20TH MONA SYMPOSIUM - JANUARY 5 - 8, 2004

• Plenary Lecturers
• Visiting Participants

MONDAY, JANUARY 5

Morning

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

	Chairman: Anderson Maxwell

10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:30	Plenary Lecture #1
Anthony Davis - Steroidal Scaffolds for Biomimetic and Supramolecular Chemistry.

11:30 - 11:40	Question and Discussion Period

11:40 - 12:00	Short Paper #1
Jake Stymiest - Synthesis of Agonistic and Antagonistic Di Carba Analogs of Oxytocin.

12:00 - 12:20	Short Paper #2
James Cook - The Regiospecific Enantiospecific Synthesis of Alkoxy Substituted Indole Alkaloids via Combination of the Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Reaction with the Larock Heteroannulation (Pd ) Process.

12:20 - 12:30	Question and Discussion Period


 
Afternoon	
	Chairman: John Huffman

2:00 - 3:00	Plenary Lecture #2
Mark Lautens - New Methodologies Based on Ring Forming and Ring Cleaving Reactions.

3:00 - 3:10	Question and Discussion Period

3:10 - 3:25	Coffee Break

3:25 - 4:25	Plenary Lecture #3
Thomas Pettus - Application of o-Quinone Methides and p-Quinol Derivatives in Natural Product Synthesis.

4:25 - 4:35	Question and Discussion Period

4:35 - 4:55	Short Paper #3
Seon Hepburn - Synthetic Routes to a 5,7-Diazarotenoid.

4:55 - 5:15	Short Paper #4
Hanna Pettersson - Synthesis and Evaluation of SARS Coronavirus 3CL proteinase Inhibitors.

5:15 - 5:25	Question and Discussion Period

7:30	Reception
 
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6

Morning
	Chairman: Baldwin Mootoo

9:00 - 10:00	Plenary Lecture #4
Joseph Noel - Structural, Functional and Evolutionary Basis for Type III Polyketide Synthase Activity.

10:00 - 10:10	Question and Discussion Period

10:10 - 10:25	Coffee Break

10:25 - 11:25	Plenary Lecture #5
Brad Moore - Biosynthesis and Engineering of Aromatic Polyketides.

11:25 - 11:35	Question and Discussion Period

11:35 - 11:55	Short Paper #5
Roger Laine - Valencenoid Derivatives, Pharmacophores and Biological Activity on Formosan Subterranean Termites.

11:55 - 12:15	Short Paper #6
Andrew Lamm - Steroid Biotransformations by Whetzelinia sclerotiorum ATCC 18687 and Phanerochaete chrysosporium ATCC 24725.

12:15 - 12:25	Question and Discussion Period

 
Afternoon
	Chairman: James Cook

2:15 - 3:15	Plenary Lecture #6
Monique Simmonds - Title to be announced.

3:15 - 3:25	Question and Discussion Period


3:25 - 3:45	Short Paper #7
William Reynolds - The Use of Linear Prediction to Provide Ultra-high Resolution HSQC
	Spectra in Systems with Extreme Spectral Crowding.

3:45 - 3:50	Question and Discussion Period

3:50 - 4:05	Coffee Break

4:05 - 6:00	Poster Session

 
 
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8

Morning
	Chairman: Winklet Gallimore

9:00 - 10:00	Plenary Lecture #7
Noritaka Chida - Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products - An Approach Based on Carbohydrate Transformation.

10:00 - 10:10	Question and Discussion Period

10:10 - 10:25	Coffee Break

10:25 - 11:25	Plenary Lecture #8
David Gin - Exploring Strategies in Anomeric Bond Formation and Pyrrolidine Synthesis.

11:25 - 11:35	Question and Discussion Period

11:35 - 11:55	Short Paper #8
Richard Denton - Conformationally Restricted Probes for Sialyl Lewis X - Selectin Recognition.

11:55 - 12:15	Short Paper #9
Karla-Sue Marriott - Synthetic and Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of CB2 Selective Hexahydrocannabinols.

12:15 - 12:25	Question and Discussion Period

 
Afternoon
	Chairman: Peter Ruddock

2:00 - 3:00	Plenary Lecture #9
John Huffman - Selective Ligands for the Cannabinoid CB2 Receptor.

3:00 - 3:10	Question and Discussion Period

3:10 - 3:25	Coffee Break

3:25 - 4:25	Plenary Lecture #10
Ron Grigg - Multicomponent Reactions for Bioactive Heterocycles, Carbohydrates and Nucleosides.

4:25 - 4:35	Question and Discussion Period

4:35 - 4:50	Closing Ceremony

7:30	Conference Dinner