Speakers

The programme of invited speakers at Directing Biosynthesis III included:

Expanding the Catalytic Repertoires of Biosynthetic Enzymes Professor Ikuro Abe The University of Tokyo, Japan	Ikuro Abe
Understanding and manipulating antibiotic production in actinomycetes Professor Mervyn Bibb John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK	Mervyn Bibb
Structure-Based Engineering of Fidelity and Promiscuity in Catalysis by Terpenoid Cyclases Professor David W. Christianson University of Pennsylvania, USA	David W. Christianson
Biosynthesis in neglected bacteria Professor Dr Christian Hertweck Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany	Christian Hertweck
Mechanistic Studies of Novel Biological C-C Bond Formation Reactions: Biosynthesis of Spinosyn A Professor Hung-wen (Ben) Liu The University of Texas at Austin, USA	Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu
Chemical Surprises from an Elusive Bacterium Professor Dr Jörn Piel University of Bonn, Germany	Jörn Piel
Characterizing and engineering diverse C-H bond activation catalysts from microbial natural product systems Professor David H Sherman University of Michigan, USA	David H Sherman
Fun with Fungi - Past and Present! Professor Tom Simpson University of Bristol, UK	Tom Simpson
Exploring the biosynthesis of complex natural products from the Penicillium genus Professor Yi Tang UCLA, USA	Yi Tang
RSC Bio-Organic Group Lecture: Experiments and speculations about calicheamicin and enediyne biosynthesis Professor Craig A Townsend Johns Hopkins University, USA	Craig A Townsend

Award Symposium

We are delighted to announce that a special symposium will take place within the Directing Biosynthesis III programme, recognising the achievements of three RSC award winners of 2011. Each of the winners will give a keynote lecture within the symposium.

Enriching chemical space to drug undruggable targets Dr David R Spring, University of Cambridge, UK Winner of the Norman Heatley Award 2011	David Spring
Circular logic in macrocycles Professor Jim Naismith, University of St Andrews, UK Member of Collaborative Computational Project 4 - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (CCP4) Winners of the Rita and John Cornforth Award 2011	Jim Naismith
Roles of Oxygenases in Biosynthesis and the Regulation of Gene Expression Professor Chris Schofield, University of Oxford, UK Winner of the Jeremy Knowles Award 2011	Chris Schofield

For more information on the award winners, please click on the links, top right.