NZIC 2024 Conference Programme

All sessions will be held in the St David’s lecture theatre unless stated (breakout rooms will be confirmed before November 11)

Sunday 24 November
13:00 onwards Registration Open, St David’s foyer
15:45 Mihi Whakatau - official welcome (please be seated by 15:30)
16:00 Conference opening plenary, Margaret Brimble, The Role of Medicinal Chemistry in the Search for New Therapeutic Agents: Natural Products vs Peptides
17:00 Keynote - Lars Goerigk, Accurate DFT methods for excited state problems and what we can do with them
17:30 Keynote - Emily Parker, Reconstructing biosynthetic pathways for complex indole diterpenoids
18:00 Welcome reception – among the exhibiting companies

Monday 25 November
08:30 - 09:30 Plenary - Tim Schmidt, Molecular Triplet-Triplet Interactions
09:30 - 10:00 Keynote - Jeffrey Keillor, Targeted Covalent Inhibition of Tissue Transglutaminase
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote - Lauren Macreadie, Exploring low pressure flexibility in 3D-linker MOFs
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea – among the exhibiting companies
Medicinal chemistry, Chemical Inorganic and Organometallic
Analytical and Physical Chemistry Chemistry Education
Biology Chemistry
BREAKOUTS
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11:00 - 11:15 Alison Daines, Rational Synthesis of Nicola Brasch, A Trojan Horse Ivan Spanik, Chirality: perspective Murray Thompson, NCEA and
a Heparan Sulfate Saccharide that Approach for Overcoming Antibiotic tools in food and essential oil CHEM 191, Overlaps and
Promotes BMP2 Activity Resistance using Nature’s Most authentication Omissions
Beautiful Cofactor
11:15 - 11:30 Alan Cameron, Capturing Value from Daniel Preston, A strategy for low Rebecca Jelley, Dispersive liquid– Josh Bristowe, Harakeke, science
Byproducts; an Unexpected Aza- symmetry Fe(II) face capped liquid microextraction for modelling and mātauranga: A conduit for
Michael Preparation of Quaternary tetrahedral cages ortho-nasal and retro-nasal aroma education
Ammoniums and β-keto amides contributors to New Zealand Pinot
noir wines
11:30 - 11:45 Jessica Fairhall, Acid-cleavable Nigel Lucas, Templated synthesis of Maria Menti-Platten, Detailed Tristan Reekie, Teaching a first-
Polymer-Drug Conjugates for helical organic cages from aromatic Assessment of New year cohort: the UNSW Canberra
Targeted Delivery to the Stomach cavitands Monoacylphosphine Oxide approach
Photoinitiators with Online
Photoreactor Mass Spectrometry
11:45 - 12:00 Geoffrey Jameson, Inhibition of the Jess Algar, Controlling the secondary Karl Fraser, Metabolomics across the Sarah Masters, Digital vs Old
DNA-specific cytosine deaminase structure of self-assembled New Zealand agricultural system Skool: Perspectives on teaching
APOBEC3A: steps towards palladium(II) architectures through π- physical chemistry from 1st to 4th
preventing evolution of cancer drug π interactions coupled with a year in the UK and NZ
resistance hydrogen bonding pairing approach
12:00 - 12:15 Benjamin Dickson, When life gives Nicholas White, Decagram-scale Rebecca Deed, Effect of non- Owen Curnow, A method for
you sulfatases, make sulfates! synthesis of robust organic cages for Saccharomyces yeast on the drawing Lewis structures based on
guest binding in water chemical parameters that modulate formal charges
Syrah wine colour
12:15 - 12:30 Lavleen Mader, EPIC-Fit: A New Anthony Hill, Tellurium and Selenium Sara Miller, Low wavenumber Anna Garden, An online
Method for the Evaluation of Functionalised Carbynes Raman of substituted apatites and computational nanochemistry
Covalent Inhibitors from Time- their detection below surfaces – exercise to support student
Dependent Endpoint Pre-Incubation towards an alternative approach to understanding of nanoscience
IC50 Data breast cancer detection
12:30 - 12:45 Tristan de Rond, Mechanistic and Christopher Larsen, Hydrazine Courtney Ennis, Formation of Michael Edmonds, Career
biocatalytic exploration of oxazolone Photorelease from a Ru(II) Chugaev- Complex Nitrogen-bearing Organics Trajectories of NZ Chemistry PhD
biosynthetic enzymes Type Dicarbene Complex on Titan: The Irradiation of Pyridine Graduates: Where do they go and
Co-crystals what could we be doing better to
prepare them?
12:45 - 13:00 Kathleen Sircombe, Chemical Robin Fulton, Group 14-aluminyl Keith Gordon, Low Frequency David McMorran, Teaching
modification of antibiotics to reduce complexes Raman Spectroscopy as a Method of Teaching
off-target activity on beneficial Investigating Pharmaceutical
microbes Polymorphs
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch – among the exhibiting companies
14:00 - 15:00 Plenary - Alice Motion, Chemistry with the community: an interdisciplinary approach to sharing science
15:00 - 15:30 Keynote - David Warren, The benefits to running an outreach program in a New Zealand university
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea
 NZIC Branch Student Oral Competition
16:00 - 16:15 Auckland - Lara Molloy, Next generation PI3Kα smart drugs
Waikato- Nikki Webb, Using mouse and insect bioassays to isolate and understand novel tremorgenic alkaloids in Epichloë endophyte-infected perennial
16:15 - 16:30
ryegrass
16:30 - 16:45 Manawatu - Ludwig Petters, Rethinking Asymmetric Catalysts: Remote Asymmetric Induction in Multicomponent Metal-Organic Frameworks
16:45 - 17:00 Wellington - George Smith, Synthesis and Reactivity of Novel Group 14 - Aluminium Heterobimetallic Complexes
17:00 - 17:15 Canterbury -Jude Kalan, Unravel the Sugarcoating: Surface patterning with unprotected sugars towards mimicking the glycocalyx
17:15 - 17:30 Otago - Selena Gilmer, Development of Bifunctional Chemical Tools for the Adenosine A1 Receptor
17:30 - 18:00 Keynote - Christopher Sumby, Metal-organic Frameworks as Catalyst Supports and Templates

Tuesday 26 November
08:30 - 09:30 Plenary - Binghe Wang, Defying Conventional Wisdom: Developing Carbon Monoxide as a Therapeutic Agent
09:30 - 10:00 Keynote - Luke Henderson, Controlling surface chemistry to influence interfaces and induce functionality in composite materials
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote - Clare Strachan, Pharmaceutical research and development under the coherent Raman microscope: academia-industry partnership
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea – among the exhibiting companies

Organic Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Physical Chemistry Materials Chemistry

BREAKOUTS
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11:00 - 11:15 Daniel Foley, Teaching an old drug Moana Tercel, Improving payload Laura McKemmish, Choosing your Terry Frankcombe, Controlling
new tricks: - synthesis and biology of hydrophilicity for more effective basis set to find aliens and identify kinetics with 3D structure
quinine analogues anticancer antibody-drug conjugates your organic molecule
(ADCs)
11:15 - 11:30 Jackson Henneveld, Dipole- Vyacheslav Filichev, Askin Eldiven, Analysis of pyrolysis Olivia Matich, Modular Assembly
Transmissive 1,3-Dipolar Thermodynamically Stable G- reactions for and Optimization of an Artificial
Cycloadditions for the Synthesis of quadruplexes within Extended Duplex tris(dialkylamino)cyclopropenium Esterase from Functionalised
Alkaloid Scaffolds DNA chloride salts Surfactants
11:30 - 11:45 Emma Davison, Practical and concise Joel Tyndall, Covalent inhibition of Cameron Weber, How does varying Mohammad Soleimani Zohr Shiri,
synthesis of nucleoside analogues macrophage migration inhibitory the amphiphilicity of the salt and Reverse Microemulsion-based
factor by isothiocyanates as potential hydrogen bond donor impact the Methodologies for Size-Controlled
colorectal cancer leads nanostructures of deep eutectic Synthesis of lesser-Studied Noble
solvents? Metal Nanoparticle Systems
11:45 - 12:00 Sushant Aryal, Organocatalytic Mary Ann Foglio, Arrabidaea chica Christopher Mills, Elucidating the Alexandria Leonard, Impacts of
enantioselective synthesis of Verlot (Fridericia chica L.) for mucositis Electrolytes Involved in the Solvation novel crosslinking techniques and
hydantoins treatment: Challenges encountered of Vanadium Ions in the Catalytic sterilisation treatments on marine
from plant input to product Reactions within Redox Flow fish skin collagen extracts for
Batteries biomedical applications
12:00 - 12:15 Liam Hunt, Entry to the 3,4-trans- Viji Sarojini, Self-Assembly and Nicholas Smith, A Divide and Vladimir Golovko, Towards precise
Fused Cordycicadin Framework: Antimicrobial Activity of Lipopeptide Conquer Approach to Nanoparticle synthesis of nanomaterials: from
Total Synthesis of (-)-Cordycicadin D Antibiotics Global Optimisation fundamentals to applications in
and 3,4-trans-Cordycicadin A & B catalysis and energy
12:15 - 12:30 Winter Zakaria, Quinone-containing Harrison Lewin, Exploiting the Catherine Whitby, Protein Jack Chen, Spherelose® –
Ruthenium Complexes for Reactivity of Azaquinone Methide adsorption at the oil-water Sustainable Emulsifiers from
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation Intermediates as a New Method to interface: effect of protein Cellulose Janus Particles
Synthesise Bioactive Compounds denaturation
12:30 - 12:45 Anastasiia Mozhegova, Lipid- Wanting Jiao, Exploring enzyme Aliyu Ja'o, Exploring the Hydrogen Nick Page, s-Block Metal Organic
Nucleotide Conjugates: Investigating function using computational tools – Storage Potential of Allylamine Frameworks from a Library of
Properties and Potential Pathways insights into the catalytic mechanism Borane Using Density Functional Mixed Donor Ligands
for Synthesis in Prebiotic Conditions of anthranilate Theory
phosphoribosyltransferase
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch – among the exhibiting companies

RSC Sponsored Industry Session

13:30 - 14:00 Conference Keynote - Cather Simpson, A Serial Academic Entrepreneur asks – What did Theranos get right?
14:00 - 14:20 Industry speaker - Gary Evans
14:20 - 14:40 Industry Speaker - Shalini Divya
14:40 - 15:00 Industry Speaker - Will Barker
15:00 - 15:45 Panel Discussion - Cather Simpson, Will Barker, Shalini Divya
15:45 - 16:10 Afternoon Tea – among the exhibiting companies
RSC Sponsored Industry Session, continues
16:10 - 16:40 Conference Keynote - Brendon Gill, Analysis of α-tocopherol stereoisomers in infant formula by chiral chromatography
16:40 - 17:00 Industry Speaker - Trevor Stuthridge
17:00 - 17:20 tbc
17:20 - 17:40 tbc
Conference Keynote - Siddharth Matikonda, Cyanine Phototruncation: A Novel Approach to Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy and Spatiotemporal
17:40 - 18:10
Cell Labelling
18:10 - 19:30 Poster session in the St David’s foyer

Wednesday 27 November
08:30 - 09:30 Plenary - Wei Gao, Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors
09:30 - 10:00 Keynote - Jonathan George, Synthetic Studies on Australasian Natural Products
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote - Michele Prinsep, Investigating Chemical Criminals: Probing nudibranch-prey interactions using chemical and biological tools
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea

Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Biological and Analytical Chemistry

BREAKOUTS
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11:00 - 11:15 Chris Fitchett, Cyclometallated complexes of Junming Ho, What More Can We Learn About Lisa Pilkington, Sensing and capture/release of
ruthenium(II) Charge Embedding in QM/MM and Many Body biological analytes in complex matrices
Expansions?
11:15 - 11:30 Hugh Bloomfield, Improving site-specific protein Thomasin Brind, Amplification of Bioorthogonal Claire Webster, Quantification of Methyl Glyoxal
metallation with dimetallic complexes: synthesis 'Click-to-Release' Prodrugs in New Zealand Mānuka Honey and Honey Meads
and protein metallation studies
11:30 - 11:45 Tameryn Stringer, Repurposing antimicrobial Siyuan Li, Azide-Enolate Reactions. Applications Liam Hewson, Kānuka chemistry: bioactive
ligands as scaffolds for Platinum Group Metal to New Reaction Development and Medicinal natural products from Kunzea ericoides
(PGM) anticancer complexes Chemistry
11:45 - 12:00 Sian Dillon, Exploring the photoreactivity of main Andrew Cording, Synthetic Studies Towards Megan Grainger, Metal Analysis: Insight into
group complexes Spirocalcaridines A and B honeybee health
12:00 - 12:15 Mitchell Nascimento, 1,3-Dipolar cyclization Zoe Wilson, The development and application of Yanfang Wu, Rapid and Ultrasensitive
reactions of nitriles with sterically encumbered novel accessible reactors for flow synthesis. Electrochemical Detection of Nucleic Acids in
cyclic triphosphanes: phosphorus- rich Blood for Early Cancer Diagnosis
heterocycles with tunable, structure-linked colour
12:15 - 12:30 Rajika Munasinghe, Approaches to Photo- Nigel Perry, Unique bibenzyl cannabinoids in the
activated Cytotoxins liverwort Radula marginata: parallels with
Cannabis chemistry
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and NZIC AGM
13:30 - 14:00 Keynote - Lara Malins, Advances in late-stage peptide modification chemistry: Inspiration from Nature
14:00 - 14:30 Keynote - Guy Jameson, Ferritin: From Mechanism to Nanotechnology
14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Tea
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Inorganic and Materials Chemistry Theoretical and Physical Chemistry
BREAKOUTS
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15:00 - 15:15 Julie Spicer, Lymphocyte specific kinase inhibitors Jon Kitchen, Developing luminescent materials Patricia Hunt, Ionic Liquid Solvent Effects for Non-
for controlling immunotherapy toxicity from the f-block Polar Reactions

15:15 - 15:30 Benjamin Compton, Developing Synthetic Marija Gizdavic-Nikolaidis, Enhanced Hamza Patel, Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids
Vaccines Against Small Molecule Targets Antimicrobial Activity of Photocatalytic Titanium
Oxide upon Formation of Composites with
Polyaniline via an Eco-friendly and Facile
Microwave Synthesis Approach

15:30 - 15:45 Hector Mancilla, Healing wounds and Halting Lyall Hanton, Versatile Mixed-Donor Connectors Lekshmi Dinachandran, CALPHAD-based
Cancer: Intelligent Peptidomimetic Design to in the Formation of Varied Porous Metal-Organic Modelling of Doped TiFe for Hydrogen Storage
Control and Regulate Cell Migration Materials Applications

15:45 - 16:00 Joanne Harvey, Discovery of Novel Kinase Marcus Jones, Plasmon-enhanced optical Keith Gordon, Hydrogen generation with
Inhibitors via AI-Guided Molecular Structure properties of molecular chromophores coupled sustainable resources - a combined molecular,
Generation with size-tuned silver nanoparticles computational and engineering approach
16:00 - 16:15 David Barker, Chu-Chu-Choosing the wrong Muhammad Hanif, Harnessing chirality in Benjamin Smit-Colbran, A new methodology for
isomer: Synthesis of the proposed structure of metallopolymers for spintronics applications the measurement of Mayr Nucleophilicity and its
sesquineolignan Chushizisin H application to N-Heterocyclic Carbenes.

16:15 - 16:30 Chelsea Tyler, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation Piers Coia, Covalent Organic Framework Modified Deborah Crittenden, Computing NMR shifts the
of Antitubercular Inhibitors Carbon Fiber Structures to Enhance Physical and quick, easy and accurate way
Electrochemical Properties

16:30 - 16:45 Dan Furkert, Mechanistic understanding as a Joshua Webb, Synthesis, Characterization and Naila Chaouche, Evolution of organic matter
foundation for target synthesis and drug Catalytic Properties of Cu(I) Triazene Complexes under mars-like conditions: Impact of UV-
discovery irradiation and perchlorates on pyrimidic
nucleobases

18:45 - 23:30 Conference Dinner, Glenroy Auditorium, Dunedin Centre - entrance on Harrop Street

Thursday 28 November
08:30 - 09:30 Plenary - Debbie Silvester-Dean, How Ionic Liquids are Revolutionizing Electrochemical Sensors
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Inorganic and supramolecular Chemistry Theoretical and Physical Chemistry
BREAKOUTS
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09:35 - 09:50 Paul Harris, Leveraging the Mukaiyama Oxidation- Martyn Coles, Anionic Magnesium(I) Compounds Terry Frankcombe, O 1s XPS spectra have been
Reduction Condensation Reaction for On-Resin as New Reagents for Chemical Synthesis incorrectly assigned for five decades
Aryl Thio-Esterification for Bio-Conjugation
Alexis Blackie, Selective inhibition of splicing- Allan Blackman, Carbenes and Quinolines: Samantha McIntyre, Electroreduction of NO3- to
09:50 - 10:05
associated kinases in breast cancer Interesting Donors to Transition Metals N2 on Pt(111) and Pd(111) Surfaces
Lindon Moodie, Targeting lipoprotein transport in Jordan Smith, Towards porous halogen-bonded Shivangi Chourasia, Reconfigurable Pickering
10:05 - 10:20
Gram negative bacteria frameworks Emulsions
10:20 - 10:50 Morning Tea
 Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Inorganic and supramolecular Chemistry Theoretical and Physical Chemistry
BREAKOUTS
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10:50 - 11:05 Mattie Timmer, Chimeric NOD2-Mincle agonists James Crowley, It's as easy as 1,2,3 &"Click": Amanda Parker, Benchmarked Graph Embeddings
for improved vaccine efficacy Biologically Active Helicates and Representations for Multiscale
Cheminformatics
11:05 - 11:20 Cassandra Fleming, Organelle-Targeting Delivery Sydnee Koia, Novel Hybrid Metal-Organic Elouan Hay-Fourmond, Implementing Machine
Vehicles: All-Photonic Release-and-Report Frameworks Towards Strategic Gas Separation Learning Towards Nanocluster Global
Systems Optimisation
11:20 - 11:35 Nicole Soriano Ladino, Design and Synthesis of Jessica Fredericksen, Development of fluorescent Charlie Ruffman, Dynamic Liquid Metals as
New ATP Synthase Inhibitors as Anti-Tuberculosis analogues of vitamin B12 and the cobinamide Catalysts for Selective CO2 Reduction
agents precursor for antibacterial applications
11:35 - 11:50 Jason Smith, Pyrrole as a Scaffold for Synthesis: Zack Avery, Improving the Synthetic Accessibility Sarah Masters, Structural and Thermochemical
Approaches to Stemona Alkaloids of Platinum(II) Cages Investigation of 1,3-bis(λ4-boraneyl)-1λ4,3λ4-
imidazolidine Adduct

12:00 - 13:00 Closing Plenary - Prof Steve Goldup, Mechanically Chiral Molecules: Synthesis and Applications
13:00 - 13:15 Conference awards
13:15 Poroporoaki - official conference close