September 2023
Prof. Adrian Salic “How cells send and receive messages”
Prof. Adrian Salic Harvard Medical School About Prof Adrian Salic Abstract Communication between cells is essential for all multicellular organisms, both during their embryonic development and in adult life. Cells send and receive signals continuously, thus responding to their environment and coordinating their behavior. Surprisingly, all communication between animal cells is carried out by a relatively small number of conserved signaling pathways (about 20), each consisting of an ordered chain of biochemical steps that link various extracellular inputs with specific…
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Prof Darren J. Dixon “New Catalytic Approaches for Simplifying Complex Molecule Synthesis”
Darren J. Dixon Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK Abstract New catalysts are key for unlocking previously unknown molecular reactivity and unexplored chemical space, as well as governing the 3-dimensional structure of product molecules of interest to chemistry, biology and medicine. In this lecture, new synthetically relevant chemistry linked to two distinct types of catalyst systems will presented. In the first part, recent developments from our group for the direct synthesis of alpha and beta-functionalised…
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