2022 Inaugural Chemical Biology Symposium
The inaugural Chemical Biology Symposium was held October 21-22, 2022 and was attended by over 100 people. Friday featured Graduate Training in Chemical Biology student presentations and a keynote address by Dr. Nozomi Ando from Cornell University. Saturday included presentations by Dr. Jimmy Ballard (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center), CBID scientists and other selected scientists. A poster session concluded the symposium.
Symposium Information
- Conference Schedule & Abstracts - Mobile Devices Format (Includes links to abstracts)
- List of Participants
- A printable Conference Program Booklet is available by request. Please email Shelley Sandberg at sandberg@ku.edu.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Nozomi Ando
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Cornell University
Presentation title: "Evolution of an Ancient Allosteric Enzyme"
Invited Speaker
Dr. Jimmy Ballard
Professor and Chairman
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
PI/Director, Oklahoma Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunity, CoBRE
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Presentation title: "Suppressing Toxin Receptor Expression During C. difficile Infection"
Symposium Awardees
Oral Presentation Award Winners
- Lightning Talks: Matt Zupan (Mentor: Meredith Hartley, KU Chemistry)
- Special Award: Sahida Afroz (Mentor: Dan Dixon, KU Molecular Biosciences)
Poster Award Winners
- Erick McCloskey (Mentor: David Davido, KU Molecular Biosciences)
- Brielle McKee (Mentor: Josie Chandler, KU Molecular Biosciences)
- Naviya Schuster-Little (Mentor: Rebecca Whelan, KU Chemistry)
- Blanca Rodriguez (Mentor: Josie Chandler, KU Molecular Biosciences)
- Aprajita Tripathi (Mentor: Kalyani Pyaram, KSU Division of Biology)
Awardees Group Picture
List of Abstracts
Symposium Agenda
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Oread Hotel, Griffith Ballroom | |||
4:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Welcome session - Drinks, snack, and get name tags | |
4:30 pm | 4:35 pm | General Greeting and Presentation of 2022 Chemical Biology Certificates | Timothy Jackson |
4:35 pm | 4:55pm | Matt Zupan - Former Trainee, Chemistry Dr. Meredith Hartley, Mentor | |
4:55 pm | 5:10 pm | Jacob Kroh - Trainee, Molecular Biosciences Dr. Roberto De Guzman, Mentor | |
5:10 pm | 5:25 pm | Eric Ebert - Trainee, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Dr. Teruna Siahaan, Mentor | |
5:25 pm | 5:40 pm | Lexie Cutter - Trainee, Molecular Biosciences Dr. Scott Hefty, Mentor | |
5:40 pm | 6:00 pm | Samuel Gary - Former Trainee, Medicinal Chemistry Dr. Steven Bloom, Mentor | |
6:00 pm | 7:00 pm | Dinner Buffet | |
7:00 pm | Nozomi Ando (Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University) | ||
Saturday, October 22nd – School of Pharmacy | |||
8:00 am | 8:45 am | Morning Social session – SOP Atrium Coffee, Juice, & Muffins | |
8:50 am | 9:00 am | Welcome and opening comments | |
9:00 am | 9:20 am | Rebecca Whelan (Associate Professor, KU – Chemistry) | |
9:20 am | 9:40 am | Shyam Sathyamoorthi (Assistant Professor, KU – Medicinal Chemistry) "Tethered Alkene Functionalization Technology for Complex Molecule Assembly" | |
9:40 am | 10:00 am | Anthony Fehr (Assistant Professor, KU – Molecular Biosciences) | |
10:00 am | 10:20 am | Steven Bloom (Assistant Professor, KU – Medicinal Chemistry "Anti-Packaging Peptides (APPs) as New Antiretroviral Drugs for HIV-1" | |
10:20 am | 10:30 am | Break | |
10:30 am | 11:30 am | Jimmy Ballard (Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology & Director, Oklahoma Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunity, CoBRE, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center). “Suppressing Toxin Receptor Expression During C. difficile Infection” | |
12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Lunch - First Floor Dining Area (Mortar & Pestle Cafe) | |
1:00 pm | 1:20 pm | Justin Hutchison (Assistant Professor, KU – Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering) "Induced Thermal Stability of Phage Protein GP6 via Interactions with Mycobacterium smegmatis" | |
1:20 pm | 1:40 pm | Teruna Siahaan (Aya and Takeru Higuchi Distinguished Professor, KU – Pharmaceutical Chemistry) "Searching for Mpro Enzyme Inhibitors using Immobilized Peptide and Peptidomimetic Libraries" | |
1:40 pm | 2:00 pm | Saswati Biswas (Research Assistant Professor, KUMC – Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology) | |
2:00 pm | 2:15 pm | Break | |
2:15 pm | 2:35 pm | Scott Lovell (Director, KU Protein Structure & X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory) "Gene to Structure: Utilizing X-Ray Crystallography to Support Chemical Biology" | |
2:35 pm | 2:55 pm | David Johnson (Director, , KU CBID Computational Chemical Biology & Molecular Graphics and Modeling Core Facilities) "Structure Prediction of Protein Monomers and Complexes Using Alphafold" | |
2:55 pm | 3:15 pm | Sahida Afroz (Ph.D. Candidate, KU – Department of Molecular Biosciences) | |
3:30 pm | 5:00 pm | Snacks and Drinks – SOP Atrium | |
5:00 pm | Poster and Flash Talk Award Ceremony, 2020 SOP | ||
6:00 pm | Invited Dinner, Merchant’s Pub & Plate |
The 2022 symposium was possible through support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences CoBRE in Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (P20GM113117), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Graduate Training in Chemical Biology (T32-GM132061) and the Higuchi Biosciences Center.