2025 Miller Symposium Schedule
March 6-7, 2025
| Thursday, March 6th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:45am | Opening Remarks Shota Atsumi, Chair, Miller Committee David Goodin, Chair, Chemistry Department Gary May, Chancellor, UC Davis | |
| 9:00am | 
| Alumni Speaker Sundeep Dugar, Alumni Speaker "Let’s Talk Mitochondria and the Discovery and Role of a New Steroid" |
| 10:00am | 
| Najafi Award Presentation Mark Mascal, UC Davis "Extracyclic Indoles, Pseudocannabinoids, and Other Fun Stuff" |
| 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:45am | 
| Alanna Schepartz, UC Berkeley "Engineering translation for chemistry, biology, and medicine" |
| 11:45am | Lunch | |
| 12:45pm | 
| Dirk Trauner, University of Pennslyvannia "On Folding Molecules" |
| 1:45pm | 
| Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley (Nobel Laureate) "The Chemistry of CRISPR: What's Ahead for Genome Editing" |
| 2:45pm | Break | |
| 3:10pm | 
| Frances Arnold, Caltech (Nobel Laureate) "Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life" |
| 4:10 | Poster Lightning Talks | |
| 4:30 | Poster Session | |
| 7:00pm | Gala Dinner (Invitation only) |
| Friday, March 7th | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:45am PST | Opening Remarks Estella Atekwana, Dean, College of Letter & Science | |
| 9:00am | 
| Cody Ross Pitts, UC Davis "Strain-Release Pentafluorosulfanylation: Strange Molecules Doing Stranger Things" |
| 10:00am | 
| Michael Marletta, UC Berkeley "An Unlikely Path: From a Biofuel to Plant Pathogens" |
| 11:00am | Break | |
| 11:20am | Poster Lightning Talks | |
| 11:50pm | Poster Session | |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm | Provost Mary Croughan | |
| 1:35pm | 
| Ashok Bhandari, Protagonist Therapeutics "De Novo Discovery and Development of Peptide Therapeutics" |
| 2:35pm | 
| Wendy Young, Scientific advisor, Independent Board member, former SVP Small Molecule Drug Discovery Genentech "Adventures in Drug Hunting" |
| 3:35pm | Break | |
| 3:50pm | 
| Ken Houk, UCLA "Frontiers of Pericyclic Reactions" |
| 4:50pm | Announcement of Awards | |
| 5:10pm | Symposium Concludes |