PROGRAM
The 13th Frontiers in Chemistry and Biology Interface Symposium (FCBIS)
Friday, May 7, 2021, University of Maryland College Park
FCBIS 2021 Program (pdf )
8:30-8:40: Opening Remarks (Lai-Xi Wang, Professor, University of Maryland College Park)
SESSION I (Chair, Peter Nemes, Associate Professor, University of Maryland College Park)
8:40-9:00 Stephen Fried, PhD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
“Using Mass Spectrometry to Interrogate the Refoldability of the Proteome.”
9:00 – 9:20 Karl Schmitz, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
“Cataloging sequences that mark proteins for destruction in bacteria”
9:20 – 9:30 (Short talk) Amanda Tallon, Graduate Student, University of Delaware
“The Activation of Tetrazines by a Genetically Encodable Catalyst for Subsequent Spatially Controlled Bioorthogonal Chemistry Intracellularly”
9:30 – 9:40 (Short talk) Zhigang Lyu, Graduate Student, Temple University
“Steric-Free Bioorthogonal Labeling of Acetylation Substrates Based on a Fluorine−Thiol Displacement Reaction”
SESSION II (Chair, Jennifer M. Kavran, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health)
9:45 – 10:05 Myles Poulin, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park
“Chemical and Biochemical Tools to Study the Biosynthesis and Degradation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharides”
10:05 – 10:25 Aaron T. Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County
“The Involvement of [Fe-S] Clusters in Post-Translational Arginylation”
10:25 – 10:35 (Short talk) Danielle Bautista, Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
“Enzymatic Reduction of Nitroaromatics Containing aQMs for Biological Alkylation”
10:35 – 10:45 (Short talk) Casey Londergan, Professor, Haverford College
“The Probe-ing Question: How Does Tyrosine Nitration Affect Alpha-Synuclein Lipid Binding?
10:45 – 10:55 Break
10:55 – 11:25 Keynote Lecture (Chair, Lai-Xi Wang, Professor, University of Maryland College Park)
Christina Woo, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard University
“Targeted Protein Sequestration”
11:30 – 12:15 POSTER SESSION I
12:15 – 1:00 PM Lunch and Career panel
Theodore Kwaku Dayie, Professor, UMD (Presiding)
Michelle Bond, Program Director, NIGMS/NIH
Lisa Jones, Associate Professor, UMB School of Pharmacy
Herman Sintim, Program Director, NSF
Daron Freedberg, Senior Scientist, FDA
Regan Leblanc, Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
1:05 – 1:50 POSTER SESSION II
SESSION III (Chair, Catherine Grimes, Professor, University of Delaware)
2:00 – 2:20 Ling Hao, PhD, Assistant Professor, George Washington University
“Developing Mass Spectrometric Strategies for Chemical and Enzymatic Biotinylation in Neurodegeneration”
2:20 – 2:40 Pratyush Tiwary, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park
“Predicting Drug Dissociation Pathways and Resistance Mutations with AI-Augmented Molecular Dynamics”
2:40 – 2:50 (Short talk) Morgan Dasovich, Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University,
“Chemoenzymatic Strategies for Exploring ADP-ribosylation”.
2:50 – 3:00 (Short talk) Aleksia Barka, undergraduate student, University of Pennsylvania
“Molecular Basis for Discrimination of DNA and RNA Deamination by the Base-editing Enzyme APOBEC3A”
SESSION IV (Chair, Songon An, Associate Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County)
3:05 – 3:25 Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UPenn School of Medicine
“Imaging Bacterial Infection: From the Bench to the Clinic”
3:25 – 3:45 Jordan L. Meier, PhD, Senior Investigator, NCI, NIH
“Dynamic RNA Acetylation Revealed by Cross-Evolutionary Mapping”
3:45 – 3:55 (Short talk) Tian Qiu, Graduate Student, University of Chicago
“Chemical Approaches to Probe the Regulation of Mitochondrial S-Palmitoylation”
3:55 – 4:05 (Short talk) Joel S. Freundlich, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
“Engineering Platforms for Infectious Disease Research”
4:05 -4:15 Break
4:15 – 4:45 Keynote Lecture (Chair, Jinwoo Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park)
Jun O. Liu, PhD, Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Rapamycin-inspired Macrocycles As New Chemical Probes and Drug Leads”.
4:45 – 4:55 Poster Awards and Conclusion Remarks (Theodore Kwaku Dayie, Professor, University of Maryland College Park)
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