A collaboration-building workshop supported by ScotCHEM, SULSA, and IBioIC.
Sir Duncan Rice Library, The University of Aberdeen, Bedford Road, Aberdeen AB24 3AA.
An excellent opportunity to network with professionals from different disciplines and backgrounds.
Areas of Interest:
- Natural products chemistry
- Microbiology
- Metabolomics
- Genome mining
- Synthetic biology
- Fermentation
Highlights:
- Talks from industrialists, academics and funders.
- 3x £5K industry-academia seed funding call – you must attend to be eligible.
- Academic partners must be SULSA or ScotCHEM members.
- Access to £15k IBioIC industry-academia funding.
- Academic partners must be based in Scotland.
- Structured networking
- Oral presentations
- Future directions workshop
- Poster session (you may use pre-existing posters)
Programme
10.30 – 10.50 Coffee and Registration
10.50 – 11.00 Welcome and Introductions
Dr Bill MacDonald, CEO, ScotCHEM
11.00 – 11.20 Prof Marcel Jaspars – University of Aberdeen
Modifying and Utilising Natural Products from Extremophiles
11.20 – 11.40 Dr Sharon Versteeg – Scientist, Ingenza
11.40 – 12.00 Dr Daniel Swan – NCIMB
NCIMB’s culture collection as a resource for natural product discovery
12:00 – 12:15 Six selected flash presentations (two minutes each)
12.15 – 13.00 Structured speed networking
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and ECR poster session
14.00 – 14.20 Dr Karl Burgess – University of Edinburgh
Applications of Metabolomics in Natural Product Analysis and Development
14.20 – 14.40 Neil Parry – Unilever
Building the biobased supply chains – examples from Homecare and the future material demands
14.40 – 15.00 Prof Rebecca Goss – University of St Andrews
15.00 – 15.20 Dr Nicola Crowhurst, GSK
Strain Improvement for Antibiotic Production
15.20 – 15.40 Dr Dianne Irwin, Syngenta
Using natural products to invent new chemicals for crop protection
15.40 – 16.00 Dr Matthew Reeves, KTN
Accessing the UK innovation ecosystem
16.00 – 17.00 Future directions workshop
Chair: Prof Cherry Wainwright, Robert Gorden University
Themes
- NP applications – Unilever
- Existing strain collections (CCAP/NCIMB) – Dr A. Lawrence
- NP database and platforms for analysis – Dr K. Duncan
- Comparative metabolomics and genomics methods for accelerated natural products prioritization – Dr G. MacDougal, Dr W. Alwood
- Biological-activity screening – Prof C. Wainwright
Within your topic, please suggest areas of opportunity and the actions needed to address them.
The opportunity – 20mins
- Where are the technical opportunities?
- Where are the funding opportunities?
Who can provide solutions? – 20mins
- Which community, or communities, should address these opportunities?
- How should the community be constituted? How should it communicate? Which capabilities do we need?
- What does success look like?
What actions can be taken? – 15min
- What action should be taken to address these opportunities? The research pools have resources to support this.
- Are there areas opportunity not addressed by our 5 themes?
17.00-17.10 Closing remarks
17.10-18.00 Drinks reception
Co-organisers
- Dr Scott Lilley (ScotCHEM, University of St Andrews)
- Dr Katherine Duncan (University of Strathclyde)
- Dr Steven Asiala (IBioIC)
- Dr William MacDonald (ScotCHEM, University of St Andrews)
- Dr Andrew Lawrence (University of Edinburgh)
- Dr Allison Jackson (SULSA, University of Glasgow)
- Jill Inkster (SULSA, University of Glasgow)
- Dr Hai Deng (University of Aberdeen)
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