Miller Symposium Schedule

Opening Remarks 

Shota Atsumi, Chair, Miller Committee

Estella Atekwana, Dean, College of Letters and Science

Opening Plenary - Virtual Speaker

David Liu, Broad Institute, Harvard University, HHMI

“Base Editing and Prime Editing to Correct Mutations that Cause Genetic Disease in Cells, Animals, and Patients"

Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University

"Covalent chemistry: probes for identification and imaging of enzymes involved in the pathogenesis of cancer and infectious diseases"

Break

Najafi Award Presentation

Jared Shaw, UC Davis

Alumni

Jeff Butler, AMPAC Fine Chemicals

"Influencing Bonds: Developing Chemists, Processes, & Medicines"

Break

Opening Remarks 

Dave Goodin, Chair, Department of Chemistry

Marie Heffern, UC Davis

"Exploring Extracellular Metal Dynamics to Uncover Biomarkers in Metabolic Diseases"

Nate Hathaway, University of North Carolina

"Precision Control of Transcription Using Chemical Epigenetic Modifiers"

Sanjeev Redkar, Apollomics

"The HGF/cMet Pathway in Cancer – early development to clinical evidence”

Special Address

Arthur Wellman, Jr., Pranger Law PC

Ellen Sletten, UC Los Angeles

"Multiplexed in vivo imaging with near and shortwave infrared polymethine fluorophores"

Martin Eastgate, BMS

“Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceuticals"

Break

PLENARY SPEAKER

Paula Hammond, MIT

“Tailored Targeting of Cells and Tissues using Charged Polymer Nanosystems"