Chemical Biology Seminar

Upcoming Events

March
9

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Anthony Green, The University of Manchester

Date
Tuesday, March 9, 2027, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Host: Leah Bushih
April
14

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Devleena Samanta, University of Texas at Austin

Date
Wednesday, April 14, 2027, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Host: Dick Zare
April
28

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Jin Zhang, University of California, San Diego

Date
Wednesday, April 28, 2027, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Host: Bianxiao Cui

Past Events

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Timothy Springer, Harvard University

Date
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar "Integrins and new tools for organoids"Artificial substrates featuring the bacterial protein invasin or integrin-activating antibodies prom

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Jeffrey Martell, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Date
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar Merging Abiotic and Biological Catalysis for Sustainable Synthesis and Chemical BiologyMy group develops catalysts that merge the benefits

29th Annual Stauffer Lectureship (Day 2 of 2): Professor Wilfred van der Donk, UIUC

Date
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium 111
About the Seminar Biosynthesis and Engineering of Macrocyclic PeptidesRibosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) constitute a

29th Annual Stauffer Lectureship (Day 1 of 2): Professor Wilfred van der Donk, UIUC

Date
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium 111
About the Seminar Genome Mining for New ChemistryThe genome sequencing efforts of the past 20 years have revealed that ribosomally synthesized and post-trans

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Douglas Mitchell, Vanderbilt University

Date
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar Genomics-Enabled Discovery of New Molecules & EnzymesAdvances in genome sequencing and bioinformatics have catalyzed a resurgence of in

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Angad Mehta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Date
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the SeminarSynthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human HealthIn my lab, evolutionary observations are an inspiration for biologica

Chemical Biology Seminar: Professor Yifan Dai, Washington University in St. Louis

Date
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar Lightning Phases and Surfaces: Intracellular electrochemistry powered by phase transitionPhase transitions driven by multivalent biomacromo

Chemical Biology Seminar: Dr. Leah Bushin, University of California, San Diego

Date
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the SeminarGrowth-coupled microbial biosynthesis of the animal pigment xanthommatinGenome mining across all domains of life has unearthed a bounty of biosyn

Chemical Biology Seminar: Dr. Carly Schissel, University of California, Berkeley

Date
Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium 111
About the Seminar Strategies to Discover, Design, and Synthesize Unnatural Bioactive PeptidesPeptide therapeutics are a rapidly expanding frontier in drug de

Organic Chemistry Seminar: Dr. Nicolas Bery, INSERM

Date
Thursday, December 5, 2024, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
ChEM-H E153
About the Seminar Development of potent biodegraders for cancer biology and therapyTargeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic modality.