ACS PUBLICATIONS SYMPOSIUM
Frontiers at the Chemistry and Biology Interface
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PEKING UNIVERSITY
ACS Publications Symposium: Frontiers at the Chemistry and Biology Interface will be two days of in-person innovative, scientific exchange where attendees will also have the chance to present their own research in poster sessions and Lightning Talks. Check out the full program below!
09:00- 09:10 AM
Welcome Address &
Opening Remarks
Fang Fang
Vice President, Peking University
Sarah Tegen
Senior Vice President and Chief Publishing Officer, ACS Publications
09:10- 09:45 AM
Keynote Lecture | Prof. Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Stanford University
Talk Title: Targeted Degradation of Extracellular Proteins
10:00- 10:35 AM
Keynote Lecture | Weihong Tan
Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences /
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Talk Title: Aptomics
10:35- 11:10 AM
Keynote Lecture | Yufen Zhao
Ningbo University
Talk Title: Phosphorus Chemistry and the origin of life
11:10- 11:45 AM
Keynote Lecture | Chu Wang
Peking University
Talk Title: Mining Metaolloproteome with Chemical and
Computational Proteomics
11:45- 12:00 PM
Lightning Talk | Shuo Huang
Nanjing University
Talk Title: Nanopore Multiomics
12:00- 01:30 PM
Poster Session & Lunch
01:30- 02:05 PM
Keynote Lecture | Christopher Chang
Princeton University
Talk Title: Activity-Based Sensing: Leveraging Chemical Reactivity to Decipher Biology at the Atomic Scale
02:05- 02:40 PM
Keynote Lecture | Zijian Guo
Nanjing University
Talk Title: Novel insights into the chemistry and biology of platinum-based anticancer agents
02:40- 02:55 PM
Lightning Talk | Xiaohua Peng
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Talk Title: Bridging Chemistry and Biology: H₂O₂-Triggered Boron Prodrugs for Targeted Cancer Treatment and Mechanistic Profiling
02:55- 03:10 PM
Lightning Talk | Guosong Chen
Fudan University
Talk Title: Controlling Macromolecular Self-Assembly by Reactions and Structures of Saccharides
03:10- 03:40 PM
Networking Break
03:40- 04:15 PM
Keynote Lecture | Chunying Chen
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology
Talk Title: Nano-Bio Interfaces and Strategy for Precision Nanomedicine
04:15- 04:50 PM
Keynote Lecture | Hang Yin
Tsinghua University
Talk Title: Chemical Biology Investigations of
Innate Immunity
04:50- 05:25 PM
Keynote Lecture | Peng Zou
Peking University
Talk Title: Fluorescent Indictors for Membrane Voltage
05:25- 06:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Publishing and Career Development
Christopher Chang, Princeton University;
Zijian Guo, Nanjing University;
Xiaoyuan Chen, National University of Singapore;
Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign;
Motonari Uesugi, Kyoto University
Sarah Tegen, ACS Publications
09:00- 09:35 AM
Keynote Lecture | Xiaoyuan Chen
National University of Singapore
Talk Title: Nanotechnology-Mediated Precision mRNA Delivery
09:35- 10:10 AM
Keynote Lecture | Zixin Deng
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Talk Title: DNA Modification by Sulfur: Mechanistic Insights Drives Synthetic Biotechnologies Forward
10:10- 10:30 AM
Short Break
10:30- 11:05 AM
Keynote Lecture | Guanghui Ma
Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Talk Title: Biomimetic Vaccine Engineering
11:05- 11:40 AM
Keynote Lecture | Lixue Shi
Fudan University
Talk Title: Ultrarapid deep 3D histology with cleared stimulated Raman imaging and unsupervised learning
11:05- 11:40 AM
Keynote Lecture | Liang Cheng
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Talk Title: Chemical strategies to modulate RNA epigenetic modifications
11:40- 11:55 AM
Lightning Talk | Shixian Lin
Zhejiang University
Talk Title: Chemical tools for probing the biological functions of protein PTMs
11:55- 01:30 PM
Poster Session & Lunch
01:30- 02:05 PM
Keynote Lecture | Huimin Zhao
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
02:05- 02:40 PM
Keynote Lecture | Biao Yu
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Talk Title: Total Synthesis of Pregnane Glycosides to Decipher Their Biological Activities
02:40- 02:55 PM
Lightning Talk | Jie Wang
Southern University of Science and Technology
Talk Title: Chemical editing and functional evolution of proteins
02:55- 03:10 PM
Lightning Talk | Billy Ng
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Talk Title: Targeted Protein O-GlcNAcylation in Living Cells
03:10- 03:40 PM
Networking Break
03:40- 04:15 PM
Keynote Lecture | Motonari Uesugi
Kyoto University
04:15- 04:50 PM
Keynote Lecture | Hongwei Wang
Tsinghua University
Talk Title: Cryo-EM specimen preparation using carbon-nano tubes
04:50- 05:30 PM
Panel Discussion | The Next Frontiers at the Chemistry and Biology Interface
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University;
Motonari Uesugi, Kyoto University;
Hongwei Wang, Tsinghua University;
Yingjin Yuan
Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign;
Guanghui Ma, Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Xiaoyuan Chen, National University of Singapore
05:30- 05:45 PM
Closing Remarks + Poster Award Ceremony
Chu Wang, Peking University
James Milne, ACS Publications
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