RSC BIOORGANIC GROUP: POSTGRADUATE MEETING
One day meeting,
School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.
Monday, 6th April 2009

The RSC Bioorganic group will hold its annual postgraduate meeting at the School of Chemistry, University of Leeds on Monday 6th April. Postgraduate students are invited to present talks and posters on their research at the meeting. The Joe Spencer and David Kelly postgraduate prizes will be awarded for the best oral and poster presentations. The deadline for applications to present talks and posters is 27th February 2009; students will be selected for presentations shortly thereafter. Funds to contribute to the cost of student RSC members' travel to the meeting are available. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. The cost of attending the meeting is £10 per delegate.

Registration form: Research groups should complete the registration form(Word).

Registration forms, cheques (made payable to University of Leeds) and abstracts should be sent to Gail Cole, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT (G.A.Cole@leeds.ac.uk).

Poster presenters should note that the poster boards will measure 0.9m wide by 1.8m high

Bioorganic Group members wishing to attend or contribute to the Group AGM are invited to contact Professor Ruedi Allemann (AllemannRK@cardiff.ac.uk in the first instance

Meeting programme

From 10.30 Tea
11.00 Welcome and opening remarks
11.05 "Discovery of Isoform-specific Glutathione Transferase Inhibitors using Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry", Anne Caniard, University of Edinburgh
11.25 "Late Stage Oxidations during the Biosynthesis of the 2-Pyridone Tenellin in the Entomopathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana ", Ahmed Yakasai, University of Bristol
11.45 "Using chemical biology to probe antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in Neisseria gonorrhoeae ", Matthew Burton, University of Durham
12.05 "Radical-Mediated C a -C b Bond Cleavage of Tyrosine", Martin Challand, University of Southampton
12.25 Lunch and poster session
(1.45 AGM)
1.50  "Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase Inhibitors", Deborah Cowen, University of Leeds
2.10 "Enlightening Sugar-Nucleotides: Novel Fluorescent Ligands for Glycoprocessing Enzymes", Thomas Pesnot, University of East Anglia
2.30 "Synthesis of DNA-porphyrin arrays", ThaoNguyen Nguyen, University of Southampton
2.50 Tea
3.20 "Preparation and Investigation of prodiginine analogues by mutasynthesis approaches", Stuart Haynes, University of Warwick
3.40 "Photo-control of Biomacromolecualr Interactions", Piotr Wysoczanski, University of Cardiff
4.00  Plenary lecture: " How well evolved is the folding code?", Sheena Radford, University of Leeds
5.00  Closing remarks and presentation of prizes

We are grateful to our sponsors:

for supporting the meeting.