MMS Conferencing & Events is hosting their 9th annual one-day conference featuring presentations from young organic chemists that have started their independent academic careers within the last five years.

Lectures will cover a wide range of organic chemistry ranging from new methodologies to make and/or selectively break bonds, catalysis by new modes of activation, to chemical ligation and RNA splicing.

REDUCED GROUP RATES ARE AVAILABLE - FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE SEND AN EQUIRY TO YC@MMSCONFERENCING.COM

Date:	Friday, 1st April 2011
Location:	Imperial College London
Application and Fees:	The rates for this meeting will be £165 for Industrialists, £70 for Academics and £40 for students.
For Further Information:	Please contact Michele Sahrle.

	9:15 Registration and Coffee   10:15 Opening Remarks Dr Chris Braddock, Imperial College London Session 1:   10:20 "New Facets of the Wadsworth-Emmons Cyclopropanation" Dr Christopher Bray Queen Mary   10:55 "∏-Lewis Acids: Observations, Hypotheses and Experimentation" Dr Eddy Viseux University of Sussex   11:30 "Development of Gold(I)-Catalysed Reactions" Dr Ai Lan Lee Heriot-Watt University   12:05 "From C-H to C-C activation: new methodologies for the construction of C-C bonds" Dr Igor Larrosa Queen Mary 12:40 LUNCH Session 2:   13:45 "New Approaches to Enolate Chemistry" Dr Tom Sheppard UCL   14:20 "Catalysis and sensing, making and detecting small molecules" Dr John Fossey University of Birimingham   14:55 "Chemoselective ligation reactions in/on living systems: a powerful tool in chemical biology" Dr Ed Tate Imperial College London   15:30 "Unravelling the alternative RNA splicing labyrinth using chemical biological tools" Dr Glen Burley University of Leicester 16:05 COFFEE Session 3:   16:40 Keynote Speaker Professor Stephen G. Davies, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry University of Oxford   17:25 Closing remarks Dr David Hollinshead, AstraZeneca   17.25 Wine reception, The Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building, Sponsored by AstraZeneca