Programme
VENUE: SCIENCE LECTURE THEATRE 3 (SLT3)
Morning
8:30 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:30 Opening Ceremony and Announcements
Opening Remarks: Dr. Peter L. Ruddock (Chairperson)
University of Technology Jamaica
Welcome: Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles
Vice Chancellor, UWI
Greetings: Prof. Densil Williams
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal, UWI, Mona
Greetings: Ms LaTrease Garrison
Chief Operating Officer, American Chemical Society
Announcements: Prof. Paul Reese
The Mona Symposium, Organizing Secretary
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
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Chairperson: Peter L. Ruddock
10:45 – 11:25 Plenary Lecture #1:
Bill J Baker
Cold-water Chemistry
11:25 – 11:35 Question and Discussion Period
11:35 – 11:55 Short Paper #1:
Lesley-Ann Giddings
Molecular Indicators of Environmental Change in an Antarctic
Polar Desert
11:55 – 12:00 Question and Discussion Period
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon
Chairperson: Andrea Goldson-Barnaby
2:00 – 2:40 Plenary Lecture #2:
Hayato Ishikawa
Collective Total Synthesis of Secologanin-Related Natural Products
2:45 – 2:55 Question and Discussion Period
2:55 – 3:15 Short Paper #2:
Kareem Abdur-Rashid
Catalytic Synthesis of Cannabinoids
3:15 – 3:20 Question and Discussion Period
3:20 – 3:35 Coffee Break
3:35 – 4:20 Plenary Lecture #3:
Patrick Harran
Molecular Amalgamations that Systematically Generate Complex Polycycles
4:20 – 4:30 Question and Discussion Period
4:30 – 4:50 Short Paper #3:
James M. Cook
General Strategy to Access Both Natural and Unnatural Enantiomers
of C-19 Methyl Containing Sarpagine/Macroline Indole Alkaloids
4:50 – 4:55 Question and Discussion Period
4:55 –5:15 Short Paper #4:
M. Jack Mphahlele
Synthesis, Spectroscopic, In Vitro and In Silico Biological Studies of
Sulfonamide Appended Small Drug-Like Molecules Against Chronic
Inflammation-Mediated Diseases
5:15 – 5:20 Question and Discussion Period
7:00 – 9:00 Reception
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