Session 5: From Genomes to Natural Products
Wednesday, January 14, 2015: 8:30 AM-11:55 AM
California Ballroom AB
Conveners:
Michael Fischbach - University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA and Haruo Ikeda - Kitasato University, Kanagawa,
Discovery pipeline based on in silico genome screening; Genome databases; NP bioinformatics; synthetic biology approaches for pathway synthesis; host engineering; combinatorial pathways; HTP fermentation; NP characterization.


8:30 AM
S7
Natural product discovery using culture independent methods
Sean Brady, Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
8:55 AM
S29
Insights from a global view of secondary metabolism: Small molecules from the human microbiota
Michael Fischbach, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
9:20 AM
S30
Sequencing and in silico analysis of the Warp Drive Genome Databank
Daniel Udwary, Warp Drive Bio, LLC, Cambridge, MA
9:45 AM
S31
From big data to small molecules: new resources and methods
Amrita Pati, Prokaryotic superprogram, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA and Michalis Hadjithomas, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA
10:10 AM
S33
Approaching synthetic microbiology to harness the metabolic power for novel and improved nucleoside antibiotics
Zixin Deng, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, Dr. Wenqing Chen, Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Dr. Yan Li, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, Mr. Lipeng Zhai, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, Mr. Jianzhao Qi, Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan and Prof. Jiahai Zhou, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry,, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, Shanghai
10:35 AM
Break
11:05 AM
S34
Activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters via rational manipulation of AHFCA-dependent regulatory networks
Gregory Challis, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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