Speakers
Ikuro Abe, Ph. D. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan Ikuro Abe is Professor of Natural Products Chemistry at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo (2009-). He received his B.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1989) from The University of Tokyo. After two years postdoctoral research with Professor Guy Ourisson at the CNRS Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, and mostly with Professor Michel Rohmer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse in France (1989-1991), he moved to the USA to work with Professor Glenn D. Prestwich at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1991-1996) and then at The University of Utah (1996-1998). His research interests mostly focus on exploring and engineering the natural products biosynthesis. He has authored 200+ publications including Nature, Nat. Chem. Biol., Nat. Commun., JACS, ACIE, and PNAS. He received the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award in 2019, and Prizes for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. He is a former President of The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy.
Squire J. Booker Pennsylvania State University, USA
Squire J. Booker is an Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Eberly Family Distinguished Chair in the College of Science at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received a B.A. degree with a concentration in chemistry from Austin College in 1987 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. After postdoctoral studies in Paris, France and at the University of Wisconsin, he joined the faculty at Penn State in 1999. Booker’s research focuses on natural product biosynthesis, antibiotic resistance and metalloenzymology, with a particular emphasis on the methylation and sulfhydrylation of unactivated carbon centers.
David Craik, FAA, FRS The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
David Craik, FAA, FRS, is a group leader and Professor of Chemistry at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and undertook postdoctoral studies at Florida State and Syracuse Universities before taking up a lectureship at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1983. He was appointed Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Head of School in 1988. He moved to University of Queensland in 1995 to set up a new biomolecular NMR laboratory and is currently the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science. His research focuses on applications of cyclic peptides, toxins and NMR in drug design. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, is author of more than 750 papers and has trained 70 PhD students.
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