Chemical Biology Workshop: Speakers

Carston R. Wagner, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Welcome

Anton Simeonov, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Library Screening
“Quantitative High-Throughput Screening at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center”

Gunda Georg, Ph.D.
University of Kansas
Library Screening
"Academic Experiences with Chemical Libraries as Research Tools and for Drug Discovery"

Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Library Screening Mining
"Mining the Receptorome with Small Molecules: A Powerful Approach for Drug Discovery"

Thomas Hoye, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Library Screening
"The Sea Lamprey Migratory Pheromone Story: A Tale of Two Disciplines"

Derek Tan, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Chemical Library Development and Natural Product
"Natural Product-based Strategies in Diversity-Oriented Synthesis"

Robert Fecik, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Chemical Library Development and Natural Products
"Structure-based Catalyst Design for Combinatorial Biosynthesis"

Matthew Jacobson, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
In Silico Library Methods
"In Silico Prediction of Ligand Binding and Membrane Permeability Moving Beyond Empiricism"

George Karypis, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
In Silico Library Methods
"Structure-Based Virtual Screening and Retrieval Algorithms in Drug Discovery"

Junying Yuan, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Small Molecules as Biological Tools
"Dissecting Cell Death Signaling Using Small Molecules"

Scott Selleck, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Small Molecules as Biological Tools
"Modulating the Function of Heparan Sulfate with Small Molecule Affectors of Biosynthesis: From Chemical Libraries to Zebrafish Embyros"