Schedule & Speakers
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Saturday, June 8th
7:00 – 8:30 AM
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:35 – 10:10 AM
Bob Hammer, Bicycle Therapeutics & Gregg Fields, Florida Atlantic University, Opening Remarks
Fernando Albericio, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Peptides Synthesis as a Right Combination between Protecting Groups and Coupling Reagents; The Journey Started in Minneapolis
Carrie Haskell-Luevano, University of Minnesota, Disulfide Peptides to Macrocycles and Orthogonal Chemistry: How George Barany Impacted My Chemistry and Career
Deborah Barany, University of Georgia, Backhands and Rock Bands: Exploring the Neuroscience of Skilled Action
Session 1
10:15 – 10: 35 AM
Coffee and Tea Break
10:40 – 11:55 AM
Karin Musier-Forsyth, The Ohio State University, A Tale of Two Gs (and one GB)
Eric Block, University at Albany, SUNY, It Ain’t Necessarily So: Re-examination of the Claimed Room Temperature Isolation of Stable Non-cyclic 1,2-Disulfoxides
Michael Barany, University of Edinburgh, Unwritten Science and Mathematics
Session 2
12:00 – 1: 30 PM
Lunch
1:35 – 2:50 PM
Elisar Barbar, Oregon State University, From BPTI to Dynein to SARS-CoV-2: How Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis and the Woodward/Barany Team Paved the Way for Experimental Appreciation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Pravin Kaumaya, Indiana University School of Medicine, The Complicated World of Peptide-based Vaccines/Therapeutics for Cancer Immunotherapies: The Promise of B-cell Epitope Vaccine Immunotherapies
Naomi Taylor, National Cancer Institute, Fueling Anti-Tumor T-Lymphocytes: CARs and More
Session 3
2:55 – 3:15 PM
Coffee and Tea Break
3:20 – 4:50 PM
Richard DiMarchi, Indiana University, Chemical Evolution of Naturally Sourced Hormones to Treat Metabolic Diseases
Francis Barany, Weill Cornell Medicine, Adventures in Orthogonal Chemistry (Everything I Know, I Learned from My Brother)
Gregg Fields, Florida Atlantic University, Peptides Future and Past
George Barany, University of Minnesota, Closing Remarks