Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Integrated Profiling Strategies in Natural Products Research |
| Discussion Leader: Navid Adnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Roger Linington (Simon Fraser University, Canada) "Towards the Universal Characterization of Natural Products Libraries; Integrated Chemical and Biological Profiling Strategies in Natural Products Research" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Frontiers in Chemistry and Biosynthesis |
| Discussion Leaders: Andrew Buller (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Abrahim El Gamal (University of California, San Diego, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Anne-Catrin Letzel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA) "The Secondary Metabolome of the Genus Salinispora" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Cristina Alexandru (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) "Exploring RiPP Biosynthetic Pathways in a Quest for a Novel Macrocyclase with Improved Catalytic Properties" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Anna Vagstad (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "Mechanistic Insights into Radical-Mediated Amino Acid Epimerization in Proteusin Peptide Natural Products" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Michelle Schorn (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA) "From Genes to Molecules: Accessing the Genetic Potential for Secondary Metabolite Production in Rare Marine Actinomycetes" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Informed Bioprospecting: Environmental and Ecological Impacts |
| Discussion Leaders: Agustina Undabarrena (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile) and Silke Reiter (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Brett Covington (Vanderbilt University, USA) "Mapping Microbial Natural Product Responses to Activation Stimuli" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Leesa Habener (Griffith University, Australia) "Comparing Chemical and Genetic Diversity of Marine Sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia Using LC-MS and NMR Spectroscopic Chemical Fingerprints" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Kazuya Fukuhara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) "Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Nazumazoles A-F from the Marine Sponge Theonella swinhoei" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Remington Poulin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "1H NMR-Based Metabolomics Reveals Chemical Basis for Predator Sensing by Marine Invertebrates" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Technological Advances for Innovative Discovery |
| Discussion Leader: Emily Mevers (Harvard Medical School, USA) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Eric Helfrich (Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland) "A Genome Mining Tool for the Identification and Structure Prediction of Trans-AT PKS-Derived Polyketides" |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Tal Luzzatto-Knaan (University of California, San Diego, USA) "Chemodiversity Based Cartography of Natural Products from Marine Communities" |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |