Invited speakers
Invited speakers
Hear leading experts discuss the latest discoveries and cutting-edge science at these symposium sessions. More speakers will be added over the coming months.
- Advances in natural product biochemistry and biotechnology
- Cool and novel enzymes
- Education and professional development
- Lipid metabolism
- Maximizing Access Committee
- Membrane contact sites
- Microbial signaling, communication and metabolism
- Mitochondria, peroxisomes and chloroplast metabolism
- New frontiers in structural biology
- Redox and metals in biology
- RNA biology
- Signaling mechanisms in the nucleus
Advances in natural product biochemistry and biotechnology
Organizers
Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine Ryan, University of British Columbia
Natural products from higher eukaryotes and animals
Chair: Yi Tang
- Bradley Moore, University of California, San Diego
- Rebecca Butcher, University of Florida
- Emily Derbyshire, Duke University
- Jing-Ke Weng, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Natural products from microbiomes and symbionts
Chair: Katherine Ryan
- Jason Crawford, Yale University
- Nancy Keller, University of Wisconsin—Madison
- Alessandra Eustaquio, University of Illinois Chicago
- Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University
Biochemistry and biotechnology of natural product genome mining
Chair: Alessandra Eustaquiol
- Jamie Link, Princeton University
- Katherine Ryan, University of British Columbia
- Gerald Wright, McMaster University
- Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles
Cool and novel enzymes
Organizers
Shelley D. Copley, University of Colorado Boulder
Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, University of Texas at Austin
Enzymatic control of problematic intermediates
Chair: Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu
- Shelley D. Copley, University of Colorado Boulder
- Tom Niehaus, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Shelley Minteer, University of Utah
- Carole Linster, University of Luxembourg
Enzymes for a sustainable future
Chair: Shelley D. Copley
- Gregg Beckham, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Larry Wackett, University of Minnesota
New and unusual enzymatic transformations
Chair: Michelle Chang
- Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, University of Texas at Austin
- Aimin Liu, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Sara O'Connor, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
- Wenjun Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Education and professional development
Organizer
Saumya Ramanathan, Arizona State University
Lipid metabolism
Organizers
Maria Fedorova, Dresden University of Technology
Neale D. Ridgway, Dalhousie University
Cellular topology of lipid metabolism
Chair: Maria Fedorova
- Neale D. Ridgway, Dalhousie University
- Greg Fairn, Dalhousie University
- Shirin Bahmanyar, Yale University
- Miriam L. Greenberg, Wayne State University
Lipid quality control in cell survival and death
Chair: Neale D. Ridgway
- Maria Fedorova, Dresden University of Technology
- Toni Petan, Jožef Stefan Institute
- James Olzmann, University of California, Berkeley
- G. Ekin Atilla–Gokcumen, University of Buffalo
Spatial lipidomics — tracing lipids in cells at molecular level
Chair: James Olzmann
- Theodore Alexandrov, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- Judith Simcox, University of Wisconsin
Maximizing Access Committee
Organizers
Sonia Flores, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Kayunta Johnson–Winters, University of Texas at Arlington
Karla Neugebauer, Yale School of Medicine
Jonathan Kelber, Baylor University
Ruma Banerjee, University of Michigan
Biochemistry meets climate change: Steps that we can take towards one health
Chairs: Kayunta Johnson-Winters & Karla Neugebauer
- Asiya Gusa, Duke University
- James A. DeMayo, University of Colorado-Denver
- Yixian Zheng, Carnegie Institution for Science
- Teresa Horton, Northwestern University
Stress adaptations in tumor progression
Chair: Jonathan Kelber
- Jonathan Kelber, Baylor University
- Edna Grabocka, Thomas Jefferson University
- Christina Towers, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Mark LaBarge, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
Membrane contact sites
Organizers
Christopher T. Beh, Simon Fraser University
Jen Liou, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Regulation of lipid transfer and metabolism at membrane contact sites
Chair: Jen Liou
- Hongyuan Yang, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Jen Liou, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Alexandre Toulmay, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Arash Bashirullah, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Membrane signaling at membrane contact sites
Chair: Thomas Simmen
- Thomas Simmen, University of Alberta
- Jay Tan, University of Pittsburgh
- Alissa Weaver, Vanderbilt University
- Chi-Lun Chang, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Specialized membrane contact site functions
Chair: Christopher T. Beh
- Isabelle Derré, University of Virginia
- Aaron Neiman, Stony Brook University
- Abel Rosado, University of British Columbia
- Christopher T. Beh, Simon Fraser University
Microbial signaling, communication and metabolism
Organizers
Peter Chien, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jade Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Signaling nucleotides in microbes
Chair: Jade Wang
- Vincent T. Lee, University of Maryland, College Park
- Ming Chen Hammond, University of Utah
- Emily E. Weinert, Pennsylvania State University
- Jade Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Microbial machines
Chair: Peter Chien
- Peter Chien, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Erin Goley, Johns Hopkins University
- Monica Guo, University of Washington
- Briana Burton, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Microbial communities
Chair: Erin Goley
- Stavroulos Hatzios, Yale University
- John Whitney, McMaster University
- Christopher S. Hayes, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ami S. Bhatt, Stanford University
Mitochondria, peroxisomes and chloroplast metabolism
Organizers
Pere Puigserver, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
Greg Moorhead, University of Calgary
Protein covalent modifications and chloroplast metabolism
Chair: Greg Moorhead
- Greg Moorhead, University of Calgary
- Glen Uhrig, University of Alberta
- R. Paul Jarvis, University of Oxford
- Paula Mulo, University of Turku
Peroxisome biogenesis/metabolism
Chair: Tom Rapoport
- Francesca Di Cara, Dalhousie University
- Brooke Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical School; HHMI
- Irfan Lodhi, Washington University in St. Louis
Mitochondria energetics/metabolism
Chair: Erin Goley
- Pere Puigserver, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
- Lena Pernas, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
- Alexei Amunts, Stockholm University
- Rebecca Voorhees, California Institute of Technology
New frontiers in structural biology
Organizers
Jose Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
Hosea Nelson, California Institute of Technology
Redox and metals in biology
Organizers
Siavash Kurdistani, University of California, Los Angeles
Gina DeNicola, Moffitt Cancer Center
Advances in redox homeostasis in biology and disease
Chair: Urbain Weyemi
- Kivanc Birsoy, Rockefeller University
- Jessica Spinelli, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
- Urbain Weyemi, National Cancer Institute
- Elena Piskounova, Weill Cornell Medicine
Iron in redox biology: mechanisms and regulation
Chair: Gina DeNicola
- Adam Hughes, University of Utah
- James Wohlschlegel, University of California, Los Angeles
- Sarah-Maria Fendt, VIB–KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology
- Gina DeNicola, Moffitt Cancer Center
Copper in redox biology: From fundamental chemistry to cellular function
Chair: Siavash Kurdistani
- Katherine Franz, Duke University
- Peter Tsvetkov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Deborah Fass, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Siavash Kurdistani, University of California, Los Angeles
RNA biology
Organizers
Katrin Karbstein, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
Jeremy E. Wilusz, Baylor College of Medicine
RNA biogenesis and processing
Chair: Olga Anczukow
- Tracy L. Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles
- Hiten D. Madhani, University of California, San Francisco
- Jeremy E. Wilusz, Baylor College of Medicine
- Roberto Bonasio, University of Pennsylvania
Ribosomes and translation
Chair: Katrin Karbstein
- Shu-ou Shan, California Institute of Technology
- Ruben L. Gonzalez, Columbia University
- Homa Ghalei, Emory University
- Amy S.Y. Lee, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
RNA and disease
Chair: Jeremy E. Wilusz
- Blake Wiedenheft, Montana State University
- Shuying Sun, Johns Hopkins University
- Olga Anczukow, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
- Katrin Karbstein, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
Signaling mechanisms in the nucleus
Organizers
Glen Liszczak, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Aaron Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Chemical strategies to study nuclear processes
Chair: Aaron Johnson
- Anna Mapp, University of Michigan
- Glen Liszczak, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Oliver Bell, University of Southern California Kerk School of Medicine
- Minkui Luo, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Chromatin organization, replication and repair
Chair: Katharine Diehl
- Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley
- Aaron Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Carl Wu, Johns Hopkins University
- TBA
Chromatin modifications in the nucleus
Chair: Glen Liszczak
- Alex Ruthenberg, University of Chicago
- Katharine Diehl, University of Utah
- Tim Stasevich, Colorado State University
- Phil Cole, Harvard University
Invited speakers
Hear leading experts discuss the latest discoveries and cutting-edge science at these symposium sessions. More speakers will be added over the coming months.
- Advances in natural product biochemistry and biotechnology
- Cool and novel enzymes
- Education and professional development
- Lipid metabolism
- Maximizing Access Committee
- Membrane contact sites
- Microbial signaling, communication and metabolism
- Mitochondria, peroxisomes and chloroplast metabolism
- New frontiers in structural biology
- Redox and metals in biology
- RNA biology
- Signaling mechanisms in the nucleus
Advances in natural product biochemistry and biotechnology
Organizers
Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine Ryan, University of British Columbia
Natural products from higher eukaryotes and animals
Chair: Yi Tang
- Bradley Moore, University of California, San Diego
- Rebecca Butcher, University of Florida
- Emily Derbyshire, Duke University
- Jing-Ke Weng, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Natural products from microbiomes and symbionts
Chair: Katherine Ryan
- Jason Crawford, Yale University
- Nancy Keller, University of Wisconsin—Madison
- Alessandra Eustaquio, University of Illinois Chicago
- Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University
Biochemistry and biotechnology of natural product genome mining
Chair: Alessandra Eustaquiol
- Jamie Link, Princeton University
- Katherine Ryan, University of British Columbia
- Gerald Wright, McMaster University
- Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles
Cool and novel enzymes
Organizers
Shelley D. Copley, University of Colorado Boulder
Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, University of Texas at Austin
Enzymatic control of problematic intermediates
Chair: Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu
- Shelley D. Copley, University of Colorado Boulder
- Tom Niehaus, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Shelley Minteer, University of Utah
- Carole Linster, University of Luxembourg
Enzymes for a sustainable future
Chair: Shelley D. Copley
- Gregg Beckham, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Larry Wackett, University of Minnesota
New and unusual enzymatic transformations
Chair: Michelle Chang
- Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, University of Texas at Austin
- Aimin Liu, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Sara O'Connor, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
- Wenjun Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Education and professional development
Organizer
Saumya Ramanathan, Arizona State University
Lipid metabolism
Organizers
Maria Fedorova, Dresden University of Technology
Neale D. Ridgway, Dalhousie University
Cellular topology of lipid metabolism
Chair: Maria Fedorova
- Neale D. Ridgway, Dalhousie University
- Greg Fairn, Dalhousie University
- Shirin Bahmanyar, Yale University
- Miriam L. Greenberg, Wayne State University
Lipid quality control in cell survival and death
Chair: Neale D. Ridgway
- Maria Fedorova, Dresden University of Technology
- Toni Petan, Jožef Stefan Institute
- James Olzmann, University of California, Berkeley
- G. Ekin Atilla–Gokcumen, University of Buffalo
Spatial lipidomics — tracing lipids in cells at molecular level
Chair: James Olzmann
- Theodore Alexandrov, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- Judith Simcox, University of Wisconsin
Maximizing Access Committee
Organizers
Sonia Flores, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Kayunta Johnson–Winters, University of Texas at Arlington
Karla Neugebauer, Yale School of Medicine
Jonathan Kelber, Baylor University
Ruma Banerjee, University of Michigan
Biochemistry meets climate change: Steps that we can take towards one health
Chairs: Kayunta Johnson-Winters & Karla Neugebauer
- Asiya Gusa, Duke University
- James A. DeMayo, University of Colorado-Denver
- Yixian Zheng, Carnegie Institution for Science
- Teresa Horton, Northwestern University
Stress adaptations in tumor progression
Chair: Jonathan Kelber
- Jonathan Kelber, Baylor University
- Edna Grabocka, Thomas Jefferson University
- Christina Towers, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Mark LaBarge, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
Membrane contact sites
Organizers
Christopher T. Beh, Simon Fraser University
Jen Liou, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Regulation of lipid transfer and metabolism at membrane contact sites
Chair: Jen Liou
- Hongyuan Yang, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Jen Liou, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Alexandre Toulmay, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Arash Bashirullah, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Membrane signaling at membrane contact sites
Chair: Thomas Simmen
- Thomas Simmen, University of Alberta
- Jay Tan, University of Pittsburgh
- Alissa Weaver, Vanderbilt University
- Chi-Lun Chang, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Specialized membrane contact site functions
Chair: Christopher T. Beh
- Isabelle Derré, University of Virginia
- Aaron Neiman, Stony Brook University
- Abel Rosado, University of British Columbia
- Christopher T. Beh, Simon Fraser University
Microbial signaling, communication and metabolism
Organizers
Peter Chien, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jade Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Signaling nucleotides in microbes
Chair: Jade Wang
- Vincent T. Lee, University of Maryland, College Park
- Ming Chen Hammond, University of Utah
- Emily E. Weinert, Pennsylvania State University
- Jade Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Microbial machines
Chair: Peter Chien
- Peter Chien, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Erin Goley, Johns Hopkins University
- Monica Guo, University of Washington
- Briana Burton, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Microbial communities
Chair: Erin Goley
- Stavroulos Hatzios, Yale University
- John Whitney, McMaster University
- Christopher S. Hayes, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ami S. Bhatt, Stanford University
Mitochondria, peroxisomes and chloroplast metabolism
Organizers
Pere Puigserver, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
Greg Moorhead, University of Calgary
Protein covalent modifications and chloroplast metabolism
Chair: Greg Moorhead
- Greg Moorhead, University of Calgary
- Glen Uhrig, University of Alberta
- R. Paul Jarvis, University of Oxford
- Paula Mulo, University of Turku
Peroxisome biogenesis/metabolism
Chair: Tom Rapoport
- Francesca Di Cara, Dalhousie University
- Brooke Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical School; HHMI
- Irfan Lodhi, Washington University in St. Louis
Mitochondria energetics/metabolism
Chair: Erin Goley
- Pere Puigserver, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
- Lena Pernas, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
- Alexei Amunts, Stockholm University
- Rebecca Voorhees, California Institute of Technology
New frontiers in structural biology
Organizers
Jose Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
Hosea Nelson, California Institute of Technology
Redox and metals in biology
Organizers
Siavash Kurdistani, University of California, Los Angeles
Gina DeNicola, Moffitt Cancer Center
Advances in redox homeostasis in biology and disease
Chair: Urbain Weyemi
- Kivanc Birsoy, Rockefeller University
- Jessica Spinelli, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
- Urbain Weyemi, National Cancer Institute
- Elena Piskounova, Weill Cornell Medicine
Iron in redox biology: mechanisms and regulation
Chair: Gina DeNicola
- Adam Hughes, University of Utah
- James Wohlschlegel, University of California, Los Angeles
- Sarah-Maria Fendt, VIB–KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology
- Gina DeNicola, Moffitt Cancer Center
Copper in redox biology: From fundamental chemistry to cellular function
Chair: Siavash Kurdistani
- Katherine Franz, Duke University
- Peter Tsvetkov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Deborah Fass, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Siavash Kurdistani, University of California, Los Angeles
RNA biology
Organizers
Katrin Karbstein, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
Jeremy E. Wilusz, Baylor College of Medicine
RNA biogenesis and processing
Chair: Olga Anczukow
- Tracy L. Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles
- Hiten D. Madhani, University of California, San Francisco
- Jeremy E. Wilusz, Baylor College of Medicine
- Roberto Bonasio, University of Pennsylvania
Ribosomes and translation
Chair: Katrin Karbstein
- Shu-ou Shan, California Institute of Technology
- Ruben L. Gonzalez, Columbia University
- Homa Ghalei, Emory University
- Amy S.Y. Lee, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
RNA and disease
Chair: Jeremy E. Wilusz
- Blake Wiedenheft, Montana State University
- Shuying Sun, Johns Hopkins University
- Olga Anczukow, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
- Katrin Karbstein, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
Signaling mechanisms in the nucleus
Organizers
Glen Liszczak, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Aaron Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Chemical strategies to study nuclear processes
Chair: Aaron Johnson
- Anna Mapp, University of Michigan
- Glen Liszczak, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Oliver Bell, University of Southern California Kerk School of Medicine
- Minkui Luo, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Chromatin organization, replication and repair
Chair: Katharine Diehl
- Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley
- Aaron Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Carl Wu, Johns Hopkins University
- TBA
Chromatin modifications in the nucleus
Chair: Glen Liszczak
- Alex Ruthenberg, University of Chicago
- Katharine Diehl, University of Utah
- Tim Stasevich, Colorado State University
- Phil Cole, Harvard University