Friday, 13th October 8th Venoms to Drugs 2023

• The senolytic properties of animal venoms - Maria P. Ikonomopoulou
• The Anthelmintic of Stonefish (Syanceia SPP) Ichthyocrinotoxins and their potential as novel therapeutics - Jamie Seymour
• Venom-derived peptide therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease - Raymond S Norton
• Weaponized cone snail insulins and somatostatins synergistically disrupt glucose homeostasis in fish prey - Helena Safavi

All speakers with a duration of 30 minutes will have 25 minutes to speak and 5 minutes for questions.

• Development and Commercialization of SPEAR® - A peptide based bioinsecticide with a major new mode of action - Robert Kennedy
• Analgesic a-conotoxins: GABA_B receptor modulation of ion channels and membrane excitability in mouse dorsal root ganglion and human pluripotent stem cell-derived sensory neurons - David J Adams
• Design of highly functional libraries with hyperstable peptide and venom scaffolds assisted with machine learning - Yingnan Zhang
• Exploring sublethal effects of insecticides on contextual memory of insects - Volker Herzig

All speakers with a duration of 30 minutes will have 25 minutes to speak and 5 minutes for questions.

• Drugs from Bugs: Insect Biotechnology based Venomics - Andreas Vilcinskas
• Pseud-natural peptides, products and neobiologics - Hiroaki Suga
• Cystine-dense-peptide bispecific therapeutics for uniformly fatal pediatric brain tumors. - Jim Olson

All speakers with a duration of 30 minutes will have 25 minutes to speak and 5 minutes for questions.