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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nBacteria have long been an excellent source of bio
 active natural product molecules that find application in therapeutics and
  drug development. Marine microbes in particular represent a promising and
  relatively untapped reservoir of natural products\, however\, there are s
 till several challenges in the field of bacterial natural products discove
 ry. Difficulties associated with cultivation of microbes in the artificial
  laboratory environment and also challenges gaining access to the full bio
 synthetic potential of bacteria in the lab remain bottlenecks in the effec
 tive and expedient exploitation of natural products as drug leads. We are 
 currently developing ways to expand the range of compound classes and quan
 tity of molecules produced by bacteria during lab cultivation. This presen
 tation will also cover ways we use genome sequence information to guide mo
 lecule discovery and direct investigations of enzymatic reactions involved
  in natural product biosynthesis.\n\nBio:\n\nDr. Ross obtained her BSc (Ho
 ns.) in Chemistry from the University of Auckland in New Zealand before co
 mpleting her Doctoral research in peptide Chemistry at the University of A
 lberta under the supervision of Prof. John C. Vederas. In 2012 Dr. Ross jo
 ined the lab of Prof. Bradley S. Moore at the Scripps Institution of Ocean
 ography/University of California at San Diego as an NSERC postdoctoral fel
 low where she investigated the biosynthesis of peptide natural products fr
 om marine microbes. In January 2015 Dr. Ross joined the Department of Chem
 istry at Queen’s University as an Assistant Professor and Queen’s National
  Scholar in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Her group works to l
 earn from nature through the discovery of bioactive natural products\, the
  study of their biosynthesis and the unique enzymes that catalyze their co
 nstruction.\n
DTSTART:20191203T180000Z
DTEND:20191203T193000Z
LOCATION:Room 10\, Maass Chemistry Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B8\
 , 801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Chemical Society Seminar: Avena Ross - APPROACHES FOR ACCESSING AND
  STUDYING THE FULL ENCODED NATURAL PRODUCT POTENTIAL OF MARINE BACTERIA
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