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2nd Annual Dana-Farber Chemical Biology Symposium
September 6, 2019 - 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
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We are delighted to welcome you to the 2nd Annual Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) Chemical Biology Symposium!
This symposium aims to bring together speakers representing a diverse range of chemical biology research interests, and highlight important insights, developments, and contributions to this unique field. We are excited to include an afternoon career panel discussion in addition to scientific talks. This day-long event is free to attend and open to the public.
Early evening poster session and reception to follow talks and afternoon career panel.
Registered attendees are also invited to submit poster abstracts here.
Abstract deadline: August 19, 2019
Event Agenda
8:00 – 8:30 AM Arrival and Registration (Coffee will be provided)
8:30 – 8:45 AM Welcome Remarks
8:45 – 9:30 AM Keynote Address
Marion Dorsch , Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Blueprint Medicines
“Unlocking the full potential of kinase medicines: highly selective therapies for genomically defined diseases”
9:30 – 10:00 AM Katya Marjon, Agios “Targeting MAT2A in MTAP-deleted Cancers.”
10:00 – 10:30 AM Sloan Devlin, Harvard Medical School “Bacterial modifications of host metabolites alter host physiology”
10:30 – 11:00 AM, Coffee Break, Jimmy Fund Auditorium Lobby
11:00 – 11:30 AM Nathalie Agar, Brigham And Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Jeremy Jenkins, Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research (NIBR), “Technology advances for characterizing compound MOA”
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch on your own
1:00 – 1:30 PM Angela Koehler, Koch Institute at MIT, “Attenuating Oncogenic Transcription with Small Molecules”
1:30 – 2:00 PM Eric Fischer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School “Principles of small molecule mediated ubiquitin ligase targeting”
2:00 – 3:00 PM Career Panel Discussion: Christopher Browne (AstraZeneca), Janet Ralbovsky (Dana-Farber), Mishtu Dey (Cell Press), and Dora Carrico-Moniz (Wellesley College)
3:00 – 3:15 PM Coffee Break, Jimmy Fund Auditorium Lobby
3:15 – 4:00 PM Keynote Address
Garry Nolan, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
“Pathology from the molecular scale on up”
4:00 – 4:05 PM Closing Remarks
4:05 – 6:00 PM Poster Reception with Light Refreshments, Yawkey Conference Center
(submit your posters here)
To learn more about this event, email the DFCI Chemical Biology Program at chemical_biology@dfci.harvard.edu, or follow us on Twitter at @DFCI_ChemBio #DFCIChemBio2019
To learn more about Chemical Biology @DFCI visit our website.
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