Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Breakthroughs in Glycoscience
Discussion Leader: Jordan Meier (National Cancer Institute, NIH, United States)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
Linda Hsieh-Wilson (California Institute of Technology, United States)
"Research at the Interface of Chemistry and Neurobiology"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm
Laura Kiessling (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Chemical Biology to Elucidate the Biological Roles of Carbohydrates"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Chemical Biology and Targeting of Nucleic Acids
Discussion Leader: Huiqing Zhou (Boston College, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Blanton Tolbert (HHMI, United States)
"Molecular Mechanisms in RNA Viruses"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Sarah Keane (University of Michigan, United States)
"Regulation of MicroRNA Processing"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Kazuhiko Nakatani (Osaka University, Japan)
"Unveiling the Molecular Interaction: Small Molecule Discoveries in Nucleic Acids Interactions toward Therapeutic Innovations"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
Catherine Eichhorn (University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States)
"Integrated Methods to Visualize Structural Dynamics of Multistate RNAs"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
General Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Amanda Bryant-Friedrich (Wayne State University, United States)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Tools for Epigenetic and Epitranscriptomic Regulation
Discussion Leader: Denise Field (Pfizer, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Danica Fujimori (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"Discovery of Ligands for Chromatin Methylation Reader Domains"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm
Marcey Waters (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
"Mechanism-Based Approaches for Targeting Histone Reader Proteins"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease
Discussion Leader: Jennifer Heemstra (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Amanda Wolfe (University of North Carolina Asheville, United States)
"Strategies for Accessing Inner Membrane Antibiotic Targets in Gram-Negative Bacteria"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Danielle Dube (Bowdoin College, United States)
"Chemical Tools to Detect, Discover, and Disrupt Sugars on Pathogenic Bacteria"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Carole Bewley (NIH, United States)
"Collaborations With Nature for Antimicrobial and Natural Products Discovery"
11:00 am - 11:05 am
Discussion
11:05 am - 11:25 am
Krystle McLaughlin (Vassar College, United States)
"Investigating an Essential Complex In Conjugative Plasmid Transfer"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Bioorthogonal Reaction and Tagging Applications
Discussion Leader: Carole Bewley (NIH, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Jennifer Prescher (University of California, Irvine, United States)
"Bioluminescent Tools for Multi-Scale RNA Tracking"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm
Joshua Kritzer (Tufts University, United States)
"No-Wash Fluorogenic Assays Enabled by Engineered HaloTags"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
Yimon Aye (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
"Gut Feeling: Illuminating Atypical Stress-Sensing Mechanisms in the Gut Empowers New Therapeutic Opportunities"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Tool Development in Chemical Biology
Discussion Leader: Jennifer Petter (Arrakis Therapeutics, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Damian Young (Baylor College of Medicine, United States)
"The Development of Chemical Pathways to Probe Fundamental Biology"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Justin Rettenmaier (Jnana Therapeutics, United States)
"RAPID: Photoaffinity-Based High Throughput Ligand Discovery in Cells"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Adam Urbach (Trinity University, United States)
"Minimal Protein Affinity Tags"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
Pamela Peralta-Yahya (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Advances in Chemical Bioproduction"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Jason Gestwicki (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"Protein-Protein Interactions at C-Termini: Regulation of Protein Stability"
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
General Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Application of Chemical Tools in Toxicology
Discussion Leader: Fatima Rivas (Louisiana State University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Amanda Bryant-Friedrich (Wayne State University, United States)
"Naturally and Synthetically Modified Nucleosides and Nucleotides in the Determination of Disease Etiology"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm
Shana Sturla (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Mapping the Chemistry of Genotoxicity"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Advances and Applications in Mass Spectroscopy
Discussion Leader: Jason Thomas (Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Judith Simcox (University of Wisconsin Madison, United States)
"Inter-Organ Communication Through Lipid Derived Metabolites"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Chris Whidbey (Seattle University, United States)
"Activity-Based Protein Profiling: Using Mass Spectrometry to Find and Study Enzymes in Microbiomes"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Liron Bar-Peled (MGH Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, United States)
"An 'Omics Approach to Drug Discovery"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
Heather Murrey (Scorpion Therapeutics, United States)
"Covalent Drug Discovery Strategies to Tackle Challenging Cancer Targets"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Peptides as Tools to Understand Biology
Discussion Leader: Daniel Nomura (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
James Checco (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States)
"Unraveling the Signaling of Endogenous Cell-Cell Signaling Peptides"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm
Krishna Kumar (Tufts University, United States)
"Two Bites at the Apple: Molecular Design and Repair of Peptide Therapeutics"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
Samuel Gellman (University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States)
"Foldamers as Tools to Influence Chemistry and Society"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
General Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure