Title: Natural Cosmetics: History and Current Trends

Speaker: Satyajit D. Sarker

Time: 9:00-11:30, October 29, 2019

Location: Meeting room 1007, No.12 building (Administration building) in Guanggu campus

Title: The Potential of Selected Kenyan Medicinal Plants in Health Care

Speaker: Patrick Gachoki Kareru

Time: 9:00-11:30, October 29, 2019

Location: Meeting room 1007, No.12 building (Administration building) in Guanggu campus

Title: A Versatile in Vitro System to Study Translocation and Functional Integration of Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins

Speaker: FAN Enguo

Time: 9:00-11:30, October 29, 2019

Location: Meeting room 2008, No.12 building (Administration building) in Guanggu campus

Prof. Satyajit D Sarker obtained his Bachelor-Pharm and Master Pharm degrees in Pharmacy from Dhaka University, and completed his PhD in Phytochemistry from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. He is currently the Director of School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemical Analysis (publisher: Wiley & Sons) and the President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE). He is also a Pharmacy Professor and the Founding Head of the Centre for Natural Products Discovery, launched in January 2019. His research focuses on anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antimicrobial, chemopreventive and wound-healing properties of phytochemicals. His new research interest is in computational phytochemistry. He is the author of more than 550 publications, and one of the most cited authors with over 13,600 citations by Goggle Scholar. Prof Sarker is in the Editorial Board of more than 35 international journals including Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Molecules, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and a reviewer for over 80 journals. He also co-authored several books, the popular textbook Chemistry for Pharmacy Students (Wiley & Sons) in 2007, Steorid Dimers (Wiley & Sons) in 2012, Natural Products Isolation (Humana Press-Springer-Verlag), published in 2005 and 2012, respectively, Computational Phytochemistry (Elsevier; published in May 2018).

Prof. Patrick Gachoki Kareru obtained his Bachelor degree in chemistry from Carleton University, Canada, and Master degrees in Polymer Science from North London and completed his PhD in chemistry from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). He is currently the associate professor of chemistry of chemistry department in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT); and the principal investigator of Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre (SAJOREC). He has supervised over 20 postgraduate students and has over 50 scholarly publications and presented over 16 local (Kenya) and international conferences.

Prof. Enguo Fan obtained his PhD degree from Martin-Luther University, Germany in 2008. He is currently a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Freiburg University, Germany. He was originally interested in the determination, quantification, and supplementation of natural products for health purposes. His current research interests focus on the biogenesis of β-barrel membrane proteins and protein translocation across biological membranes. Recently, his group, for the first time, developed a versatile system to investigate the biogenesis of beta-barrel outer membrane proteins and protein translocation across bacterial outer membranes. This system not only provides a convenient assay to investigate outer membrane proteins, but also provide a powerful platform for new antibiotic development. By now, he has published over 50 articles in a number of top-ranked journals such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, Chemical Engineering Journal, Analytical Chemistry, Molecular Cellular Proteomics, etc. He also acted as PI for at least 6 projects with the total amount of over 2 million Euro. funding, including 3 DFG grants and several international cooperation grants.