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Presented By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Life Sciences Institute Annual Symposium

Chemical Biology: Rise of the Cellular Machines

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SCHEDULE
8:15 a.m. | Welcome
Stephen J. Weiss, M.D.
Interim Director, Life Sciences Institute; Upjohn Professor of Internal Medicine and Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School

8:30 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

8:40 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture:
The Split Personality of Human O-GlcNAc Transferase
Suzanne Walker, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School

Morning Break

10:00 a.m. | The Structure of the Nuclear Pore
André Hoelz, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

10:55 a.m. | The structural Basis for Signal Transmission at Chemical Synapses of the Brain
Eric Gouaux, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute, Jennifer and Bernard Lacroute Term Chair in Neuroscience Research, Oregon Health and Science University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. | Targeting Cullin Ring Ligases by Inhibiting the DCN1-UBC12 Interaction
R. Kiplin Guy, Ph.D.
Robert J. Ulrich Chair of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

1:55 p.m. | Engineering Chemistry in Living Cells
Michelle Chang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Afternoon Break

3:15 p.m. | Elucidating and Understanding Plant Metabolic Pathways
Sarah O’Connor, Ph.D.
Project Leader and Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, U.K.

4:10 p.m. | CoREST in Peace: A Dual Action Inhibitor of Histone Demethylase and Deacetylase
Philip Cole, M.D., Ph.D.
Marshall-Maren Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

5 p.m. | Closing Remarks

More details at http://lsi.science/cell-machines
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