{"136661":{"#nid":"136661","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Prof. Craig Townsend, Johns Hopkins University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Craig Townsend, Johns Hopkins University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERecent Studies in Polyketide Natural Product Biosynthesis and Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool Colloquium\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you were to ask an organic chemist \u201cWhat is the most useful functional group for synthesis?\u201d he or she is likely to answer \u201cthe carbonyl.\u201d Only a handful of biosynthetic pathways are known, but they create the vast panoply of natural products.\u0026nbsp; The synthetic versatility of the carbonyl group is evident in several of these, but one in particular\u2014the polyketide family. How the intrinsic reactivity of this functional group is used and controlled by the giant enzymes that synthesize them will be considered, and recent discoveries about how they can be re-engineered to make new products will be illustrated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wendy.kelly@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EProf. Wendy Kelly\u003C\/a\u003E (404-385-1154).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Craig Townsend, Johns Hopkins University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERecent Studies in Polyketide Natural Product Biosynthesis and Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool Colloquium\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Craig Townsend, Johns Hopkins University"}],"uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2012-06-20 09:17:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:07","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-01T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-01T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-01T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-01 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-01 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-01 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chemistry.jhu.edu\/Townsend\/biography.html","title":"Prof. Craig Townsend, Johns Hopkins University"}],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShirley Tomes (404-894-0591) \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eshirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}