The Twenty-Sixth Annual Organic Area Allerton Conference

Sponsored by

Dr. Seeman H. Pines and Merck & Co.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Conference Schedule

8:00 a.m.

Check-in/Continental Breakfast

Session I:

Patrick Knerr, Chair

8:40 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m.

Amin Jahromi (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)
Single Molecule Study of the CUG Repeat: MBNLl Interaction and Its Inhibition by Small Molecules

9:20 a.m.

David Kornfilt (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)
Catalytic, Enantioselective Thiooxyfunctionalization of Alkenes

9:40 a.m.

Timothy Flood (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)
Chemoinformatic Approaches to Quantifying Structural Complexity and Diversity

10:00 a.m.

Poster Session I
Break for poster session in the Gallery with snacks and coffee
Talks will resume in the library at 10:50 a.m.

10:50 a.m.

Noah Bindman (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)
The Site-Specific Fluorescent Labeling of Lanthipeptides

11:10 a.m.

Shauna Paradine (Prof. M. Christina White)
A Highly Chemoselective Intramolecular Allylic C - H Amination under Iron Catalysis

11:30 a.m.

Kyle Dunbar (Prof. Douglas A. Mitchell)
Characterization of Azoline Biogenesis in Ribosomal Peptide Natural Products: Substrate Handling and Mechanism

11:50 a.m.

Lunch in the Main Dining Room
Tables will be assigned to each person previously. Tables will be seated and called to go through the buffet.

Session II:

Noah Bindman, Chair

1:20 p.m.

Dr. Nicole Okeley, Seattle Genetics
Empowered Antibodies for Cancer Therapy

2:00 p.m.

Dr. Kami Hull, University of Illinois
Streamlining the Synthesis of Organic Molecules: Transition Metal-Catalyzed Approaches to Traditional Bond Disconnections

2:20 p.m.

Poster Session II
Poster session and snacks in the Gallery.
Talks will resume in the library at 3:10 p.m.

3:10 p.m.

Brandon Wilcock (Prof. Martin D. Burke)
Synthesis Illuminates Amphotericin B Function, and Vice Versa

3:30 p.m.

Victor Dokukin (Prof. Scott K. Silverman)
Lanthanide Ions as Required Cofactors for DNA Catalysts

3:50 p.m.

James Herbison (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)
A Facile Route to Alternating Arylene-Ethynylene Macrocycles via Depolymerization of o-Phenylene-Ethynylene Copolymers

4:10 p.m.

Break

4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Seemon Pines Award