Chemical Insights into Biological Processes
August 15-16, 2008

Program

Friday, August 15th

8:00-8:30 am   R. Andrew Byrd, Ph.D., Director, Molecular Discovery Program, CCR
Welcoming Remarks
 
8:30-9:00 am   Gregory L. Verdine, Ph.D., Harvard University
Cancer Chemical Biology
 
9:00-9:30 am   Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Imaging the Glycome
 
9:30-10:00 am   Benjamin F. Cravatt III, Ph.D., Skaggs Institute/Chemical Biology, Scripps
Mapping Pathways in Human Disease by Activity-Based Proteomics & Metabolomics
 

10:00-10:30 am   Coffee Break  

10:30-11:00 am   Jon Clardy, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Ecological insights into Small Molecule Discovery, Biosynthesis, and Evolution
 
11:00-11:30 am   Peter Schultz, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute
Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology
 
11:30-12:00 pm   Craig Thomas, Ph.D., Chemical Genomics Center, NIH
Integrating Chemistry with Biology at the NIH: Big Challenges and Bigger Opportunities
 

12:00-1:30 pm   Poster Session with Refreshments  

1:30-2:00 pm   Angela Belcher, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From Nature & Back Again: Giving New life to Materials for Energy, Environment & Medicine
 
2:00-2:30 pm   James R. Heath, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Systems Biology-Driven Technologies for In Vitro Diagnosis & Analysis of Cancer
 
2:30-3:00 pm   Laura L. Kiessling, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Low-Affinity Interactions for High-Specificity Tumor Cell Targeting
 

3:00-3:30 pm   Coffee Break  

3:30-4:00 pm   Lawrence Marnett, Ph.D., Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology
Targeting Cyclooxygenase-2 for Cancer Imaging and Therapeutics
 
4:00-4:30 pm   Milan Mrksich, Ph.D., University of Chicago
BioChips Without the Labels: Applications to Histone Modification
 
4:30-5:00 pm   Amy Jacobs, Ph.D., CCR Nanobiology Program
Probing Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins During Membrane Fusion
 

5:00-7:00 pm   Poster Session with Refreshments  

Saturday, August 16th

8:30-9:00 am   Alanna Schepartz, Ph.D., Yale University
Imaging Protein Assembly and Trafficking in Live Cells Without Fluorescent Proteins
 
9:00-9:30 am   Mike E. Jung, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Rational Drug Design for the Treatment of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer
 
9:30-10:00 am   Cynthia J. Burrows, Ph.D., University of Utah
Chemistry and Biology of Oxidative DNA Damage
 

10:00-10:30 am   Coffee Break  

10:30-11:00 am   Elio Abbondanzieri, Ph.D., Harvard University
Molecular Gymnastics: Dynamic Binding Orientations of HIV Reverse Transcriptase
 
11:00-11:30 am   Moungi G. Bawendi, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Designing Quantum Dots for Biological and Biomedical Imaging
 
11:30-12:00 pm   Yves Pommier, Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, CCR
Non-Camptothecin Topoisomerase I Inhibitors: a 10 Year Odyssey


Contact Information

For Scientific Information:
contact Janelle Cortner
(301-846-5712)

For Registration / Conference Information:
contact Julia Lam
(301-228-4027)

Location

Hood College
401 Rosemont Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701

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