Programme
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08:30 - 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome - Mohan Balasubramanian, WQBP Director |
09:10 - 10:55 | Session 1 - Better Structures for Better Biology... Through Chemistry | chair: John James |
09:10 - 09:45 | Yamuna Krishnan - University of Chicago, US Quantitative chemical imaging in live cells |
09:45 - 10:20 | Ben Schumann - Francis Crick Institute, UK Tackling Sweet Questions with Small Probes |
10:20 - 10:55 | Irene Coin - University of Leipzig, DE Structural mapping and labeling of GPCRs via genetically encoded chemical tools |
10:55 - 11:15 | Break and refreshments |
11:15 - 13:00 | Session 2 - Better Signalling for Better Biology... Through Chemistry | chair: Aparna Ratheesh |
11:15 - 11:50 | Maja Köhn - University of Freiburg, DE Specific modulators of protein phosphatase-1 and their application in heart failure |
11:50 - 12:25 | John James - University of Warwick, UK Opto-chemical control of immune cell activation |
12:25 - 13:00 | Jason Chin - MRC-LMB, UK Reprogramming the Genetic Code |
13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch and poster presentation |
14:15 - 16:00 | Session 3 - Better Imaging for Better Biology... Through Chemistry | chair: Michael Smutny |
14:15 - 14:50 | Arnaud Gautier - École Normale Supérieure, FR Spying on cells with glowing chemical-genetic hybrids |
14:50 - 15:25 | Ulrike Eggert - King's College London, UK The roles of lipids in cell biology |
15:25 - 16:00 | Jin Zhang - UC San Diego, US Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell |
16:00 - 16:20 | Break and refreshments |
16:20 - 17:30 | Session 4 - Better Medicine for Better Biology... Through Chemistry | chair: Andrew Bowman |
16:20 - 16:55 | Manuela Tosin - University of Warwick, UK Chemical probing of natural product assemblies: insights and opportunities |
16:55 - 17:30 | Mark Howarth - University of Oxford, UK Bacterial superglues, and nano-assemblies to tickle the immune system |
17:30 - 17:40 | Concluding remarks - John James, WQBP Symposium Organiser |
17:40 - 18:45 | Drinks reception and networking |