International Conference on Stereochemistry August 18-19, 2016 Sao Paulo, Ibirapuera, Brazil

Dr. Mário José Politi is currently a Professor of biochemistry for under graduates and Colloid Chemistry for graduates at the Biochemistry department of the Chemistry Institute of the University of Sao Paulo. He received a Pharmaceutical degree from USP on 1974, a Master degree from USP on 1978, and a Ph.D. from Clarkson University on 1983.After these years he became a full Professor at the Biochemistry department on 2002. He has over one hundred publications in International Journals in the areas of Colloids and Photochemistry.

His current interests are in new materials, colloid polymers, silanes, siloxanes and nanostructured colloids. Mostly in the areas of .Colloids, e Surfaces and Surfactants, Photo chemistry and Photo physics and Organic Physical Chemistry.

Cláudio Francisco Tormena is Associate Professor of the Institute of Chemistry at University of Campinas – Campinas - São Paulo - Brazil. He received his PhD (in chemistry) from University of Campinas in 2000, under supervision of Professor Roberto Rittner. Part of his doctoral was developed at the University of Liverpool from 1998 to 1999 under supervision of Professor R. J. Abraham. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Campinas from 2000 to 2003. From 2009 to 2010 during a sabbatical period, Dr. Tormena stayed in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester working with Prof. Gareth A. Morris. He has published more than 130 peer-review papers and more than 100 communications in national and international meetings.

His research interests are focused on the experimental and theoretical NMR parameters, conformational analysis and Matrix-Assisted DOSY for mixtures analyses.

Nicolás A. Rey was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1976. He got his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), under the supervision of Professor Ademir Neves, in 2008. Currently, Rey is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he coordinates the Laboratory of Organic Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry Applied to Biological Systems (LABSO-BIO). In 2014, Rey received a fellowship as a promising Young Scientist of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Brazilian Chemical Society. In his 7 years at PUC-Rio, he has graduated 5 Ph.D. students and supervised 7 M.Sc. theses. Professor Rey has authored 25 papers in several distinguished peer-reviewed journals and has a patent concerning the use of a compound belonging to the chemical class of hydrazones in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's.

Bioinorganic, Inorganic Medicinal Chemistry

Stefan Brase studied in Gottingen, Bangor (UK) and Marseille and received his Ph.D. in 1995, after working with Armin de Meijere in Gottingen. After post-doctoral appointments at Uppsala University (Jan E. Backvall) and The Scripps Research Institute (K. C. Nicolaou), he began his independent research career at the RWTH Aachen in 1997 (associated to Dieter Enders). In 2001, he finished his Habilitation and moved to the University of Bonn as professor for organic chemistry. Since 2003, he is full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - in Germany.

His research interests include methods in drug-discovery (including drug-delivery), combinatorial chemistry towards the synthesis of biologically active compounds, total synthesis of natural products and nanotechnology.

Frank Schulz has completed his PhD in 2007 with a thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute of Coal Research under supervision of Manfred T. Reetz and pursued postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University in the laboratory of Peter F. Leadlay. From 2009 on he was Beilstein Professor of Organic Chemistry at the TU Dortmund. Since 2013, he is professor of organic chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, synthesizing natural product derivatives using a variety of techniques from organic synthesis and biochemistry.

His research interest are Natural product chemistry, chemoenzymatic synthesis of bioactive molecules: Investigation of new strategies and methods to manipulate microbial biosynthetic pathways, selective chemical derivatisation of polyketides, microbial and chemoenzymatic synthesis of terpenoids, enzyme engineering.

Zbigniew Czarnocki was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1954. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in 1977 and in 1983 he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Warsaw (Poland) working with Professor Jerzy T. Wrobel. In 1984 he moved to McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada) to perform his two-year post-doctoral study with Professor David B. MacLean. In 1987 and 1989 he visited McMaster University as research associate and visiting professor. After returning to University of Warsaw, he obtained his habilitation degree (summa cum laude) in 1993 and in 2002 he became a full professor at the Faculty of Chemistry (University of Warsaw). From 1996 till 2002 he served as a vice-Dean of the Faculty and from 1996 he is a leader of the Laboratory of Natural Products Chemistry. His research interest focuses on stereoselective synthesis of natural products, modern catalytic reactions and pharmacochemistry of various heterocyclic compounds. In 1987 he was recipient of the International Scientific Exchange Award (Government of Canada) and in 1993 he was awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a recipient of the Golden Cross of Merit (by the President of the Republic of Poland, 2005). He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the International Society for Tryptophan Research. He graduated 17 Ph.D. students and supervised 54 M.Sc. theses. He has also authored over 120 publications, 6 review articles, 2 book chapters and 6 patents. His publications received over 1500 independent citations to date (Hirsch index, h=20). In 2012 he was appointed Dean of the Inter-Faculty Studies in Environmental Protection at the University of Warsaw.

Zbigniew Czarnocki research interest: - Stereoselective synthesis of natural products and compounds of pharmacological relevance - Stereochemistry of organic compounds - Modern catalytic methods in organic synthesis

Stephen Hanessian holds the Ionis Pharmaceutical Research Chair at the University de Montréal. He is also on the faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine as the Director of the Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology Graduate Program.

His research interests are in organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry with nearly 550 original publications and several patents to his credit. His recent book “Design and Strategy in Organic Synthesis” Wiley-VCH, 2013 is a widely acclaimed monograph.

Dr. Solhe F. Alshahateet is Associate Professor of Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry graduated in 2003 from the University of New South Wales / Australia. He works at Mutah University since 2007. He received many awards such as Australian Research Council and Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education scholarships. He was engaged in many projects from local and international funding agencies. Dr. Alshahateet attended many conferences worldwide. He published more than 70 articles mostly in international journals dealing with crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry involving industrial applications. In addition, he is working as a referee and editorial board member for many international specialized journals. Highlights of his research have been in the area of synthesis and characterization of semiconducting materials, organic materials for and industrial applications (functional materials) such as pharmaceutical industry. After completing his PhD (2002) at the UNSW, he undertook research in new synthesis chemistry as a Research Fellow at UNSW for about one year. Since then he had undertaken research into synthesis of new organic materials at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences ICES, Singapore. He had research visitor appointments at the University of New South Wales (Australia) and at the University of South Florida (USA).

Research Interests  Heterocyclic chemistry; synthesis and applications  Polymorphism, salts, co-crystals, hydrates and solvates of pharmaceutical solids  Design and develop crystalline molecular complexes of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)  Design, synthesis and supramolecularity of new hosts and co-crystal formers  Experience in the area of physical organic chemistry such as adsorption of organic functionalities and heavy metals on synthesized organic surfaces; kinetic, thermodynamic; environmental studies and applications.  Drugs reformulation  Chemical X-ray Crystallography  Synthesis and structure of new organic inclusion compounds (host-guest chemistry)  Solvent free synthesis (Green Chemistry)

Federico Tasca has completed his PhD studies in 2010 at Lund University under the supervision of professor Lo Gorton and working with bioelectronics and carbon nanomaterials. He continued his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University where he studied the behaviour of multicopper oxidases and he focused on the oxygen reduction reaction. Federico Tasca is now assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry of Materials of the University of Santiago of Chile. He is the director of one Fondecyt Grant and of one Dycit Grant. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals in the field of electrochemistry, electrocatalysis coordination chemistry and bioelectrocatalysis.

Elctrochemistry, electrocatalysis, Bioelecctrochemistry,Spetroscopy and Crystallography

Mazeyar Parvinzadeh Gashti got his Ph.D. degree in textile chemistry and fiber science under the supervision of Professor Siamak Moradian in 2010. He recently served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland from September 2011 till the end of 2013. Gashti is now working as a research fellow at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. He is also a member of the editorial boards of 20 international polymer and material journals. Gashti has published 50 papers in different distinguished journals.

1. Recent Research Expertise and Interests Synthesis of bio- and nanomaterials in microfluidic devices, Application of biomaterials for controlling drug delivery of composites, particles and coatings on textiles. Preparation of composite Materials and particles for energy storage and conversion, Preparation of inorganic crystals in different polymeric gels, Mineralization of tooth enamel and bone. 2. Former Research Expertise and Interests Modification and synthesize of CNT with various monomers, Application of organic clays for modification of polymers used in infrastructures, Graft polymerization on clay and kaolin minerals for applying on textiles and polymers, Surface characterization of polymer composites, Interaction of polymers and different additives in polymer blends, UV photocatalysis reactions on polymer nanocomposites.

Plato A. Magriotis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences at the University of Patras in Greece and a Research Affiliate with the Department of Chemistry at New York University since 2006. Magriotis received his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology working with Professor Francis Johnson at the Department of Chemistry of Stony Brook University in 1983 and did Postdoctoral work at Harvard University with Nobel Laureate E. J. Corey. He began his academic career at West Virginia University and when presented with a very attractive offer to join Merck & Co. as a senior scientist, he joined the Medicinal Chemistry Department of Merck Pharmaceutical Company in New Jersey. Before assuming his present position, he moved back to Academia as an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at New York University in 2002. Magriotis’ research program focuses on the development of new methodology for the synthesis of relevant pharmacophores applied in drug discovery.

•Synthesis of biologically and pharmacologically relevant molecules such as alpha and beta amino acids, beta lactams, piperidines, and piperazines. •Total Synthesis of antitumor, antibiotic Natural Products (Cyclostreptin-(-)-FR182877, Ecteinascidin 743, Saframycin A, and Abyssomicin C). •New Synthetic Methodology including novel routes to beta lactams and tetrasubstituted olefins (Tamoxifen analogs).

Dr. Prabagaran Narayanasamy is a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neurosciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He received his PhD at IIT in Organic Chemistry and did his postdoctoral studies at North Dakota State University, Harvard University and University of Illinois Urbana-champaign. Later, he joined as a Research Scientist at Colorado State University to explore drug discovery. He has been a faculty at University of Nebraska Medical Center since 2012. Dr. Narayanasamy’s research interests are on development, delivering and discovering drug for anti-mycobacterial medicine and antiretroviral therapy. Conventional drugs and new inhibitors are used in nanoformulation to generate active nanomedicine. For antibacterial drug discovery - glyoxalase, quorum sensing, MEP and menaquinone pathway are utilized. Additionally, development of exosomes as drug delivering agent is initiated for infectious disease. In addition, metabolites are evaluated in the infected brain for characterizing neurodegenerative disorders.

Development, delivering and discovering drug for anti-mycobacterial medicine and antiretroviral therapyResearch Interest.

Ben Zhong Tang received BS and PhD degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University, respectively. He conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined Department of Chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology as an assistant professor in 1994 and was promoted to chair professor in 2008. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He has published more than 700 papers. His work has been cited over 20,000 times, with an h-index of 86. He has been listed by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher in the categories of Chemistry and Materials Science. He has opened up a new area of research on aggregation-induced emission, which was ranked as one of the Top 100 Research Fronts by Thomson Reuters in 2013. He received a State Natural Science Award from Chinese Government in 2007. He is currently serving as Editor of Advances in Polymer Science (Springer) and Associate Editor of Polymer Chemistry (RSC) and sitting in the international advisory boards of a dozen other journals.

He has opened up a new area of research on aggregation-induced emission, which was ranked as one of the Top 100 Research Fronts by Thomson Reuters in 2013.