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Directing Biosynthesis V

Oral abstract deadline 9 October 2016: submit abstracts online here.

Don’t miss out. Submit an oral abstract for this international natural products and chemical biology conference at the University of Warwick. Keynote speakers include Wilfred van der Donk, Janet Smith, John Verderas, Joern Piel and many more. Topics include…

  • Biosynthesis of cell walls – targets for antimicrobials
  • Pathway engineering
  • Enzymology and structural biology
  • Natural products discovery – a response to AMR
  • Chemical ecology

Posters and exhibitors also welcome. Contact events@rsc.org for more information.

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What are your colleagues reading in Natural Product Reports?

The articles below are some of the most read Natural Product Reports articles in April, May and June 2016.


Marine natural products
John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro and Michèle R. Prinsep
DOI: 10.1039/C5NP00156K, Review Article

Natural product isolation – how to get from biological material to pure compounds
Franz Bucar, Abraham Wube and Martin Schmid
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP20106F, Review Article

Marine natural products
John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro and Michèle R. Prinsep
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP70117D, Review Article

Marine natural products
John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro and Michèle R. Prinsep
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00144C, Review Article

Recent advances in engineering nonribosomal peptide assembly lines
M. Winn, J. K. Fyans, Y. Zhuo and J. Micklefield
DOI: 10.1039/C5NP00099H, Review Article
From themed collection Biosynthetic Assembly Lines

Fragmentation reactions using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: an important tool for the structural elucidation and characterization of synthetic and natural products
Daniel P. Demarque, Antonio E. M. Crotti, Ricardo Vessecchi, João L. C. Lopes and Norberto P. Lopes
DOI: 10.1039/C5NP00073D, Review Article

Ester coupling reactions – an enduring challenge in the chemical synthesis of bioactive natural products
Michail Tsakos, Eva S. Schaffert, Lise L. Clement, Nikolaj L. Villadsen and Thomas B. Poulsen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00106K, Review Article

Synthetic approaches towards alkaloids bearing α-tertiary amines
Anastasia Hager, Nina Vrielink, Dominik Hager, Julien Lefranc and Dirk Trauner
DOI: 10.1039/C5NP00096C, Review Article

Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms
Laura V. Flórez, Peter H. W. Biedermann, Tobias Engl and Martin Kaltenpoth
DOI: 10.1039/C5NP00010F, Review Article
From themed collection Chemical Ecology


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RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium 2016

This poster symposium for final year organic chemistry PhD students will take place at The Royal Society of Chemistry at Burlington House, in London, Monday 5 December 2016.

Abstract submission is now open!

The closing date for abstract submissions is Monday 3 October 2016. Get more information or submit an abstract now.

This symposium offers final year PhD students a chance to showcase their research to their peers, leading academics and industrial chemists. It is open to all branches of organic chemistry – in its broadest interpretation – and has a tradition of being the most competitive and highly-regarded organic chemistry symposium for PhD students in the UK and Ireland.

There will be a first prize of £500, two runner-up prizes, and a ‘selected by Industry’ prize. Industrial delegates will select this winner based on the potential for application in an industrial context.

We would like to thank F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd. and our industry sponsors for their generous support of this event.

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‘Microbial protein targets: towards understanding and intervention’ meeting

Microbial protein targets: towards understanding and intervention

14–16 September 2016, Durham, UK

This symposium will bring together leading expertise in protein structure determination, biochemical characterization and chemical biology to explore the most recent advances in the understanding of protein function and inhibition in microbial pathogens – both bacteria and parasites.

An exciting line-up of speakers will present their recent work in the area. Some of the confirmed speakers are:

  • Chris Abell University of Cambridge, UK
  • Gerald Spaeth Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
  • Ed Tate Imperial College London, UK
  • Maria Marco-Martin GSK Tres Contos, Spain

Take advantage of this opportunity to showcase your work alongside leaders in the field and submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation today. Through generous sponsorship from the RSC Chemical Biology Interface Division and the BSP there are bursaries available for early career researchers to support their participation at this meeting.

The oral abstract deadline has just been extended until 15 July 2016, and poster abstracts are welcome until 5 August 2016. For more information and to register please visit the conference webpage.

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Ryan Shenvi wins 2016 NPR Emerging Investigator Lectureship

NPR Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2016We are delighted to announce that Professor Ryan Shenvi from the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego (USA) is the winner of the 2016 NPR Emerging Investigator Lectureship.

The NPR Lectureship is an annual event which is held at an international meeting, the recipient being a researcher who has made a significant contribution to any natural products-related research in their early independent career.

The conference at which the lecture will be delivered will be announced in due course.

Read more on Ryan’s research on the Shenvi lab homepage.

Previous winners include:

Seth Herzon, Yale University, USA (2015 winner)
Emily Balskus, Harvard University, USA (2014 winner)
Rebecca Goss, University of St Andrews, UK (2013 winner)
Dean Tantillo, UC Davis Chemistry, USA (2012 winner)

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2016 RSC Prizes and Awards in Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology now open for nomination

The 2016 RSC Prizes and Awards are now open for nomination!

Nominations will close on 15 January 2016.


For more than 140 years, our Prizes and Awards programme has been acknowledging and celebrating exceptional talent in the chemical sciences, and with your support we are hoping that 2016 will even more successful!

Last year’s winners include Chemists such as Prof. Wilfred van der Donk (University of Illinois), Prof. Tim Donohoe (University of Oxford), Prof. Shuli You (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry), Prof. Philip Gale (University of Southampton), Prof. Herman Overkleeft (Leiden University), Prof. Alison Ashcroft and Prof. Sheena Radford (University of Leeds).

This year we have 63 prizes and awards open for nominations of individuals, teams and organisations covering the breadth of the chemical sciences across academia, education and industry.

This year’s prizes in the field of Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology include:

CBID (Chemistry Biology Interface Division) awards –

Organic Awards –

For 2016 our Longstaff Prize is also open – since 1881 we have awarded this prize once every three years to one of our members who has achieved the most to advance the science of chemistry.

Submit your suggestions now!

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