The American Society of Pharmacognosy

ASP 2006

Natural Products on Target

Contributed Oral Presentations

Sunday

O-01	James Gloer	Ken Rinehart (1929-2005): Some Reflections from a Graduate of the Rinehart Group
O-02	Jun’ichi Kobayashi	Absolute Stereochemistry and Molecular Target of Antitumor Macrolides, Iejimalides
O-03	Alberto Plaza	Largamides, Unusual Peptides from the Marine Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp.
O-04	Dale G. Nagle	Mining the NCI Open Repository for Molecular-Targeted Antitumor Natural Products
O-05	Roger G. Linington	Selective Antimalarials from Marine Cyanobacteria: Recent Successes from the Panama ICBG Program
O-06	Stephen T. Deyrup	Kolokosides A-D: Four Triterpenoid Glycosides from a Hawaiian Wood-Decay Fungus
O-07	Wentao Jin	Antimicrobial and Antitubercular Natural Products from Polypore Mushrooms
O-08	Jamie L. Frenz	The Effect of Bleaching on the Terpene Chemistry of Plexaurella fusifera: Evidence That Zooxanthellae Are Not Responsible for Sesquiterpene Production
O-09	Alexandre Maciuk	Bioaffinity Screening of Plant Extracts
O-10	Mark O'Neil-Johnson	Bringing Back Nature to Drug Discovery: Natural Molecules in an Antibacterial Program
O-11	Samuel X. Qiu	Black Cohosh as a Novel Anti-Osteoporosis Drug: Active Components and Molecular Mechanism
O-12	Kurt A. Reynertson	Bioactive Depsides from Jaboticaba (Myricaria cauliflora)
O-13	Navindra P. Seeram	Bioavailability and Bioactivity of Tea Polyphenols in Human Prostate Tissue and Blood After Ingestion of Green Tea, Black Tea and a Tea Supplement
O-14	Eileen Smith	Totarol from Chamaecyparis nootkatensis Inhibits Multidrug-Resistance (MDR) in Effluxing Strains of Staphylococcus aureus
O-15	Khalid A El Sayed	Biocatalytic and Semisynthetic Studies of Anticancer Tobacco Cembranoids
O-16	David Kingston	Design, Synthesis and Biological Investigation of Conformationally Constrained Epothilone D Analogs
O-17	Simon F. Seibert	Polyketides from the Marine-Derived Fungus Ascochyta salicorniae and Their Potential to Inhibit Protein Phosphatases
O-18	Masami Ishibashi	Dimeric Sesquiterpenoids Isolated from Curcuma parviflora with TRAIL Receptor Inducing Effect
O-19	Mark Butler	New Xanthone Dimers with Activity Against MRSA from the Fungus Chaetophoma sp.
O-20	Leng Chee Chang	Evaluation of Marine Natural Products as Protein Kinase Inhibitors

Tuesday

O-21	Ranjala Ratnayake	Kibdelones and Analogues: New Heterocyclic Polyketide Anticancer Agents from a Rare Actinomycete Genus, Kibdelosporangium
O-22	Mariya D.Kolesnikova	Discovery of a Plant Lanosterol Synthase Gene and Manipulation of its Catalytic Residues to Biosynthesize Parkeol and Cycloartenol
O-23	Marcy J. Balunas	Relationships Between Cytotoxicity, Plant Profiles, and Compound Classes Isolated in an Anticancer Drug Discovery Project
O-24	Shilpa Shenoy Kurian	Biophysical Characterization of the Oligosaccharide Binding Activities of Two Antiviral Lectins, Griffithsin and Scytovirin
O-25	Haiyin He	Anticancer Chromoprotein Produced by Actinomadura sp., Strain 21G792
O-26	Seon-Gil Do	UniBEX™, a Standardized Bamboo Leaf Extract Reduces Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Hyperlipidemic and Atherosclerosis Animal Models
O-27	Navindra P. Seeram	Phase II Study of Pomegranate Juice in Prostate Cancer Patients and its Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Healthy Volunteers
O-28	Janet L. Funk	Turmeric Supplements for Arthritis Treatment: Translational Investigation of Mechanism and Efficacy
O-29	Veronika Butterweck	Effects of St. John's Wort Extract and Single Compounds on Stress Induced Hyperthermia in Mice
O-30	Sybille Buchwald-Werner	South African Traditional Rooibos Extract Conquered the Northern Hemisphere: Development of Aspalanthus linearis Extract as Functional Food Ingredients

Wednesday

O-31	Tadeusz F. Molinski	New Azirines from Dysidea fragilis - Structure, Chiroptical Analysis and Synthesis
O-32	Angela A. Salim	Aculeatols A-D, New Dioxadispiroketal Compounds from Amomum aculeatum: A Challenge in Stereochemical Determination
O-33	Girma M. Woldemichael	Probing Extract and Pure Natural Product Compound Libraries for Inhibitors of HIF-2 Induced Gene Transcription
O-34	Richard Kimura	A New Cell-Based Approach for High Throughput Screening of High-Affinity Ligands Against Bacterial Toxins
O-35	Sanjay V. Mudur	Sporminarins A and B: Antifungal Metabolites from a Fungicolous Isolate of Sporormiella minimoides
O-36	Solomon T. Weldegirma	Synthesis of 13C-Labeled Erebusinone and Erebusinonamine
O-37	Danielle Julie Carrier	Extraction of Phytochemicals, Coupled to Energy Conversion
O-38	Thomas G. McCloud	Solving the Problems with DMSO in Biological Testing
O-39	Andrea Stierle	A Novel Pseudamonic Acid Derivative with Activity Against HIV-RT and Drug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
O-40	J. Brent Friesen	Anti-Tuberculosis Natural Products in Galangal (Alpinia officinarum) and Ginger (Zingiber officinale)
O-41	Roberto G. S. Berlinck	New Cyclic Depsipeptides Isolated from Marine Fungi Associated with the Marine Alga Caulerpa sp.
O-42	Kentaro Takada	Structural Characterization of Enigmazole B, a Sponge Macrolide with Differential Cytotoxic Activity Toward Cells with a Mutant Form of c-KIT
O-43	Shugeng Cao	Gummiferaosides A, B, and C, Cytotoxic Triterpenoid Saponins of Albizia gummifera from the Madagascar Rain Forest
O-44	Jian-Qiao Gu	Novel Antibacterial Daptomycin Analogues of Recombinant Streptomyces
O-45	Geoffrey A. Cordell	Vegetables as Chemical Reagents
O-46	Jianping Zhao	Phytochemical Investigation of Turnera diffusa (Damiana) - A Conventional Herbal Aphrodisiac