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IUPAC Plenary Four & Five, Tuesday 9:45am
Colin Berry, QML London
Sir Colin Berry will say that modern synthetic chemicals have contributed to giving each of us an extra 30 years of mostly healthy, active life.
[Read more…] about We’re living 30 years longer with chemistry
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.
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.
[Read more…] about The plant whisperer – ask the plant how it fights pests
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.