Second International Symposium
Novel Agents against Infectious Diseases - An Interdisciplinary Approach
Würzburg, October 7 - 10, 2009
Location
Biocenter
Lecture Hall A101
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Program
Wednesday, October, 7
17:00 - 18.30 Registration
18.30 - 19.30 Public keynote talk Reto Brun, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel
Parasitic diseases - Current situation and new developments
Parasitic diseases - Current situation and new developments
19.30 - 21:00 Come together
Thursday, October, 8
9.00 – 9.15 WelcomeAlfred Forchel, President of the University of Würzburg
Gerhard Bringmann, Speaker of the SFB 630
Medicinal Chemistry
9.15 - 10.00 Serge Van Calenbergh, GentGerhard Bringmann, Speaker of the SFB 630
Medicinal Chemistry
Synthetic efforts to improve the antimalarial activity of fosmidomycin
10.00 - 10.45 Roderich Süssmuth, BerlinScreening for new natural products - what we learn from nature!
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
The nature of drugs
The Chemical Biology of Antibiotics
Jordi Mestres, Barcelona
Drug pharmacology in complex diseases
Drug pharmacology in complex diseases
Microbiology
14.15 - 14.45 Michael Steinert, BraunschweigNew drug targets in Legionella pneumophila
14.45 - 15.15 Wilma Ziebuhr, BelfastBiofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis: Clinical Impact, Molecular Epidemiology and Genome Flexibility
15.15 - 15.45 Peter Staib, JenaIdentification and analysis of pathogenicity mechanisms in dermatophytes
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break
Bioinformatics / Computer Aided Drug Design
16.15 - 17.00 Holger Gohlke, DüsseldorfSelectivity determinants of ribosomal antibiotic binding sites
17.00 - 17.45 Roderick Hubbard, YorkRecent Experiences in Fragment and Structure Based Drug Discovery
18.00 Poster Session
Friday, October, 9
Novel Strategies towards drug discovery
9.00 - 9.45 Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, Wuppertal Postgenomic strategies towards novel antibacterial agents
9.45 - 10.30 Ian Gilbert, DundeeApproaches to Drug Discovery for Neglected Tropical Diseases
Parasitology
11.00 - 11.45 Katja Becker, GießenRedox-based antimalarial drug development – an update
11.45 - 12.15 Gabriele Pradel, WürzburgMolecular basics for malaria transmission blocking strategies
12.15 - 12.45 Alicia Ponte-Sucre, CaracasLeishmaniasis, efforts for an effective chemotherapy
12.45 – 14.15 Lunch
13.00 - 14.15 "Plan Your Career" Luncheon:
PhD-Thesis - and then?
Lunch-Meeting for Students, PostDocs and Young Investigators
organized by SFB630 and Graduate School of Life Science, University Würzburg
organized by SFB630 and Graduate School of Life Science, University Würzburg
14.15 – 15.00 Oral Poster Presentations
Viral targets / Proteinases
15.00 - 15.45 Hans-Georg Kräusslich, HeidelbergHIV assembly and its inhibition
15.45 - 16.30 Rolf Hilgenfeld, LübeckCysteine proteases from RNA viruses and protozoa: Structure-assisted discovery of new antiinfectives
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break
Proteinases
17.00 - 17.45 Michael Blackman, LondonProtease drug targets in host cell invasion and egress by the malaria parasite
18.00 Guided tours
19.30 Dinner
Saturday, October, 10, 2009
Natural drug sources
9.00 - 9.45 Gabriele König, BonnNovel bacterial sources for antibiotics
9.45 - 10.30 Elke Dittmann, BerlinBiosynthetic Repertoire in Cyanobacterial Peptide Assembly - A Biotechnological Perspective
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
Pathogen prophylaxis, detection and treatment
11.00 - 11.30 Jürgen Popp, JenaPathogen dectection and identification by spectroscopic methods
11.30 - 12.15 Wolf D. Splettstößer, MünchenBioterrorism and infectious diseases related to BW agents: Currents concepts & future trends in prophylaxis and treatment
12.15 Closing Remarks