanran Li (University of California Riverside, United States)
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Benjamin Philmus (Oregon State University, United States)
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Leah Bushin (Scripps Institution of Oceanography - University of California San Diego, United States)
Synthesis-Driven Discovery, Development and Advanced Conjugation Technologies
Discussion Leaders
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Daniel Romo (Baylor University, United States)
Speakers
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Varinder Aggarwal (Bristol University, United Kingdom)
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Tao Ye (Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, China)
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Jose Vergara Panzone (Yale University, United States)
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Alejandro Mayer (Midwestern University, College of Graduate Studies, Pharmacology Department, United States)
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Frank Fang (Eisai, United States)
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Damian O'Connell (Experimental Drug Development Centre, Singapore, Singapore)
Marine Natural Products in Environmental Context: Chemical Ecology and Symbiosis
Discussion Leaders
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Valerie Paul (Smithsonian Institution, United States)
Speakers
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Georg Pohnert (FSU Jena, Germany)
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Christine Beemelmanns (Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Germany)
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Peter Schupp (Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Germany)
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Dulce Guillen (University of Michigan, United States)
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Vinayak Agarwal (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Integrated Approaches to Structure and Function
Discussion Leaders
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Matthias Koeck (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Germany)
Speakers
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Pei-Yuan Qian (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China)
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Margherita Sosio (Naicons Srl, Italy)
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Robert Capon (The University of Queenland, Australia)
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Katherine Duncan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
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Mark Hamann (Medical University of South Carolina, United States)
Molecular Targets and Mechanisms
Discussion Leaders
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Leticia Costalotufo (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Speakers
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Heike Broetz-Oesterhelt (University of Tübingen, Germany)
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John MacMillan (University of California, Santa Cruz, United States)
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Erin Carlson (University of Minnesota, United States)
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Shinichi Nishimura (Hiroshima University, Japan)
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Miaomiao Liu (Griffith University, Australia)
Structural Diversity from Untapped Biodiversity Libraries
Discussion Leaders
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Fatma Al-Awadhi (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
Speakers
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Rohan Davis (Griffith University, Australia)
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Lilibeth Salvador (University of the Philippines, Philippines)
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Tuan Anh Tran (University of Science and Technology of Hanoi , Vietnam)
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Tanja Grkovic (National Cancer Institute, United States)
Inspirational Natural Products Research
Discussion Leaders
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Marcy Balunas (University of Michigan, United States)
Speakers
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Kerry McPhail (Oregon State University, United States)
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Amy Wright (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Sandra Loesgen (University of Florida, the Whitney Lab, United States)
