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 | Keynote Session: The Future of Chemical Biology |
| Discussion Leader: Justin Rettenmaier (University of California, San Francisco, USA) |
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm | Jay Bradner (Harvard Medical School, USA) "Chemical Biology in the Post-Genomic Era" |
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 | Advances in Synthetic Chemistry and Peptidomimetics |
| Discussion Leader: Zachary Hill (University of California, San Francisco, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Vanessa Kung (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) "Design and Characterization of Peptides that Adopt Amyloid-Like Folds in Aqueous Solution" |
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Kimberly Geoghegan (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "Bespoke SnAP Reagents for the Synthesis of Spirocyclic and Bicyclic N-Heterocycles" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Melanie Trobe (Graz University of Technology, Austria) "A Modular Synthesis of Teraryl-Based Alpha-Helix Mimetics for Inhibition of Protein-Protein-Interactions" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm | Andrew MacConnell (The Scripps Research Institute, USA) "DNA-Encoded Solid Phase Synthesis: Encoding Language Design and Complex Oligomer Synthesis" |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Keith Bentley (Georgetown University, USA) "Simultaneous Determination of the Enantiomeric Excess and Concentration of Chiral Compounds from a Crude Reaction Mixture with a Chiroptical Sensor" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Development of Chemical Tools to Interrogate Biology |
| Discussion Leader: Lindsay Repka (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Joshua Judkins (Pfizer Neuroscience, USA) "Development and Application of a Chemical Probe for the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor" |
9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
9:25 am - 9:45 am | Cynthia Chio (University of California, Irvine, USA) "Rational Design of Allosteric-Inhibition Sites in Classical Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases" |
9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Bryon Drown (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) "Chemical Methods to Measure and Modulate ADP-Ribosylhydrolase Activities" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:35 am | JingXin Liang (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Addressing Geographic Diversity in Malarial Biomarkers with Epitope-Catalyzed Screening" |
10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 10:55 am | Monica Kasbekar (National Institutes of Health, USA) "Discovery of a Selective Inhibitor of the Fumarase Enzyme of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" |
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 | Finding Vulnerabilities of Cancer and Malaria |
| Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Parkinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Sofia Santos (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) "Plasmodium tRNA Synthetases as Next Generation Druggable Dual-Stage Targets for Malaria Elimination" |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Landon Edgar (University of Toronto, Canada) "Organotellurium Probes for Quantitative, Multiparameter Biology: A Study in Cellular Hypoxia" |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |