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University of California
Drug Discovery Consortium
5th Annual Research Symposium
Agenda
Friday, March 24, 2023
University Center at UC Santa Cruz
9:00am
9:30am
Registration. Poster set-up. Light refreshments.
Welcome and Introduction
Scott Lokey, PhD., and John MacMillan, PhD., UC Santa Cruz
9:40am
"UC Drug discovery Consortium Research introduction"
Julia Schaletzky, PhD., UC Berkeley
Leading-Edge Research Talks, Session I - Chair: Julia Schaletzky, PhD.
9:50am
"Big Surprises from Small Proteins"
Thomas Martinez, PhD., UC Irvine
10:15am
"Therapeutic targeting of lipid quality control and ferroptosis in cancer"
Joseph Hendricks, PhD., UC Berkeley
10:40am
"Novel mTORC1 inhibitors kill glioblastoma stem cells and promote longevity in mice"
Gino Cortopossi PhD., UC Davis
11:05am
"The bacterial type III secretion system as an antimicrobial drug target
Vicki Auerbuch Stone, PhD., UC Santa Cruz
11:30am
Lunch and Poster Presentations
Leading-Edge Research Talks, Session II - Chair: Scott Lokey, PhD.
1:00pm
"Structure-based design of highly potent anti-metastatic agents targeting EphA2"
Maurizio Pellecchia, PhD., UC Riverside
1:25pm
"High Throughput in Drug and Target discovery and genome editing"
Robert Damoiseaux, PhD., UC Los Angeles
1:50pm
"Open innovation activities at Ono Pharmaceutical"
Yasuaki Hashimoto, PhD., Discovery Research Alliance at Ono Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
UC DDC Resources, Core Facilities, and Emerging Technologies,
Session III - Chair: Melanie Cocco, PhD.
2:10pm
"Discovery of new beyond Rule-of-5 bioactives in the UCSC Chemical Screening Center"
Scott Lokey, PhD. Chemical Screening Center, UC Santa Cruz
2:25pm
"New drug target identification and verification with omics technologies"
Adam Godzik, PhD., UC Riverside
2:40pm
Break
3:05pm
"UC Davis Bioanalysis and Pharmacokinetics Core Facility"
Jimmy Wu, PhD., UC Davis
3:20pm
"Finding Achilles Heel: Synthetic Lethality approaches in Drug Discovery"
Julia Schaletzky, PhD., UC Berkeley
3:35pm
"The promise of vascularized microphysiological systems"
Chris Hughes, PhD., UC Irvine
3:50pm
Development of New Biophysical Methods for High Throughput Screening"
Jason Gestwicki, PhD., Small Discovery Center, UC San Francisco
Keynote Presentation, Session IV - Chair: Jason Gestwicki, PhD.
4:05pm
"Hacking into protein networks"
Michelle Arkin, PhD., UC San Francisco
4:50pm
Poster Presentation Awards
5:00pm
Closing Remarks and Adjourn
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