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CPS Meeting 2024 - Nagoya

CPS 2024 - Invited Speakers

Discover the exciting list of invited speakers and the topics of their talks at the event here.

Invited Speakers List

The full list of announced speakers with a link to their website

SpeakerOrganizationTalk Title
Prof Dr. Annette Beck-SickingerUniversity of LeipzigInnovative Biomaterials: Releasable Proteins on Demand by Ligation Reactions
Prof. Dr. Christian BeckerUniversität WienThe impact of (non-enzymatic) posttranslational modifications on Heat Shock Protein 27 (Hsp27)
Prof. Dr. Ashraf BrikTechnion - Israel Institute of TechnologyUbiquitin Signaling: Chemistry, Biology and Drug Discovery
Prof. Dr. Champak ChatterjeeUniversity of WashingtonChemical Protein Synthesis Sheds Light on Human Gene Regulation
Prof. Dr. Yong-Xiang ChenTsinghua UniversitySynthesis of Diverse Phosphorus-Containing Proteins/Peptides
Prof. Dr. Anne ConibearTU WienDeciphering the impact of phosphorylation on the structure and chaperoning of Heat Shock Protein 90
Prof Dr. Christian HackenbergerLeibniz Institute for Molecular PharmacologyPeptide-conjugates and additives for intracellular protein and antibody delivery
Prof. Dr. Nina HartrampfUniversität ZürichNew tools for flow-based peptide and protein synthesis
Prof. Dr. Gosuke HayashiNagoya UniversityBeyond Conventional One-pot Ligation of Multiple Peptide Segments
Prof. Dr. Chunmao HeSouth China UniversityAzole reagents enabled ligation of peptide acyl pyrazoles for chemical protein synthesis and modification
Prof. Dr. Hironobu HojoOsaka UniversityUse of Dipicolylamino Group as a Leaving Group for Protein Synthesis
Prof. Dr. Akhter HossainThe Florey InstituteChemical Synthesis and Peptidomimetic Drug Design
Prof. Dr. Muhammad JbaraTel Aviv UniversityDeciphering the Role of PTMs on the DNA Binding Activity of bHLH Transcription Factors Using Chemical Protein Synthesis
Dr. Marc-André KasperTubulis GmbHPhosphorus-based Linkers for the Construction of Stable and Efficacious Antibody-Drug-Conjugates: From Bench to Bedside
Prof. Dr. Takayuki KatohUniversity of TokyotRNA engineering for ribosomal incorporation of D-amino, β-amino, and γ-amino acids into peptides
Prof. Dr. Stephen KentThe University of ChicagoBringing the Science of Proteins into the Realm of Organic Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Xuechen LiThe University of Hong KongHanding difficult peptide/protein synthesis
Prof. Dr. Yiming LiHefei University of TechnologyAnionic motif-driven charge interaction for protein cytosolic delivery
Prof. Dr. Xiang David LiThe University of Hong KongChemical Approaches to Decoding Histone Epigenetics
Prof. Dr. Annemieke MadderCancer Research Institute GentFuran- and Triazolinedione-based Chemistries for Bio-orthogonal Protein Modification
Prof. Dr. Oleg MelnykUniversity of LilleTaking inspiration from nature to design novel chemistries for protein chemical synthesis
Prof. Dr. Norman MetanisThe Hebrew University of JerusalemMirror-Image RaPID Technology for the Identification of Highly Stable and Selective Macrocyclic Peptide Inhibitors
Prof. Dr. Tom MuirPrinceton UniversityIlluminating chromatin: chemical biology tools light the way
Dr. Shunsuke OishiITbM, Nagoya UniversityChemical synthesis of the EPF-family of plant cysteine-rich proteins by ligation reactions
Prof. Dr. Ryo OkamotoSeikei UniversityReinforcement of Protein-Protein Interaction by Glycosylation
Prof. Dr. Akira OtakaTokushima UniversityInsulin Synthesis Using Stepwise Disulfide Bond Formation Enabled by S-Protected Cysteine and Cysteine Sulfoxide Pairs
Dr. Vijaya PattabiramanBright Peak TherapeuticsChemistry-based Platform Technology for Creating Designer Biomolecules for Cancer Immunotherapy
Prof. Dr. Richard PayneThe University of SydneyNew Technologies for the Synthesis and Semi-Synthesis of Modified Proteins
Prof. Dr. Bradley PenteluteMITAccelerating Protein Production: Harnessing Folding Selections for Same-Day Access
Prof. Dr. E. James PeterssonUniversity of PennsylvaniaCombining Ligation, Chemoenzymatic Modification, and Unnatural Mutagenesis to Study the Structure and Dynamics of alpha-Synuclein
Prof. Dr. Stephan PlessUniversity of CopenhagenProtein semisynthesis via protein trans-splicing in living cells
Dr. Bhavesh PremdjeeNovo NordiskDrug discovery and manufacturing powered by ligation chemistry – in search of peptide based CCR5 antagonists
Prof. Dr. Monika RajEmory UniversityChemical Tools to Uncover Hidden Proteome
Prof. Dr. Marina RubiniUniversity of DublinSemisynthetic approaches for studying post-translational modifications: lessons learnt from cytokines
Dr. Karin RustlerIris BiotechSelectively Cleavable Protecting Group for the epsilon-NH2 of Lys
Philipp SchillingETH ZurichKAT ligation for chemical protein synthesis at micromolar concentration
Prof. Dr. Ping WangShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChemical synthesis and functional study of complex glycoproteins
Prof. Dr. Hisashi YamamotoChubu UniversityNext-generation peptide synthesis
Prof. Dr. Ting ZhuWestlake UniversityBuilding mirror-image biology systems