GEORGE S. WISE FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES .

" '' DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

Drugs from the Sea 09-14 February 2014

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Day 1 Sunday 09.02.2014
Time
09:30 10:00 12:30- 13:50 14:00-15:00 17:30 17:30-18:30 18:30-20:30 20:30-22:00

Activity Departure from Hotel Maxim

Departure from Tel Aviv University Lunch break at Mitzpe Ramon Tour of Mahtesh Ramon visiting center and lookout Arival at Orchid Hotel, Eilat. Coffee break Organization Dinner Workshop reception

Comments

Day 2 Monday 10.02.2014

Time
09:30-10:15

Activity
Joern Piel - Mining uncultivated symbiotic bacteria with metagenomic and single-cell strategies Sergey B. Zotchev - Diversity and evolution of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in marine actinomycetes

Comments

Chair: Alfonso Mangoni

10:15-11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-12:15

Coffee break
Paul Jensen - Drug discovery from marine actinomycetes: the Salinispora story

Chair: Alfonso Mangoni

12:15-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:30 16:30-17:00 17:00-17:45 Shoshana Arad - Sulfated polysaccharides from red microalgae: From the idea to the products Lunch

Visit to the Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences

Coffee break Micha Ilan, Shmuel Carmeli & Ana Zovko - Spongederived anti-cancer drug leads Yehuda Benayahu, Dafna Benayahu & Rami Haj-Ali Novel collagen fibers from soft corals for new biocomposite materials: characterization and applications

Chair: Micheal Wilson

17:45-18:30

18:30-20:30 20:30-22:00

Dinner
Posters session 1 & Speed talks

38-893:868 , ,38-8939799 < ,8;;9: - - , TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, RAMAT AVIV 69978, ISRAEL, FAX: 972-3-6407274, TEL: 972-3-6408613, E-Mail milan@post.tau.ac.il

GEORGE S. WISE FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES . " '' DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

Day 3 Tuesday 11.02.2014

Time
06:30-08:30 09:30-10:15

Activity Morning snorkelling

Ray Andersen - Discovery, Synthesis, and Development of Marine Natural Product Drug Leads

Comments
Optional

Chair: Pierre Sauleau

10:15-11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-12:15 12:15-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:00 16:00-16:30 16:30-18:30 18:30-20:30 20:30-22:00

Marcel Jaspars - Addressing the supply problem using

chemoenzymatic synthesis Coffee break

Tamar Lotan - Leveraging Cnidarians Stinging Capsules

for Drug Delivery Yoel Kashman - Search for marine drug-leads from East African marine organisms

Chair: Xiaohong Wang

Lunch
Visit to the Underwater Observatory

Coffee break
Posters session 2

Dinner
Posters session 3

Day 4 Wednesday 12.02.2014

Time
07:30-11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-12:15 12:15-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-15:15 15:15-16:00 16:00-16:30 16:30-17:15 18:30-20:30

Activity Snorkelling/diving at the nature reserve

Coffee break

Comments
Optional

David Newman - Development of Leads to become Drugs

Alan Dobson - Metagenomic and genomic approaches to exploit the biodiversity of coastal and deep sea sponges

Chair: Shmuel Carmeli

Lunch
Pei Yuan Qian - Mechanism of action of thalassosprimides-a new class of calpain inhibitors Werner E.G. Muller - Sustainable Oceans our Treasure in the Past and in the Future: The power of marine drugs

Chair: Marco Giovine

Coffee break
General discussion Chair: Micha Ilan

Dinner

38-893:868 , ,38-8939799 < ,8;;9: - - , TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, RAMAT AVIV 69978, ISRAEL, FAX: 972-3-6407274, TEL: 972-3-6408613, E-Mail milan@post.tau.ac.il

GEORGE S. WISE FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES . " '' DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

Day 5 Thursday 13.02.2014

Time
9:00 11:30- 14:00 14:30-16:00 16:00

Activity Departure from Eilat Dead Sea- dip and lunch Tour of Mesada Departure to Tel Aviv

Comments
Optional. Towels not included

Day 6 Friday 14.02.2014

Time
10:00-10:15 10:15-11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-12:15 12:30-13:00

Activity Welcome greetings Public Talk 1 David Newman - From Seaside to Bedside Coffee break Public Talk 2 Joern Piel - Microbial dark matter: a
metabolic treasure trove

Comments

Public lectures in Tel Aviv Univ. Britannia building, room 05

Discussion

Speakers: Ray Andersen (Univ. British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) Shoshana Arad (Ben Gurion University, and Ruppin Academic Center, Israel) Yehuda Benayahu, Dafna Benayahu & Rami Haj-Ali (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Micha Ilan, Shmuel Carmeli (Tel Aviv University, Israel) & Ana Zovko (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Alan Dobson (Univ. Coll. Cork, Ireland) Marcel Jaspars (Aberdeen Univ., UK) Paul Jensen (University of California San Diego, USA) Yoel Kashman (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Tamar Lotan (Haifa University, Israel) Werner E.G. Muller (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) David J. Newman (National Cancer Institute, USA) Joern Piel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pei Yuan Qian (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, PR China) Sergey B. Zotchev (Norwegian Univ. Science & Technology, Norway)

38-893:868 , ,38-8939799 < ,8;;9: - - , TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, RAMAT AVIV 69978, ISRAEL, FAX: 972-3-6407274, TEL: 972-3-6408613, E-Mail milan@post.tau.ac.il