Cover Image for 2025 Tanenbaum Symposium on Chemical Biology and Functional Genomics
Cover Image for 2025 Tanenbaum Symposium on Chemical Biology and Functional Genomics

2025 Tanenbaum Symposium on Chemical Biology and Functional Genomics

Hosted by Mikko Taipale & Tanisha Teelucksingh
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Join us for this year's Tanenbaum Symposium, featuring a series of talks from world-leading researchers in chemical biology and functional genomics!

Programme

9:00 – 9:10am       Justin Nodwell Welcome remarks
9:10 – 9:40am       Cheryl Arrowsmith ”Target 2035: Probing the human genome for therapeutic opportunities”
9:40 – 10:10am     Anne-Claude Gingras Title TBD
10:10 – 10:40pm   Rafael Montenegro Burke “Uncovering the Heterogeneity of the Human Metabolome”

10:40 – 11:10am    Refreshment break

11:10 – 11:40am    John Whitney “Molecular weapons of interbacterial conflict”
11:40 – 12:10am    Jon Stokes “How should we use AI to help us find new antibiotics?”     

12:10 – 1:00pm     Luncheon

1:00 – 1:30pm       Andrew Woolley “Developing optogenetic tools for cell biology”
1:30 – 2:00pm       Frank Sicheri “Characterization of a molecular glue inhibitor that exploits the CTLH E3 ligase substrate adapter GID4”
2:00 – 2:30pm       Peter Roy “A Systematic Analysis of the Toxification of Agro-Chemicals by Human Cytochrome P450s”

2:30 – 3:00pm       Refreshment break

3:00 – 4:00pm       Keynote talk: Nathanael Gray “The Magic of Chemically Induced Proximity – from Protein Degradation to Transcriptional Control”

Location
Schwarz Reisman Innovation Campus W280, 108 College St, Toronto, ON M5G 0C6