Professor Michael Burkart from the University of California, San Diego, delivered the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry award lecture at the RSC’s Directing Biosynthesis conference in Durham, UK last week. Professor Burkart lecture was entitled Modular Thinking – Explorations in Activity and Function.
Professor Burkart’s recent OBC publications include:
Synthetic studies on the mycolactone core
Kwang-Seuk Ko, Matthew D. Alexander, Shaun D. Fontaine, James E. Biggs-Houck, James J. La Clair and Michael D. Burkart
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00540A
Preparation of FRET reporters to support chemical probe development
Timothy L. Foley, Adam Yasgar, Christopher J. Garcia, Ajit Jadhav, Anton Simeonov and Michael D. Burkart
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00322K
Mechanism-based crosslinking as a gauge for functional interaction of modular synthases
Andrew S. Worthington, Douglas F. Porter, Michael D. Burkart,
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, (8),1769-1772
The OBC lecture award is given to chemists who have made a significant research contribution to organic or bioorganic chemistry, and ideally who have had an independent research career of between 8 and 15 years. Nominations for the 2011 OBC Lecture Award will be open next month.
