Fürigen/Bürgenstock, April 12-18, 2008 | ||||
President: |
Don Hilvert | |||
Vice-President: |
Ben Feringa | |||
Guest of Honor: |
Dieter Seebach | |||
SUNDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Helmut Schwarz | ||||
Jérôme Lacour |
Ionic interplay in asymmetric synthesis and catalysis | |||
Benjamin List |
New strategies and concepts for catalysis | |||
SUNDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Lia Addadi | ||||
Roman Kaiser |
The scent of vanishing flora: New and uncommon volatile compounds in most diverse endangered plant species | |||
MONDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Ilme Schlichting | ||||
Lorena S Beese |
An integrated view of DNA replication and repair | |||
Mohamed A Marahiel |
Directing biosynthesis of non-ribosomal peptides: The molecular logic of an assembly line | |||
MONDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Peter H Seeberger | ||||
Ben G Davis |
Sugars and Proteins | |||
TUESDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Ben L Feringa | ||||
Geoffrey W Coates |
New catalysts for constructing small molecules and polymers of defined stereochemistry | |||
Kyoko Nozaki |
OMCOS (OrganoMetallic Chemistry directed towards Organic Synthesis) for polymer synthesis | |||
WEDNESDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Beate Koksch | ||||
Frances H Arnold |
Engineering by evolution | |||
Homme W Hellinga |
Computational protein design | |||
WEDNESDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Ehud Keinan | ||||
Kai Johnson |
Observing and manipulating proteins in living cells | |||
THURSDAY Morning Session – Moderator: Samir Z Zard | ||||
Goverdhan Mehta |
Total synthesis of bioactive natural products: Changing context – Emerging opportunities | |||
Justin Du Bois |
Drawing inspiration for reaction design from Nature’s products | |||
THURSDAY Evening Session – Moderator: Helma Wennemers | ||||
David R Liu |
Evolutionary principles applied to biological and synthetic molecules | |||