The 29th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area 
ALLERTON CONFERENCE

Sponsored by
Dr. Seemon H. Pines, Prof. Peter and Mrs. Beak, and Merck & Co.  
Allerton Park, Saturday, November 7, 2015

Conference Schedule

8:00 a.m.

Check-in/Continental Breakfast
Session I: Kenton Hetrick, Chair
8:40 a.m.

Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.

Long Luu (Prof. Zimmerman)
Toward the in vivo, On-Target Synthesis of Therapeutic Agents for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: Development of the RNA-Catalyzed Alkyne-Azide Cycloaddition
9:20 a.m.

Michelle Richter (Prof. Hergenrother)
Strategic Analysis of the Physicochemical Properties that Enable Small-Molecule Accumulation in Gram-Negative Bacteria
9:40 a.m.

Shannon Walsh (Prof. Silverman)
Phosphorylation of Peptide Side Chains by DNA Catalysts
10:00 a.m.

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

Emma Southgate (Prof. Sarlah)
Dearomative Functionalization with Arenophiles
11:10 a.m.

Jennifer Griffin (Prof. White)
A Highly Reactive and Chemoselective Manganese Catalyst for Intramolecular C(sp3)—H Amination
11:30 a.m.

Zhao Wu (Prof. Hull)
Rhodium-Catalyzed Chemo- and Stereo- Selective Amide Bond Formation
11:50 a.m.

Lunch in the Main Dining Room-Group I
Tables will be assigned to each person previously. Tables will be seated and called to go through buffet
12:40 p.m.

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

Brenda Andrade, Chair
1:40 p.m.

Anna Yang (Prof. Moore)
Syntheses of 3D Cages Using Alkyne Metathesis
2:00 p.m.

Anna SantaMaria (Prof. Burke)
Restoring Physiology in Iron-Deficient Organisms with a Small Molecule
2:20 p.m.

Andy Thomas (Prof. Denmark)
Unraveling the Transmetalation Event in the Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction
2:40p.m.

Poster Session II
Poster session and snacks in the Gallery. Talks resume in the library at 3:40 p.m.
3:40 p.m.

Hao Li (Prof. Chan)
Beyond Optical Imaging: Development of Acoustogenic Probes for Deep-Tissue Analyte Detection
4:00 p.m.

Xiling Zhao (Prof. van der Donk)
Lanthipeptides from the Anaerobe Ruminococcus Flavefaciens FD-1
4:20 p.m.

Jonathan Tietz (Prof. Mitchell)
Reactivity-Based, Genome-Guided Natural Product Discovery
4:40 pm

Break
5:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Seemon H. Pines Award

 

The annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference is held at beautiful Allerton Park, an English-style estate located approximately 20 miles southwest of Champaign. At this conference one student from each organic chemistry research group presents his/her work in the old library of the Robert Allerton House. Two more students from each group present their work in the form of a poster. Lunch is enjoyed in the grand dining hall, and after lunch free time is used to wander through the more then 5,000 acres of forest and prairie along the Sangamon River. The park features formal English gardens and over 100 outdoor sculptures. At the end of the day, the Seemon Pines award is given to the most outstanding presentation.