Programme Defining Workshop, Madrid 2006

The second ERA-Chemistry Programme Defining Workshop was held from 13-17 March 2006 at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. The programme, a list of participants and more information on this workshop can be found below:

Programme
Participants
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Abstracts:

Monday 13 March 2006

Asymmetric Reaction Cascades in Aqueous Media
Reko LEINO, Abo, Finland


Use of a furan moiety as masked reactive functionality for crosslinking purposes
Annemieke MADDER, Gent, Belgium

Development of Stereo-Controlled Synthetic Tools for Biological Problems
Emmanuel LACOTE, Paris, France

Enantionselective Synthesis of Polysubstituted Piperidine Derivatives from Chiral Bicyclic Lactams. The evolution of a Strategy
Carmen ESCOLANO, Barcelona, Spain

Stereoselective Synthesis and Application of Chiral Macrocycles
Nick GATHERGOOD, Dublin, Ireland

New strategies for the synthesis of polyketide derivatives of biological interest
Sandrine GERBER, Lausanne, Switzerland

Asymmetric Synthesis under High-Pressure Conditions Catalyzed by Chiral (Salen)Chromium and Cobalt Complexes
Piotr KWIATOWSKI, Poznan, Poland

Organocatalytic Tools for Asymmetric Synthesis
Petro PIHKO, Helsinki, Finland

Stereochemical aspects of biocatalytic routes to enantiopure alcohols
Wolfgang KROUTIL, Graz, Austria

Artificial DNAzymes - DNA as Scaffold for New Bioinspired Catalytic Systems
Gerard ROELFES, Groningen, the Netherlands

Tuesday 14?March 2006

Synthetic Natural Products and Their Application in Chemical Biology and Materials Science
Karl GADEMANN, Zurich,Switzerland

Whole-Cell Mediated Biooxygenation as Tool in Synthetic Chemistry
Marko MIHOVILOVIC, Vienna, Austria

Isoprenoid Biosynthesis through the Methylerythritol Phospate Pathway the (E)-4-Hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl Diphospate Synthase (GcpE/IspG) and the (E)-4-Hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl Diphospate Reductase (LytB/IspH) are two [4Fe-4S] Proteins
Myriam SEEMANN, Strasbourg, France

Biosynthetic and Mechanistic Investigations of Two Enzymatic Ring Contractions
Stephane VINCENT, Namur, Belgium

New Methods for the Synthesis of Tool Coumpounds in Chemical Biology
Rolf BREINBAUER, Leipzig, Germany

Strategic Syntheses for Studies Involving Protein Carbohydrate Interactions
Roland PIETERS, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Chemical and Genetical Approaches to Sstudy and Modulate DNA Polymerase Selectivity
Andreas MARX, Konstanz, Germany

Wednesday 15?March 2006

The Search for Biological Activity Through Compound Library Synthesis-Screening: From Flat to Three Dimensional Molecules (and Vice-Versa)
David GRIERSON, Paris, France

Mimicking Biology: Rationally Designed Synthetic Ligands with Affinity for Biomolecules
Cecilia ROQUE, Lisbon, Portugal

The Specific Interaction of Carbohydrates with Proteins. Stereochemical, Conformational, and Dynamical Implications of the Binding Processes
Jesus JIMENEZ BARBERO, Madrid, Spain

Synthetic Peptides as Chemical Tools for Studying Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interactions
Eugenio VASQUEZ, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Thursday 16 March 2006

Natural Product Synthesis and Stereoselectivity
Christopher MAYCOCK, Oeiras, Portugal

Syntheses of Unusual Amino Acids and Peptides as Potential Drug Candidates
Uli KAZMAIER, Saarbruken, Germany

Progress in the Total Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products
Johann MULZER, Vienna, Austria

Conformational Control in Stereoselective Synthesis of Natural Products and Related Targets
Ari KOSKINEN, Helsinki, Finland

Synthesis of complex natural products
Markus KALESSE, Hannover, Germany

Chemical diversity through biotransformations
Michael MOLLER, Freiburg, Germany

Chiral Auxiliaries-Assisted Reactions: From Stoichiometric Reactions to Catalytic Enantioselective Processes
Claudio PALOMO NICOLAU, San Sebastian, Spain

Kinetic Resolution of Amines
Charles MIOSKOWKI, Strasbourg, France

Chemo-enzymatic Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Structural Motifs
Floris RUTJES, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Chemical Glycomics: Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis as Platform for Biological and Medical Research
Peter SEEBERGER, Zurich, Switzerland

Towards the Total Synthesis of the C1-C6 and C7-C11 Fragments of (+)-Peloruside A
Johan VAN DER EYCKEN, Gent, Belgium

Friday 17?March 2006

Carbohydrates in Organic Chemistry: Piperidines, Uronic acids and Sugar Amino Acids
Hermen OVERKLEEFT, Leiden, The Netherlands

Pyranoside and iminosugar scaffolding as a basis for the development of peptidomimetics
Paul MURPHY, Dublin, Ireland

Solid-phase synthesis of glycoconjugates: potential agents for cell-type recognition
Harri LONNBERG, Turku, Finland

Syntheses and Applications of cyclic B-amino acids
Ferenc FULOP, Szeged, Hungary

New Organic Chemistry of Sulfur Dioxide: New Reactions, New Reagents, Total Asymmetric Synthesis of Polypropionate Antibiotics
Pierre VOGEL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Macrocyclization and Folding
Jacek GAWRONSKI, Poznan, Poland

Conformational Screening of Biopolymers and Biomolecular Assemblies
M. HOLLOSI, Budapest, Hungary

Efficient and Connective Methodologies for the Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Istvan MARKO, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium