| The aim of the conference is to discuss trends, present recent results, and exchange ideas related to key aspects of natural products research. During the conference, ample opportunity will be provided for PhD-students and young post-doctoral researchers to meet internationally acknowledged researchers in their field, and to exchange thoughts on the chemistry of compounds from medicinal plants, food crops, or other natural sources. Main congress themes are:
- Biopharming
- crops as drug-producing bioreactors
- Discovery of lead compounds for drug development
- High-throughput screening
- Synergistic effects in herbal drugs
- Novel developments in drug identification
- In vitro and in vivo bioactivity assays
The scientific programme includes plenary lectures and contributed papers in the form of both oral and poster presentations. It is currently planned to include 9 plenary lectures (40 min), about thirty oral lectures (20 min) and two poster sessions. A summary of the plenary and contributed (oral and poster) presentations will appear in the Book of Abstracts.
Programme
SUNDAY 11 APRIL
18:00 - 20:00
Registration and informal get-together
The Criterion - Free House , 44 Millstone Lane , Leicester , LE1 5JN
MONDAY - 12 APRIL
Leicester School of Pharmacy - Hawthorn Building
08:00 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 - 10:30
Opening ceremony
10:30 11:30
KN-1 - Dr Lydia Smith (National Institute of Agricultural Botany)
Field crops for the production of speciality chemicals
11:30 - 11:45
SL-1 Rolinde Demeyer ( Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research , Belgium )
Exploiting the natural variation of Arabidopsis thaliana for the production
of recombinant proteins
11:45 - 12:00
SL-2 Caroline Howard (De Montfort University , UK )
PlantID A System for the Identification of M ed icinal Plant Material by
DNA Profiling
12:00 13:30
Lunch, poster viewing
13:30 14:30
KN-2 - Dr Colin Hill (Botanical Developments Ltd)
Industrial scale extraction methods for pharmaceuticals from natural sources
14:30 - 14:45
SL-3 Ronan Batista (Univers ida de Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Brazil)
The influence of the alkaloid-enrich ed extract from the pods of Prosopis juliflora
on ruminal digestion
14:45 - 15:00
SL-4 Jaroslav Havlik (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic)
Passage of plant-deriv ed antimicrobial into honey and larvae of honey be e
(Apis mellifera) after administration, for possible american foulbrood treatment .
15:00 15:30
Coffee/Tea, poster viewing
15:30 15:45
SL-5 Giovanna Delogu (C.N.R. Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Italy )
Preparation of cyclodextrin complexes with natural products for application
in post-harvest treatment
15:45 - 16:00
SL-6 Yasin Genç ( Hacettepe University , Turkey )
Bioassay Guid ed Studies on Plantago major subsp. Major
Free evening
TUESDAY - 13 APRIL
9:00 -10:00
KN-3 - Professor Elizabeth Williamson ( University of Reading )
Synergy in m ed icinal herbs and herbal extracts
10:00 - 10:15
SL- 7 Susana M. Cardoso (Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal)
Northeast Portuguese Propolis protects against neurotoxic events in cerebral
cor tical neurons
10:15 - 10:30
SL-8 Corrinne Burns (De Montfort University, UK)
Self-medication with Artemisia annua L .
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee/Tea poster viewing
11:00 12:00
KN-4 - Professor Monique Simmonds (Birk be ck University of London)
The role of ethobotany in modern drug development
12:00 - 12:15
SL-9 Jalifah Latip ( Universiti Kebangsaan , Malaysia )
The
potential of oligostilbenoids of Dipterocarpaceae as anti-MRSA agent
12:15 - 12:30
SL-10 Enitome Evi Bafor (University of Benin, Nigeria)
In vitro Tocolytic activity of the partition ed aqueous fraction of the leaves of
Anthocleista djalonesis A Chev. (Loganiaceae)
12:30 - 14:00
Phytochemical Society of Europe - AGM
Lunch, poster viewing
14:00 15:00
KN-5 - Dr Colin Wright ( University of Bradford )
Development of novel plant based antimalarials
15:00 - 15:15
SL-11 R.M. Borges (Univers ida de F ed eral do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil )
Comparison of adjuvant potential of QS21-containing saponin and CA3 and
CA4 saponins from Chiococca alba (L.) in murine vaccination against visceral
leishmaniasis with FML antigen .
15:15 - 15:30
SL-12 Ketan C Ruparelia (De Montfort University, UK)
Artemisinin-Chalcone hybrid preparation as potential Antitumour Prodrugs 22
15:30 16:30
Coffee/ Tea, poster viewing
16:30 16 :45
SL-13Trixie Ann Bartholomeusz (Université de Lausanne/ Université de Genève ,
Switzerland )
Antiprotozoal Activity of Tropane Alkaloid Derivatives
16 :45 - 17 :00
SL-14 Hamisi M. Malebo (Kenyatta University, Kenya)
Antiplasmodial aporphine and proto berberine alkaloids from Annickia
kummeriae (Engl. & Diels) Setten & Maas (Annonaceae)
20:00 23:00
Conference dinner
Feast India
WEDNESDAY - 14 APRIL
9:00 -10:00
KN-6 - Professor Mike Beale (Met-RO Rothamst ed )
Metabolomics as a tool in plant secondary products research
10:00 - 10:15
Nadine Bohni (Université de Lausanne/ Université de Genève , Switzerland )
High-throughput analysis of novel metabolites from co-cultur ed human
pathogenic fungi using HPLC-MS offline coupl ed to microflow-NMR
10:15 - 10:30
Zhong Cheng (De Montfort University, UK)
The tangeretin metabolite 4-hydroxytetramethoxyflavone is a novel inhibitor
of S6 kinase phosphorylation which attenuates cell cycle progression in
hepatocytes
10:30 -11:00
Coffee/Tea poster viewing
11:00 12:00
KN-7 - Dr Paul Kroon (IFR, Norwich )
Metabolism and health effects of dietary polyphenols
12:00 - 12:15
Supattra Rungsimakan ( University of Bath )
Phenylpropanoid glycosides from Salvia horminum L.
12:15 - 12:30
Didem Söhretoglu ( Hacettepe University , Turkey )
Pharmacognosical investigations of some Geranium species
12:30 - 12:45
Abdul Wahe ed ( Kingston University , UK )
Anti-proliferative activity of Arisaema flavum against estrogen-responsive human
breast cancer cells (MCF-7); structure eluc ida tion of isolat ed compounds
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch, poster viewing
14:00 15:00
PL 8 - Prof Satya Sarker ( University of Wolverhampton )
Current trends in phytochemical analysis.
15:00 15:30
Conference closing
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