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Molecular Discovery Seminar Series
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all seminars are given virtually on Thursdays at 10am, unless otherwise specified, until further notice.
Spring 2021 Virtual Series
Feb 25
Summer Gibbs (Oregon Health & Science Univ)
"Can Near Infrared Nerve-Specific Fluorophores Improve Surgical Outcomes?"
This seminar will be at 1:00pm
Mar 04
Meritxell Teixidó (IRB Bareclona)
"Gate2brain, opening the gate to CNS"
Mar 11
Katharina Ribbeck (MIT)
Mar 18
Yael David (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Apr 08
Aaron Esser-Kahn (Univ of Chicago)
Apr 15
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Becker (Univ of Vienna)
Apr 22
Christoph Rademacher (Max Planck Institute)
Apr 29
Erick Strauss (Stellenbosch Univ)
May 13
Tim Bugni (Univ of Wisconsin)
May 20
Danica Fujimori (Univ of California, San Francisco)
May 27*
Lynne Regan (Univ of Edinburgh)
*Sponsored by the CBL Women in Chemistry
Fall 2020 Virtual Series
Sep 17
Cliff Stains (Univ of Virginia)
"Chemical Approaches for Interrogating Cellular Processes"
Sep 24
Nir London (Weizmann Institute of Science)
“From covalent inhibitors to covalent PROTACs”
Oct 08
Alison Tebo (Janelia Research Campus)
“Imaging Cellular Processes Using Chemical-Genetic Tools”
Oct 22
Christian Olsen (Univ of Copenhagen)
"Cyclic Peptides for Investigating Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Enzymes and Bacterial Communication"
Oct 29*
Christine Szymanski (Univ of Georgia)
"Exploiting Protein N-glycosylation in Campylobacter"
*Sponsored by the CBL Women in Chemistry
Nov 12
Dorothea Fiedler (FMP-Berlin)
"Inositol Pyrophosphates – Multimodal Messengers Interrogated with Chemical Tools”
Nov 19
Rob Batey (Univ of Colorado)
"Small molecule-RNA interactions from biology to application"
Dec 03
Elisa Fadda (Maynooth Univ)
"Functional role of the glycan shield in the activation of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein”
Spring 2020 Virtual Series
Apr 02
Lingyin Li (Stanford Univ)
“Understand the extracellular cGAMP-STING pathway and harness it to treat cancers”
May 28
Christian P. R. Hackenberger (Humboldt Univ and FMP-Berlin)
“The power of chemoselectivity: Functional protein-conjugates for intra- and extracellular targeting”
Jun 04
Ali Tavassoli (Univ of Southampton)
“Platforms for the generation and high-throughput screening of cyclic peptide libraries”
Jun 11
Alison Narayan (Univ of Michigan)
“Biocatalysis and complex molecule synthesis”
Jun 18
Jeremy M. Baskin (Cornell University)
“Chemical Tools that IMPACT Lipid Signaling”
All seminars are given at NCI-Frederick on Thursdays at 10:00am in the Building 549 Auditorium, unless otherwise stated.
Spring 2020
Jan 23
Jaclyn Winter (Univ of Utah)
"Developing Microorganisms for Drug Discovery"
Feb 13
Brian Shoichet (Univ of California, San Fransicso)
"Docking >500 million available molecules to discover new chemotypes with new biology"
Fall 2019
Sep 12
Ron Raines (MIT)
"Ghost Proteins"
Sep 26
Yamuna Krishnan (Univ of Chicago)
“Quantitative Chemical Imaging in Live Cells”
Oct 03
Robert Cichewicz (Univ of Oklahoma)
“Seeking the Forest for the Trees: Finding Patterns and Chemistry Encompassing 3,531,905 Square Miles of Fungal Habitat”
Oct 10
Doug Johnson (Biogen)
“Application of Chemical Biology Probes and Bioorthogonal Chemistry in Drug Discovery”
Oct 24
Bobby Arora (New York Univ)
"Rational Design Strategies for Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions in Cancer"
Nov 07
Michael Cohen (Oregon Health & Science Univ)
“Decoding Protein ADP-ribosylation Networks in Cells Using Chemistry-based Approaches"
Nov 21
Eric Strieter (UMass-Amherst)
"Uncovering the Cryptic Functions of a Deubiquitinase"
Dec 05*
Kristi Kiick (Univ of Delaware)
"Phase-Separating (POLY)Peptides in the Design of Advanced Biomaterials"
*Sponsored by the CBL Women in Chemistry
Dec 12
Mano Manoharan (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals)
“Biometric Chemistry of Human RNAi Therapeutics”
Spring 2019
Mar 07
Miguel Castanho (Univ of Lisbon, Portugal)
“Membrane-targeting peptides: from antimicrobial to anticancer”
Mar 21
Dirk Trauner (New York Univ)
"Controlling Protein Levels and Function with Photopharmacology"
Apr 04
Eric Kool (Stanford Univ)
“Small Molecules for Study and Control of RNA”
Apr 25
Rahul Kohli (Univ of Pennsylvania)
“Capturing TET-mediated DNA demethylation in action”
May 09
Dehua Pei (The Ohio State Univ)
“Drugging “Undruggable” Targets with Macrocyclic Peptides”
May 23
Kai Johnsson (Max Planck Institute)
"Fluorescent and Bioluminescent Sensor Proteins"
May 30
Hendrik Luesch (Univ of Florida)
"Natural Products from Marine Cyanobacteria as Starting Points for Drug Discovery and Development"
Fall 2018
Sep 20
Rick Wagner (University of Minnesota)
"Non-Genetic Engineering of Cell-Cell Interactions for Cancer Immunotherapy and Beyond"
Sep 27
Lou Charkoutian (Haverford University)
“Capturing transient interactions of proteins involved in natural product biosynthesis”
Oct 04
Jen Heemstra (Emory University)
“Small-molecule detection and enantiopurity measurement using DNA-based sensors”
Oct 25
Mary Kay Pflum (Wayne State University)
"Histone Deacetylase Proteins: Inhibitor Design and Substrate Identification"
Nov 08*
Laura Kiessling (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Probes of Dendritic Cell Lectins”
*Sponsored by the CBL Women in Chemistry
Nov 29
Kamil Godula (University of California, San Diego)
“Chemical tools for tailoring glycan interactions at the cell-matrix interface”
Dec 06
Sarah Slavoff (Yale University)
"Translation and functions of small open reading frames"
Dec 13
Marcy Waters (University of North Carolina)
“New Tools for Studying Epigenetic Protein-Protein Interactions”
Spring 2018
Feb 15
Minkui Luo (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
"Chemical Interrogation of Protein Methyltransferases: Function, Inhibition and Mechanism”
Mar 01
Michelle Arkin (Univ of California, San Francisco)
"Tackling Challenging Drug Targets, a Biophysical Perspective"
Apr 19
Karen Wooley (Texas A&M Univ)
"Expanding the Scopes of Synthetic Organic and Polymer Chemistry"
May 03
Matt Francis (Univ of California, Berkeley)
"New Synthetic Tools for Making Protein-Based Material"
May 10
Nadja Cech (Univ of NC at Greensboro)
“Untargeted metabolomics to Identify Bioactive Natural Products: Getting from What’s here? to What matters?"
May 31
David Chenoweth (Univ of Pennsylvania)
"Design and synthesis of new chemical tools for probing, manipulating, and imaging biological systems"
Fall 2017
Sep 14
Brian Bachmann (Vanderbilt Univ)
"Discovery of primary tumor cell selective effector molecules using single cell multiplexed activity metabolomics"
Sep 21
Sam Achilefu (Washington Univ in St. Louis)
“Light-Mediated Cancer Imaging and Treatment”
Oct 05
M.G. Finn (Georgia Tech)
“Click Reactions and Protein Nanoparticles: Building Functional Structures with Chemistry and Molecular Biology”
Nov 02
Sid Hecht (Arizona State Univ)
“Protein synthesis with Non-proteinogenic Alpha and Non-alpha Amino Acids”
Nov 09
Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes (Univ of Delaware)
"Breaking down Bacterial Cell Walls to Understand Inflammation"
Nov 16
John Denu (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison)
"How Metabolism Informs the Epigenome"
Nov 30
Paola Castaldi (AstraZeneca)
“Chemical Biology Strategies Applied to Drug Discovery”
Dec 07
Bing Xu (Brandeis Univ)
“Enzyme-Instructed Peptidic Nanostructures for Selectively Inhibiting Cancer Cells”
Spring 2017
Jan 12
Dustin Maly (Univ of Washington)
“Allosteric Modulation of Protein Kinases with Small Molecule Inhibitors”
Mar 23
Michael Rossmann (Purdue Univ)
“The Structure of Zika Virus”
Mar 30
Alexei Demchenko (Univ of Missouri, St Louis)
“From Stereocontrolled Glycosylation to the Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis”
Apr 13
Ting Xu (Univ of California, Berkeley)
“Toward Protein/Peptide-based Functional Hybrid Materials”
Apr 20
Dennis Dougherty (California Institute of Technology)
“High-Precision Studies of Drug-Receptor Interactions in the Nicotinic Receptor”
Apr 27
Steven Zimmerman (Univ of Illinois, Urbana)
Targeting the DNA and RNA That Causes Disease Using Small Molecules and Polymers”
May 04
Eric Schmidt (Univ of Utah)
“Accessing novel structural and bioactivity classes of marine natural products”
May 11
Chris Vanderwal (Univ of California, Irvine)
“Synthesis Strategies to Address Bioactive Natural Product Families”
Fall 2016
Sep 8
Phil Cole (Johns Hopkins Univ)
"Bivalent Approaches to Drug Discovery"
Sep 29
Bruce Armitage (Carnegie Mellon Univ)
“Fluorescence Imaging Reagents Based on RNA Aptamers, Synthetic Polymers and Fluorogenic Cyanine Dyes”
Oct 6
Mark Distefano (Univ of Minnesota)
“Protein Lipid Modification: New Chemistry and New Biology”
Oct 20
Gary Martin (Merck)
“Evolving NMR Capabilities: The Impact on What is Possible”
Oct 27
Bradley Smith (Univ of Notre Dame)
“Near-infrared Fluorescent Multivalent Molecular Probes for Biological Imaging”
Nov 3
Danzhou Yang
“Structure and Function of DNA G-quadruplexes and Its Potential as Anticancer Drug Target”
Nov 10
John Magnani (GlycoMimetics)
“The design, evaluation and clinical development of novel glycomimetic drugs for inflammatory disease and cancer”
Nov 17
Dustin Maly (Univ of Washington)
“Allosteric Modulation of Protein Kinases with Small Molecule Inhibitors”
Dec 8
Eric Martin (Novartis)
"Profile-QSAR Gen 2: Deep learning Kinase IC
50
predictions for novel compounds as accurate as 4-pt IC
50
s"
Spring 2016
Jan 21
Michael Strano (Massachussetts Inst of Technology)
“Fluorescent Carbon Nanotube Sensor Arrays and CoPhMoRe Binding for Label Free Glycoprofiling”
Feb 18
Richard Houghten (Torrey Pines Inst for Molecular Studies)
“The Direct Phenotypic Screening in Mice Using Large and Chemically Diverse Combinatorial Libraries”
Mar 10
Ben Miller (Univ of Rochester)
“Altering Protein Recording with Synthetic RNA Binders in HIV and Beyond”
Mar 31
Alex Deiters (Univ of Pittsburgh)
“Optical Control of Biological Processes in Cells and Animals”
Apr 14
Dennis Discher (Univ of Pennsylvania)
“Macrophage Recognition of ‘Self’ for Nano-and Micro- applications against solid Tumors"
Apr 21
Susan Mooberry (Univ of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio)
“Looking to Nature to Discover Effective Treatments for Triple Negative Breast Cancers”
May 12
Kwaku (Theodore) Dayie (Univ of Maryland)
"Custom Made Nucleotides for RNA NMR"
Fall 2015
Sep 10
Rob Britton (Simon Fraser Univ)
“New Reactions and Strategies for Natural Product and Drug Synthesis”
Oct 8
David Piwnica-Worms (MD Anderson Cancer Ctr)
“Molecular Imaging Strategies for Dynamic High Throughput Screens”
Oct 15
Linda Baum (Univ of Cal – Los Angeles)
“Assembly of Glycan-lectin Lattices Creates Functional Microdomains on the Cell Surface”
Nov 5
Yitzhak Tor (Univ of Cal – San Diego)
“New Isomorphic Fluorescent Nucleosides for Studying RNA-based Processes”
Nov 19
Linda Hsieh Wilson (Cal Inst of Tech)
“Carbohydrate Signaling in Neurobiology and Cancer”
Dec 10
Kevin Gardner (City University of New York)
“Environmentally-controlled protein/protein interactions: Nature’s switches, scientists’ tools”
Spring 2015
Jan 22
Glenn Prestwich (University of Utah)
"Clinical Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine: From Bench to Business to Bedside"
Feb 5
Heran Darwin (New York University)
"Mycobacterium tuberculosis, proteasomes, pupylation and... plant hormones?"
Feb 12
Paul Thompson (University of Massachusettes Medical School)
"Picking the PADlock: Chemical Probes to Characterize PAD Biology"
Feb 26
Sean Brady (Rockefeller University)
"Watch where you step, there is new chemistry everywhere"
Mar 19
Patricia Clark (University of Notre Dame)
"Synonymous Codon Substitutions: Not So 'Silent' After All"
Apr 16
Sandra Lee (Merck, Inc)
"Discovery of Novel, Selective Spleen Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis"
Apr 23
Klaus Hahn (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
"Protein engineering to image and control Rho family GTPase signaling in motility"
May 14
Paul Hergenrother (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Anticancer drug discovery, from simple and complex compounds"
Fall 2014
Sep 18
James Bradner (Harvard Medical School/Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
"Chemical Modulation of Chromatin Structure and Function"
Oct 2
Roger Linington (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Connecting Phenotype and Chemotype: Development of an Integrated Platform for the Direct Prediction of Natural Products Mode of Action"
Oct 16
Jianghong Rao (Stanford University)
"A biocompatible condensation reaction between cyanobenzothiazole and aminothiol and its application for molecular imaging"
Oct 23
Jen Prescher (University of California, Irvine)
"Expanding the imaging toolbox"
Oct 30
Milan Mrksich (Northwestern University)
"Combining Arrays and Mass Spectrometry for High Throughput Discovery in Biology"
Nov 13
Joel Collier (University of Chicago)
"Supramolecular Peptide Immunomodulators"
Nov 20
Samie Jaffrey (Cornell University)
"Imaging RNA and RNA biology using RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein"
Dec 4
Amy Rosenzweig (Northwestern University)
"Copper, natural products, and biological methane oxidation"
Spring 2014
Mar 27
Luke Lavis (HHMI-Janelia Farms)
“Old Dyes, New Tricks: Building Better Fluorophores for Biology”
Apr 10
John Porco (Boston University)
“Chemical Synthesis and Biological Studies of Antitumor Natural Products”
Apr 24
Gregg Fields (Torrey Pines Inst. For Molecular Studies)
“Modulation of Cell Surface Proteolytic Activity”
May 1
Gary Sulikowski (Vanderbilt University)
“Synthesis and Study of Natural Products of Possible Relevance to Human Health”
May 15
Judith Frydman (Stanford University)
“Chaperone control of cellular proteostasis in health and disease”
May 29
Hening Lin (Cornell University)
“Sirtuins and novel protein posttranslational modifications”
June 5
Ron Schnaar (Johns Hopkins University)
“Glycan Recognition in the Control of Inflammation”
Fall 2013
Oct 24
Magid Abou-Gharbia (Temple University)
“Discovery of innovative therapeutics: Today’s realities and tomorrow’s vision”
Nov 7
John MacMillan (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
“Integration of microbial natural products with high-content screening for cancer drug discovery”
Nov 14
Sam Gellman (University of Wisconsin)
“Mimicry of Protein Surfaces with Alpha/Beta-Peptide Foldamers”
Nov 21
David Fushman (University of Maryland)
“Deciphering the “Ubiquitin Code”: Synthesis and Structure-Function Analysis of Non-Canonical Polyubiquitin Chains”
Dec 5
Tom Kodadek (The Scripps Research Institute - Florida)
“Chemical Tools to Monitor and Manipulate the Proteome”
Dec 12
Anna Mapp (University of Michigan)
“Small Molecule Transcriptional Modulators”
Dec 19
Ryan Looper (University of Utah)
“New methods to access biomedically interesting guanidinium ion scaffolds”
Spring 2013
Jan 31
Justin DuBois (Stanford University)
"Turning Toxins into Tools for the Study of Ion Channels"
Feb 21
Thomas Williamson (Merck, Inc)
"ADEQUATE: NMR Experiments With an Expanding Role in Structure Elucidation"
Apr 4
Angela Koehler (The Broad Institute)
“Small-molecule probe discovery for transcriptional regulators”
May 2
Chris Lima (MSKCC)
“Structural insights to post-translational modification by Ubiquitin and
Ubiquitin-like proteins”
May 23
Jeff Aube (University of Kansas)
“Chemical Probes”
May 30
Jon Thorson (University of Kentucky)
"New strategies and tools for natural product diversification and discovery"
Fall 2012
Aug 23
Julia Kornfield (Cal Tech)
"Crosslinking of Ocular Tissues"
Sep 20
Ron Koder (City College NY)
"Protein Design Approaches to Cancer Therapies"
Oct 4
Bill Gerwick (UCSD - SIO)
"The Fabulous Natural Products of Marine Cyanobacteria: Structures, Biological Activities, Biosynthetic Pathways"
Nov 8
Derek Tan (MSKCC)
"Diversity and Design: New Chemical Probes for Biology and Medicine"
Dec 13
David Spiegel (Yale University)
“Using Small Molecules to Engineer and Explore Human Immunity”
Spring 2012
Mar 1
John Toscano (Johns Hopkins University)
"Nitroxyl (HNO): Nitric Oxide's Neglected Sibling"
Mar 12*
Jim Wells (UCSF)
"Challenging Targets: Reaching for High Hanging Fruit in Drug Discovery"
*NOTE: This seminar is on MONDAY
Apr 5
Phil Dawson (TSRI)
"Chemical Ligation: From Post-Translationally Modified Proteins to Nanoparticle Engineering"
Apr 19
Paul Hanson (University of Kansas)
"Phosphate-Tether Mediated Methods to Bioactive Natural Products and Analogs"
May 3
David Lawrence (UNC at Chapel Hill)
"Cells Are Poor Cuvette Models: Challenges and Prospects of Molecular Probes for Intracellular Biochemistry"
May 24
Peter Wipf (University of Pittsburgh)
"In Search of the Silver Bullet- Redefining the Academic Drug Discovery Trajectory"
Fall 2011
Sep 15
Ted Molinski (UCSD)
"Marine Natural Products. Scope, Synthesis-Aided Discovery, and New Approaches"
Oct 6
Ben Shen (Scripps Florida)
"Natural Products Drug Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities"
Oct 13
Hai-Quan Mao (Johns Hopkins University)
"Controlled Condensation of DNA and Self-Assembled Polymer/DNA Micelles for Liver-Targeted Gene Delivery"
Nov 3
Carlito Lebrilla (UC - Davis)
"Quantitative Measurements of Protein Glycosylation in Diseases and Health"
Nov 10
Cheryl Arrowsmith (University of Toronto)
"Structural and Chemical Biology of Readers and Writers of the Histone Code"
Nov 17
Matt Bogyo (Stanford University)
"Probing Protease Function Using Small Molecules: Applications from Cancer to Malaria"
Dec 1
*
Kylie Walters (University of Minnesota)
"Targeting Proteins for Destruction"
*
Please note: This seminar will be at 11am instead of 10am.
Spring 2011
Jan 20
Jiyong Hong (Duke University)
"Natural Product Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology"
Feb 3
Chris Ireland (University of Utah)
"Antitumor Agents from Marine Organisms"
Feb 24
Matt Francis (University of California, Berkeley)
"New Chemical Methods for Site Selective Protein Modification"
Mar 24
Dan Kahne (Harvard University)
"How does a cell make more of itself"
Apr 14
Brad Moore (University of California, San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
"Genomics-inspired Discovery and Bioengineering of Natural Product Drugs"
May 5
Darrell Irvine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"New materials and new methods for cancer immunotherapy and vaccine delivery"
May 19
Bruce Yu (University of Maryland)
"Developing Imaging Agents for 19F MRI"
Fall 2010
Aug 19
Pieter Dorrestein (University of California, San Diego)
"Translating Adaptive Metabolism with Imaging Mass Spectrometry"
Sept 9
Peter Andreana (Wayne State University)
"Targeting Cellular Immunity with Entirely Carbohydrate-based Constructs"
Sept 16
David Corey (University of Texas Southwest Medical Center)
"Controlling Gene Expression with Synthetic Nucleic Acids"
Oct 7
Scott Miller (Yale University)
"Diverse Peptide-Based Catalysis for Diversification of Biologically Interesting Scaffolds"
Oct 21
Don Engleman (Yale University)
"pH-Dependent Transmembrane Peptide Insertion: Mechanism and Uses in Drug Delivery and Tumor Imaging"
Nov 18
Henry Kopecek (University of Utah)
"Smart Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Systems"
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