In the following you may find the Poster list of the 38th Irsee Natural Product Symposium.
Conference Programme
Wednesday, 25 Feb 2026
| 11:30 |
Board Meeting (on invitation - only for members) |
| 13:30 |
Welcome Snack |
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Opening Session
Session chair: Tobias Gulder, HIPS
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| 14:30 |
Opening of the Irsee Natural Product Symposium
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| 14:35 |
Natural and Engineered Chemical Novelty Jörn Piel, ETH Zürich |
| 15:15 |
Short break |
Poster Session Session chair: Evi Stegmann, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 15:30 |
Poster presentations (Poster P01-P26) |
| 16:45 |
Poster viewing (Poster P01-P26) |
| 17:15 |
Poster presentation (Poster P27-P52) |
| 18:30 |
Poster viewing (Poster P27-P52) |
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19:00- 21:00
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Dinner at the posters |
Thursday, 26 Feb 2026
| Young Researchers Session |
| 09:00 |
Modern Venomics: integration of multi-omics and synthetic biology as a tool to discover novel chemistry in small invertebrates Tim Lüddecke, JLU Gießen |
| 09:25 |
Chemical proteomics of post-translational modifications on microtubules and beyond
Pawel Kielkowski, LMU München
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| 09:50 |
Enzyme and Natural Product Discovery in Non-Canonical Pathways Lena Barra, Universität Konstanz |
| 10:15 |
Coffee break |
| 10:55 |
NPDtools: a computational toolkit for natural product discovery
Alexey Gurevich, HIPS Saarbrücken
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| 11:20 |
Illuminating the natural diversity of gene-encoded lipopeptides Anna Vagstad, ETH Zurich |
| 11:45 |
A New Approach for the Generation of New-to-Nature Lasso Peptides
Julian Hegemann, TU Braunschweig |
| 12:10 |
Lunch break |
| Syntheses |
| 13:40 |
Photochemical Deracemization Applied to Biologically Active Compounds
Thorsten Bach, TU München
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| 14:05 |
Navigating the Landscape of Cycloartane-derived Carbocations
Philipp Heretsch, LUH Hannover
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| 14:30 |
TBA Tanja Gulder, Saarbrücken |
| 14:55 |
C–H Activation-Based Total Synthesis of Natural Products Olivier Baudoin, Universität Basel |
| 15:20 |
Coffee break |
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Applied NP research
Session chair: Ingo Hartung, Merck Healthcare, Darmstadt
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| 16:00 |
P5-labeling for generating highly efficacious antibody-conjugates for cancer therapy Christian Hackenberger, FMP Berlin |
| 16:25 |
Metabolite Discovery and Biotransformations at NUVISAN’s Innovation Campus Berlin Kai Thede, Nuvisan Innovation Campus Berlin |
| 16:50 |
TBA |
| 18:00 |
Dinner |
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Evening lecture
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| 20:00 |
Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications
Anne Osbourn, John Innes Center Norwich
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| 21:00 | Award Ceremonies |
Friday, 27 Feb 2026
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SAM dependent enzymes*
Session chair: Jennifer Andexer, Universität Freiburg
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| 08:30 |
Chimeric cofactors enable methyltransferase-catalyzed nucleic acid prenylation Andrea Rentmeister, LMU München |
| 08:55 |
Methyltransferases in Chemoenzymatic Natural Product Synthesis
Jörg Pietruszka, FZ Jülich
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| 09:20 |
S-Adenosylmethionine: Considerations on its Role in the Origin and Evolution of Life
Andreas Kirschning, Leibniz Universität Hannover
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| 09:45 |
Coffee break |
| Biosynthesis & Chemo-enzymatic approaches |
| 10:25 |
Chemo-Enzymatic Strategies for Late-Stage Diversification Involving Tryptophan Halogenases
Norbert Sewald, Universität Bielefeld
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| 10:50 |
TBA
Harald Gröger, Universität Bielefeld
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| 11:15 |
Protein Engineering Strategies for Expanding Polyketide Diversity
Martin Grininger, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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| 11:40 |
Closing Remarks
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| 11:45 |
End of Irsee Natural Product Symposium
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| 12:00 |
Farewell Snack
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| 12:10 |
Bus transfer Irsee-Kaufbeuren
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As of October 2025. All authors and times are subject to change.