December 9, 2011
CSCB Symposium 'Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology X'
The CSCB held its tenth annual symposium, ‘Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology X’, on Friday 9th December 2011, at the Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin. Almost 200 delegates attended the one-day meeting at which five international speakers had been invited to give plenary lectures. The scientific programme was organised by Professor Pat Guiry, University College Dublin.
Photo (Left to Right) Professors Tim Donohoe, Kevin Nolan, Mark Lautens, M. Christina White and Thorri Gunnlaugsson
The meeting was opened by Dr Hugh Brady, President, University College Dublin and the speakers were Professor T. J. Donohoe, University of Oxford, UK; Professor Kevin Nolan, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto, Canada; Professor M. Christina White, University of Illinois, USA and Professor Thorri Gunnlaugsson, Trinity College Dublin.
There was a poster session in the afternoon at which 90 posters were exhibited. A panel of three judges – Dr Paul Evans, UCD, Dr Marc Devocelle, RCSI and Professor Mathias Senge, TCD chose the best three posters. Prizes of €100 each were awarded to: Mark McLaughlin, QUB for his poster ‘Hydrometallations and their application in Synthesis’, Catherine Fletcher, Bristol University for her poster ‘Total Synthesis of Giganin’ and Rebecca Ulc, UCD for her poster ‘Towards the Development of Glycoconjugate Vaccines: Synthesis of Capsular Polysaccharide structures of Cryptococcus Neoformans’.
Delegates travelled from Bristol University, Bangor University and Queen’s University Belfast as well as University of Stuttgart, Teagasc, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth, Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Tallaght, UCD, UCC, TCD and RCSI.
Institut de Recherches Servier, GlaxoSmithKline and Eli Lilly each sponsored a lecture. Sponsorship support was also received from the RSC, Agilent and Mason Technology.
