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38th Irsee Natural Product Symposium

Conference Programme and Poster List

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

Opening Session

Session chair: Tobias Gulder, HIPS 

14:30 Opening of the Irsee Natural Product Symposium
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)

19:00-
21:00

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

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

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

14:05

Navigating the Landscape of Cycloartane-derived Carbocations

Philipp Heretsch, LUH Hannover

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

Applied NP research

Session chair: Ingo Hartung, Merck Healthcare, Darmstadt

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

Evening lecture

20:00

Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications

Anne Osbourn, John Innes Center Norwich

21:00Award Ceremonies

Friday, 27 Feb 2026

SAM dependent enzymes*

Session chair: Jennifer Andexer, Universität Freiburg

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

09:20

S-Adenosylmethionine: Considerations on its Role in the Origin and Evolution of Life

Andreas Kirschning, Leibniz Universität Hannover

09:45 Coffee break
Biosynthesis & Chemo-enzymatic approaches
10:25

Chemo-Enzymatic Strategies for Late-Stage Diversification Involving Tryptophan Halogenases

Norbert Sewald, Universität Bielefeld

10:50

TBA

Harald Gröger, Universität Bielefeld

11:15

Protein Engineering Strategies for Expanding Polyketide Diversity

Martin Grininger, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

11:40

Closing Remarks 

11:45

End of Irsee Natural Product Symposium

12:00

Farewell Snack

12:10

Bus transfer Irsee-Kaufbeuren

As of October 2025. All authors and times are subject to change.

 

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