RSC Organic Division Ireland Regional Meeting 2016

Introduction

9:50 Welcome and opening remarks

10:00-10:30 Dr. Robert Elmes (Maynooth University) Receptors and Sensors: Can we target the tumour microenvironment?

10:30-11:00 Dr. Eoghan McGarrigle (University College Dublin) Stereoselective Glycosylations

11-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:00 Dr. Fawaz Aldabbagh (National University of Ireland, Galway) Adventures in the Synthesis of Annulated Heterocyclic Quinone Anti-Cancer Agents

12:00-12:30 Dr. Joanna McGouran (University of Dublin, Trinity College) Protein modification to unravel biological function

12:30-2:00 Lunch and Posters

2:00-2:30 Dr. Gerard McGlacken (University College Cork) 1, 2 and 3 chiral centres in the one pot

2:30-3:00 Prof. Marc Devocelle (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) Antimicrobial Peptides: prodrugs and peptidomimetics

3:00-3:30 Dr Jerard Hayes (University of Dublin, Trinity College) Glycosylation of Fc gamma receptors-The key to IgG biological activity

3:30-4:15 Coffee and Posters

4:15-5:15 2016 Tilden Prize Lecture, Professor Véronique Gouverneur,
University of Oxford

5:15-6:00 pm Wine reception and poster prize