2020 RSC Organic Division London & South East Regional Meeting

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Time: 1.30pm - 7.00pm
Venue: John Galsworthy Building 0001, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
Price: free
Speaker(s): Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize Lecture by Prof Schofield

This half-day symposium includes the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize Lecture by Prof Schofield (Oxford), who won the award for pioneering work on mechanisms of activity and resistance to antibiotics. There will be a host of short talks from researchers and academics from across London and the South East.

• 1.30pm Arrival and display posters 
• 1.50pm Welcome

First Session

• 2.00pm Prof Adrian Dobbs, University of Greenwich
• 2.30pm Dr Peter Roth, University of Surrey, "New Approaches to Biodegradable Polymers through Thiocarbonyl Addition–Ring-Opening Radical Polymerization"
• 3.00pm Dr Sharon Rossiter, University of Hertfordshire, "Exploring Small Molecule Inhibition of S100P, a Potential Anti-cancer Target"
• 3.30pm Dr James Bull, Imperial College London, "Synthesis of Small Rings and Heterocycles"
• 4.00pm Posters & Refreshments

Second Session

• 4.45pm Dr Sianne Schwikkard, Kingston University, "Biologically Active Natural and Synthetic Homoisoflavonoids"
• 5.15pm Prof Christopher Schofield (2019 Interdisciplinary Prize Winner), University of Oxford, "Remarkable Enzymes – from Bacteria to Humans"
• 6:10pm - 7:00pm Networking Event in the Picton Room

To enter the poster competition please email your poster title (including authors' list and affiliations) to Dr Amr Elshaer: A.Elshaer@kingston.ac.uk

You will be contacted within 72 hours regarding the suitability of your topic and with details on poster display. The deadline for registration and poster title submission is 31 January 2020.

For further information about this event:

Contact: Professor Fawaz Aldabbagh

Email: F.Aldabbagh@kingston.ac.uk

For further information about this event:

Contact: Dr Jean-Marie Peron
Email: jm.peron@kingston.ac.uk