Session 8: Natural Product: Natural Product Chemical Ecology and Evolution
Monday, August 3, 2015: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Philadelphia North, Mezzanine Level (Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel)
Convener:
Jeffrey Kim - Radiant Genomics, Emeryville, CA



1:00 PM
S40
Computational genomic insights into the diversity and evolution of bacterial secondary metabolism
Dr. Marnix Medema, Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
1:30 PM
Break
2:00 PM
S41
The evolutionary history and chemical diversity of the echinocandin lipopeptide antifungal metabolites
Prof. Zhiqiang An, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, Houston, TX
2:30 PM
S42
Comparative Analysis of Lovastatin(an anti cholesterol drug) Genes, LovE and LovF in Soil and Endophytic Fungi
Prof. Savitha Janakiraman, Mr. Praveen Vk and Ms. Bhargavi SD, Microbiology, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India
3:30 PM
S44
Production of N-Nitroglycine by Streptomyces noursei JCM 4701
Kristina Mahan1, Tekle Fida2, Dr. Richard Giannone3, Dawn M. Klingeman1, Dan Close1, Dr. Robert L. Hettich4, Prof. Jim Spain5, Prof. Ronald Parry6 and Dr. David Graham1, (1)Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (4)Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (5)Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, (6)Rice University, Houston, TX
4:00 PM
S45
An Enzyme that Unties Lasso Peptides
Prof. A. James Link, Dr. Mikhail Maksimov and Joseph Koos, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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