Environmental Roles, Biological Targets and Applications

The 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products will welcome diverse researchers at all career stages from academia, government and industry to share contemporary research addressing the environmental roles, biological targets and applications of marine natural products. The targets and applications of natural products critically depend on elucidation, biosynthesis and evolution of molecular structure, and investigation of function either in the environment or in translation to broad human health and well-being applications. Presentations and discussions will address these themes from multiple perspectives at the levels of molecules, cells, organisms and biomes. A Gordon Research Seminar preceding the Conference will again pave the way for early career scientists to network and build expertise in oral and poster presentations, before engaging with collegial research leaders across a multitude of scientific disciplines. Natural products research is a highly interdisciplinary field that is being accelerated by multi-disciplinary collaborations to address the central methodological and technical hurdles impeding translation of chemically and biologically complex natural products to applications for human health and well-being. Dynamic discussions in a range of formal and informal settings will catalyze new, cross-disciplinary research directions in marine natural products science.