Natural Products Conference 2008 [10-13 January 2008]

The aim of this conference is to bring together leading academic and industrial scientists from all areas of natural products chemistry.

	Plenary Lectures

1.	"Synthetic Studies of Avrainvillamide lead to Identification of a Novel Protein Target implicated in Cancer Progression" Andrew Myers, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2.	"Chemical Diversity and Enzymatic Versatility of Marine Natural Product Assembly" David Sherman, University of Michigan, MI, USA
3.	"Synthetic Routes for Manufacture of ZD6126: a Colchicine Based Anti-Cancer Drug" John Leonard, Astrazeneca
4.	"Analytical and Genetic Approaches to Determine the Sources of Natural Products from Complex Assemblages of Species" William Gerwick, Scripps Inst Oceanography - UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA
5.	"Understanding Iterative Type I Polyketide Biosynthesis, Nature's Molecular Synthetic Machines" Craig Townsend, Johns Hopkins, MD, USA
6.	"Natural Products: Opportunities for Discovery " Jef De Brabander, University of Texas - Southwestern
7.	"Bacteriocins: Antimicrobial Peptides From Bacteria and their Synthetic Analogs" John Vederas, University of Alberta, CANADA
8.	"Directed ortho Metalation - initiated Strategies: The New Zing in Synthetic Aromatic Chemistry" Victor Snieckus, Queens University, CANADA

10-13 January 2008
The Jolly Beach Resort, Bolans Village
Antigua and Barbuda

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