Session I
Session II

Session I
BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS

• Recent chemical studies on Molluscs and Diatoms Guido Cimino
• Deciphering the language of marine infochemistry-recent entries in the dictionary of chemical words Tilmann Harder
• Bioactive natural products from Chinese tropical marine invertebrates, microalga and plants. Yue-Wei Guo

Session II
BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS

• Recent results of chemical studies of Indo-Pacific marine organisms. Maria Letizia Ciavatta, Emiliano Manzo, Margherita Gavagnin, Ernesto Mollo, Guido Villani, Maria Pilar Lopez Gresa, Solimabi Wahidulla, Lisette D'Souza, Guido Cimino and Chandrakant G. Naik
• Marine natural product chemistry: Tandem Mass Spectrometry- A versatile tool. Chandrakant G. Naik

Session III
MARINE ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY

• Microbial biodiversity in mangrove area - Sources of biocatalysts. P. Prema
• Studies of conopeptides and their properties Arunima Bhattacharjee, Bhairav K. Parekh, Megha Bhagat

Session IV
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

• Pyrrole 2-Aminoimidazole marine metabolites: Isolation and biomimetic synthesis. Ali Al-Mourabit
• Carbon skeleton modifications of some terpenoids and steroids through oxidative biosynthetic transformations, a theoretical analysis. Sashikumar K. Paknikar
• IPR issues in Marine Biotechnology. Malathi Lakshmi Kumaran
• Natural products as sources of new chemical entities: Experience at Nicholas Piramal Research Centre. Ram Vishwakarma