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Seminar Series

The VICB seminar series is a course in the Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB) Program - CPBP 8310 (Graduate Seminar in Chemical Biology). All seminars take place on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM in 1220 MRB III.

Spring 2026

  • Caroline Proulx, North Carolina State University

    January 14

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Caroline Proulx, North Carolina State University

  • Michael Villalobos, Vanderbilt University

    January 21

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Michael Villalobos, Vanderbilt University

    CTTC Seminar

  • Jeremy Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    January 28

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Jeremy Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    co-sponsored by the Center for AI in Protein Dynamics (CAIPD)

  • Amber Teufel, Procter and Gamble

    February 4

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Amber Teufel, Procter and Gamble

    co-hosted with Sydney McKee

  • Daniel Herschlag, Stanford University

    February 11

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Daniel Herschlag, Stanford University

  • Joseph Jez, Washington University in St. Louis

    February 18

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Joseph Jez, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Andrew Goodman, Yale University

    February 25

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Andrew Goodman, Yale University

  • Robert Coffey, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    March 4

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Robert Coffey, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  • Richard E. Lee, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    March 24

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Richard E. Lee, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

  • Kevin Gardner, The City College of New York

    April 1

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Kevin Gardner, The City College of New York

  • Emily Leproust, Twist Bioscience

    April 8

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Emily Leproust, Twist Bioscience

  • Hua Xu, AstraZeneca

    April 29

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Hua Xu, AstraZeneca

Past Seminar Speakers

  • Fall 2025

     

    • Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University; Chemical Biology of Celiac Disease
    • Christian Melander, University of Notre Dame; Small Molecule Approaches to Disarming Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms
    • Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University; Natural Product Antibiotics: Past, Present, Future, Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry
    • Tobin Sosnick, The University of Chicago; The Relationship Between Protein Function and Structurally Resolved Energetics Measured Using Hydrogen Exchange
    • Yan Zhang, Zhejiang University, China; GPCR Exoframe Modulators: From de novo design to applications, Co-sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology
    • Danette Daniels, Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc.; Towards new cancer medicines with degraders of chromatin regulatory proteins
    • Mei Hong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tau by Solid-State NMR
    • Ben Brown, Vanderbilt University; A Generalizable Deep Learning Framework for Structure-Based Protein-Ligand Affinity Ranking
    • Alex Waterson, Vanderbilt University; Expanding the E3 ligase toolkit using fragment-based methods