Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Advances in Peptide Engineering
Discussion Leader: Mary Miller (Rice University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Nils Preußke (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany)
"Visible-Light-Driven Photocontrol of the Trp-Cage Protein Fold"
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Discussion
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm
Bradley Rogers (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"A Stepwise Mechanism for Colloidal Phase Separation in Therapeutic Antibody Formulations"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Biological and Therapeutic Applications of Peptides
Discussion Leaders: Ross Cheloha (Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA) and Ariel Kuhn (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Katherine Albanese (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Role of Methionine in Recognition of Trimethyllysine by Epigenetic Reader Proteins"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Eleanor Atkinson (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Conformationally-Constrained Peptides to Inhibit the CK2a/β Protein-Protein Interaction"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Gagandeep Kaur (National Institute of Immunology, India)
"Halictine-2 Antimicrobial Peptide: Novel Drug Candidate Against Leishmania Infection"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Dennis Worm (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Targeting Bacterial Toxins with Antitoxin Peptide Mimics to Fight Persistent Bacterial Infections"
9:00 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm
Tania Lopez Silva (Rice University, USA)
"Chemical Functionality of Multidomain Peptide Hydrogels Governs Early Host Immune Responses"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Peptides: Tools for Discovery
Discussion Leaders: Sorina Chiorean (University of Alberta, Canada) and Douglas Walker (Rice University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Haopei Wang (Rice University, USA)
"Copper(II)-Promoted Peptide N-Terminal Arylation with Arylboronic Acid"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Carly Schissel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Machine Learning-Enabled Design of Cell-Penetrating Peptides"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Junhui Zhou (University of Delaware, USA)
"Peptidoglycan Fragment Microarray Platform for Human Immune System Investigation"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Vanessa Carle (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Phage Display Selection of Peptides that Resist Proteases in the Gastrointestinal Tract"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Haoyuan Wang (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Small Hydroxyl Group, Big Difference: Total Synthesis and Biological Characterization of Cyclic Peptide Natural Products A3 and Epi-A3"
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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leader: Zachary Gates (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Paths
Elizabeth Denton (Biotage, USA)
Jennifer Stockdill (Wayne State University, USA)
Andrei Yudin (University of Toronto, Canada)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
