Chemical Biology Symposium 2024

Friday, Oct. 25 – Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

The Center for Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease and the Graduate Training Program in Chemical Biology at the University of Kansas are excited to welcome guests for the 3rd annual KU Chemical Biology Symposium Oct. 25-26 in Lawrence, Kansas.

As in previous years, the symposium will begin on Friday afternoon at the Jayhawk Welcome Center and continue Saturday at the KU School of Pharmacy. Matthew Bogyo from Stanford University will deliver the Friday night keynote address, and Tyrrell Conway from Oklahoma State University will be the Saturday keynote speaker. There will be oral presentations and a poster session on Saturday.

Registration is now closed. Please see tentative schedule below.

Symposium Information

Symposium Schedule

Friday, Oct. 25 | Jayhawk Welcome Center

Schedule for Friday, Oct. 25
Time	Session Title	Room
4 – 4:45 p.m.	Welcome Session Check-in, drinks + refreshments General greeting from symposium organizers	Glorious to View Room
4:45 – 6 p.m.	Keynote Presentation: Dr. Matthew Bogyo Professor of Pathology, of Microbiology & Immunology and, by courtesy, Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford University \| “Chemical Probes for Imaging Cancer and Infectious Diseases”	Berkley Presentation Room
6 – 7 p.m.	Dinner Taco Buffet
7 – 8 p.m.	Lightning Talks! Graduate Trainees Session Chair: Eric Ebert James Martinez, KU Department of Chemistry, Hanson Lab \| “Efforts Toward the Synthesis of α-Glucosidase Inhibitor Daphnepapytone A” Andrew Daufel, KU Department of Molecular Biosciences, Slusky Lab \| “Characterization of TolC Colicin Interactions” Markell Lomax, KU Department of Chemistry, Jackson Lab \| “Exploration and Analysis of the Effects of Hydrogen Bonding on the Basicity of Mn^III-hydroxo Complexes in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET) Reactions” Erick McCloskey, KU Department of Molecular Biosciences, Davido Lab \| “HSV-1 ICP0 Dimer Mutants Impair Protein Functions and Viral Replication” Ashten Gentry, KU Department of Chemistry, Whelan Lab \| “Addressing Racial Disparities in CA125 Detection Rates Using a 'Multi-omics' Approach”

Saturday, Oct. 26 | School of Pharmacy

Schedule for Saturday, Oct. 26
Time	Session Title	Room
8:30 – 9:15 a.m.	Morning Social Session Check-in, light refreshments	Atrium
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.	Session 1 15-minute presentations followed by ~3 minutes of questions Session chair: Alex Bevis Reed Stubbendiek, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University \| “Bacterial Competition in the Aerodigestive Tract: Antibiotics, Probiotics, and Beyond” Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, KU Department of Chemistry \| "Sub-second Electrochemical Measurements of Oxytocin in Live Zebrafish Brains: Implications for Nociception" Ming Zhao, Assistant Professor, KU Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry \| “Harnessing the Power of Polymer-protein Assemblies for Multimodal Cancer Therapy” Rosana Ferreira, Assistant Professor, KU Department of Molecular Biosciences \| “Diffusible Molecules Produced by Skin Commensals and their Role in Colonization Resistance”	Room 2020
10:45 – 11 a.m.	Break
11 a.m. – noon	Saturday Keynote Speaker: Tyrrell Conway Regents Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University \| “Nitrogen Assimilation by E. coli in the Mouse Intestine”	Room 2020
Noon – 1 p.m.	Lunch Box meals	Mortar & Pestle (Level 1)
1 – 2 p.m.	Session 2 15-minute presentations followed by ~3 minutes of questions Session chair: Markell Lomax Bao Vu, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center \| “Azole Drug Resistance in Nakaseomyces glabratus” Michael Wang, Professor, KU Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry \| “CYP5122A1 Encodes an Essential Sterol C4-methyl Oxidase in Leishmania donovani and Determines the Antileishmanial Activity of Antifungal Azoles” Luke Erber, Assistant Professor, KU Department of Medicinal Chemistry \| “Profiling DNA-Protein Crosslinks”	Room 2020
2 – 2:15 p.m.	Break
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.	Session 3 15-minute presentations followed by ~3 minutes of questions Session chair: Markell Lomax Hongbing Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics & Immunology, KU Medical Center \| “Neuro-immune-microbe Interactions in the Gut” Chamani Perera, Director, KU Synthetic Chemical Biology Core Laboratory \| “KU Synthetic Chemical Biology Core” Zarko Boskovic, Assistant Professor, KU Department of Medicinal Chemistry \| “How to Discover Bioactive Small Molecules (When All You Have is Synthetic Chemistry and Cell Culture)”	Room 2020
3:30 – 5 p.m.	Poster Session (with refreshments) 3:30 – 4:15 Session I (odd-numbered posters) 4:15 – 5 Session II (even-numbered posters)	Atrium
5 – 5:20 p.m.	Poster & Flash Talk Award Ceremony	Room 2020
5:20 p.m.	Conclude

This symposium is possible through support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences CoBRE in Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (P20GM113117) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Graduate Training Program in Chemical Biology (T32-GM132061).