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

Session 4

6:00 – 9:00 PM

Celebration Banquet