
First name | Last name | Affiliation | Speaker title |
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Karen | Allen | Boston University, Department of Chemistry | Structure-guided Insight into Function, Mechanism and Evolution of Enzymes in Bacterial Glycoconjugate Synthesis |
Emily | Balskus | Harvard University | Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World |
Vahe | Bandarian | University of Utah | Discovery and mechanisms of natural product biosynthetic enzymes |
Ruma | Banerjee | University of Michigan | Signaling through sulfide |
Albert | Bowers | UNC Chapel Hill | Exploring Post-translational Enzymology by mRNA Display. |
Rachelle | Copeland | Codexis, Inc. | Production of ethylene and other industrial chemicals by an unusual Fe/2OG-dependent oxygenase |
Benjamin | Cravatt | The Scripps Research Institute | Activity-based proteomics – target and ligand discovery on a global scale |
Danica | Galonic Fujimori | University of California, San Francisco | Directed Evolution of a Ribosome Methylating Enzyme |
Ruben | Gonzalez | Columbia University | From fluctuations to function: The role of structural dynamics in translation |
Tyler | Grove | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | TBA |
Dan | Herschlag | Stanford University | New and needed tools to understand enzymes |
Donald | Hilvert | ETH Zurich | Design and evolution of artificial metalloenzymes |
Tina | Iverson | Vanderbilt University | Roles of succinate dehydrogenase assembly factors in catalysis |
Dorothee | Kern | Brandeis University/HHMI | “Time Travel to the Past and Future – Evolution of energy landscapes for enzymes catalysis” |
Bo | Li | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Natural product biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Hung-wen | Liu | University of Texas at Austin | Recent progress on study of sugar biosynthesis |
Steven | Mansoorabadi | Auburn University | C-ing is Believing: Characterization of a Novel Heme Oxygenase from Paracoccus denitrificans |
John | McIntosh | Merck | Biocatalytic cascades applied to nucleoside and nucleotide therapeutics |
Drake | Mellott | Agios Pharmaceuticals | Covalent Drug Discovery and Kinetics in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and SARS-CoV-2 |
Doug | Mitchell | UIUC | Peptide Backbone Thioamidation |
Bradley | Moore | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Biosynthesis of marine terpenoid natural products |
Sarah | O'Connor | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology | Harnessing the chemistry from plants |
Frank | Raushel | Texas A&M University | Biosynthesis of the Capsular Polysaccharide in Campylobacter jejuni |
Katherine | Ryan | University of British Columbia | Building heterocyclic natural products |