MIT Chemistry and the Broad Institute 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.
2025-2026 Speakers
05/18/2026
Discovery and Engineering of New Enzymes for Biocatalysis
Michelle Chang Princeton University
04/27/2026
Developing and Harnessing Stem Cell-Derived Models to Uncover the Genetic Drivers of Multi-Organ Functional Anomalies
Samira Musah Duke University
04/13/2026
Systems Chemical Biology Approach to Antibiotic Discovery
Deb Hung Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
11/03/2025
Covalent drug discovery: from serendipity to clinical trials
Jack Taunton UCSF
2024-2025 Speakers
05/12/2025
Structural plasticity in alphavirus interactions with cellular receptors [recording]
Jonathan Abraham Harvard Medical School
04/28/2025
Directed and Random Walks in Chemical Space [recording]
Brian Shoichet UCSF
03/03/2025
Molecular Glues - from Protein Degradation to Transcription Factor Reprogramming [recording]