The conference aims to bring together established and early-career researchers, post-graduate students and industry scientists to network and share the latest research on the various aspects of biosynthesis. This event will also provide careers consultations for all meeting attendees from a professional advisor for the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

Selected Speakers

• Christine Beemelmanns, Saarland University, Germany
• Greg Challis, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
• Lou Charkoudian, Haverford College, United States
• Jon Clardy, Harvard Medical School, United States
• Fumitaka Kudo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Marnix Medema, Wageningen University, Netherlands
• Anne Osbourn, John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
• Eriko Takano, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Christian Hertweck, Hans Knöll Institut, Germany
• Tiangang Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Stephen Wallace, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Topics

• Genetics, enzymology and structural biology of natural product biosynthesis
• Genome and microbiome mining, microbiome engineering
• Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
• Chemical ecology and computational approaches for assessing natural products/enzyme functional diversity
• Industrial applications of natural products and biosynthetic enzymes