Chemistry-RACI
Stories for the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s 13th International Convention and the 12th IUPAC International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry held in Melbourne from 4-8 July 2010.
We supported by the Commonwealth Government’s National Enabling Technologies Strategy (NETS) and delivered a media program for the event.
The events’ major sponsors were: Croplife International, Nufarm, Syngenta and Sigma Aldrich.
Visit the conference website at http://www.raci2010.org/
Designing new dual action antibiotics
RACI Symposium – Antibacterials, Monday 9:00am
John Bremner, University of Wollongong
Matthew Cooper, University of Queensland
Multidrug resistant bacteria are a major health issue around the world and new effective drugs are clearly urgently needed.
John Bremner and his colleagues are presenting their approach to creating new antibiotics to fight against drug resistant strains of golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus) and other pathogens. They’ve created synthetic antibiotics inspired by vancomycin.
And Mathew Cooper and his colleagues at the University of Queensland have developed a novel strategy of linking an out-of-patent antibiotic, vancomycin, to small protein fragments to produce a new class of anti-bacterials.
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IUPAC Plenary One & Two Monday 9:45am
Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPICOE)
A native desert tobacco is revealing its secret weapons to chemist Ian Baldwin from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPICOE) in Jena, Germany.
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RACI Plenary Two Tuesday 2:15pm
Steve Haswell, University of Hull
A hand-held DNA testing device developed by UK scientists is set to change the way forensic analysis of DNA is conducted.
Normally, DNA samples have to be transported back to the lab and need trained people using expensive instruments to conduct the analysis. Steve Haswell and his team at the University of Hull have developed the lab-on-a-chip technology that will reduce the time it takes to produce results from days to hours.
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DNA fingerprinting in just two hours
The plant whisperer – asking plants how they fight disease
New antibiotics on their way
We’re living 30 years longer with chemistry
Today’s stories from Chemistry for a Sustainable World, an international conference organised by RACI, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Details at www.scienceinpublic.com.au
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Designing new dual action antibiotics
