Chemical Biology Colloquium seminars feature invited speakers from outside the University of Minnesota.
2021-2022
-September 13-
Dr. Laura Sanchez, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Mass Spectrometry Applications for Studying Ovarian Cancer"
-September 27-
Dr. Kate Adamala, Professor
Dept. Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota
“Fake Life, Real Biology: Investigating the Chemistry of Life with Synthetic Cells”
-October 11-
Dr. Raymond Moellering, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
"Chemical Platforms to Map & Manipulate Transcription Factor Signaling in Disease"
-October 25-
Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (CBITG) Event
Hunter Wilson, Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran)
Dept. Chemistry, University of Minnesota
“A secondary coordination sphere residue prevents unproductive oxidation in an iron halogenase”
Shelby Auger, Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Mark Distefano)
Dept. Chemistry, University of Minnesota
“The Next Frontier: Prenylomic analysis of Alzheimer’s disease in mice”
-November 8-
Dr. Benjamin Miller, Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Rochester Medical Center
"The 'Evolve, Sculpt, Deliver' Approach to RNA-Targeted Compound Discovery"
-November 22-
Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (CBITG) Event
Dr. Tom Kono & Dr. Christy Henzler
MSI Research Informatics Solutions
“Preventing headaches with good experimental design and data management”
-December 6-
Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (CBITG) Event
Dr. Gunda Georg & Dr. Will Pomerantz
University of Minnesota “Scientific Publications and Grant Writing”
-January 24-
Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (CBITG) Event
Dr. Romas Kazlauskas (BMBB) & Dr. Erin Carlson (Chemistry)
University of Minnesota
“Career Tracks in Chemical Biology: Biotech, Research Tools, Patents.”
-February 21-
Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (CBITG) Event
Brandi McKnight, Graduate Student
Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
“Utilizing CSANs for Specific Delivery of Microglial Progenitors to Brain Endothelium”
Parker Flanders, Graduate Student
Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
“Probing β-Lactone Interactions with Penicillin-Binding Proteins (PBPs) via Structural Biology and Molecular Dynamics”
-March 7- VIRTUAL
**Student-Invited Speaker**
Dr. Cigall Kadoch, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
"Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer"
-March 21-
Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (CBITG) Event
TBA
-April 18- VIRTUAL
Dr. Keriann Backus, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
“Expanding the Activity-based Chemoproteomic Toolbox”
-May 2-
Dr. Andrew C. Kruse, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
“Molecular Mechanisms of G Protein-coupled Receptor Activation”
2020-2021
Chemical Biology Initiative Training Grant (CBITG)
Workshop on Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship
February 8, 2021
Dr. Lalit Deshmukh
Assistant Professor
Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California San Diego
"ALIX in Wonderland: Multivalency, Phosphorylation-mediated Amyloids, Autoinhibition, and Endosomal Membrane Interactions"
Chemical Biology Initiative Training Grant (CBITG)
Workshop on Ethics
Moderators: Professors Reuben Harris and Burckhard Seelig
Dr. Matthew Bogyo
Professor
Dept. Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University
"New Strategies for the Design of Imaging Contrast Agents that Target Hydrolyses Involved in Cancer and Infectious Disease"
March 22, 2021
Chemical Biology Initiative Training Grant (CBITG)
Zoë Maxwell, Graduate Student (Arriaga Lab)
Andrew Northwick, Graduate Student (Carlson Lab)
Dr. Peter S. Kim
Stanford University
"Preventing Infectious Disease with Vaccines"
Dr. Jennifer M. Heemstra
Emory University
"A Chemical Biology Toolbox for RNA Post-transcriptional Modification and Capture"
May 3, 2021 - CANCELLED
Chemical Biology Initiative Training Grant (CBITG)
May 17, 2021
Dr. Yong (Tiger) Zhang
"NAD+ Mimics for Biomedical Research"
2019-2020
-SEPTEMBER 9-
CBITG Flash Talks
-SEPTEMBER 23-
Joseph Heili, Graduate Student, Engelhart Lab, Dept. Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota
"Activation of Caged Functional RNAs by Oxidative Desulfurization of 2-thiouridine"
-OCTOBER 7-
Dr. Amanda C. Bryant-Friedrich, Interim Dean, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Toledo, Director, Shimadzu Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Research Excellence
"DNA Damage and Ionizing Radiation: Reactivity and Fate of 2’-Deoxyribose Radicals"
-OCTOBER 21-
Alex Strom, Graduate Student, Wagner Lab, Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
-NOVEMBER 4-
Dr. Emily Day, Assistant Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware
"Controlling Nanoparticle Architecture to Enable High Precision Therapy"
-NOVEMBER 18-
Erik Faber, Graduate Student, Georg Lab, Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
"Development of Allosteric Inhibitors Against Cyclin-dependent Kinase 2 (Cdk2)"
Ellie Mews, Graduate Student, Wagner Lab, Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
"Antigenic Analysis of Medullospheres from Daoy and ONS76 Cells: 3D Methods of In Vitro Culturing"
-DECEMBER 2-
Dr. Jeffrey Gildersleeve, Head, Chemical Glycobiology Section, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
"Understanding and Exploiting Immune Recognition of Carbohydrates"
-DECEMBER 16-
Dr. Nate Brown, Postdoctoral Associate, Carlson Lab, Dept. Chemistry, University of Minnesota
"Bioorthogonal Activity-based Probes"
Dr. Anil Pandey, Postdoctoral Associate, Pomerantz Lab, Dept. Chemistry, University of Minnesota
"Synthesis and Development of 1,4-thiazepanones and Thiazepanes for 3D-screening Library and Selective Bromodomain Inhibitors"
-JANUARY 27-
Dr. Neel Joshi, Associate Professor and Core Faculty Member, Department of Biological Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute for Biology Inspired Engineering Harvard University
"Biologically Fabricated Materials from Engineered Microbes"
-FEBRUARY 10-
Kassidy Tompkins, Graduate Student, Gordon Lab, Dept. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota
“Uncovering and Exploiting HUH-endonuclease ssDNA Recognition for Protein-DNA Bioconjugation”
Dr. Rick Wagner, Professor and Endowed Chair, Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
“So You Want to Publish a Paper? Do’s and Don’ts”
-FEBRUARY 24-
Joshua Shirley, Graduate Student, Dept. Chemistry, University of Minnesota
"Developing Methods to Study Penicillin-Binding Proteins"
Dr. Neeraj Mishra, Postdoctoral Associate, Aldrich Lab, Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
“Can Homoserine TransAcetylase (HTA) be Achilles’s heel of M. tuberculosis?”
-MARCH 2-
Dr. Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President for Research, Associate Department Chair, Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota
“Understanding Research Misconduct”
2018-2019 Colloquium Series
2017-2018 Colloquium Series
Chemical Biology Training Grant Student Flash Talks
Kevin G. Rice, Professor, Dept. Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Iowa
Wenshe Liu, Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Texas A&M University
Bryan Dickinson, Assistant Professor, Dept. Chemistry, University of Chicago
Amanda Hargrove, Assistant Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Duke University
“Deciphering Patterns in Selective Small Molecule:RNA Interactions”
John Santini, President and CEO, ApoGen BioTechnologies
Dustin Maly, Professor and Raymon E. and Rosellen M. Lawton Distinguished Scholar, Dept. Chemistry, University of Washington
Jenna Fernandez, Graduate Student, Tretyakova Lab, Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota
“Identification of Specific Readers of Epigenetic Modifications in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells Using a Quantitative Proteomics Approach”
“Photochemically Responsive Nucleosides as Biological Tools”
2016-2017 Colloquium Series
Martin Schnermann, Investigator, Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute
“Remodeling the Cyanine Scaffold for New Applications in Drug Delivery and Imaging”
(Note seminar will be in 5-125 Moos)
Chemical Biology Training Grant Student Talks - Carter Eiden & Sara Coulup
"Kinetic Characterization and Rational Optimization of Mechanism-Based Inhibitors of BioA"
"Toward the Design and Synthesis of Stabilized Pironetin Analogs"
Aaron Englehart, Assistant Professor, Dept. Genetics and Cell Development, University of Minnesota
"Bioorganic Nucleic Acids Chemistry in Primitive and Modern Biology"
Keith Wood, Head of Research, Advanced Technologies, Promega Corporation
Senior Research Fellow
“Interrogating the Interface of Synthetic Chemistry and Cell Biology”
Stephan Lutz, Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Emory University
“Exploring and Exploiting Kinases for Nucleoside Analog Activation”
Amit Choudhary, Assistant Professor, Dept. Medicine, Broad Institute, Harvard University
“Multidimensional Chemical Control of CRISPR-Cas9”
"Protein Tetris: Ligand Discovery, Characterizaiton, and Development for BrdT via Protein Observed Fluorine NMR"
"Novel Fluorescence Tools for the Discovery of Cardiac Calcium Pump Therapeutics"
2015-2016 Colloquium Seminars
Matt Jensen, Chemical Biology Training Grant Trainee
Chemical Biology Coloquium
Addressing Unanswered Questions In Bacterial Hydrocarbon Biosynthesis
Courtney Aldrich, Associate Professor
Dep. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota,
Getting a Grip on Electronic Notebooks
Casim Sarkar, Associate Professor
Dept. Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Guiding biomolecular and cellular engineering with mathematical modeling
Todd Geders, Ph.D., Scientist
Bio-Techne, Inc. Minneapolis, MN
Industrial Biotech in the Twin Cities – challenges and rewards
Dr. Jay Schneekloth, Head, Chemical Genetics Section
National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD
Targeting Structurally and Functionally Diverse RNAs with Druglike Small Molecules
Keith B. Gorden PhD and Michael E. Danielson PhD
Biothera, Inc.
Activation of Innate Immune Cells with a Fungal Derived Pathogen Associated Molecular Pattern Molecule, Improve PGG
Troy Kopischke, co-CEO
Invenshure, LLC, Minneapolis, MN
The Challenges and Rewards of Biomedical Start-ups
Craig Crews, Lewis B. Cullman Professor
Dept. Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology, Yale University
PROTACS: Induced Protein Degradation as a Therapeutic Strategy
Thomas Spratt, Associate Professor
Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State University, Hershey
DNA Damage and Mutagenesis
Rachit Shah, PhD Graduate Student - Wagner Group
Dept. Medicinal Chemistry
A New Target for Pain: Developing Tools to Probe the Function and Behavior of HINT Enzymes
Trevor Douglas, Earl Blough Professor of Chemistry
Dept. Chemistry, Indiana University
Virus-like Particles: Directed Immune Response and Diagnostic Imaging
Jason Sello, Associate Professor
Dept. Chemistry, Brown University
Progress Towards Novel Chemical Entities for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases and Cancer
2014-2015 Colloquium Seminars
Ronald Breaker, Chair & Henry Ford II Professor
Dept of Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University
Prospects for Riboswitch & Ribozyme Discovery
Charles Carter, Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina
A Primordial Transducer: Discovery & Characterization of the D1 Switch in B. stearothermophilus
Jay T. Groves, Professor
Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Signal Transduction on Membrane Surfaces: The Roles of Space, Force & Time
Student Invited Speaker: Angela Koehler, Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Chemical Probes of Transcription
Raquel Lieberman, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Tech
Structure & Misfolding of the Glaucoma-associated Olfactomedin Domain of Myocilin
Brian McNaughton, Assistant Professor
Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University
Expanding the Functional Utility of Proteins as Research Tools & Therapeutic Leads
2013-2014 Colloquium Seminars
Nathanael S. Gray, Principal Investigator
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Targeting Oncogenic Kinase Signaling with Covalent Inhibitors
Patricia Jennings, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego
The Role of NEET Proteins in Maintaining Mitochondrial Integrity & Iron Homeostasis in Breast Cancer
Frank M. LaFerla, Director
Institute for Memory Impairments & Neurological Disorders, UC Irvine
Stem Cell Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease: Overcoming Translational Issues & New Models
Douglas Mitchell, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unconventional Strategies to Suppress the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance
E. James Petersson, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Thioamides: Minimalist Chromophores for Monitoring Protein Folding & Stability
Dionicio R. Siegel, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin
Natural Product Synthesis – an Enabling Tool in the Discovery of New Approaches to Small Molecule-Mediated Neuronal Regeneration
2012-2013 Colloquium Seminars
Erin E. Carlson, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
Chemical Probes to Explore & Inhibit Bacterial Growth & Pathogenesis
Kate Carroll, Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Florida Campus
Painting the Cysteine Chapel: New Tools to Probe Oxidation Biology
Omid Farokhzad, Associate Professor
Laboratory of Nanomedicine & Biomaterials, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Functionalized Polymeric Nanoparticles for Medical Applications: From Discovery to Clinical Trials
Patrick A. Limbach, Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
Studying RNA Editing & Modification Using Mass Spectrometry