Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry 2017

Bern, Sunday 12 February 2017

Final programm of the LS2 Satellite Meeting "Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry"

 

The scientific program will take place in room S379, the lunch/coffee breaks infront of EG16!

09:00 - 09:25   Registration at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freiestrasse 3, Bern, infront of EG16
09:25 - 09:30

Welcome (Meeting chair: Alexander Adibekian (UNIGE), Organizer: Carolin von Schoultz)

Session I  
09:30 - 11:00

6 student talks (10' plus 5' questions)

Luke Duncan (La Trobe University, AU)

"Elaboration of a Benzofuran Scaffold for the Fragment Based Drug Design of a Novel Class of Antivirulence Compounds"

M. Yağız Ünver (University of Groningen (NED))

"In situ Ugi four-component reaction for the protein-templated identification of inhibitors of endothiapepsin"

Marie Wiechert (University of Kiel (GER))

"Mechanism of formate-nitrite transporters by dielectric shift of substrate acidity"

Mariana Gonzalez-Medina (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (MEX))

"Consensus Diversity Plots: A Complete Diversity Analysis of Chemical Libraries for Drug Discovery"

Gordon Brown (University of Geneva (CH))

"Double Fluorogenic Localisable Calcium Sensors"

Sandra Glasmacher (University of Bern (CH))

"Peptide endocannabinoids and their emerging role as CB receptor modulators"

   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12.15

3 student talks (10' plus 5' questions)

Serafina Calarco (University of Bern (CH))

"Development and synthesis of a COX-2 selective “clickable” probe"

Mateja Klika Skopic (TU Dortmund (GER))

"Synthesis of Hexathymidine DNA-Heterocycle Conjugates by a Au(I)-Mediated Multicomponent Reaction – Access to DNA-Encoded Heterocycle Screening Libraries"

 Jonas Wilbs (EPF Lausanne (CH))

"Development of a peptide macrocycle FXII inhibitor for safe anticoagulation therapy"

   
12:15 - 13:00

3 talks from young academics (Postdocs/Assistant professors from GER) 

(10' plus 5' questions)

Pierre Koch (University of Tübingen (GER))

"Pyridinylimidazoles as covalent inhibitors of c-Jun N-terminal kinase 3"

 

Daniel Merk (Goethe University Frankfurt (GER))

"Facing non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with multi-target agents"

 

Steffen Lüdeke (University of Freiburg (GER))

"Controlling Regio- and Stereochemistry as a Probe for Enzymatic Bispecificity"

   
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
   
Session II  
14:00 - 14:45

Scientific writing & Scientific publishing (pitfalls and tips)

  Dr. David Peralta, Managing Editor, ChemMedChem
  For this session, please bring a sample title and abstract of your work with you!
   
14:45 - 15:30 Q&A session about "Career paths in Academia" with Alexander Adibekian (UNIGE), Jürg Gertsch (UNIBE), and the young academics
   
Afterwards Coffee break / Transition to the beginning of the main meeting in the same building