Plenary and Invited Speakers
The Nora lagoon (7 Km from the Conference Venue)
- Plenary Speakers
Redox Properties of Organoselenium Compounds in Biology and Beyond
Professor Thomas George Back, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary,
Calgary, Canada, E-mail: tgback@ucalgary.ca
http://contacts.ucalgary.ca/info/chem/profiles/145-512
Lanthanides and Actinides with S/Se/Te: Molecules, Nanoscale Clusters, and Solid-State Materials
Professor John G. Brennan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
New Jersey, USA, E-mail: bren@rci.rutgers.edu, brennan@chem.rutgers.edu
http://chem.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-bio/124-brennan-john
Use of Halogen Species in C-H Bond Chalcogenation via Sustainable Approach
Professor Antonio Luiz Braga, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopólis, Brazil, E-mail: braga.antonio@ufsc.br
http://ppgqmc.posgrad.ufsc.br/en/braga
Chalcogenoether and Chalcogenolate Complexes as Precursors for the Growth of Functional Semiconducting Thin Film Materials
Professor Gillian Reid, Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton,
Southampton, UK, E-mail: G.Reid@soton.ac.uk
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/about/staff/gr.page
Chiral Bifunctional Chalcogenide Catalysis for Enantioselective Electrophilic Trifluoromethylthiolation, Arylthiolation, and Chlorination
Professor Xiaodan Zhao, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, E-mail: zhaoxd3@mail.sysu.edu.cn
http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/zhaolab/xiaodan/xiaodan.htm
Selenium and Thyroid: Synthetic Organoselenium Compounds as Iodothyronine Deiodinase Mimetics
Professor Govindasamy Mugesh, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, E-mail: mugesh@iisc.ac.in
https://www.mugesh.org
Weak Interaction Network at the Active Site of Selenoenzymes
Professor Michio Iwaoka, Department of Chemistry, Tokai University,
Hiratsuka, Japan, E-mail: miwaoka@tokai.ac.jp
http://www.sc.u-tokai.ac.jp/iwaokalab/content_en/member_main_en.html
- Invited Lectures
N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilized Metal-ESiMe3 Complexes (E = S, Se, Te): Precursors to Coinage Metal-Chalcogenide Clusters with Tunable Optical Properties
Professor John F. Corrigan, Department of Chemistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, E-mail: corrigan@uwo.ca
https://www.uwo.ca/chem/people/faculty/corrigan.htm
Expanding the Supramolecular Chemistry of iso-Chalcogenazole N-Oxides
Professor Ignacio Vargas-Baca, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, E-mail: vargas@chemistry.mcmaster.ca
http://vargas7650.wixsite.com/ivargas
New Strategies to Prepare Chalcogen-functionalized Heterocycles
Professor Eder J. Lenardão, Laboratório de Síntese Orgânica Limpa-LASOL, CCQFA, Universidade Federal de Pelotas – UFPel, Pelotas, RS, Brazil, E-mail: lenardao@ufpel.edu.br http://lattes.cnpq.br/9974684005171829
Strategies towards Bioactive Quinoidal Molecules: Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Selenium-containing Quinones
Professor Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior, Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, E-mail: eufranio@qui.ufmg.br
Selenoorganic Chemistry and Beyond
Professor Thomas Wirth, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, E-mail: wirtht@cardiff.ac.uk
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/38534-wirth-thomas
Reaction of Selenium Compounds with Reactive Oxidants and the Control of Oxidative Stress
Professor Michael J. Davies, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, E-mail: davies@sund.ku.dk
http://bmi.ku.dk/english/Staff/?pure=en/persons/426515
Unraveling the Potency of Two Simple Selenium Compounds as Experimental Cancer Chemotherapeutics
Dr. Sougat Misra, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, E-mail: sougat.misra@ki.se
https://ki.se/en/people/soumis
Chalcogen-Chalcogen Secondary Bonding Interactions
Professor Risto S. Laitinen, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, E-mail: risto.laitinen@oulu.fi
http://www.oulu.fi/environmentalengineering/personnel/laitinen-risto
Through-Space Interactions between Phosphorus and Tellurium in peri-Substituted Acenaphthyl Scaffolds
Professor Jens Beckmann, Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Kristallographie, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, E-mail: j.beckmann@uni-bremen.de
https://www.uni-bremen.de/fachbereich-2/beckmann/
Light-Driven Selenium-π-Acid Catalysis – From Concepts to Applications
Professor Alexander Breder, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, E-mail: alexander.breder@chemie.uni-goettingen.de
http://www.breder.chemie.uni-goettingen.de/
Synthetic, Medicinal and Analytic Studies on Organoselenides: Multi Component Reactions, Redox and Cancer Properties & Proteomics
Professor Ludger A. Wessjohann , Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle, Germany, E-mail: wessjohann@ipb-halle.de
http://www.ipb-halle.de/en/research/bioorganic-chemistry/
Merging of Fluorinated Groups and Selenium: Why? How?
Professor Thierry Billard, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry (ICBMS UMR CNRS 5246), Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne (Lyon), France, E-mail: thierry.billard@univ-lyon1.fr
http://fmi-lyon.bcpmdb.com/Effectifs/ThBillard/index.html
Selenium Nucleophiles and Sulfur Electrophiles: An Exciting Synthetic Combination
Professsor Stefano Menichetti, Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Email: stefano.menichetti@unifi.it
https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2017-0-A-2b333432392a-0.html
Selenium Chemistry as a Tool to Study Protein Science
Professor Norman Metanis, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, E-mail: Metanis@mail.huji.ac.il
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/metanis/
Efficient Regio- and Stereoselective Approaches to Novel Families of Organochalcogen Functionalized Compounds Based on Electrophilic Selenium- and Tellurium-containing Reagents
Professor Vladimir A. Potapov, A. E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russian Federation, E-mail: v.a.potapov@mail.ru
https://irkinstchem.ru/index.php/en/research-laboratories/lab3
Organochalcogens: Synthesis, Antioxidant and Oxidant Biological Catalytic Activities
Professor Sangit Kumar, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhauri Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, E-mail: sangitkumar@iiserb.ac.in
https://home.iiserb.ac.in/~sangitkumar/
Free Radical Chemistry and In vivo Biological Studies of Diselenodipropionic acid (DSePA), a Selenocystine Derivative, as a Radiotherapy Adjuvant
Dr. K. Indira Priyadarsini, Chemistry Division (Head), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-40085, India, E-mail: kindira@barc.gov.in
http://www.barc.gov.in/cg/rpcd/rbcs.html
Selenium-containing Polymer for Adaptive and Biomedical Materials
Professor Huaping Xu, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, E-mail: xuhuaping@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Professor David G. Churchill, Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, E-mail: dchurchill@kaist.ac.kr
http://churchill.kaist.ac.kr/index.php
New Molecular Tools: Phosphorochalcogenoic Acid Derivatives Having a Binaphthyl Group
Professor Toshiaki Murai, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, E-mail: mtoshi@gifu-u.ac.jp
https://www1.gifu-u.ac.jp/~murai_ap/profile/newmuraie.html
Mechanisms Underlying Selenium Methylation for Urinary Excretion as Trimethylselenonium
Professor Yasumitsu Ogra, Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, E-mail: ogra@chiba-u.jp
http://www.p.chiba-u.jp/lab/yobou/index.html
1,4-Anhydro-4-seleno-d-talitol (SeTal): A Remarkable Selenium-containing Therapeutic Molecule
Professor Carl H. Schiesser, Seleno Therapeutics Pty. Ltd, Brighton East, Australia, E-mail: carl@selenotherapeutics.com