JOINT SESSION: CHEM-BIOTECH2007
Chair
Prof. Francesco Nicotra
Università di Milano-Bicocca - Italy
Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze
e-mail: francesco.nicotra@unimib.it
Co-Chair
Prof. Mary J. Garson
University of Queensland - Brisbane- Australia
School of Molecular & Microbial Sciences
e-mail: m.garson@uq.edu.au
	TOPIC TITLE	Natural products,a chemical challange
	Tuesday 07	afternoon	Chair:  Prof Mary Garson
		speaker	title
key note	14:30-15:10	Ian Paterson	Synthesis of marine natural products as promising anticancer agents
key note	15:10-15:50	Gabriele Köenig	Strategies for the discovery of structurally novel natural products
key note	15:50-16:30	Barbara Potts	NPI-0052 (Salinosporamide A): chemical challenges with practical solutions
	16:30-17:00	coffee break
	TOPIC TITLE	Bio-organic chemistry and biotechnology for industry and health
	Wednesday 08	morning	Chair: Prof Francesco Nicotra
		speaker	title
key note	10:30-11:10	Chris Guske	Small-scale fermentation as a troubleshooting, process insight, and support tool for fermentation plants
key note	11:10-11:50	Frank Petersen	Natural products - roles in cultural development and relevance for medical research
key note	11:50-12:30	Pierfausto Seneci	Novel concepts in the design of kinase inhibitors as treatments for CNS diseases
key note	12:30-13:10	Klaus Mueller	Molecular design beyond potency and selectivity
	TOPIC TITLE	Understanding biomolecular processes
	Thursday 09	morning	Chair: Prof Krishna Ganesh
		speaker	title
key note	10:30-11:10	Craig Townsend	Dissection of iterative type I PKS function
key note	11:10-11:50	Chris Schofield	The molecular mechanism of the hypoxic r+D64esponse
key note	11:50-12:30	Rudolph Allemann	Chemical wizardry: the generation of diversity in terpene biosynthesis
key note	12:30-13:10	Liangren Zhang	Calcium signal pathway targeted nucleotide: synthesis and properties of cyclic ADP-ribose analogues
	TOPIC TITLE	Bioactive natural products, oligonucleotides
	Thurday 09	afternoon	Chair:  Prof Lihe Zhang
		speaker	title
key note	14:30-15:10	Atta-ur-Rahman	Bioactive substances of natural origin – recent advances
key note	15:10-15:50	Serge Beaucage	Progress in the synthesis of thermolytic DNA oligonucleotide prodrugs and oligoribonucleotides for potential therapeutic applications
key note	15:50-16:30	Michael Blackburn	Understanding transition states for enzyme reactions - state of art for phosphate esters
	16:30-17:00	coffee break
	TOPIC TITLE	Biomolecular studies by NMR and MS
	Thurday 09	evening	Chair: Prof. Jonathan M. Blackburn
key note	17:00-17:40	Jesus Jimenez Barbero	The specific recognition of carbohydrates by proteins. A 3D view using NMR
key note	17:40-18:20	Gary Siuzdak	Exploring the limits of mass spectrometry in biochemical research
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	TOPIC TITLE	MetalloDrugs, nanoarchitectures, artificial enzymes
	Friday 10	morning	Chair: Prof Vadim Ivanov
		speaker	title
key note	10:30-11:10	James Cowan	Catalytic MetalloDrugs - A new paradigm for drug design
key note	11:10-11:50	Stefan Matile	Synthetic nanoarchitecture in lipid bilayers: ion channels, sensors and photosystems
key note	11:50-12:30	Alexandre Gabibov	Artificial enzymes and abzymes