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 12:15PM in 1220 MRBIII.

Fall 2025

  • Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University 

    September 3rd

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University 

    Chemical Biology of Celiac Disease

  • Christian Melander, University of Notre Dame

    September 10

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Christian Melander, University of Notre Dame

    Small Molecule Approaches to Disarming Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms

  • Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University

    September 17

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University

    Natural Product Antibiotics: Past, Present, Future

    Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry

  • Tobin Sosnick, The University of Chicago

    September 24

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Tobin Sosnick, The University of Chicago

    The Relationship Between Protein Function and Structurally Resolved Energetics Measured Using Hydrogen Exchange

  • Yan Zhang, Zhejiang University, China

    October 15

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    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.

    November 5

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Danette Daniels, Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc.

    Towards new cancer medicines with degraders of chromatin regulatory proteins

  • Mei Hong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    November 12

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Mei Hong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tau by Solid-State NMR

  • Ben Brown, Vanderbilt University

    November 19

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Ben Brown, Vanderbilt University

    A Generalizable Deep Learning Framework for Structure-Based Protein-Ligand Affinity Ranking

  • Alex Waterson, Vanderbilt University

    December 3

    12:15PM 1220 MRBIII

    Alex Waterson, Vanderbilt University

    Expanding the E3 ligase toolkit using fragment-based methods