20th CSCB Annual Symposium -Recent Advances in Synthesis & Chemical Biology
Date and time
Location
Online event
5 International Speakers giving plenary lectures (50 min + 10 min for Q&A); 10 Early Career Researcher Speakers giving short talks (10 min)
About this event
PROGRAMME
9.00 am - 9.15 am Opening session/Opening Remarks
9.15 am - 10.15 am Professor Nicolai Cramer (EPFL, Switzerland)
“Enantioselective Catalysis and C-H Functionalizations with 3d-Transition-Metals”
10.15 am - 10.30 am Coffee/Tea Break
10.30 am - 11.30 am Professor Andrew Smith (University of St. Andrew’s, UK)
“Catalytic Enantioselective 1,2-Rearrangements”
11.30 am – 1.10 pm 10 Presentations from Early Stage Career Researchers
1.10 pm - 2 pm Lunch Break
2 pm - 3 pm Professor Emily Balskus (Harvard University, USA)
“Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World”
3 pm – 3.30 pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.30 pm – 4.30 pm Professor Richmond Sarpong (Berkeley, USA) “Break-it-to-Make-it Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products”
4.30 – 5.30 pm Professor Jin-Quan Ju (Scripps Research Institute, USA)
“20-Year Dancing with Palladium and C–H bonds: Ligand, Ligand and Ligand” 5.30 pm Closing Remarks: Professor Pat Guiry, Director, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology
