24th MONA SYMPOSIUM - JANUARY 3

24th MONA SYMPOSIUM - JANUARY 3-6, 2012

The list of Plenary Lecturers is now available

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

DAILY SCHEDULE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3

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

Opening Remarks and; Welcome: Dr. Peter L. Ruddock (Chairperson)
Department of Chemistry, UWI, Mona

Address: Prof. Ishenkumba Kahwa
Dean, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, UWI, Mona

Greetings: Prof. Helen Jacobs
Head, Department of Chemistry, UWI, Mona

Announcements: Prof. Paul Reese
Department of Chemistry, UWI, Mona

10:00 - 10:30         Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30         Plenary Lecture #1: Jon Clardy
        Bacterial Symbioses and the Discovery of New Natural Products
11:30 - 11:40         Question and Discussion Period
11:40 - 12:00         Short Paper #1: Ruel McKnight
        Substituent Control of DNA Binding and Preferred Mode in Homologous Compounds with Therapeutic Implications
12:00 - 12:05         Question and Discussion Period
12:05 - 12:25         Short Paper #2: Roger A. Laine
        Delayed Action Toxic Effects of Rare Sugars and Derivatives on Formosan Subterranean Termites
12:25 - 12:30         Question and Discussion Period
12:30 - 2:00         Lunch Break

Afternoon
Chairperson:         Prof. Anderson Maxwell
        University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
2:00 - 3:00         Plenary Lecture #2: Yi Tang
        Biosynthesis of Three Chemotaxonomic Markers in Penicillium aethiopicum: Viridicatumtoxin, Griseofulvin and Tryptoquialanine
3:00 - 3:10         Question and Discussion Period
3:10 - 3:25         Coffee Break
3:25 - 4:25         Plenary Lecture #3: Liangcheng Du
        Bioactive Natural Products from Pathogenic/Endophytic Fungi and the Biocontrol Agent Lysobacter - Insights into the Molecular Mechanisms for Biosynthesis
4:25 - 4:35         Question and Discussion Period
4:35 - 4:55         Short Paper #3: Petrea Facey
        Bioactive Compounds from Endophytic Fungi Associated with Jamaican Mangroves
4:55 - 5:00         Question and Discussion Period
5:00 - 5:20         Short Paper #4: Sharifa Al Jabri
        Antioxidant Approach to Wound Healing and the Role of Pergularia tomentosa and Ziziphus hajarensis
5:20 - 5:25         Question and Discussion Period
7:30         Reception

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4

Morning
Chairperson:         Dr. Nadale Downer-Riley
        University of the West Indies, Mona
9:00 - 10:00         Plenary Lecture #4: P. Andrew Evans
        New Vistas in Catalysis and Synthesis: Total Synthesis of Marinomycin A
10:00 - 10:10         Question and Discussion Period
10:10 - 10:25         Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:45         Short Paper #5: Jeanese Badenock
        Synthetic Approaches towards Cyclopenta[B]Indolone Natural Products and their Analogues
10:45 - 10:50 Question and Discussion Period
10:50 - 11:10 Short Paper #6: Ainka Brown
Towards a Heterocyclic Conformational Analogue of (E)-Caracasanamide
11:10 - 11:15 Question and Discussion Period
11:15 - 11:35 Short Paper #7: Oscene Barrett
New Methodology toward Synthesis of Benz-Fused-Azoles and their Analogs
11:35 - 11:40 Question and Discussion Period
11:40 - 12:00 Short Paper #8: James Cook
The Total Synthesis of the Dimeric Indole Alkaloid (+)-Dispegatrine (1) via a Regio- and Atropdiastereoselective Intermolecular Biaryl Oxidative Coupling as well as the Total Synthesis of Six Other Related Sarpagine Alkaloids
12:00 - 12:05 Question and Discussion Period
12:05 - 2:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon
Chairperson: Dr. Roy Porter
University of the West Indies, Mona
2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture #5: Paul Stevenson
Chemoenzymatic Approaches to Natural Products
3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period
3:10 - 3:25 Coffee Break
3:25 - 3:45 Short Paper #9: Tony Durst
Anti-anxiety Properties of Marcgraviaceae, a Family of Neo-tropical Vines. Progress towards Commercialization
3:45 - 3:50 Question and Discussion Period
3:50 - 4:10 Short Paper #10: Simone Walcott
Phytochemical Investigation of Croton hircinus from Trinidad
4:10 - 4:15 Question and Discussion Period
4:15 - 4:35 Short Paper #11: William Reynolds
An NMR Metabonomic Study of the Change in Composition of Demerera Rum from Guyana upon Aging
4:35 - 4:40 Question and Discussion Period
4:40 - 6:40 Poster Session

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6

Morning
Chairperson: Prof. James Cook
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture #6: Tohru Oishi
Design and Synthesis of Ladder-Shaped Polyethers for Exploring Biological Functions
10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:25 Plenary Lecture #7: Andrei Yudin
Amphoteric Molecules, a Powerful Platform for the Synthesis of Macrocyclic Peptides
11:25 - 11:35 Question and Discussion Period
11:35 - 11:55 Short Paper #12: Allan Headley
A New Class of Recyclable Water-Soluble Chiral Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Reactions
11:55 - 12:00 Question and Discussion Period
12:00 - 12:20 Short Paper #13: Kerry-Ann Green
N-Heterocyclic Carbenes - Synthesis, Characterization and Application to Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions
12:20 - 12:25 Question and Discussion Period
12:25 - 2:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon
Chairperson: Prof. Yvette Jackson
University of the West Indies, Mona
2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture #8: Shigeki Matsunaga
Chemistry of Cytotoxic Metabolites from Marine Sponges with Special Reference to Calyculins and Polytheonamides
3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period
3:10 - 3:25 Coffee Break
3:25 - 3:45 Short Paper #14: Sadanandan Velu
Development of Novel Marine Alkaloid Analogs for Breast Cancer Therapy
3:45 - 3:50 Question and Discussion Period
3:50 - 4:10 Short Paper #15: Camille Bowen-Forbes
New Health-Beneficial Properties of Uncommon Jamaican Fruits
4:10 - 4:15 Question and Discussion Period
4:15 - 4:35 Closing Ceremony

7:30 Conference Dinner

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