Event Details

Event: Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology VII

Date: December 12, 2008

Time: 8.45am to 6pm

Venue: University College Dublin

 

The CSCB will hold its seventh annual symposium on December 12, 2008 at the Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin - building number 16 on the UCD Campus Map

8.45am

Opening session
Speaker: Dr Philip Nolan, Registrar, University College Dublin

9.00am-10.00am        

Chairperson: Professor Thorri Gunnlaugsson
Professor Frank Schroeder, Cornell University, USA
‘The Virtue of the Impure: Chemical Biology of Natural Products Using Direct NMR’

10.00am-11.00am

Chairperson: Professor Declan Gilheany
Dr John Brown, University of Oxford, UK
‘Resolutions for Catalysis’

11.00am-11.30am

Coffee/Tea Break

11.30am-12.30pm  

Chairperson: Professor Kevin Nolan
GLAXOSMITHKLINE LECTURE
Professor Bernard Meunier, PALUMED, France
‘Alzheimer and drug discovery: the incontournable challenge’

12.30pm-1.30pm

Lunch Break

1.30pm-2.30pm   

Chairperson: Professor Stefan Oscarson
Professor Sabine Flitsch, The University of Manchester, UK
'Glycosylation reactions from biocatalysis to medical applications'

2.30pm-3.30pm

Chairperson: Dr Stephen Connon
SUPPORTED BY AN EDUCATIONAL GRANT FROM ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
Professor John Wood, Colorado State University, USA
‘Synthetic Studies of Oxindole-Containing Natural Products’

3.30pm-4.45pm

Poster Session.  Coffee/Tea Break

 4.45pm-5.45pm 

Chairperson: Dr Paul Evans
SUPPORTED BY AN EDUCATIONAL GRANT FROM ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
Professor Matthew Shair, Harvard University, USA
'Target-Oriented Synthesis and Chemical Biology Combined to Address Needs in Human Disease'

5.45pm 

Closing Remarks by Professor Pat Guiry, Director, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology
followed by half-hour Wine Reception

 

To download the symposium programme, please click here.

 

Registration
Registration is free, however you must register in advance.  To register, please email your name and department/school/institution to cscb.reception@ucd.ie

Posters and Abstracts
There will be a poster session in the afternoon from 3.30pm to 4.45pm.

Anyone wishing to submit a poster should email the following details to the CSCB – cscb.reception@ucd.ie by Friday November 21, 2008 at the latest for inclusion in the abstracts booklet.

Name of person submitting

Department/school and name of institution

Title of poster

Abstract in Word format. To be typed in Times 12pt, no more than one A4 page.
(Please follow the format contained in the template.  Diagrams may be included if you wish.)

Download the template for poster abstracts (MS Word)

Poster dimensions should be no larger than A0 (841mm x 1189mm or 33.11in x 46.81in) and should be in PORTRAIT FORMAT ONLY.

Acknowledgment of authors
Please can you indicate the presenting author by underlining the name and indicate the corresponding author by inserting an asterisk after his/her name.

 

COMPETITION - Write your Research

2nd Year PhD students in the CSCB are invited to submit a short written piece (no more than 400 words) on their research topic covering (a) a brief background to their research topic (b) the particular aim of their project (c) an update on results to date and (d) a summary of future research plans for the remainder of their PhD. Pieces should be written in a way that is understandable to other scientists and diagrams may be included if you wish.

Entries will be judged and the winner announced and presented with a cash prize at the symposium.

The closing date for entry is Friday, November 28th.

For more information, please contact Ann Mooney at cscb@ucd.ie

The CSCB symposium 'Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology VII' is kindly sponsored by -

Institut de Recherches Servier
Merck Sharp & Dohme logo
Nature Chemical Biology
Ballygowan
Varian
Premier logo
Millipore logo
Logo: Lilly
Logo: Anachem
Logo: GSK

 

 

                                   
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