The C. Richard Hutchinson Lecture is intended to celebrate and recognize careers dedicated to contemporary research and major advances in natural product discovery and development.
2023 | Julia Kubanek, PhD Dept. of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech Metabolomics Analysis Reveals Cellular Pathway to Neurotoxin Induction in a Harmful Algal Bloom |
2022 | Ben Shen, PhD Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research Leverage a Large Actinobacterial Strain Collection for Natural Products and Drug Discovery |
2021 (Virtual) |
Margo Haygood, PhD Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah The Role of Symbioses in Natural Product Discovery: Discoveries from Bacterial Symbionts of Shipworms |
2019 | Janet Smith, PhD Margaret J. Hunter Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences and Professor of Biological Chemistry University of Michigan Natural Product Biosynthetic Enzymes: Not All Domains Are What They Appear to BeBradley Moore, PhD Scripps Institute of Oceanography & Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of California, San DiegoConnecting Genes to Chemistry to Empower Natural Product Drug Discovery and Biocatalysis |
2017 | William Gerwick, PhD Scripps Institute of Oceanography Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesThe Face of a Molecule: Accelerating the Discovery of Bioactive Cyanobacterial Natural Products through Application of Novel Methodologies |
2016 | Charles Boone, PhD Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto The Global Yeast Genetic Interaction Network: Mapping Cellular Function and Principles of Inheritance |
2015 | Chaitan Khosla, PhD Department of Chemistry, Stanford University Assembly Line Biosynthesis of Polyketide Antibiotics |
2014 | David H. Sherman, PhD University of Michigan New Strategies and Tools for Expanding Natural Product Structural Diversification in Drug Discovery Applications |
2013-14 | Chris M. Ireland, PhD Dean, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah Thirty Years of Evolution in an Academic Drug Discovery Program: Then and Now |
2012 | Jon Clardy, PhD Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Havard Medical School Chemistry of Bacterial Symbionts |
2011 | Craig A. Townsend, PhD Department of Chemistry, The John Hopkins University Structural, Mechanistic and Engineering Studies of Polyketide Biosynthesis |
2010 | John C. Vederas, PhD Professor of Chemistry, University of Alberta; Research Chair in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry PKS Enzymes from Fungi: Protein Machines that Build Complex Natural Products (November 12, 2010) |
2010 | C. Richard Hutchinson – A Tribute March 19, 2010Dr. David E. Cane Professor, Department of Chemistry, Brown University Biosynthesis of Natural Products – from Stable Isotopes to Enzymes to Genes and BackDr. Julian Davies Emeritus Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbian Are Antibiotics Naturally Antibiotics?Prof. Ben Shen Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Charles M. Johnson Chair in Pharmacy, UW-Madison Continuing the Hutchinson Legacy – Natural Product Biosynthesis, Engineering and Drug DiscoveryProf. William Fenical Distinguished Professor of Oceanography and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography November 13, 2009: Drug Discovery from the Deep Oceans |
2008 | Natural Product Biosynthesis, Engineering, and Drug Discovery – A Symposium Honoring the Distinguished Career of Professor Emeritus C. Richard Hutchinson June 20, 2008Prof. Tohru Dairi Toyama Prefectural University Studies on a New Biosynthetic Pathway for a Vitamin Found in Some BacteriaDr. Stefano Donadio KtedoGen Antibiotics, Pathways and Actinomycetes: Exporting the Hutchinson CultureDr. Steve Kendrew Biotica Technology Polyketide Lead Optimization: Introducing Structural Diversity by Biosynthetic EngineeringProf. Haruyasu Kinashi Hiroshima University Linear Replicons and Seconary Metabolism in StreptomycesDr. Kerry Kulowski Wyeth Research Continuing the Hutchinson Tradition: Innovative Approaches to Accessing Natural ProductsProf. Ben Shen University of Wisconsin-Madison Manipulation of Natural Product Biosynthetic Machinery for Strctural Diversity and Drug Discovery and Development Prof. Joo-Won Suh Prof. Li Tang Prof. Yiguang Wang Prof. Kenji Watanabe Prof. Sergy Zotchev |