Regular program meetings draw participants from many research communities to share cutting-edge research and brainstorm new project ideas in a wide variety of fields relevant to chemical biology and therapeutics science.
Past Speakers
Speaker
Topic
Casey Krusemark
Encoding chemicals and assays with DNA: Applications in Medicinal Chemistry and Biology
Morgan Sheng
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: from human genetics towards mechanisms and therapeutics
Malvina Papanastasiou
Structural insights into the LSD1 N-terminus using hydrogen/deuterium exchange-mass spectrometry
Amanda Waterbury
The LSD1 N-terminus modulates transcription factor partitioning and enhancer decommissioning
Nicholas Polizzi
Designing ligand-binding proteins from scratch
Alec Agee
Characterizing biological electron transfer to bio-inspired polymers
Xin Zhou
Designing new protein functions for proteoform editing and biosensing
Xingcheng "Cindy" Zhou
Engineering point-of-care electrochemical diagnostics for infectious diseases
Breanna Zerfas
Development of a bifunctional protein tag to advance targeted protein degradation research
Conghui Yao
Untargeted metabolomics reveals novel metabolic markers for T cell activation
Amedeo Vetere
Smelling the glucose: Stimulating insulin secretion through olfactory receptor activation
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.
Past Speakers
Speaker
Topic
Jeffery Kelly
Pharmacological Adaptation of Proteostasis to Ameliorate Aging-associated Degenerative Diseases
Chuan He
RNA modification in gene expression regulation
Richard Young
Biomolecular condensates: new insights into regulation and dysregulation of cellular compartments
David Liu
Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Chemistry on the Genome without Double—Strand DNA Breaks