2021 PROGRAM
We are proud to showcase the incredible work of so many local Bay Area scientists at our upcoming virtual event. We hope you are all looking forward to the lineup of excellent speakers, including professors, students, post-docs, and industrial scientists as much as we are.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
an ACS-sponsored event
8:30 am
8:40 am
8:50 am
9:25 am
9:45 am
10:05 am
10:20 am
10:55 am
11:15 am
11:35 am
12:20 pm
12:55 pm
1:15 pm
1:50 pm
2:00 pm
2:50 pm
3:25 pm
3:45 pm
4:20 pm
Prof. Richmond Sarpong, UC Berkeley & Dr. Kevin Allan, Eidos Therapeutics
Chair's Welcome
Dr. James Taylor, Gilead & Dr. Kevin Allan
Host's Welcome, followed by virtual symposium logistics
Prof. Michelle Arkin, UC San Francisco
Site-Directed Drug Discovery
Sahar Hosseinzadeh, UC Santa Cruz, MacMillan Group
Identification of Selective Cytotoxins for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cell Lines
Dr. Dane Holte, AbbVie
Early Development, Scale-up, and Reverse Phase Purification of a Highly Potent Pyrrolobenzodiazepine (PBD) Dimer, SG3259, for use in Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs)
Break (15 min)
Dr. Eric Martin, Novartis
What to do with Experiment-Quality Models for >9,000 Biochemical and Cellular Assays
Xizi Zhang, UC Berkeley, Schepartz Group
Nuclear Delivery of Functional Methyl-CpG-binding Protein 2 (MeCP2) Using a Cell-Permeant Miniature Protein
Dr. Rohan Merchant, Merck
Industry-Academia Collaboration for Accelerating Drug Discovery: On-going Alkyl-Alkyl Cross-Coupling Developments
Lunch (45 min)
Dr. Dustin Siegel, Gilead
Remdesivir's Journey from Discovery for Respiratory Syncytial Virus to COVID-19 Treatment
Yusef Ahmed, UC Davis, Tantillo Group
Turning Frustration into Reaction: A Computationally Derived Synthetic Strategy for Pericyclic Reactions via Frustrated Lewis Pairs
Prof. Dean Toste, UC Berkeley
Chiral Anion Catalysis
Break (10 min)
POSTER SESSION: hosted in Zoom breakout rooms
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Dr. James Crawford, Genentech
Hunting for Hippo: Allosteric Inhibitors of the YAP/TEAD Protein-Protein Interaction
Dr. Gunda Georg, YourChoice Therapeutics
The Pill For Men: Are We There Yet?
Prof. Christina Smolke, Stanford University
Engineering Yeast to Brew Medicines via an Integrated Systems Approach
Poster award presentation and closing message
POSTER PRESENTERS
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Augustin Braun, Stanford University (Solomon Lab)
Shizhong Dai, UC San Francisco (Shokat Lab)
Merve Demir, UC Davis (David Lab)
Sarah Dishman, UC Davis (Shaw Lab)
Dr. Arpit Doshi, Astraea Therapeutics
Daniel Droege, UC Santa Cruz (Johnstone Lab)
Anderson Da Silva Duraes, University of Notre Dame (Gezelter Lab)
Isaac Doran Falk, Stanford University (Burns Lab)
Joshua Daniel Farr, Stanford University (Burns Lab)
David Gutierrez, UC Davis (Shaw Lab)
Selin Kocalar & Aylin Salahifar, Leigh High School
Volga Kojasoy, UC Davis (Tantillo Lab)
Croix Laconsay, UC Davis (Tantillo Lab)
Lucie Liu, UC Berkeley (Geissler Lab)
Anna Lo, UC Davis (Shaw Lab)
Dr. Claire Magnani, UC Berkeley (Maimone Lab)
Ciara Mary Ordner, Stanford University (Burns Lab)
Paige Pistono, UC Berkeley (Francis Lab)
Supreeth Prasad, UC Davis (Tantillo Lab)