Programme
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Registration |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Welcome and introduction Prof. Howard Riezman, Biochemistry Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland & NCCR Chemical Biology director |
| SESSION: “Something sweet to start with” Chair: Prof. Sascha Hoogendoorn, Department of Organic Chemistry, UNIGE, Switzerland |
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| 15:30 – 16:30 | Prof. Geert-Jan Boons, Utrecht University, Netherlands “Complex glycans in health and disease” |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | KEYNOTE LECTURE Prof. Laura Kiessling, MIT Department of Chemistry, USA “Glycans at the Human-Microbe Interface” |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Poster session (group A) | Apéro |
| SESSION: “Turning over a new leaf in chemical biology” Chair: Prof. Beat Fierz, LCBM, EPFL, Switzerland |
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| 8:30 – 9:30 | Dr. Keiko U. Torii, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, US “Harnessing synthetic chemistry to understand and manipulate plant development” |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Prof. Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School, USA “Designing Biology for Health and Sustainability” |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break & networking with the speakers |
| SESSION: “Above and beyond standard nucleic acids” Chair: Prof. Beat Fierz, LCBM, EPFL, Switzerland |
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| 11:00 – 12:00 | Prof. Floyd E. Romesberg, Synthorx, Inc., US “A Semi-synthetic organism that stores and retrieves increased genetic information” |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Prof. Thomas Carell, Ludwig-Maximillians-University, Department of Chemistry, Munich, Germany “The 2nd Code in DNA” |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch + Poster session (group A) |
| SESSION: “Shaking the firmaments of biology” Chair: Prof. Bruno Correia, LPDI, EPFL, Switzerland |
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| 14:30 – 15:30 | Prof. Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University, Department of Biochemistry, Waltham, Massasuchetts, US “Evolution of catalysis and regulation over 3.5 billion years – Exploitation for novel cancer drugs” |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Prof. Jim Wells, University of California San Francisco, US “Attacking the cancer surfaceome” |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break & networking with the speakers |
| “Emerging Investigators session” Chair: Prof. Bruno Correia, LPDI, EPFL, Switzerland |
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| 17:00 – 17:20 | Dr. Kathrin Lang, TUM Department of Chemistry, DE “Expanding the genetic code – protein chemistry in living systems” |
| 17:20 – 17:40 | Dr. Fan Liu, FMP Liebniz, Berlin, DE “Developing structural interactomics and its application in cell biology” |
| 17:40 – 19:30 | Poster session (group B) & apéro |
| SESSION: “(W)ringing out new antibiotics” Chair: Prof. Yimon Aye, LEAGO, EPFL, Switzerland |
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| 8:30 – 9:30 | Prof. Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA “Natural product biosynthesis by posttranslational modification” |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Prof. Chris Schofield, University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry, UK “From Penicillins to epigenetics – Adventures at the interface of chemistry and biology” |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break & networking with the speakers |
| SESSION: “Catching them red handed” Chair: Prof. Yimon Aye, LEAGO, EPFL, Switzerland |
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| 11:00 – 12:00 | Prof. Alice Y. Ting, Stanford University, USA “Chemogenetic and optogenetic technologies for probing molecular and cellular interactions” |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Prof. Jin Zhang, University of California San Diego, Department of Pharmacology, US “Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell” |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch + Poster session (group B) |
| SESSION:“Dénouement” Chair: Prof. Sascha Hoogendoorn, Department of Organic Chemistry, UNIGE, Switzerland |
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| 14:30 – 15:30 | THE EMBO KEYNOTE LECTURE Prof. Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM – Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria “The human transportome: drug targets and drug disposers integrated by metabolism” |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Poster awards announcement Concluding remarks Prof. Christian Heinis, LPPT, EPFL & NCCR co-director |
