2020 Miller Symposium Schedule
Thursday, March 5th
| 8:00 am | Registration & Coffee & Pastries | |
| 8:45 am |
Opening Remarks Sheila David, Chair Miller Committee Jared Shaw, Chair Chemistry |
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| 9:00 am |  |
OPENING PLENARY SPEAKER Bob Bergman, UC Berkeley The Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus “The Application of Physical Organic Methods to the Investigation of Organometallic Reaction Mechanism: A Nostalgia Trip through Organometallic Chemistry of the Late 20th Century” |
| 10:00 am |
Daniel Sutherland, Genentech Vice President of Chemistry "P13K Kinase Inhibitors" |
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| 10:40 am | Break | |
| 11:10 am |  |
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine "Chemical Control of Neural Plasticity" |
| 11:50 am | Lunch & Vendor Showcase | |
| 1:30 pm |  |
Michelle Arkin, UC San Francisco Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Co-Director, Small Molecules Discovery Center “Dissecting Protein-Protein Interaction Networks with Chemical Biology” |
| 2:10 pm |  |
Alumni Speaker Bob Scott, Gilead Vice President, Chemical Development & Manufacturing “Process Chemistry Development of Anti-viral Pharmaceuticals” |
| 3:00 pm |  |
SPECIAL WELCOME UC Davis Chancellor Gary May |
| 3:15 pm |  |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah Distinguished Professor, Thatcher Presidential Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry “Beyond Watson & Crick: Roles for Alternative Bases and Folds in the Genome” |
| 4:30 pm | Reception & ACS Poster Session | |
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Friday, March 6th |
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8:00 am |
Registration & Coffee & Pastries |
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| 8:30 am |
Opening Remarks Sheila David & Dean Tantillo, UC Davis |
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| 8:40 am |  |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Distinguished Teaching Professor, Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry “Three Tales of Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry” |
| 9:30 am |  |
Mano Manoharan, Alnylam Senior Vice President of Drug Innovation Chemistry “Living in the World of RNAi Therapeutics” |
| 10:10 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am |  |
Melissa Moore Moderna, Chief Scientific Officer Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School “mRNA as Medicine” |
| 11:10 am |  |
Professor, Chemistry “RNA Editing by the ADARs” |
| 11:50 pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 pm |  |
Professor, Chemistry, Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Executive Officer for Chemistry “Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products & the Chemistry they Inspire” |
| 2:10 pm |  |
Nicole Gaudelli, Beam Therapeutics Head of DNA Editing Platform “"ABE8: Superior Adenine Base Editors with Expanded Targeting Range, Higher Activity and Therapeutic Applications" |
| 2:50 pm |  |
SPECIAL ADDRESS Arthur Wellman, Jr. Special Counsel, Pranger Law PC |
| 3:10 pm | Break | |
| 3:40 pm | Presentation of Awards | |
| 4:00 pm |  |
CLOSING PLENARY SPEAKER Professor, Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Professor in Biomedical and Health “Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in a New Era of Biology” |
| 5:30 pm | Miller Symposium 2020 Concludes |