Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Peptides
in Infectious Diseases |
| Discussion Leaders: Tracy Stone (Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) and Anna Maria Papini (University of Florence, Italy / University of Cergy-Pontoise, France) |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Nir Qvit (Stanford University, USA) "A Rational Design of Novel Inhibitors Inhibiting Kinetoplastid Infectious Disease" |
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
4:05 pm - 4:25 pm | Don Nguyen (University of California, San Diego, USA) "The Peptidic Toolbox of Pseudomonas" |
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Structure Activity Relationships of Peptide Therapeutics |
| Discussion Leaders: Arundhati Nag (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Gozde Ulas (University of California, San Francisco, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Marlies Hager (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) "Backbone Modification of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Induces Conformational Selectivity at the GLP-1 Receptor" |
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Aswini Giri (University of Arizona, USA) "Peptide Based Multifunctional Molecules with Agonist Activities at MOR/DOR and Antagonist Activity at NK1R for the Treatment of Pain" |
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Jean-Daniel Malcor (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) "The Synthesis and Coupling of Photoreactive Collagen-Based Peptides to Restore Integrin Reactivity to Chemically-Crosslinked Collagen" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Daniel Baxter (University of Bath, United Kingdom) "Cell-Permeable Helix-Constrained Peptides Inhibit Activator Protein-1 and Reduce Cancer Cell Viability" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Soohyun Kwon (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia) "Application of Sortase A in Disulfide-Rich Peptide Engineering" |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Ivan Zemskov (Universitat Konstanz, Germany) "Total Synthesis of Microcystins and Unnatural Derivatives Thereof" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Applying Peptides for the Greater Good |
| Discussion Leaders: Mingxun Wang (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Jessica Wynn (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Mark Walker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) "Yeast Surface Display of Ribosomally Synthesized and Post-Translationally Modified Peptides" |
9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
9:20 am - 9:35 am | Sarah Apple (University of Utah, USA) "Design of a Trimeric D-Peptide Ebolavirus Entry Inhibitor" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Christina Schroeder (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Australia) "Rational Design and Synthesis of a Novel Membrane Binding NaV1.8 Selective Inhibitor with In Vivo Activity in Pain Models" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Svetlana Ikonomova (University of Maryland, USA) "Effect of Lysine Substitution on Degradation of Histatin-5 by Candida albicans Secreted Aspartic Proteases" |
10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Tyson Moyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Tuning Multimeric Architecture of Peptide Antigens on Nanoparticles in Vaccine Design" |
10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 10:55 am | Rosemary Adaba (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) "Isolation and Standard Free Quantification of Cyclic Peptides" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Career Panel |
| Discussion Leaders: Cody Lensing (University of Minnesota, USA) and Astrid Knuhtsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Career Paths: Navigating the Journey" |
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- Thomas Kodadek (The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, USA)
- William Pomerantz (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Natia Tsomaia (Ipsen, USA)
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2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |