Agenda

Chemical Biology: Peptide and Protein Design

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 12:30 PM - 5:40 PM

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Check-in and Poster Set-up
1:00 PM - 1:55 PM
Welcome Remarks and Keynote Presentation

1:00 PM

Welcome Remarks
Cassie Chartier, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences 

1:15 PM

Keynote Presentation: Non-Traditional Modulation of Polypeptide Information: Novel Agonists of Class B1 GPCRs
Samuel Gellman, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

1:55 PM - 2:55 PM
Session I: Peptides

1:55 PM

Speaker to Be Announced 

2:25 PM

Oral Macrocyclic Peptide Inhibitors of IL-1b
Christopher Plummer, PhD, Merck 

2:55 PM - 3:40 PM
Poster Session and Networking Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:05 PM
Session II: Short Talks Selected from Abstracts
4:05 PM - 5:10 PM
Session III: Proteins

4:05 PM

Harnessing Endocytosis with Viral Display to Select Highly Developable Internalizer for Precision Therapy
Jie Zhou, PhD, University of Chicago 

4:35 PM

Drugging Oncogenic Signaling Pathways through a Novel Therapeutic Approach of Activation 
Aimee Usera, PhD, Delphia Therapeutics 

5:05 PM

Closing Remarks
Cassie Chartier, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences 

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