22: Natural products - Antimicrobial natural products

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Seacliff CD (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)
Chair:
Moushumi Paul
1:00 PM
Antimicrobial peptides of bacteria associated with fermented dairy foods: Potential for applications
John Renye Jr. and George A. Somkuti, Dairy and Functional Foods, US Department of Agriculture, Wyndmoor, PA
1:30 PM
Thiazole/Oxazole-modified microcins (TOMM): Ribosomal templates for complex natural products
Douglas A. Mitchell, Joel Melby, Molohon Katie, Dunbar Kyle, Cox Courtney and Kate Woodall, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
2:00 PM
Mining ascidian metagenomes for antibiotic activity
Eric W. Schmidt1, Mohamed S. Donia1, Florian Fricke2 and Jacques Ravel2, (1)Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, (2)University of Maryland
2:30 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Structural characterization of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of phosphonate natural products
Satish K. Nair, Brian Bae, Houjin Zhang, Rob Cicchillo, Jin Hee Lee, John Whitteck, Matt DeSieno, Ryan Cobb, Huimin Zhao, William Metcalf and Wilfred van der Donk, Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
3:30 PM
Yarrowia lipolytica as a Production Host for a Natural Products Platform
Pamela L. Sharpe, Central Research & Development/ Biochemical Sciences & Engineering, DuPont, Wilmington, DE
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