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Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Frontiers in Natural Products: Synthesis, Biosynthesis, and Drug Discovery

July 28 - 29, 2018
Chair
Proctor Academy
204 Main Street
Andover, New Hampshire, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

This research seminar will focus on the chemistry and biology of natural products and bioactive compounds, from their biosynthetic origins to their syntheses, and beyond to their application in health and medicine. Abstracts highlighting the cross-disciplinary nature of the field – emphasizing organic synthesis, methodology development, isolation and characterization, biosynthesis, chemical and synthetic biology, and biological evaluation – are strongly encouraged.

The program will include a keynote lecture, and a session focused on career and professional development. Speakers for the general sessions will be chosen from submitted abstracts.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Natural Product Discovery
Discussion Leader:
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
"Target-Guided Genome Mining of Natural Products"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Natural Product Biosynthesis and Bioactivity
Discussion Leaders: and
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
"Investigation of Mosquito-Microbiome Natural Products"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
"Natural Product Discovery via Reactivity-Based Screening"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
"Substrate-Assisted Enzymatic Formation of Lysinoalanine in Duramycin"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
"Delineating the Late Steps of Gentamicin and Sisomicin Biosynthesis"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
"Lincosamide Antibiotics: Structural Simplicity Contrasts with Biosynthetic Complexity and Combinatorial Biosynthesis Opportunities"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
"Engineering the Abyssomicin C Biosynthetic Pathway to Produce Functionally Optimised 'Unnatural' Natural Products"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Synthetic Strategies for Complex Molecules
Discussion Leaders: and
9:00 am - 9:15 am
"Photocaged Morpholino Oligonucleotides: Synthesis, (Photo)chemical Evaluation and Application in Developmental Biology"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
"(Poly)cationic Iodane (III) Mediated Oxidative Ring Expansion of Secondary Alcohols"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
"Synthesis and Biological Investigations of the Haterumaimide and Lissoclimide Natural Products"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
"Convergent Synthesis of the 5,3'-Linked Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
"Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Nagelamide J"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:00 am
General 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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Development Panel
Discussion Leader:
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Development
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes

Contributors

University of Ottawa
MDPI - Marine Drugs
Canadian Science Publishing - Canadian Journal of Chemistry
MDPI - Molecules

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Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds
July 27 - August 1, 2025


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