The 35th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

Sponsored by
Dr. Seemon H. Pines, Prof. Peter and Mrs. Sandra Beak, Dr. Terry M. Balthazor, Merck & Co. and the Obiter Company
Allerton Park, Saturday, November 4, 2023.

2023 Conference Schedule

8:00 a.m.	Check-in/Continental Breakfast
Session I:	CHELSEA SWARTCHICK, CHAIR
8:30 a.m.	Opening Remarks
8:50 a.m.	DR. ANASTASIA MANESIS Finding Metallo-treasure Within Microbial Genomes
9:20 a.m.	YUNYAN SUN (PROF. JEFFREY S. MOORE) The Tension Activated Carbon-Carbon Bond
9:40 a.m.	REBECCA ULRICH (PROF PAUL J. HERGENROTHER) Determining the physicochemical properties governing compound efflux in Gram-negative bacteria
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.	SVEN KASTER (PROF. M. CHRISTINA WHITE) Allylic C—H to C—O etherification enabled by electrophilic-metal and bifunctional counterion catalysis
11:10 a.m.	ZHENXIANG ZHAO (PROF. JEFF K.F. CHAN) Activity-based sensing reveals elevated labile copper activity during liver aging
11:30 a.m.	ARUN MAJI (PROF. MARTIN D. BURKE) Selective tuning of sterol extraction kinetics yields renal sparing antifungal
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:	TAREK EL SAYED, CHAIR
1:40 p.m.	CASEY OLEN (PROF. SCOTT E. DENMARK) Chemoinformatic Catalyst Selection Methods for the Optimization of Copper-Bis(oxazoline) Mediated, Asymmetric, Vinylogous Mukaiyama Aldol Reactions
2:00 p.m.	DANIEL HU (PROF. LIVIU M. MIRICA) Oxidatively-induced C-O Bond Formation via a Nickel(IV) Intermediate with Hydrogen Peroxide
2:20 p.m.	Poster Session II Poster session and snacks in the Gallery. Talks resume in the library at 3:10 p.m.
3:10 p.m.	ROBERTO SERRANO (PROF. DAVID SARLAH) Total Syntheses of Scabrolide A and Yonarolide
3:30 p.m.	DINH NGUYEN (PROF. WILFRED A. VAN DER DONK) Bioinformatic-guided discovery of a novel natural product biosynthesized by distinct classes of metalloenzymes
3:50 p.m.	STANLEY BRAM (PROF. ANGAD P. MEHTA) Directed Evolution in Mammalian Cells to Evolve Antibodies
4:10 p.m.	Break
4:25 pm	Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Seemon H. Pines Award, Verbanac Awards, and Terry Balthazor Awards

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 than 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.