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FINAL ICNPR 2024 PROGRAMME IN PDF

Saturday 13/07

09:00-14:30

ECRW/VET workshops

09:30-12:30

Botanical Safety Consortium - Cultivating Safety: Toxicology 101 for Botanicals and Natural Products

12:00-14:30

ARN workshops

12:00

Registration for ICNPR2024

ROOM S1 15:00-17:00

Opening Ceremony

ROOM S1 17:00-17:45

Opening Lecture
Carbohydrate-Based Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics and Medicines Produced in Flow
Prof. Peter H. Seeberger, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

ROOM S1 17:45-18:30

Plenary Lecture
Innovative Analytical Methods for Evaluation of Efficacy, Safety and Quality of Raw Materials and final Products in the Phyto-area
Prof. Günther K. Bonn, Austrian Drug Screening Institute GmbH (ADSI), University of Innsbruck, Austria

18:30-20:00

Get Together (Congress Venue)

Sunday 14/07

ROOM S1 08:30-10:00

Society Session: AFERP
Chairpersons:

Prof. Jean-Hugues Renault, University of Reims, France

Prof. Sophie Tomasi, University of Rennes, France

Medicinal plants in the fight against malaria: Investigating the Strychnos genus, Artemisia sp. and ellagic acid derivatives
Speaker: Prof. Michel Frédérich, University of Liège, Belgium

Pharmacognosy faces new challenges: proposals to combine chemometrics and annotations based on mass spectrometry and NMR for more accurate and faster identification of bioactive natural products in complex matrices
Speaker: Prof. Séverine Derbré, University of Angers, France

Empowering natural products research with machine learning and expert knowledge integration
Speaker: Prof. Mehdi Beniddir, Université Paris-Saclay, France

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

ROOM S1 10:30-12:00

Society Session: ASP
Chairpersons:

Dr. Tawnya McKee, ASP President, USA

The evolution of botanical product quality testing

Speaker: Prof. Paula Brown, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada - Varro E. Tyler Award

Discovery and Engineering of Natural Product Molecules for Drug Development

Speaker: Prof. David Sherman, University of Michigan, United States - ASP Lifetime Achievement award

12:00-13:30

Lunch

LEVEL 0 12:00-13:30

Poster Session 1

13:30-17:00

Parallel Sessions

ROOM S1

Session I: Marine organisms, fungi, microbes and plants as chemical factories

Efficient Discovery of Bioactive Natural Products by Targeted Metabologenomic Approaches
Speaker: Prof. Dong-Chan Oh, Seoul National University, South Korea

ROOM S2

Session II: Natural products in the era of emerging infectious diseases

From Microbes to Medicine: Leveraging nature's arsenal for innovative anti-infectives
Speaker: Prof. Rolf Müller, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Germany

ROOM S3

Session III: Biotransformation and biosynthesis of natural products

Flavoenzyme-driven structural diversification of bacterial polyketide and tropone natural products
Speaker: Prof. Dr Robin Teufel, University of Basel, Switzerland

ROOM S4C

Workshop Real-world data to document the use of phytopharmaceuticals in children.
Programme
More information - https://www.plantsforhealth.org/

LEVEL 0 17:00-19:00

Poster Session 1

Monday 15/07

ROOM S1 08:30-10:00

Society Session: JSP
Chairpersons:

Prof. Shunji Aoki, School of Pharmacy Hyogo Medical University, Japan

Prof. Takuya Ito, Osaka Ohtani University, Japan

Colletofragarone A2 from the fungus Colletotrichum sp. promoted the degradation and aggregation of mutant p53
Speaker: Prof. Sachiko Tsukamoto, Kumamoto University, Japan

Novel thiosugar sulfoniums, salacinol and neokotalanol, with antidiabetic activity obtained from plants of genus Salacia
Speaker: Prof. Toshio Morikawa, Kindai University, Japan

3-epi-18β-glycyrrhetinic acid and its 30-O-glucuronide involves the development of licorice-induced pseudoaldosteronism in humans with individual differences
Speaker: Prof. Toshiaki Makino, Nagoya City University, Japan

ROOM S2 08:30-12:30

Session: Amway-Nutrilite
Roses and buds, in the current state of botanical dietary supplements- A global perspective
Session Chair/Moderator: Dr Amit Chandra, Amway Corporation, United States
Programme

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

ROOM S1 10:30-12:00

Society Session: GA
Chairpersons:

Prof. Michael Heinrich, University College London, UK

Prof. Judith Rollinger, University of Vienna, Austria

Welcome address

Planta Medica Best Paper Award and PM Special Issue “Celebrating Austrian Pharmacognosy”

W. Schwabe Young Talent Price and Willmar Schwabe Award
Dr Cherry Lifeng Li, Baptist University, Hong Kong

GA Synergy Award
Prof. Andreas Bender, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

E. Stahl Award in Bronze
Dr Valentina Parisi, University of Salerno, Italy

12:00-13:30

Lunch

LEVEL 0 12:00-13:30

Poster Session 2

13:30-17:00

Parallel Sessions

ROOM S1

Session I: Medicinal natural products: from bench to bedside

Will artificial intelligence become a game changer in natural product drug discovery?
Speaker: Prof. Judith M. Rollinger, University of Vienna, Austria

ROOM S2

Session II: Natural product research and the challenges of climate change – ecological and environmental solutions

Marine Chemical Ecology and Natural Products Research in our Changing Ocean
Speaker: Prof. Valerie Paul, Head Scientist, Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, United States

ROOM S3

Session III: Regulation for the use of natural products in food and drugs

Three-pronged Strategy of TCM Quality Control: Deep Research, Holistic Standard and Precision Testing
Speaker: Prof. De-an Guo, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

VET Session: Medicinal Plants and Natural Products in Animal Healthcare and Veterinary Medicine

ROOM S4C

Session IV: A.I.M.S. Cluster: Prospecting aquatic and terrestrial natural biological resources for biologically active compounds
Programme
Session Chair/Moderator:
Prof. Nikolaos Fokialakis, National and Kapodistrian University, Greece

LEVEL 0 17:00-19:00

Poster Session 2

ROOM S1 19:00-20:30

GA Society Members Meeting

Tuesday 16/07

ROOM S1 08:30-10:00

Society Session: New trends in pharmacognosy and cosmeceuticals
Chairpersons:
Milen Georgiev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Jakub Piwowarski, Warsaw Medical University, Poland

Pharmacognosy in the Digital Era: Exciting opportunities offered by metabolomics and accessible digitised data
Speaker: Prof. Jean‐Luc Wolfender, Université de Genève, Switzerland

Nanophytocosmetics – A New Trend in Cosmeceuticals
Speaker: Prof. Ilkay Erdogan Orhan, Gazi University, Turkey

Nitrogenous flavonoid derivatives production by reacting with amino acids
Speaker: Prof. Jianbo Xiao, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

ROOM S1 10:30-12:00

Society Session: SIF
Chairpersons:

Prof. Marinella De Leo, University of Pisa, Italy

Prof. Luigi Milella, University of Basilicata, Italy

Investigating structural features and bioactivity of natural products by NMR and computational techniques
Speaker: Prof. Maria Giovanna Chini, University of Molise, Italy

The epidemic of antibiotic-resistant: a call to research and development new bioactive molecules
Dr. Giuliana Donadio, University of Salerno, Italy

Metabolomic patterns in response to abiotic stimuli of Cladonia lichens from dry grasslands
Prof. Manuela Mandrone, University of Bologna, Italy

Natural products as active substances and structural components of delivery nanosystems: the case of nanovesicles
Dr. Giulia Vanti, University of Firenze, Italy

12:00-13:30

Lunch

LEVEL 0 12:00-13:30

Poster Session 3

13:30-17:00

Parallel Sessions

ROOM S1

Session I: Cutting edge technologies in natural product drug discovery, formulation and development

Mass Spectrometry in Natural Products from Brazil: from understanding chemical signaling to pre-clinical studies.
Speaker: Prof. Norberto Peporine Lopes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

ROOM S2

Session II A: Total synthesis and biomimetic synthesis of natural products

Olea europaea: a compelling source of health promoting biomolecules and an inspiration for the semi-synthetic design of bioactive analogues
Speaker: Prof Leandros A. Skaltsounis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Session II B: Genetic engineering of food crops and medicinal plants

Unravelling the fitness programs that steer plant metabolism allows creating novel tools for the engineering of plant-based production of bioactive metabolites
Speaker: Prof. Alain Goossens, Ghent University, Belgium

Session II C: Medicinal natural products: from bench to bedside

ROOM S3

Session III: Natural cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and food supplements

How to Harness the Potential of Eutectic Solvents for the Formulation and Enhancement of Natural Ingredient
Speaker: Prof Leslie Boudesocque Delaye, Synthèse et Isolement de Molécules BioActives, France

LEVEL 0 17:00-19:00

Poster Session 3

20:00

Conference Dinner

Wednesday 17/07

ROOM S1 08:30-10:00

Society Session: PSE
Chairpersons:

Prof. Maria Jose Umbelino Ferreira, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Prof. Franz Bucar, University of Graz, Austria

Honeypot strategy for parasite weed control: An offer they cannot refuse
Speaker: Prof. Francisco Macias, University of Cadiz, Spain

A (sub)cellular mapping of natural substances
Speaker: Prof. Miroslav Strnad, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic - PSE Silver Medal

Utilizing natural products for weight management and longevity promotion
Speaker: Prof. Milen Georgiev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

ROOM S1 10:30-12:00

Society Session: KSP
Chairpersons:

Hyo-Jin An, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Jeong Ah Kim, Kyungpook National University, South Korea

Treatment Strategies of Pulmonary Fibrosis using Natural Products
Speaker: Prof. Yun-Sil Lee, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Coding metabolic profile of medicinal herbs using 2D-HPTLC
Speaker: Prof. Young Pyo Jang, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Status and prospect of natural deep eutectic solvents in current natural products research
Speaker: Prof. Young Hae Choi, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Discovery and biosynthesis of specialized metabolites from human gut microbiome
Speaker: Prof. Chung Sub Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

ROOM S1 12:00-12:45

Plenary Lecture
Foundational Principles Can Inspire Bioactive Natural Products Research
Prof. Guido F. Pauli, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC College of Pharmacy, United States

ROOM S1 12:45-13:30

Plenary Lecture
Unusual Enzyme Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis
Prof. Ikuro Abe, The University of Tokyo, Japan

13:30-14:00

Coffee break with snacks

ROOM S1 14:00-15:00

Round table disscussion - podium
Moderator: Francisco A. Macias, University of Cadiz, Spain
The paradigm of excellence and metrics. How can we make intelligent use of AI?
Programme

ROOM S1 15:00

Closing Ceremony