MIT Chemistry and the ӳý host monthly seminars in chemical biology with the intent to hear from the thought-leaders and bring together chemical biologists from both academia and industry in the Boston/Cambridge area.
2024-2025 Speakers
05/12/2025
TBD
Jonathan Abraham
Harvard Medical School
04/28/2025
TBD
Brian Shoicet
UCSF
03/03/2025
TBD
Nathanael Gray
Stanford University
02/24/2025
TBD
Phil Holliger
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
02/10/2025
TBD
Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11/04/2024
Eavesdropping on the Gut Microbiome
Jim Wells
UCSF
10/07/2024
Disorder Rules: Transcription Factors
H. Jane Dyson
Scripps Research Institute
09/23/2024
Eavesdropping on the Gut Microbiome
Jon Clardy
Harvard Medical School
2023-2024 Speakers
05/20/2024
Decoding Glycosaminoglycans and Their Roles in Neuroplasticity
Linda Hsieh-Wilson
Caltech
04/29/2024
GPCR to channel communication in a membrane signaling pathway
Rod MacKinnon
Rockefeller University
04/22/2024
Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene, K-Ras
Kevan Shokat
UCSF
04/08/2024
Molecular origami: Understanding how proteins fold and misfold in living cells
Judith Frydman
Stanford University
03/25/2024
Deciphering the mechanisms of lipid trafficking in bacteria
Laura Dassama
Stanford University
02/05/2024
Recording the Physiological History of Cells with Chemical Labeling
Kai Johnsson
Max Planck Institute
01/29/2024
Activity-based proteomics – protein and ligand discovery on a global scale
Ben Cravatt
Scripps Research Institute
01/08/2024
Two medicines that have saved at least 100 million lives
Ed Scolnick
ӳý
11/06/2023
Biological and technological frontiers for single-cell proteomics
Nikolai Slavov
Northeastern University
10/02/2023
Making it stick: How to engineer selective covalent ligands for diverse applications in biology
Matt Bogyo
Stanford University
05/08/2023
Chemical Biology of extracellular cGAMP signaling in health and disease
Lingyin Li
Stanford University
04/24/2023
Multum in parvo—The mechanism of a protein antibiotic
Bill Clemons
California Institute of Technology
04/03/2023
A radical solution for C(sp3)—C(sp3) bond formation during the biosynthesis of macrocyclic membrane lipids
Squire Booker
Pennsylvania State University
03/06/2023
Reprogramming the Genetic Code
Jason Chin
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
02/27/2023
The development of chemical probes of histone “reader” subunits of chromatin remodeling complexes
Emily Dykhuizen
Purdue University
02/06/2023
Pharmacological Adaptation of Proteostasis to Ameliorate Aging-associated Degenerative Diseases
Jeffrey Kelly
Scripps Research Institute
01/30/2023
RNA modification in gene expression regulation
Chuan He
The University of Chicago; HHMI
2019-2022 Speakers
11/21/2022
Biomolecular condensates: new insights into regulation and dysregulation of cellular compartments
Richard Young
Whitehead Institute; MIT
10/24/2022
Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Chemistry on the Genome without Double—Strand DNA Breaks
David Liu
ӳý; Harvard University; HHMI
09/19/2022
Exploring protein-glycan interactions in immunity
Laura Kiessling
MIT
02/24/2020
Lipid and light-driven tools for cell biology
Carsten Schultz
Oregon Health; Science University
12/09/2019
Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms
Daniel K. Nomura
University of California, Berkeley
11/04/2019
Deciphering the Human Microbiota with Chemistry
Emily Balskus
Harvard University
10/15/2019
Pseudo Natural Products - Chemical Evolution of Natural Product Structure