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Chemistry of Life

Chemistry of Life. Peter Senter Thematic Chair. Kavli Lecture. The selection committee convened in June and selected Carolyn Bertozzi (UC Berkeley) for the Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture (to be held March 26 th at 5:30) She has accepted

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Chemistry of Life

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  1. Chemistry of Life Peter Senter Thematic Chair

  2. Kavli Lecture • The selection committee convened in June and selected Carolyn Bertozzi (UC Berkeley) for the Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture (to be held March 26th at 5:30) • She has accepted • Should be heavily attended and will require publicity

  3. Chemistry of Life Plenary Session • Chair: Peter Senter • Sponsored in LIFE • Confirmed speakers: • Roger Tsien, UCSD • J. Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute • Laura Kiessling, U. Wisconsin • Samuel Stupp, Northwestern • This session needs to be heavily publicized

  4. Protein Chemistry for Diagnosis and Therapy • Co-chairs: Claude Meares and Peter Senter • Sponsored in BIOT (Patrick Cirino, chair) • Proposed speakers: • Claude Meares, UC Davis • Peter Senter, Seattle Genetics • Molly Shoichet, U. Toronto • Anna Wu, UCLA • Hisataka Kobayashi, NIH • Philip Dawson, Scripps

  5. Epigenetics: From Basic Principles to Drug Developmnet • Chair: Steven Henikoff • Sponsored in LIFE • Proposed speakers: • Steven Henikoff, Hutchinson Cancer Center • Robert Kingston, Harvard • Bradley Bernstein, Harvard • Peter Jones, USC • Robert Copeland, Epizyme

  6. Chemical Networks in Biology • Chair: Brian Shoichet, UCSF • Sponsored in LIFE • Speakers will be selected from: • Brian Shoichet, UCSF • Andrew Hopkins, Dundee • Jeremy Jenkins or Edward Jacoby, Novartis • Tim Micheson, Harvard • Didier Rognan, Strasbourg • Randy Peterson, Harvard • Bryan Roth, Harvard • Peter Sorger, Harvard

  7. Some areas for consideration • Publicity for the Kavli and Plenary sessions • Co-sponsorship of the LIFE symposia • Utilization of Plenary Speakers in other divisions • Comments?

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