2023 Seminars
2023 Seminar Schedule
January 25: Marcetta Darensbourg – Texas A&M, “Repurposing Bioinspired Molecular Mimics of Enzyme Active Sites for Broader Applications”
February 1: Kabirul Islam – University of Pittsburgh, “An Integrated Chemical Biology Approach to Probe Chromatin-Modifying Enzymes”
February 8: Ege Kavalalı – Vanderbilt University, “Functional Nano-Organization of Central Synapses” In-Person-Only Seminar
February 22: Brandon Garcia – East Carolina University, “Halting the cascade: The unusual complement evasion strategies of the Lyme disease spirochete” In-Person-Only Seminar
March 1: Christina Lamers – Leipzig University In-Person-Only Seminar, “The Development of cyclic peptides to therapeutically target host defense pathways”
March 15: Smita Krishnaswamy – Yale University, “Deep Geometric and Topological Representations for Extracting Insights from Biomedical Data” (Zoom Only)
March 22: Aseem Ansari – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, “Crafting Chemical Keys to Unlock the Genome” In-Person-Only Seminar
March 29: Rima Al-awar – Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, “WD Repeat Proteins: An exciting family for novel cancer therapeutics” In-Person-Only Seminar
April 12: Olivia Rossanese – Institute of Cancer Research, London, “Exploring Monovalent Degraders for Cancer Therapeutics” In-Person-Only Seminar
April 19: Bryan Dickinson – University of Chicago, “Synthetic Biology Approaches to Study and Exploit RNA Regulation” In-Person-Only Seminar
April 26: Doug Kojetin – Vanderbilt University, “Structural Pharmacology Defines Molecular Mechanism of Ligand-induced PPARγ Function” In-Person-Only Seminar
September 13: Colleen Niswender, Vanderbilt University, “Development of AP-472, A Positive Allosteric Modulator of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 4 for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease”
September 27: Ethan Lippmann, Vanderbilt University, “Engineering Strategies to Model and Treat Neurodegeneration”
October 4: Carmela Sidrauski, Calico Labs, “The Integrated Stress Response in Health and Disease”
October 11: Roman Melnyk, Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, “Translating a Small-Molecule Conversation in the Gut into Novel Therapeutic Antitoxins to Prevent C. difficile Disease”
October 18, Marnett-Porter Frontiers in Chemical Biology Lectureship: Dirk Trauner, University of Pennsylvania: “Chemical Approaches to Restoring Vision”
October 25: Mohamed S Abou Donia, Princeton University, “Production and Metabolism of Bioactive Molecules by the Human Microbiome”
November 1: Ben Bratton, Vanderbilt University Medical Center: “Imaging Subcellular Organization Inside Bacterial Cells As They Thrive and Die”
November 8: Vasilis Vasiliou, Yale University, “Uncovering Novel Roles of Glutathione in Disease: From Fatty Liver to Microphthalmia and Diabetes”
November 15: Matthias Truttmann, University of Michigan, “Protein AMPylation: A novel post-translational protein modification regulating proteostasis”
November 29: Damian Young, Baylor College of Medicine, “Expanding Chemical Diversity to Enable Biological Discovery”
December 6: Joshua Kritzer, Tufts University, “Controlling Autophagy With Stapled Peptides”