Natural Products and Drug Design from Accra to America

The Hillary Rodham Clinton Center of Wellesley College and the Ghana Chemical Society are excited to welcome to you to this global symposium highlighting cutting edge research on natural products and drug design.

Starting on June 9, we will host monthly hour-long webinars that bring together invited speakers from Ghana and the United States. All sessions will occur at noon Eastern US time. You can view the schedule for these talks below along with Zoom webinar links.

Please send any questions about the sessions to Don Elmore (delmore@wellesley.edu) or Michael Baah Mensah (michael.mensah@knust.edu.gh).

Tuesday, June 9 (noon EDT, 4 PM GMT)

Prof. Isaac Asiamah (University of Cape Coast):  Exploring West African medicinal plants as sources of anti-leishmanial drug leads

Prof. Elizabeth Boon (Stony Brook University): Nitric oxide and heme mediated regulation of virulence and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Zoom link: https://wellesley.zoom.us/j/98999704073

Tuesday, July 14 (noon EDT, 4 PM GMT)

Prof. Ethan van Arnam (Pitzer and Scripps Colleges): Antibiotics from ant symbionts

Prof. Lawrence Borquaye (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology): Computational Engineering of Antimicrobial Peptides with Tunable Membrane Selectivity

Zoom link: https://wellesley.zoom.us/j/93107732339 

Tuesday, Oct. 20 (noon EDT, 4 PM GMT)

Prof. Jason Sello(University of California San Francisco): Synthetic and mechanistic studies of natural products with potential utility as anti-infectives

Prof. Dorcas Osei-Safo(University of Ghana): 

Zoom link: https://wellesley.zoom.us/j/92544929001

Tuesday, Nov. 10 (noon EDT, 5 PM GMT)

Prof. Cynthia Danquah (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology): 

Dr. Cedric Amengor (University of Health and Allied Sciences): Pyridine-N-oxide alkaloids from Allium stipitatum and their synthetic disulfide analogs as potentail drug candidates against Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A molecular docking, QSBAR, and ADMET prediction approach

Zoom link: https://wellesley.zoom.us/j/95673559403