The 2021 ESBOC meeting will take place on-line over 20-21 May 2021.
The Chair is Prof. Sarah O’Connor (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) .
Confirmed plenary speakers include:
- Ulrike Eggert (King’s College London)
The roles of lipids in cell biology - Hajo Kries (Hans Knöll Institute)
Biosynthetic design of nonribosomal peptides - Emily Flashman (University of Oxford)
Thiol Dioxygenases: Oxygen Sensors in Plants and Humans - Christine Beemelmanns (Hans Knöll Institute)
Structural Diversity and Functional Characterization of Bacterial Natural Products Inducing Morphogenesis in Marine Eukaryotes - Matthew Powner (UCL)
Prebiotic peptide synthesis by nitrile ligation in water - Benjamin Lichman (University of York)
Omics approaches for elucidating complex alkaloid biosynthesis - Nigel Richards (Cardiff University)
C-C Bond Formation in C-Nucleoside Antibiotic Biosynthesis - Nicholas Turner (University of Manchester)
Discovery & Synthetic Application of a New Redox Enzyme - Anne-Kathrin Duhme-Klair (University of York)
Exploiting siderophores in the development of antimicrobials and artificial enzymes - Carmen Galan (University of Bristol)
Ligands to modulate G-quadruplex DNA: A Journey from Sugars to Photoresponsive ligands - Evangelos Tatsis (SIPPE, Shanghai)
The different evolution stories of clerodane diterpenoid metabolic pathway in Lamiaceae - Barrie Wilkinson (John Innes Centre)
Bifurcation drives the evolution of assembly-line biosynthesis - Florian Hollfelder (University of Cambridge)
How Do We Find New Functional Proteins in Sequence Space?
A programme is available. The links for joining the on-line sessions will be sent to registered delegates shortly prior to the symposium.