22nd MONA SYMPOSIUM - JANUARY 7 - 10, 2008
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
DAILY SCHEDULE
DAILY SCHEDULE
MONDAY, JANUARY 7
Morning
8:30 - 9:30 Completion of Registration
9:30 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony and Announcements
Chairman: Winston F. Tinto
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Plenary Lecture #1: John A. Beutler
Novel Plant Natural Products with Selective Activity Against CNS
and Renal Tumor Cell Lines.
11:30 - 11:40 Question and Discussion Period
11:40 - 12:00 Short Paper #1: Floyd A. Russell
Synthesis of Novel Stemodanes
12:00 - 12:05 Question and Discussion Period
12:05 - 12:25 Short Paper #2: Kaori Sakurai
Development of Metabolically Stable a-Helical Peptide Inhibitors
for Targeting p53-MDM2 Interface.
12:25 - 12:30 Question and Discussion Period
Afternoon
Chairman: Ishenkumba A. Kahwa
2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture #2: John C. Vederas
Bacteriocins: Antimicrobial Peptides From Bacteria and their
Synthetic Analogs.
3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period
3:10 - 3:25 Coffee Break
3:25 - 4:25 Plenary Lecture #3: Masayuki Inoue
Chemistry and Biology of Antitumor Enediyne Chromoprotein
C-1027.
4:25 - 4:35 Question and Discussion Period
4:35 - 4:55 Short Paper #3: Julie-Ann A. Grant
Pharmacological Studies and Molecular Modeling of
Synthetic Tetracyclic 1,3-Diazepinium Salts.
4:55 - 5:00 Question and Discussion Period
5:00 - 5:20 Short Paper #4: Nadale K. Downer-Riley
Oxidative Cyclization of Thiobenzamides to Benzothiazoles.
5:20 - 5:25 Question and Discussion Period
7:30 Reception
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8
Morning
Chairman: Anderson R. Maxwell
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture #4: Amy E. Wright
Investigation of Bioactive Natural Products from Deep Water
Marine Organisms.
10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:25 Plenary Lecture #5: Eric W. Schmidt
Marine Symbiosis as a Tool to Study Biosynthetic Pathways.
11:25 - 11:35 Question and Discussion Period
11:35 - 11:55 Short Paper #5: William F. Reynolds
- Knowing More and More About Less and Less, Until You Know
Almost Everything About Almost Nothing
11:55 - 12:00 Question and Discussion Period
12:00 - 12:20 Short Paper #6: Andrew G. Booth
Using JMOL and INTERPOL to Illustrate Conformational Changes in
Proteins.
12:20 - 12:25 Question and Discussion Period
Afternoon
Chairman: James M. Cook
2:15 - 3:15 Plenary Lecture #6: Michio Murata
- Natural Products Forming Functional Assemblies in
Biomembranes.
3:15 - 3:25 Question and Discussion Period
3:25 - 3:45 Short Paper #7: Phillip C. Bulman Page
- New Organocatalytic Systems for Asymmetric Epoxidation.
3:45 - 3:50 Question and Discussion Period
3:50 - 4:10 Short Paper #8: John W. Huffman
- Acylation of N-p-Toluenesulfonylpyrrole.
4:10 - 4:15 Question and Discussion Period
4:15 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 6:00 Poster Session
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10
Morning
Chairman: Peter L. Ruddock
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture #7: A. Christy Hunter
Aspergillus tamarii, a Flexible Molecular Gymnast:
Reactions, Structural Control and Further Elucidation of the
Metabolic Pathway.
10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period
10:10 - 10:30 Short Paper #9: Kayanne P. McCook
The Biotransformation of Terpenes by Cyathus africanus.
10:30 - 10:35 Question and Discussion Period
10:35 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:50 Plenary Lecture #8: Thomas E. Prisinzano
Neoclerodane Diterpenes as Novel Chemical Tools for Opioid
Receptor Pharmacology.
11:50 - 12:00 Question and Discussion Period
12:00 - 12:20 Short Paper #10: Denise S. Simpson
Kappa Opioid Receptor Ligands Derived from Salvinorin A.
12:20 - 12:25 Question and Discussion Period
Afternoon
Chairman: John W. Huffman
2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture #9: Marcus A. Tius
Some New Nazarov Chemistry.
3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period
3:10 - 3:25 Coffee Break
3:25 - 4:25 Plenary Lecture #10: James M. Cook
General Approach for the Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids
via Palladium-Mediated Cross Coupling Processes.
4:25 - 4:35 Question and Discussion Period
4:35 - 4:50 Closing Ceremony
7:30 Conference Dinner