9:00am

Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble, Chair of Organic Chemistry and Director of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland: "Synthesis of natural products containing spiroketals"

Dr Simon Hinkley, Ferrier Research Institute: "Enhanced bone repair from natural sulfated polysaccharides"

10:30am

Professor Richard Taylor, Associate Vice President for Research; Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Interim Director, Warren Family Research Centre for Drug Discovery & Development; University of Notre Dame: "Chemical and biological synthesis of polyketides regulators of proteostasis" Maurice Wilkins Centre Visiting Speaker

Sophie Geyrhofer, VUW: "(-)-Zampanolide as an anti-cancer lead towards the synthesis of zampanalogues"

Kristiana Santoso, VUW: "The synthesis of carbohydrate probes for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis"

1:00pm

Professor Antony Braithwaite, Department of Pathology, University of Otago: "p53 variants in inflammation and cancer"

Dr Melanie McConnell, VUW: "Mitochondrial injury and inter-cellular mitochondrial transfer"

Professor Cristin Print, Department of Molecular Medicine & Pathology, University of Auckland: TBC

3:00pm

Professor Richard Beasley, Director, Medical Research Institute of New Zealand: "Towards a new taxonomy for obstructive airways disease"

Associate Professor Jeremy Krebs, CCDHB; Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington: "Novel strategies for preventing type 2 diabetes"

Professor Jackie Cumming, Director, Health Services Research Centre, School of Government, VUW: "From science to services: health systems research as the 'brains' of the health system"