Joint Seminars in Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Chemistry

Date

Speaker

Title

January 27

Xiaoyan Chen
(Chemistry)

Genome Mining for Natural Antimicrobial Combinations

February 3

Leslie Aldrich, PhD
(University of Illinois at Chicago)

Building Biological Performance Diversity and Chasing Challenging Targets for Probe and Drug Discovery

February 10

Jessica Umana
(CBMC)

Zinc Finger-Chemical Epigenetic Modifier Mediated Regulation of Adeno-Associated Virus Transgene Expression

February 17

Ju-sung Kim
(Chemistry)

Development of Selective Peptide-Based Reporters for Measurement of Protein Kinase Activity

February 24

Winston Arney
(Chemistry)

Discovery of Functional Ligands for RNA

March 3

Catherine Drennan, PhD
(MIT)

Capturing Snapshots of Metalloenzymes in Action

March 10

Ben Davis, PhD
(University of Oxford)

Sugars and Proteins

March 17

Bryce Hart
(CBMC)

Development and Characterization of Chemical Probes for Polycomb Chromodomains

March 24

Caitlin Johnson
(Chemistry)

Probing the Effect of Mutations on the Conformational Landscape of DNA Mismatch Repair Protein MutS

March 31

Jack Eicher
(Chemistry)

Structural Analysis of Tardigrade Desiccation-tolerance Proteins

April 7

Bree Iskandar
(CBMC)

Using Promiscuous tRNA Synthetases to Expand the Chemical Diversity of mRNA Display

April 14

TBD

TBD

April 21

Patric Sadecki
(Chemistry)

Proteomic Response of Polymyxin Resistant Escherichia Coli