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The “Irseer Naturstofftage” (Conference on Natural Products) are “the place to be” for natural product scientists, focussing on interdisciplinary exchange and new collaborations. With topics ranging from the discovery of new natural products, the chemical ecology of natural systems, the elucidation & modulation of biosynthetic pathways to the total synthesis of natural products, for over three decades they have hosted a vibrant natural product community. Due to the Covid19 pandemic the organizing committee of the “Irseer Naturstofftage” has decided to transform this exclusive conference to special virtual Symposiumin 2021 and open it for an international audience.
Accessible from all over the world, the Irsee Natural Product Symposium comprises a programme, which serves to promote scientific discussion and exchange within the community. Although only partially reflecting the experience of discussing science in the cellar of a centuries old monastery in Irsee, the event is aimed to help to initiate contacts and future collaborations. A highlight of the conference will be the Meet the speakers sessions at the end of each conference day, during which you will have the possibility to engage and discuss further with the international speakers as well as fellow attendees.
In the following you can download the programme and speaker profilesas pdf document. We are truly excited to share this special format with you and look forward to meeting you virtually at the Irsee Natural Product Symposium. The registration is now open.
The “Irseer Naturstofftage” have been bringing together natural product scientists from central Europe for more than 30 years. Taking place in a monastery 100 km outside of Munich, the key objective of this event has always been to foster interdisciplinary exchange and new collaborations. Lectures on the isolation of new natural products, the chemical ecology of plants, bacteria & fungi, the elucidation & modulation of biosynthetic pathways and the total synthesis of natural products are complemented with sessions dedicated to technological innovations and topics of significance for the broader society. Over the decades a vibrant natural product community, including young scientists, has emerged for which the annual visit to Irsee is a scientific highlight not to be missed.
Jason M. Crawford I Yale University, West Haven I USA Jason Crawford carried out his doctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins University with Craig Townsend and his postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School with Jon Clardy. Jason joined Yale University in 2012 and is now the Maxine F. Singer Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Microbial Pathogenesis and Director of the Chemical Biology Institute. |
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William Gerwick I Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego I USA Bill Gerwick’s research focuses on the bioactive natural products of marine algae and cyanobacteria, their application in biomedicine, and their biosynthesis using genomic approaches. He earned a BS degree in Biochemistry at UC Davis, a PhD in Oceanography/Marine Chemistry at Scripps/UCSD, and did postdoctoral work in biosynthesis at U Connecticut. He spent 21 years as Professor at Oregon State University in the College of Pharmacy. In 2005, he returned to his PhD institution at Scripps/UCSD, and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Oceanography and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has served as president of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, is a Society Fellow of the American Society of Pharmacognosy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research group has published over 500 scientific papers and holds more than 20 US patents. |
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Sarah E. Reisman I California Institute of Technology, Pasadena I USA Sarah E. Reisman earned a BA in Chemistry from Connecticut College in 2001, and her Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University in 2006, under the direction of Prof. John L. Wood. From 2006–2008, Sarah worked as an NIH fellow with Prof. Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University, and then joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology where she is now the Bren Professor of Chemistry and a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator. Her laboratory seeks to discover, develop, and study new chemical reactions within the context of natural product total synthesis. |
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Hans Renata I Scripps Research Institute Florida, Jupiter I USA Hans Renata received his B.A. degree from Columbia University in 2008 and earned his Ph.D. from The Scripps Research Institute in 2013 under the guidance of Prof. Phil S. Baran. After postdoctoral studies with Prof. Frances H. Arnold at Caltech, he began his independent career at The Scripps Research Institute in 2016. His research focuses on synthetic and biosynthetic studies of natural products and biocatalytic reaction developments. |
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Ben Shen I Scripps Research Institute Florida, Jupiter I USA Ben received B.Sc. from Hangzhou University, M.S. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. from Oregon State University, all in chemistry, and carried out postdoctoral research in Mol. Biology and Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ben served on the faculty at University of California, Davis (1995-2001) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001-2010) before joining The Scripps Research Institute in 2011. Currently, Ben is Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Medicine and serves as Chair, Department of Chemistry, Florida Campus, and Director, Natural Products Discovery Center at Scripps Research. Current research in the Shen Lab concerns natural product biosynthesis in actinobacteria and development of enabling technologies to mine actinobacteria genomes for natural products and drug discovery. |
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Rotem Sorek I Weizmann Institue of Science, Rehovot I Israel Prof Rotem Sorek completed his PhD at Tel Aviv University (2006) followed by a postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley labs (2008). His lab at the Weizmann Institute studies the interactions between bacteria and the viruses that infect them. His studies found that important components of the human innate immune system have originated from bacterial defense systems that protect from phages. Sorek also discovered that phages can use small-molecule communication in order to coordinate their infection dynamics. Sorek is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the European Academy of Microbiology and EMBO. |
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Elizabeth Sattely I Stanford University & HHMI, Stanford I USA Elizabeth Sattely is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford, an HHMI Investigator, and a Stanford ChEM-H Faculty Fellow. Dr. Sattely completed her graduate training at Boston College in organic chemistry and her postdoctoral studies in biochemistry at Harvard Medical School where she studied natural product biosynthesis in bacteria. Inspired by the centrality of plants and plant-derived molecules in human diet and medicine, the Sattely laboratory is focused on the chemistry of model plants, crop plants, and medicinal plants. A major goal in the group is to accelerate the discovery and engineering of plant metabolic pathways to make molecules critical to human and plant health. Accomplishments from the Sattely lab include mapping the biosynthetic routes to clinically used drugs from medicinal plants and elucidating new mechanisms by which crop plants use chemistry to cope with environmental stress. Work from the Sattely group has been recognized by an NIH New Innovator Award, a DOE Early Career Award, an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar Award, a DARPA Young Investigator Award, and an AAAS Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences. |
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Yi Tang I University of California, Los Angeles I USA Yi Tang received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Material Science from Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology under the guidance of Prof. David A. Tirrell. After NIH postdoctoral training in Chemical Biology from Prof. Chaitan Khosla at Stanford University, he started his independent career at University of California Los Angeles in 2004. He is currently a professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA, and holds joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; and Department of Bioengineering. His awards include the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2012), the EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2012), NIH DP1 Director Pioneer Award (2012) and the ACS Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (2014). |
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-Young Scientist awardee- Dr. Beemelmanns studied Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen. She then went to Japan for a one year research stay in the group of Prof. Sodeoka at RIKEN. Back in Germany she worked at the FU Berlin with Prof. Reißig and received her PhD in Organic Chemistry. She then worked another six month in Japan at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Prof K. Suzuki and joined shortly afterwards the group of Prof. Clardy at Harvard Medical School (Boston) in 2011. End of 2013, she received an offer from the Hans-Knöll Institute (HKI) to establish a Leibniz Junior Research Group in the field of Natural Products Chemistry and Chemical Biology. |
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-PhD awardee- Martin Klapper studied Chemistry (B. Sc.) and Chemical Biology (M. Sc.) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Junior Research Group Chemistry of Microbial Communication under the guidance of Dr. Pierre Stallforth at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena. Since January 2020 he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Paleobiotechnology at the same institute. For his doctoral research, he was funded by a Hoechst Doktorandenstipendium (Aventis foundation), and received the medac Research Award and the Faculty PhD prize. His postdoctoral work is supported with an Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science by the Joachim Herz Foundation. |
As of 20 January 2021. Speakers are subject to changes.
In order to engage with speakers and fellow attendees from a worldwide community, the conference is scheduled for the following times:
Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 14.00-19.00h (UTC +01:00)
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 14.00-19.15h (UTC +01:00)
(Central European Time/ UTC+01:00; Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien)
At the end of the lecture day you will have the possibility to further engage with the speakers during a "Meet the speakers" session. The session will take place in Zoom Meetings, so that you may also use your audio and video. It is not necessary to download the Zoom app, but for the best use we hardly reccommend to do so.
Please note that each meet the speakers session is limited in participant numbers.
14.00h Welcome and Introduction
14.10h Biocatalytic Strategies for Streamlining Access to Complex Natural Products
Hans Renata I Scripps Research Institute Florida, Jupiter I USA
14.55h Metabolism at the Human-Microbe Interface
Jason M. Crawford I Yale University, West Haven I USA
15.40h -PhD award lecture-
Pseudomonas-Derived Secondary Metabolites in Predator-Prey Interactions
Martin Klapper I Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena I Germany
16.00h Break
16.15h Introduction
16.20h Artificial Intelligence Based Tools to Enhance Natural Products Research
William Gerwick I Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego I USA
17.05h Discovery and Engineering of Plant Natural Products for Plant and Human Health
Elizabeth Sattely I Stanford University & HHMI, Stanford I USA
17.50h Short break
18.00h Meet the speakers
19.00h End of meeting day
14.00h Welcome and Introduction
14.10h Antiviral compounds produced by bacteria
Rotem Sorek I Weizmann Institue of Science, Rehovot I Israel
14.55h Natural Product Biosynthesis as Inspiration for Chemistry and Biology
Ben Shen I Scripps Research Institute Florida, Jupiter I USA
15.40h -Young Scientist award lecture-
What symbiotic microbes can teach us about natural product chemistry and ecological complexity – A personal review!
Christine Beemelmanns I Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena I Germany
16.15h Break
16.30h Introduction
16.35h Chemistry and Biology of Fungal Natural Products
Yi Tang I University of California, Los Angeles I USA
17.20h Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry they Inspire
Sarah E. Reisman I California Institute of Technology, Pasadena I USA
18.05h Short break
18.15h Meet the speakers
19.15h End of the Symposium
As of 14 January 2021. All times and speakers are subject to change.
Delegates | Members1) | Others |
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Industry | 215 € | 230 € |
Academia | 125 € | 140 € |
PhD students2) | 75 €3) | 90 € |
Bachelor/ Master students2) | 30 €3) |
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Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt I University of Tuebingen
Ingo Hartung I Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt
Christian Hertweck I Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena
Andreas Kirschning I University of Hannover
Rolf Müller I Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Saarbruecken
Diedrich Ober I University of Kiel
Jörn Piel I ETH Zürich/ CH (chairmen)
Karsten Schuerrle I Dechema e.V., Frankfurt/ Main
Eckard Thines I Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz