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Building natural products

Learn about the Discover BMB 2024 symposium on advances in natural products biochemistry and technology
Yi Tang Katherine Ryan
By Yi Tang and Katherine Ryan
Sept. 11, 2023

Natural products are molecules produced by living organisms and include some of our most powerful drugs. Emerging discoveries in this field have allowed scientists to deepen our understanding of how natural products are assembled and how they can be harnessed for widespread applications.

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This program at Discover BMB 2024 is focused on recent advances in natural product biochemistry and biotechnology. The first session focuses on the emerging area of natural products from higher eukaryotes and animals; the second session focuses on natural products from microbiomes and symbionts; and the final session focuses on the biochemistry and biotechnology of natural product genome mining.

We’ll hear about the amazing discoveries in this field, some of which were powered by major technological advances. We’ll also hear how discoveries in natural products biochemistry are now in turn powering new applications in biotechnology related to biocatalysis, agriculture and sustainable chemical production.

Keywords: Natural products, biocatalysis, microbiome.

Who should attend: Anyone interested in natural products, biocatalysis, the microbiome or the future of biotechnology.

Theme song: “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane

This session is powered by alkaloids.

Advances in natural products biochemistry and technology

Natural products from higher eukaryotes and animals

Chair: Yi Tang

Bradley MooreUniversity of California, San Diego

Rebecca ButcherUniversity of Florida
Emily DerbyshireDuke University

Jing-Ke WengWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Natural products from microbiomes and symbionts

Chair: Katherine Ryan

Jason CrawfordYale University

Nancy KellerUniversity of Wisconsin—Madison

Alessandra EustaquioUniversity of Illinois Chicago

Mohammad SeyedsayamdostPrinceton University

Biochemistry and biotechnology of natural product genome mining

Chair: Alessandra Eustaquiol

Jamie LinkPrinceton University

Katherine RyanUniversity of British Columbia

Gerald WrightMcMaster University

Yi TangUniversity of California, Los Angeles

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Yi Tang
Yi Tang

Yi Tang is a chancellor professor in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department at UCLA.

Katherine Ryan
Katherine Ryan

Katherine Ryan is a professor in the chemistry department at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

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