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38th Irsee Natural Product Symposium

Conference Programme and Poster List

In the following you may download the complete PDF Programm.

Here you can access the Poster list .  

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

Session chair: Till Opatz, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

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

Young Researchers Session

Session chair: Pierre Stallforth, Leibniz HKI

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

Session chair: Andreas Kirschning, Leibniz Universität Hannover

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 Unlocking New Tools for Natural Product Synthesis and Beyond
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

Learning from Nature: Conformational Control for Property Enhancement of Macrocycles

Felix Hausch, TU Darmstadt 

18:00 Dinner

Evening lecture

Session chair: Tobias Gulder, HIPS

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
Session chair: Christine Beemelmanns, HIPS
10:25

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

Norbert Sewald, Universität Bielefeld

10:50

Merging antipodes of chemo- & biocatalysis: One-pot processes combining high pressure syngas chemistry & bioreductions

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

11:45

Farewell Snack

12:10

Bus transfer Irsee-Kaufbeuren

As of January 2026. All authors and times are subject to change.

 

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