Symposium Schedule Session 1 Chair: Dr Penny Chaloner (University of Sussex) 08:45 – 09:15 Coffee 09:15 – 09:30 Opening remarks Prof William Jones (University of Cambridge) 09:30 – 10:00 Getting in deep with marine natural products Prof Stephen Clark (University of Glasgow) 10:00 – 10:30 There and back again – A natural product-inspired cascade route to fused medium rings Dr Edward Anderson (University of Oxford) 10:30 – 11:00 Polymer synthesis by catalytic activation of renewable resources Dr Charlotte Williams (Imperial College London) 11:00 – 11:30 The synthesis of inositol- based probes for intracellular signalling Dr Stuart Conway (University of St Andrews) 11:30 – 12:00 Structure-based design of selective inhibitors of Protein Kinase B Dr Ian Collins (Institute of Cancer Research) 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch – Please make your own arrangements for lunch Session 2 Chair: Dr Christine Luscombe (University of Washington) 13:00 – 13:30 Role of organic material structure in organic light emitting diode performance Dr Jeremy Burroughes (Cambridge Display Technology) 13:30 – 14:00 Chiral pyrrolidine-promoted tandem conjugate addition- elimination Dr Choon-Hong Tan (National University of Singapore) 14:00 – 14:30 An improved route to the histrionicotoxins Dr James MacDonald (CSIRO) 14:30 – 15:00 Adventures in natural products chemistry Dr Jonathan Burton (University of Oxford) 15:00 – 15:30 “All interface” materials: Conjugated microporous polymers Professor Andrew Cooper (University of Liverpool) 15:30 – 16:00 Tea Session 3 Chair: Dr Ryan Gilmour (ETH, Zurich) 16:00 – 16:30 Towards and efficient on- resin synthetic approach to the lantibiotics Dr Alethea Tabor (University College London) 16:30 – 17:00 Drug discovery for tropical diseases Prof Ian Glibert (University of Dundee) 17:00 – 17:30 Dendrimers for dye sensitised solar cells Prof Paul Burn (University of Queensland) 17:30 – 18:00 New metal-catalysed reactions for the construction of complex natural products Prof Andrew Evans (University of Liverpool) 18:00 Closing remarks Prof Ian Paterson FRS (University of Cambridge) 19:00 Reception followed by dinner Clare College Poster titles Host-guest chemistry in the control of fullerene / polymer blend morphology Wallace Wong Ho Wong Studies towards the synthesis of Eunicellin Joel Hooper Towards stable, high-energy phosphorescent polymer light emitting materials Rob Borthwick Synthesis and characterization of novel deep blue-emitting polymers based on dibenzophosphole Inam Ul Haq Raja Polymer solar cells: The design of non-conjugated polymers and studies of semiconductor energy levels Scott Watkins