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Biocatalytic Total Synthesis

Name: Biocatalytic Total Synthesis
Start: 2022-12-16T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-12-16T16:00:00+01:00

16 December 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CET

14:00 – 14:30 CET	Harnessing the chemistry of plant natural product biosynthesis Prof. Dr. Sarah O’Connor Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, 07745 Jena, Germany
14:30 – 15:00 CET	Intermolecular Diels-Alderases: Discovery and Applications in Natural Product Synthesis Prof. Dr. Xiaoguang Lei Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (PKU), Beijing 100871, China
15:00 – 15:30 CET	Enzymatic Total Synthesis Approaches to Solve Enigmatic Biosynthetic Pathways and to Generate New Natural Product Analogues Prof. Jürgen Rohr, Ph.D., FRSC College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
15:30 – 16:00 CET	Biocatalysis in ring assembly and late-stage C-H functionalization of complex molecules Prof. Dr. David H. Sherman University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

This webinar is organised by ESAB – the European Society of Applied Biocatalysis, which aims at promoting the development of Applied Biocatalysis throughout Europe.

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