6th ECMNP

6th European Conference on
Marine Natural Products

19-23 July 2009, Porto, Portugal

 
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Arriving at Porto & getting to the Hotel


 

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19 July 2009 (Sunday)

10:00-16:30 Registration
17:00-17:30

Opening Ceremony

17:30-18:30

Opening Lecture: Prof. Dr. HRH Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol

Marine Natural Products as an inspiration for Drug Discovery

Chair: Anake Kijjoa

19.00-

Get together party (Hotel Fénix)

20 July 2009 (Monday)

 

Morning Session: Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Synthesis of Marine Natural Products
Chair: Vassilios Roussis

08:30-09:10

Plenary Lecture 1: Peter Proksch

Bioactive Metabolites from Tropical Marine Invertebrates and Endophytic Fungi

09:10-09:40

Invited Lecture 1: Gabriel König
Marine Microbial Metabolites - Focussing on Structural Diversity

09:40-10:00

Oral Communication 1: Stéphane La Barre
NMR and MS Techniques for Rapid Characterization of Prokaryote - Eukaryote Associations: Spectroscopic Fingerprints of Marine Algae and of their Associated Microflora

10:40-10:20

Oral Communication 2: Yue Wei Guo
Searching for New Bioactive Substances from South China Sea Marine Organisms

10:20-10:40

Oral Communication 3: Matthias Köck
Dimeric Pyrrole-Imidazole Alkaloids – New Massadine Stereoisomers and their Configurational Assignment
10:40-11:00

Coffee Break

  Chair: Madalena Pinto

11:00-11:40

Plenary Lecture 2: Chris Ireland  

Marine Natural Products Antitumor Agents

11:40-12:10

Invited Lecture 2: Jose Fernando Reyes

New Bioactive Metabolites from Marine Invertebrates

12:10-12:30

Oral Communication 4: RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel
Metabolomic Profiling of Some Marine Sponges from the Irish and Celtic Seas by High Resolution FTMS and NMR with the aid of SIEVE Analysis

12:30-12:50

Oral Communication 5: Vatcharin Rukachaisirikul
Metabolites from Marine-derived Fungi

12:50-13:10

Oral Communication 6: Yannick Viano
Algal Diterpenoids as Antifouling Substances against a Marine Bacterial Biofilm
13:10-14:30 Lunch
  Afternoon Session: Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Synthesis of Marine Natural Products [cont,]
Chair: Artur Silva

14:30-15:00

Invited Lecture 3: Paul B. Jones

Photochemistry in the Metabolites of Placobranchus Ocellatus

15:00-15:20

Oral Communication 7: Pierangelo Luporini
NMR Structures of a Psychrophilic Family of Water-Borne Signal Polypeptides Isolated from the Polar Protozoan Ciliate, Euplotes nobilii

15:20-15:40

Oral Communication 8: Mohamed Mehiri
Njaoaminiums A, B, and C: Cyclic 3-Alkylpyridinium Salts from the Marine Sponge Reniera sp.

15:40-16:10

Invited Lecture 4: Robert Capon
Australian Marine Biodiscovery

16:10-16:30

Coffee Break

  Chair: Graziano Guella

16:30-17:10

Plenary Lecture 3: Eric Jim Thomas
Approaches to the Total Synthesis of some Biologically Active Natural Products

17:10-17:40

Invited Lecture 5: Ali Al-Mourabit
Progress in Biomimetic Total Synthesis of the Marine Palau'amine and Congeners

17:40-18:00

Oral Communication 9: Emiliano Manzo
Synthesis of an Isocyanide Glyceryl-like Lipid Isolated from Actinocyclus papillatus
18:00-19:30 Poster Session [even numbers]

21 July 2009 (Tuesday)

 

Morning Session: Biological and Pharmacological Activities & Biotechnology of Marine Natural Products

Chair: Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki

08:30-09:10

Plenary Lecture 4: Laurent Meijer
Protein Kinases Relevant to Human Diseases: Pharmacological Inhibitors Derived from Marine Organisms

09:10-09:40

Invited Lecture 6: Marc Diedrich
Marine Compounds as Promising Anti-Cancer Agents

09:40-10:00

Oral Communication 10: Valeria Costantino
Potent Anti-Tumor and Anti-Inflammatory Lead Structures from Caribbean Sponges

10:40-10:20

Oral Communication 11: Heonjoong Kang
Novel Drug Leads for Hepatic Steatosis and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

10:20-10:40

Oral Communication 12: Carine Le Ker
Search for Water-soluble Bioactive Marine Fungal Metabolites: Perfecting of an Extraction and Partial-Purification Method
10:40-11:00

Coffee Break

  Chair: Lars Bohlin

11:00-11:30

Invited Lecture 7: Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati
Antimalarials from the Sea.
Studies on the Mechanism of Action of Endoperoxide Derivatives from Marine Sponges

11:30-11:50

Oral Communication 13: Agostinho Casapullo
Chemical Proteomics as a Tool in Target Discovery of Bioactive Small Molecules

11:50-12:10

Oral Communication 14: Heinz Schröder
Marine Nanobiotechnology: Enzymes/Proteins from Sponges Acting at the Interface of Inorganic Chemistry and Biology

12:10-12:30

Oral Communication 15: Gäel Le Pennec
Molecular Communication Actors within the Porifera/Bacteria Symbiotic Model. Insights into an Intimate Dialogue

12:30-12:50

Oral Communication 16: Yoel Kashman
Salarins, Tulearins and Taumycins, Novel Marine Natural Products; Chemistry, Stereochemistry and Activity
12:50-14:30 Lunch
 

Afternoon Session: Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products

Chair: Heinz Schröder

14:30-15:10

Plenary Lecture 5: Christian Hertweck
Exploring Cryptic Pathways in Bacteria and Fungi

15:10-15:30

Oral Communication 17: Delphine Bry
Biosynthesis of Pyridoacridines in C. dellechiajei Cell-Free Extracts

15:30-15:50

Oral Communication 18: Adele Cutignano
The Bizarre Biogenetic Variability of Terpenes in the Antarctic Mollusc Austrodoris kerguelenensis

15:50-16:10

Oral Communication 19: Helena Gaspar
Chemoecological Studies in Two Nudibranchs from the Portuguese Coast
16:10-16:30

Coffee Break

  Chair: Emilio Quiñoá

16:30-17:10

Plenary Lecture 6: William Gerwick
Structures, Biological Activities and Biosynthesis of Intriguing Marine Cyanobacterial Metabolites

17:10-17:20 Ceremony for Apivita-PSE award

17:20-17:50

Apivita-PSE award Lecture: Angelo Fontana
Chemistry of Signaling in Marine Diatoms
17:50-19:30 Poster Session [odd numbers]
20.30-

Dinner & Music at Praia da Luz beach [all participants & registered accompanying persons]

Announcement of the PSE Travelling Grants by Prof. Lars Bohlin, Chairman of PSE

22 July 2009 (Wednesday)

 

Morning Session: Ecology, Toxins & Biomaterials from the Marine Sources

Chair: Angelo Fontana

08:30-09:10

Plenary Lecture 7: Adrianna Ianora
Chemical Ecology of Secondary Metabolites and their Role in Driving Ecosystem Functionality in the Plankton

09:10-09:40

Invited Lecture 8: Joseph Pawlik
The Chemical Ecology of Sponges on Caribbean Coral Reefs: How Natural Products Shape Natural Systems

09:40-10:00

Oral Communication 20: Charline Abed
Chemotaxonomy as Valuable Approach to Study Sponges of the Family Irciniidae (Porifera, Dictyoceratida)

10:40-10:20

Oral Communication 21: Mikel A. Becero
Relevant Scale of Chemical Variation in Aplysina aerophoba

10:20-10:40

Oral Communication 22: Tiago Silva
Chitosan Derived from Squid Pens on the Development of Biomedical Membranes
10:40-11:00

Coffee Break

  Chair: Diaa Youssef

11:10-11:20

Oral Communication 23: Oriol Sacristán-Soriano
Intraspecimen Variability of Natural Products in the Sponge Aplysina aerophoba

11:20-11:50

Invited Lecture 9: Paulo Vale
Recent Developments in PSP Toxin Chemistry, Detection and Biotransformation

11:50-12:10

Oral Communication 24: Martino Forino
42-Hydroxy Palytoxin: a New Palytoxin Analog from Hawaiian Palythoa spp. Is this the Real Poison of the Legendary Hawaiian limu-make-o-Hana?

12:10-12:30

Oral Communication 25: Antonio Hernandez Daranas
Bioactive Polyether Metabolites from Dinoflagellates: Structure Determination And Bioactivity

12:30-13:00

Invited Lecture 10: Ricardo Riguera
Marine Biopolymers in Nanomedicine: Advances in Drug Delivery

13:00-14:30 Lunch
 

Afternoon Session: New Perspectives in Marine Natural Products

Chair: John Blunt

14:30-15:00

Invited Lecture 11: Tadeusz Molinski
Nanomole-Scale Marine Natural Products

15:00-15:40

Plenary Lecture 8: Werner Müller
The Power of Marine Genomics

15:40-16:20

Plenary Lecture 9: Murray Munro
Marine Natural Products: From There to Here. What's next?

16:20-16:50

Ceremony of Professional Recognition to Guido Cimino
Speech by Prof. Ernesto Fattorusso

16:50-17:30

Plenary Lecture 10: Guido Cimino
From Sepiamelanin to Chemical Ecology of Opisthobranchs and Diatoms:
an Exciting 40 Years Game in the Field of Marine Natural Products

17:30-18:00 Closing Remarks - Announcement of VII ECMNP by Lars Bohlin
20.30- Gala dinner and visit to Ferreirinha Port wine cellars [advanced registration (60 €) required]

23 July 2009 (Thursday)

full day Douro Cruise (Porto-Régua-Porto)

Through the Douro river valley, the region where the Porto wine is produced, classified as World Heritage Patrimony of the Humanity. Lunch on board and return by train included in the price.

[advanced registration (60 €) required]

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