Session 1: Natural Products in the Natural Environment
Monday, January 12, 2015: 8:30 AM-11:55 AM
California Ballroom AB
Conveners:
Jon Clardy - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA and Paul Jensen - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
What is the natural function and how do they actually work at molecular level; mechanism of resistance, mode of action, technical advances in NP identification/characterization.


8:30 AM
S1
Resistance-guided antibiotic discovery
Gerry Wright, Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
8:55 AM
S2
Harnessing plant metabolic diversity
Anne Osbourn, Department of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich
9:20 AM
S3
Mapping our molecular world
Pieter Dorrestein, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
9:45 AM
S4
Plant pathway discovery for plant and human health
Elizabeth Sattely, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
10:10 AM
Break
10:40 AM
S5
Exploring uncharted metabolic space
Joern Piel, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich
11:05 AM
S6
Evolutionary ecology of antibiotics in soil communities
Linda Kinkel1, Daniel Schlatter1 and Patricia Vaz-Jauri2, (1)Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (2)Laboratorie de Microbiologia de Suelos, INIA-Las Brujas, Canelones
11:30 AM
S32
Microbial genomics and strain prioritization to streamline natural product discovery
Ben Shen, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Therapeutics, and The Natural Products Library Initiative at TSRI, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL
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