Session Chair
Dr Paul CALLANT
AGFA-GEVAERT N.V. (RETIRED), Edegem, Belgium
09:00
PL05 - Building New Fusion Proteins with Enzymatic Oxidative Coupling Reactions
Prof. Matthew B. FRANCIS
UC BERKELEY, Berkeley, United States
Matt Francis is the Joel Hildebrand Distinguished Professor and Chemistry Department Chair at UC Berkeley. Matt received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, OH in 1994. From 1994-1999 he attended graduate school at Harvard University, working in the lab of Prof. Eric Jacobsen. He then moved to UC Berkeley, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow under the guidance of Prof. Jean Fréchet. Matt started his independent career in the UC Berkeley Chemistry Department in 2001, and has built a research program involving the development of new organic reactions for protein modification. These chemical tools have been used to prepare new biomolecular materials for diagnostic imaging, drug delivery, water treatment, and solar cell development.
09:45
IL05 - Multicomponent Tagging and Conjugation of Peptides and Proteins
Prof. Daniel GARCÍA RIVERA
UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA, La Habana, Cuba
Daniel G. Rivera is a Full Research Professor in Chemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Synthetic and Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Havana, Cuba. He graduated in Chemistry with honors at the University of Havana in 2002 and earned the PhD (summa cum laude) in 2007 working at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany, where he is currently Visiting Investigator. His research interests focus on the synthesis of natural products, multicomponent and catalytic reactions, macrocyclization and bioconjugation approaches and vaccine development. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Member of the Cuban Academy of Science and the current President of the Latin-American Federation of Chemical Associations.
10:15
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Session Chair
Prof. Berit OLOFSSON
STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, Stockholm, Sweden
10:45
OC09 - Rapid Assembly of Molecular Complexity From Simple Enamides
Prof. Georg MANOLIKAKES
RPTU KAISERSLAUTERN-LANDAU, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Georg Manolikakes obtained his PhD in 2009 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
(Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Paul Knochel. AOer a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Phil
S. Baran (Scripps Research InsRtute La Jolla/USA) he started his independent career as group
leader at the Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). Since 2017, he his professor for organic
chemistry at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (Germany). Research acRviRes in the
Manolikakes group focuses on method development, stereoselecRve synthesis and medicinal
chemistry.
11:00
OC10 - Site-Selective Functionalizations of Amphiphilic Diols, Promoted by New Nucleophilic Organocatalysts with an Expanded Secondary Sphere Decorating an Active Core
Prof. Moshe PORTNOY
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, Tel Aviv, Israel
Moshe Portnoy is an associate professor of organic chemistry in Tel Aviv University. Born in 1963, he completed his Ph.D. degree in 1994 in the Weizmann Institute of Science with Prof. David Milstein. Following his postdoctoral research with Prof. Itamar Willner (the Hebrew University) and Prof. Barry Trost (Stanford University), he joined the School of Chemistry in Tel Aviv University in 1997. Since then he conducted research in the fields of solid-phase synthesis as well as supported, dendritic and enantioselective catalysis. His current research interests are organocatalysis and selectivity, with a particular emphasis on site-selectivity.
11:15
OC11 - Structuring of Organic Materials for Application in Organocatalysis
Mrs Aimar GONZALO BARQUERO
NORMANDIE UNIVERSITÉ, Caen, France
Aimar Gonzalo Barquero was born in A Coruña (Spain). She obtained her Master’s degree in organic chemistry at Université de Caen Normandie (France) in 2020. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Thio-organique (LCMT) in Caen, France, under the supervision of Pr. Jacques Rouden. Her research is focused on the synthesis of supported organocatalysts for an application in asymmetric decarboxylation reactions.
11:30
OC12 - Lewis Base Catalysis Enables Efficient Nucleophilic Substitutions - Application Towards Bioactive Compounds
Prof. Peter HUY
ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY, Rostock, Germany
Peter Huy, born in 1980, is an associate professor for organic chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry at Rostock University since 2020. After his PhD with Prof. Hans-Guenther Schmalz (University of Cologne), he completed postdoctoral research projects with Prof. Ari Koskinen (Aalto University, Helsinki) and Prof. Benjamin List (MPI for carbon research, Muehlheim) and his habilitation from 2014 to 2020 with Prof. Uli Kazmaier (Saarland University). His research interests are dedicated towards organocatalysis with respect to nucleophilic substitutions, application of safer gas surrogates in transition metal catalysed transformations, green chemistry, mechanistic elucidations and the synthesis bioactive compounds like pharmaceuticals. Besides he is also engaged in the digitization of teaching by means of the YouTube channel @peterhuylab.
11:45
OC13 - Site Selective Gold(I)-Catalysed Benzylic C-H Amination via an Intermolecular Hydride Transfer to Triazolinediones
Mr Kevin BEVERNAEGE
UGENT, Gent, Belgium
Acquired his master degree in chemistry in 2019 at UGent under the supervision of Prof. Johan Winne.
His master thesis was focused on tandem functionalization of dienes as a rapid entry into N-heterocyclic scaffolds, for which he obtained the Dow Benelux Excellence in Science Award.
Currently he is a last year PhD under the supervision of Prof. Johan Winne with a focus on metal catalysed electrophilic aminations of non-activated substrates.
12:00
IL06 - GenoChemetic Diversification of Natural Products (Blending Synbio+ Synchem – The Best of Both Worlds)
Prof. Rebecca GOSS
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Rebecca Goss is a bioorganic chemist/chemical biologist with research interests in the biosynthesis of natural products at the chemical and genetic level. Research within the group focuses on natural products with important medicinal properties and in understanding how biosynthetically intriguing motifs within these compounds are assembled. From this vantage point the group harness individual enzymes as convenient tools for organic synthesis, and employ a combination of synthetic chemistry and synthetic biology to harness entire biosynthetic pathways in order to enable expeditious access to libraries of medicinally relevant compounds. These libraries may be used as tools to gain a greater understanding as to how the drug acts at the molecular level within the cell.
12:30
Session Chair
Prof. Erik VAN DER EYCKEN
KU LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium
14:00
PL06 - Going with the Flow – The Use of Continuous Processing in Organic Synthesis
Prof. Oliver KAPPE
UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, Graz, Austria
C. Oliver Kappe is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Graz (Austria) and Scientific Director of the Center of Continuous Flow Synthesis and Processsing (CC FLOW). He received his diploma (1989) and his doctoral (1992) degrees in organic chemistry from the University of Graz and after two postdoctoral stays (University of Queensland and Emory University) returned to Graz in 1996 to start his indepenent acacdemic career and was appointed Full Professor in 2011. For the past decade the focus of his research has been directed towards flow chemistry/microreaction technology, encompassing a wide variety of synthetic transformations and experimental techniques. His research group is actively involved in projects dealing with API synthesis and manufacturing, employing a number of different enabling and process intensification strategies.
14:45
IL07 - Synergistic Cooperation between Mechanistic Investigations and Catalysis: Towards Rational Design
EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry Young Investigator Award 2021
Prof. Monica H. PÉREZ-TEMPRANO
INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA (ICIQ), Tarragona , Spain
Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano obtained her PhD in 2011 at the University of Valladolid (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Espinet and Prof. Casares. In 2012, she joined the research group of Prof. Melanie Sanford at the University of Michigan. In 2015, she began her independent career as Junior Group Leader at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), and in 2022, she was promoted to Senior ICIQ Group Leader.
Her research group group is focused on using mechanisms as a priori tool for developing innovative and more sustainable first-row metal-catalyzed transformations. Her research career has been recognized with different awards and honors including her selection as one of the “Talented 12” of 2018 by Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the 2020 Young Investigator Group Leader Award by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry or the 2021 Young Investigator Award by the EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry. In addition, she is member of the International Advisory Board of Organometallics, Chem Catalysis and the Early Career Advisory Board of Chemistry – A European Journal.
15:15
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Session Chair
Prof. Hans-Günther SCHMALZ
UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, Cologne, Germany
15:45
AL02 - Secondary-Sphere Modification in Organocatalysis
EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry Young Investigator Award 2022
Dr Anat MILO
BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Anat Milo received her B.Sc./B.A. in Chemistry and Humanities from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, her M.Sc. from UPMC Paris with Bernold Hasenknopf, and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science with Ronny Neumann. Her postdoctoral studies at the University of Utah with Matthew Sigman focused on physical organic descriptors and data science approaches in chemistry. In the end of 2015 she joined the Department of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where her research group develops experimental, statistical, and computational strategies for identifying molecular design principles in catalysis and intercepting reactive intermediates in organocatalysis by second sphere interactions.
16:15
OC14 - Fine-Tuning Substrate-Catalyst Interactions for Boosting Enantioselectivity in Halogen-Bonding Catalysis
Ms Alica KEUPER
UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, Münster, Germany
The chemical career of Alica Keuper started in 2012 in Münster, the city where she is born. After her bachelor of science at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, she finished her master of science in March 2020 in the group of Prof. Olga Garcia Mancheño. Since May 2020 she is part of her group as a PhD candidate and work in the field of catalyst designs and applications in asymmetric halogen- and chalcogen-bond catalysis.
16:30
OC15 - Streamlining the Synthetic Manipulation of Complex Organic Molecules by Novel Solvent-Free Approaches: Focus on the Chemistry of Carbohydrates
Dr Serena TRABONI
UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II, Naples, Italy
Serena Traboni graduated in Chemical Sciences in 2014 at the University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy), where she also earned her Ph.D. in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Alfonso Iadonisi. During this period, she worked on the development and the application of novel strategies for the synthetic transformations of carbohydrates.
She also spent some research periods at the University of Münster (Münster, Germany), as a Ph.D. student (in 2016) and as a Postdoc (in 2018), collaborating with Prof. Bart Jan Ravoo on the chemical glycosylation of glass surfaces in micropattern.
Currently she holds a temporary Research Fellow position (Italian RTDa) at the University of Naples with a research focused on the development of innovative, simplified and more sustainable methods in organic synthesis, and with a particular interest in solvent-free reactions applicable to complex and valuable carbohydrate compounds.
16:45
OC16 - Synthesis of Nitrogen Containing-Heterocycles by Pd-Catalyzed Domino C-H Reactions
Dr Cédric SCHNEIDER
UNIVERSITY OF ROUEN, LABORATOIRE COBRA, Mont Saint Aignan, France
After a PhD thesis in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Peter Goekjian and Dr. David Gueyrard (ICBMS 5246, University of Lyon 1), and two post-doctoral experiences in the group of Pr Victor Snieckus (University of kingston, Canada) and Prof. Christophe Hoarau (University of Rouen-Normandie), Dr. Cédric Schneider was appointed in 2013 as Associate Professor in the group of Pr. Christophe Hoarau (Laboratory COBRA, UMR 6014, University of Rouen). His current research is focused on developing transition-metal catalyzed C-H activation methodologies for the functionalization and/or construction of heterocycles.
Session Chair
Prof. Alois FÜRSTNER
MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FUR KOHLENFORSCHUNG, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
17:00
Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry Ceremony
17:15
AL03 - Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry Lecture
Discovery and Application of Non-Heme Iron Enzymes for Biocatalysis
Prof. Michelle C. CHANG
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Berkeley, United States
Michelle is a professor at UC Berkeley in the Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She received her Ph.D. from MIT, working with JoAnne Stubbe and Daniel Nocera, and her postdoctoral training with Jay Keasling at UC Berkeley. She started her independent career in 2007 at UC Berkeley. Her research group works at the interface of enzymology and synthetic biology, with a focus on studying biological fluorine chemistry, enzymatic halogenation, and processes involved in developing synthetic biofuel and monomer pathways. She has received the Dreyfus New Faculty Award, TR35 Award, Beckman Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, Agilent Early Career Award, NIH New Innovator Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 3M Young Faculty Award, Arthur Cope Scholar Award, Pfizer Award, and RSC Centenary Prize.
18:00
Poster Session 2 (Even numbers)
19:30