Session 2B: Biochemistry and biothecnology of antibiotic production systems and natural antibiotics in the environment
09.00 - 12.00
Chair: Justin Nodwell, University of Toronto, Canada
09.00 - 9.30 Gerry Wright, McMasters University, Canada
Engineering glycopeptide antibiotic biosynthesis
09.35 - 09.45 Sylvie Lautre, Université Paris Sud, France
Natural combinatorial biosynthesis involving two clusters for the synthesis of three pyrrolamides in Streptomyces netropsis
09.50 - 10.00 Joleen Masschelein, KU Leuven, Belgium
Forging bonds: a unique alliance between bacterial secondary lipid and secondary metabolite biosynthesis gives rise to the zeamine antibiotics
10.05- 10.45 Coffee break & Group photo
10.45 - 11.15 Anne Osbourn, John Innes Centre, US
Unlocking plant metabolic diversity
11.20 - 11.30 Max Cryle, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany
Oxidative Modification during Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthesis: Cytochrome P450s that Oxidise Carrier Protein Bound Substrates
11.35 - 11.45 Yunzi Luo, University of Illinois, US
Activation and characterisation of Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways via Synthetic Biology Approaches
11.50 - 12.00 Mukul Yadav, University of Birmingham, UK
Conservation and divergence between enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of antibiotics mupriocin and thiomarinol
12:30 Lunch
Session 2C: Biochemistry and biotechnology of antibiotic production systems and natural antibiotics in the environment
15.00 - 18.30
Chair: Jörn Piel, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
15.00 - 15.30 Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois, US
Discovery and Characterization of Novel Natural Products via Synthetic Biology
15.35 - 15.45 Till Marisa, University of Bristol, UK
Trans-acting machinery in Polyketide Synthases
15.50 - 16.00 Javier Santos-Aberturas, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany
Exploration of the catalytic promiscuity of biosynthetic tailoring enzymes as a new source of structural diversity for polyene macrolide antifungals
16.05 - 16.15 Kim Chu-Young, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cyclic ether formation during lasalocid A biosynthesis
16.20 - 16.30 Andrew William Truman, John Innes Centre, UK
Investigating unusual biosynthetic chemistry in the biosynthesis of ribosomal peptides
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 - 17.30 Christian Hertweck, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology HKI, DE
Decoding and Engineering Complex Biosynthetic Pathways in Microbes
17.35 - 17.45 Anbuchezhian Ramasamy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Biosynthetic potential of marine symbiotic fungi
17.50 - 18.00 Philipp Wiemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Insights into the Fungal Secondary Metabolome
18.05 - 18.15 Carmen Limon, University of Seville, Spain
Mutations of Fusarium fujikuroi that affect bikaverin production
18.20 - 18.30 Ebru Ince, University of Dicle, Turkey
Diversity of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and polyketide synthase-I in terrestrial streptomycetes
18.30 1 minute poster presentation (even poster numbers)