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We cordially invite you to our 10th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium on May 7 and 8, 2025 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The conference will be held in presence only.
Program, as pdf
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
16:00-17:00 Registration, Coffee and Snacks
Evening Lecture, Chair: Ludger WessjohannÂÂ
17:00 - 18:00 Keynote: Young Hae Choi, Leiden University, The Netherlands
NMR-based metabolomics for chemical fingerprinting and profiling of medicinal plants:
a platform for bioactivity-prediction
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
Session I Natural Product Synthesis, Chair: Bernhard Westermann
09.00 - 09.45 Philipp Heretsch, Leibniz University Hannover
Navigating the landscape of cycloartane-derived carbocations
09.50 - 10.35 Fabian Pfrengle, BOKU University Vienna, Austria
Synthetic carbohydrate chemistry as a basis for plant cell wall biosynthesis
and immunity research
-- Coffee Break --------------------------------
Session II Specialized Metabolism, Chair: Mohamed Nagia
11:00 - 11:45 Fanny Roussi, CNRS Paris-Saclay, France
Specialized plant metabolites: an invaluable gem for medicinal chemistry
and chemical biology
11:50 - 12:35 Lena Barra, University of Konstanz, Germany
Natural product and enzyme discovery in non-canonical biosynthetic pathways
-- Lunch Break --------------------------------
Session III Natural product discoveries in the spotlight of AI, Chair: Mehdi Davari
13:30 - 14:15 Nadine Ziemert, University of Tübingen, Germany
Deciphering bacterial natural product diversity through computational genomics
14:20 - 15:05 Eric Helfrich, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Artificial intelligence-based expansion of natural product biosynthetic space
-- Coffee Break -----------------------------------------------
Session IV Biosynthetic Enzymes, Chair: Martin Dippe
15:30 - 16:15 Robert Kourist, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Enzyme engineering for the synthesis of biobased olefins
16:20 - 17:05 Rebecca Goss, University of St. Andrews, UK
Precision modification of natural products: Engineering biology meets synthetic chemistry
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Event location
Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsökonomien (IAMO)Vortragssaal
Theodor-Lieser-Straße 2
06120 Halle (Saale)
Deutschland
Coordinates (lat, long):
51.495415, 11.937938
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