Natural Products: Synthetic Biology for Natural Product Discovery and Development

Thursday, August 15, 2013: 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Nautilus 5 (Sheraton San Diego)
Convener:
Huimin Zhao - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL



2:00 PM
Synthetic biology platforms for advancing natural product synthesis and discovery
Christina Smolke, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Mushroom hunting using bioinformatics –  Terpenoid pathway discovery in Basidiomycota
Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Dept. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
4:00 PM
Analysis and Refactoring of the A-74528 Biosynthetic Pathway
Katharine R. Watts, Louise Charkoudian, Jay Fitzgerald and Chaitan Khosla, Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
4:30 PM
Discovery of Novel Natural Products by Refactoring Cryptic Pathways
Huimin Zhao, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
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