SATURDAY |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Diving into Discovery |
| Discussion Leader: Catherine Roullier (University of Nantes) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Frank Schroeder (Cornell University)
"Worm Language: A Natural Combinatorial Library and a Xylopyranose-Based Nucleoside"
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4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | A Rising Tide of Innovation |
| Discussion Leaders: Maria Mansson (Technical University of Denmark) and Clifford Kapono (University of California, San Diego) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Debosmita Sardar (University of Utah)
"Recognition Sequences and Substrate Evolution in Cyanobactin Biosynthesis"
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7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Kenji Kurita (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Compound Activity Mapping: Integrated High-Content Image Based Screening and Mass Spectrometry Based Secondary Metabolite Profiling"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Marnix Medema (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)
"Computational Strategies for the Genomic Detection of Biochemical Novelty in Biosynthetic Gene Clusters"
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8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Katherine Duncan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
"Molecular Networking of Genome Sequenced Salinispora Strains"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | A Wave of Microbial Findings |
| Discussion Leaders: Jennifer Arens (University of Prince Edward Island) and Paul Boudreau (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Brittney Bunn (Case Western Reserve University)
"Stereoselective Biosynthesis of Isonitriles in Group V Cyanobacteria"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Mohamed Donia (University of California, San Francisco)
"Small Molecules from the Human Microbiota"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Michael Freeman (Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)
"Biosynthesis with a Twist - Iterative Processing of the Giant Sponge Toxins Polytheonamides"
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10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Amanda Waters (University of Mississippi)
"An Analysis of the Sponge Acanthostrongylophora igens' Microbiome Yields an Actinomycete that Produces the Natural Product Manzamine A"
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10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Looking Forward on the Horizon |
| Discussion Leader: Jason Kwan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Navid Adnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Microscale Co-Cultivation Leads to the Production of a Putative Novel Antibiotic"
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1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | John McIntosh (California Institute of Technology)
"Expanding the Chemical Space of Biosynthesis"
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2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |