Natural Products: Cyanobacterial Natural Products and Metabolic Engineering

Wednesday, August 14, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Nautilus 3 (Sheraton San Diego)
Convener:
William Gerwick - University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA



8:00 AM
Cyanobacterial Natural Products as Starting Points for Drug Discovery
Hendrik Luesch, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
8:30 AM
Meeting the Supply Needs of Marine Cyanobacterial Drug Leads through Synthesis and Metabolic Engineering
William Gerwick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
9:00 AM
Manipulating natural product expression in laboratory-cultured cyanobacteria
Kerry McPhail, Andrew M. Hau, Christopher C. Thornburg, Oliver B. Vining, Justyna Sikorska, Edward A. Mitchell, Jeffrey D. Serrill and Jane E. Ishmael, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Metabolic Engineering of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 for Sustainable Production of Specialty Chemicals
Brian F. Pfleger, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
10:30 AM
Characterization of the Biofuel Hydrocarbons of Marine Cyanobacteria: Targets for Genetic Manipulation
R. Cameron Coates, Sheila Podel, Lena G. Gerwick, Eric E. Allen and William H. Gerwick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
11:00 AM
Natural Products and Biofuels in the Cyanobacterial Biosynthetic Continuum
David H. Sherman, Life Sciences Institute & Dept. of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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