Plenary Speakers

Professor Richard Taylor (York University, York) is currently Professor of Organic Chemistry at York University. He did his PhD with Dr Neville Jones at the University of Sheffield, after which he spent postdoctoral periods in the US working on prostaglandins and in the UK at the University College London on the synthesis of novel bicyclic annulenes. Professor Taylor has won a number of awards the most recent being the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry) in 2008. He was also the inaugural president of the Organic Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor Stephen Pyne (Wollongong University, Sydney) did his PhD with Prof. Lew Mander at the Australian National University in 1979 on giberellic acid synthesis. He did post-doctoral fellowships with Prof. Phil Fuchs (Purdue) and Prof. E. J. Corey (Harvard). In 1985 he was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Wollongong and Professor of Chemistry in 1998. He has held visiting Professorships at Marburg sand Strasbourg Universities and he has been a Von Humboldt Fellow, a Rhone Poulenc Fellow and an ARC Senior Research Fellow. He received the Young Researcher of the Year Award for 1992 (offered by the Australian Research Council & the von Humboldt Foundation). His main research interests are natural product synthesis, natural products chemistry, especially alkaloids, drug design and synthesis and fullerene chemistry. 

Professor Ernest Giralt (University of Barcelona, Spain) is currently a scientific researcher at de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona-Parc Científic de Barcelona. His current research involves peptide synthesis directed towards protein-surface recognition. Much of his research is also directed towards the use of NMR spectroscopy as a virtual screening aid.

Professor Anthony Barrett is currently the Sir Derek Barton Professor of Synthesis, Glaxo Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director of the Wolfson Centre for Organic Chemistry in Medical Science in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London.  His research group is carrying out research on the total synthesis of bioactive natural products, cancer medicinal chemistry, heterocyclic compounds, organometallic compounds, macrocyclic ethers and lactones and porphyrazine imaging agents. The team is additionally investigating the use of catalysis in organic synthesis with focus on hydroamination and related transformations.

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