Natural Products Blog

Congratulations to Ramona Riclea (TU Braunschweig, Germany) and Khomaizon Kadir (University of Bristol, UK) who each won a Natural Product Reports poster prize at the Zing Natural Products conference  held on 10-13 February in Lanzarote.

Ramona, currently studying for her PhD in the group of Dr. Jeroen S. Dickschat, presented her winning work entitled

•  ‘Synthesis and biosynthesis of novel bioactive secondary metabolites from Streptomycetes’

while Khomaizon, PhD student working with Drs Andy Bailey and Colin M Lazarus, was rewarded for her winning poster presenting her research on:

•  ‘Efficient expression system for production of natural products in Aspergillus orizae’

Both awardees receive a prize certificate and a one-year subscription to Natural Product Reports. Congratulations!

From left to right, Dr Jeroen Dickschat and poster prize winners Ramona Riclea and  Khomaizon Kadir receiving their award certificate from Dr Marie Cote, NPR deputy editor.

The meeting was co-Chaired by NPR Advisory Board member and former NPR Chair David O’Hagan (University of St Andrews, UK) and NPR Advisory Board member Margaret Brimble (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and brilliantly covered the breadth of natural products research: from isolation and structural studies to biosynthesis to synthesis of molecules. Included in the line up of speakers were NPR Editorial Board members Andreas Kirschning (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)  Stefan Schulz (TU Braunschweig, Germany), Dirk Trauner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München),  former NPR Chair Tom Simpson (University of Bristol, UK) and former Lecture Award winner Jason Micklefield (University of Manchester, UK).

The conference was a perfect opportunity to not only see some of the latest cutting edge natural products research but also to meet authors and readers of the journal –  all this in very enjoyable surroundings!