Conference Description
The 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products will welcome diverse researchers at all career stages from academia, government and industry to share contemporary research addressing the environmental roles, biological targets and applications of marine natural products. The targets and applications of natural products critically depend on elucidation, biosynthesis and evolution of molecular structure, and investigation of function either in the environment or in translation to broad human health and well-being applications. Presentations and discussions will address these themes from multiple perspectives at the levels of molecules, cells, organisms and biomes. A Gordon Research Seminar preceding the Conference will again pave the way for early career scientists to network and build expertise in oral and poster presentations, before engaging with collegial research leaders across a multitude of scientific disciplines. Natural products research is a highly interdisciplinary field that is being accelerated by multi-disciplinary collaborations to address the central methodological and technical hurdles impeding translation of chemically and biologically complex natural products to applications for human health and well-being. Dynamic discussions in a range of formal and informal settings will catalyze new, cross-disciplinary research directions in marine natural products science.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by November 6, 2021. Please check back for updates.
Developing Marine Natural Product Therapies
Discussion Leaders
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Amy Wright (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, USA)
Speakers
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Andreas Maderna (Sutro Biopharma, Inc., USA)
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Kris White (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)
Climate Change, Marine Toxins and Environmental Solutions
Discussion Leaders
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Mande Holford (Hunter College, City University of New York, USA)
Speakers
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Yuko Cho (Tohoku University, Japan)
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Taifo Mahmud (Oregon State University, USA)
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Assaf Vardi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Neha Garg (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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Robin Teufel (University of Freiburg, Germany)
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Eva Sonnenschein (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Super Resolution Imaging for Natural Product Mechanisms
Discussion Leaders
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Laura Sanchez (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
Speakers
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Edward Boyden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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Manuel Liebeke (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, USA)
Imaging, Molecular Targets and Phenotypic Screening
Discussion Leaders
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Daniela Trivella (National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Brazil)
Speakers
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Erin Carlson (University of Minnesota, USA)
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Ville Paavilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
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Lu Wei (California Institute of Technology, USA)
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Ashootosh Tripathi (University of Michigan, USA)
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Trever Smith II (Tufts University, USA)
Synthetic Strategies for Natural Product Lead Development
Discussion Leaders
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Alison Narayan (University of Michigan, USA)
Speakers
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Leslie Aldrich (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
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Sarah Reisman (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Computational Workflows for Natural Products Discovery
Discussion Leaders
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Roberto Berlinck (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Speakers
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Ruili Huang (NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, USA)
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Roger Linington (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
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Justin van der Hooft (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
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Donovon Adpressa (Merck & Co., USA)
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Mehdi Beniddir (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
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Allison Walker (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Synthetic Biology for Natural Product Production and Engineering
Discussion Leaders
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Jaclyn Winter (University of Utah, USA)
Speakers
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Alessandra Eustaquio (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)
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Changsheng Zhang (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, China)
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Brandon Morinaka (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Natural Products in the Context of Microbiomes and Symbioses
Discussion Leaders
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Shigeki Matsunaga (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Speakers
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Marcy Balunas (University of Connecticut, USA)
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Mohamed Donia (Princeton University, USA)
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Margo Haygood (University of Utah, USA)
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Lucia Pita Galan (GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)
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Emily Mevers (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
Keynote Session: Integrated Strategies for Marine Natural Products Discovery
Discussion Leaders
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Hendrik Luesch (University of Florida, USA)
Speakers
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Deniz Tasdemir (GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)
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Phillip Crews (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers:
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Marcy Balunas (University of Connecticut, USA)
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Alanna Condren (University of Michigan, USA)
