Introduction

Welcome to this free webinar sponsored by Natural Product Reports to recognise our 2023 Emerging Investigator Lectureship winner, Christine Beemelmanns.

Join Professor Beemelmanns and NPR Editorial Board member Professor Eriko Takano, as they present their latest research with an introduction by NPR Executive Editor Katie Lim. This 90-minute webinar will allow researchers of all professional levels to connect to some of the leading minds in natural product research.

Speakers:

• Professor Christine Beemelmanns (Helmholtz Institute of Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany)
• Professor Eriko Takano (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

Programme

14:00 GMT  Introduction by Katie Lim

14:10 GMT  Talk by Professor Eriko Takano (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Talk title: "Harnessing microbial synthetic biology: the next steps"

14:40 GMT  Talk by Professor Christine Beemelmanns (Helmholtz Institute of Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany)
Talk title: "Ecology-guided natural product discovery approaches: lessons from studying symbiotic interactions"

15:25 GMT  Closing remarks

Useful links

• NPR Emerging Investigator Lectureship

Speakers

Professor Christine Beemelmanns, Helmholtz Institute of Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany

Christine has been a full Professor in Medicinal-Pharmaceutical Microbiota Research at the Helmholtz Institute of Pharmaceutical Research Saarland since 2022.
 
Her research projects focus on the chemical and functional analysis of co-evolved microbial interactions. Her group combines natural product chemistry with applied microbiology and molecular biology to identify important microbial natural products from these symbiotic communities that are composed of unprecedented chemical core structures and display pharmacological important activities.

https://www.beemelmanns-lab.de/

Professor Eriko Takano, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Eriko has been the Professor of Synthetic Biology in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Manchester since 2012.
 
She is internationally recognised as a pioneer in the synthetic biology of microbes for antibiotic production and her research interests are in bioinformatics software development for designing natural products producers; untargeted metabolomics for chassis engineering in Streptomyces; secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathway assembly; and regulatory circuit engineering through signalling molecules and non-coding RNAs.

https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/eriko.takano

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Venue

United Kingdom

Organised by

Natural Product Reports

Royal Society of Chemistry

Contact information

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