19TH MONA SYMPOSIUM - JANUARY 7 - 10, 2002

• Plenary Lecturers
• Visiting Participants

DAILY SCHEDULE 
  
MONDAY, JANUARY 7 

Morning 

8:30 - 9:30 Completion of Registration 
  
9:30 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony and Announcements 

 Chairman: Professor Baldwin Mootoo 

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 

10:30 - 11:30 Plenary Lecture #1 
 Albert Padwa - Thionium/N-acylium Ion Cascade toward Heterocyclic Synthesis. 

11:30 - 11:40 Question and Discussion Period 

11:40 - 12:00 Short Paper #1 
 John Huffman - Synthesis of 1-Alkyl-2-aryl-4-(1- naphthoyl)pyrroles. New Cannabinoids with High 
 Affinity for the CB1 Receptor. 

12:00 - 12:20 Short Paper #2 
 Norman Townsend - Synthetic Strategies towards Pyridoacridine Alkaloids and Some Novel  
 Analogues. 

12:20 - 12:30 Question and Discussion Period 
  

 Afternoon 
 Chairman: Professor John Huffman 

2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture #2 
 Robert Grossman - Synthesis of Bicyclic Natural and Unnatural Products by Double Annulation. 

3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period 

3:10 - 3:25 Coffee Break 

3:25 - 4:25 Plenary Lecture #3 
 Varinder Aggarwal - Catalytic Asymmetric Sulfur Ylide Mediated Epoxidations. 
 Towards a General Understanding. 

4:25 - 4:35 Question and Discussion Period 

4:35 - 4:55 Short Paper #3 
 James Cook - The Enantiospecific, Stereospecific Total Synthesis of the Alstonia Bisindole, Macralstonidine. 

4:55 - 5:15 Short Paper #4 
 Richard Franck - Proof of Stereochemistry of C-13 of Altromycin B. 

5:15 - 5:35 Short Paper #5 
 Nathaniel Martin - New Methodologies for Determination of Sequence and 3-Dimensional Structure of Lantibiotics. 

5:35 - 5:50 Question and Discussion Period 

7:30 Reception 
  
  

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 

Morning 
 Chairman: Professor Richard Franck 

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture #4 
 David Sherman - The Chemical Biology of Natural Product Synthesis. 

10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period 

10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break 

10:25 - 11:25 Plenary Lecture #5 
 Seiichi Matsuda - Tinkering with Terpene Biosynthesis. 

11:25 - 11:35 Question and Discussion Period 

11:35 - 11:55 Short Paper #6 
 Avril Chen-Collins - Analogue Biosynthesis using the Fungus Cyathus africanus ATCC 38353. 

11:55 - 12:15 Short Paper #7 
 Henry Lee - A Novel Approach to the Discovery of Safer Anti-inflammatory Steroids: Antedrugs. 

12:15 - 12:25 Question and Discussion Period 
  

 Afternoon 
 Chairman: Professor James Cook 

2:00 - 2:20 Short Paper #8 
 Siannah Mas Diego - Development of Biopesticides by Solid Substrate Fermentation under  Electromagnetic Fields. 

2:20 - 2:40 Short Paper #9 
 Satyajit Sarker - Bioactivity of Flavonoids and Sesquiterpenes from Polygonum viscosum. 

2:40 - 3:00 Short Paper #10 
 Joanne Simmons-Boyce - Steroidal Saponins Isolated from Furcraea selloa marginata. 

3:00 - 3:15 Question and Discussion Period 

3:15 - 3:30 Coffee Break 

3:30 - 4:30 Plenary Lecture #6 
 Jeffrey Seeman - The Human Side of Chemistry: A Photographic Portrait of Contemporary Heroes. 

4:30 - 4:40 Question and Discussion Period 

4:40 - 6:00 Poster Session 
    

SYMPOSIUM IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR BALDWIN MOOTOO 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 

Morning 
 Chairman: Dr. Anderson Maxwell 

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture #7 
 James Gloer - Ecology-based Strategies in the Search for New Bioactive Fungal Metabolites. 

10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period 

10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break 

10:25 - 11:25 Plenary Lecture #8 
 Gary Martin - Probes, Pulse Sequences, and CASE Programs: Advances in the 
 Characterisation of Novel Chemical Structures using NMR-based Methods. 

11:25 - 11:35 Question and Discussion Period 

11:35 - 11:55 Short Paper #11 
 William Reynolds - Choosing the Best Combination of Pulse Sequences, 
 Acquisition Parameters and Post-Acquisition Processing Strategies for Natural  
 Product Structure Elucidation by 2D NMR. 

4:35 - 4:55 Short Paper #12 
 Sylvie Garneau - Approaches to the Structure Elucidation of Brochocin-C. 

12:15 - 12:25 Question and Discussion Period 
  

 Afternoon 
 Chairman: Professor John Huffman 

2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture #9 
 Takashi Takahashi - Organic Synthesis in Solution and Solid Phase 
 toward the Library of Natural and Unnatural Products. 

3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period 

3:10 - 3:25 Coffee Break 

3:25 - 4:25 Plenary Lecture #10 
 Dan Comins - Chiral Dihydropyridones as Intermediates for Alkaloid Synthesis. 

4:25 - 4:35 Question and Discussion Period 

4:35 - 4:50 Closing Ceremony 

7:30 Conference Dinner