Session 4:
Enzymology of Natural Product Pathways
Tuesday, January 13, 2015: 1:30 PM-4:55 PM
California Ballroom AB
Conveners:
Wolfgang Wohlleben - University Tübingen, Tübingen,
and
Eung-Soo Kim - Inha University, Incheon,
1:30 PM
Complexity generation in fungal indole alkalod biosynthesis
Yi Tang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and Hsiao-Ching Lin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Yi Tang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and Hsiao-Ching Lin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1:55 PM
Unusual cyclization mechanism of Streptomyces terpene cyclases
Prof. Tomohisa Kuzuyama, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Tomohisa Kuzuyama, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2:20 PM
Lessons from nature – Dissecting and applying the chemical logic of halogenating enzymes
Bradley Moore, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
Bradley Moore, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
2:45 PM
Biosyntheis of FK506 and its engineering for the generation of novel analogues
Yeo Joon Yoon, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Yeo Joon Yoon, Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
3:40 PM
Biochemical and genetic analysis of precursor supply in natural product biosynthesis
Wolfgang Wohlleben, Evi Stegmann and Yvonne Mast, Microbiology/Biotechnology, University Tuebingen, Tuebingen
Wolfgang Wohlleben, Evi Stegmann and Yvonne Mast, Microbiology/Biotechnology, University Tuebingen, Tuebingen
4:05 PM
Griselimycins - magic bullets against Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
Rolf Müller, Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken
Rolf Müller, Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken
4:30 PM
C-H functionalization and biocatalyst engineering from natural product systems
David Sherman, Life Sciences Institute & Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
David Sherman, Life Sciences Institute & Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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