Chemical Biology Seminar Series 2

• Announcements (Forum)
• Guidelines for receiving course credit _ updated: 2023 Dec 7th (File)
• Please submit your 1-page report using this link (due time: end of Spring semester 2024) (Assignment)

---

15th September: Prof. Gaia Debelouchina (University of California, San Diego)

• Molecular basis of heterochromatin formation and regulation (URL)

---

19th September: Prof. Michael Nash (University of Basel and ETH)

• Comprehensive Mutational Profiling of Cancer Therapeutic Enzymes by Proximity-Based Sequencing (URL)

---

20th September: *Swiss Chemical Society Lectureship*- Prof. Scott Denmark (UIUC)

• Application of Chemoinformatics and Machine Learning to Enantioselective Catalysis (URL)

---

26th September: Prof. Xiang David Li (University of Hong Kong)

• Chemical approaches to decoding histone epigenetics (URL)

---

28th September: Schläfli Prize awardee Dr. Michelle Frei (UC San Diego and ETH)

• Title TBA (URL)

---

3rd October: Prof. Matt Shoulders (MIT)

• Enabling Continuous Directed Evolution in Complex Systems (URL)

---

24th October: Prof. Matt Bogyo (Stanford)

• Making it stick: how to engineer selective covalent ligands for diverse applications in biology (URL)

---

10th November: Prof. Randy Peterson (University of Utah - School of Pharmacy)

• Novel drugs, novel genes from in vivo zebrafish screens (URL)

---

21st November: Prof. Dr. Gaurav Bhardwaj (University of Washington, Seattle)

• Machine learning based peptide design for diverse structures and functions (URL)

---

28th November: Prof. Marco Di Antonio (Imperial College London)

• Long-range G-G base pairing regulates chromatin architecture and promotes RNA condensation in neurodegenerative diseases (URL)

---

5th March, 2024: Prof. Maja Köhn (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

• Chemical Biology Approaches to Study and Target Phosphatases (URL)

---

16th April, 2024: Prof. Jennifer Heemstra (University of Washington, St. Louis)

• A chemical biology toolbox for probing A-to-I RNA editing (URL)

---

23th April, 2024: Prof. Peter 't Hart (Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society)

• Macrocyclic peptide inhibitors of protein-RNA interactions (URL)

---

23th April, 2024: Dr. Jacob Bush (GlaxoSmithKline)

• Covalent fragment technologies for therapeutic target discovery and validation (URL)

---

25th April, 2024: Prof. Ed Tate (Imperial College London)

• From post-translational modification to drug discovery (URL)

---

14th May, 2024: Prof. Cathleen Zeymer (Technische Universität München)

• De novo lanthanide enzymes – from protein dynamics to photoredox catalysis (URL)

---

25th May, 2024: Prof. Dr. Felix Hausch (Technical University of Darmstadt)

• Circluar Chemistry – On the Magic of Molecular Rings (URL)

---

28th May, 2024: Dr. Denisa Jamecna for Doris Höglinger (Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center)

---

25th June, 2024: Dr Xuyu Liu (University of Sydney)

• Unveiling hidden functions of dietary electrophiles in platelets through integrated phenotypic and chemoproteomic approaches (URL)

---

25th June, 2024: Derek Pratt (University of Ottawa)

• The Chemical Basis of Ferroptosis, Development of Tools to Study it and Design of Compounds to Inhibit it (URL)

---

23th May, 2024: Stephen Renshaw (University of Sheffield)

• Zebrafish models of innate immunity (URL)

---

28th May, 2024: Denisa Jamecna (Biochemie Zentrum Heidelberg / Osnabrück University, Germany)

• STARD3 is involved in sphingosine transport at lysosome-ER contact sites (URL)

---

25th June, 2024: Clemens Mayer (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

• Tailor-made biomolecules by molecular evolution (URL)

---