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Chemical Biology Program Events

We host chemical biology seminars, technical training sessions, professional development workshops, and other events throughout the year. Current programming includes the events listed below, as well as many social gatherings, including an annual retreat.

Many of our events are open to the public, and/or available on YouTube.

Questions about an event? Email chemical_biology@dfci.harvard.edu

Upcoming Events

Using AI in the job search

Professional Development Session

Speaker
Evan Walsh, M.A.
Associate Director, Recruitment and Employer Relations, Harvard Graduate School of Education

November 14, 2025 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. 
Longwood Center
360 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Chemoproteomic approaches to characterize electrophile- and redox-induced cellular stress

Chemical Biology Seminar

Speaker
Keriann Backus, PhD, UCLA

November 19, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Jimmy Fund Auditorium 
35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

    September 25, 2025 - Chemical Biology for Drug Discovery: Proximity-Induced Pharmacology and ADC Payloads
    Jimmy Fund Auditorium 

    September 17, 2025 - Mutation-Specific, Mutation-Agnostic, and Disease-Agnostic Therapeutic Genome Editing
    Jimmy Fund Auditorium

    September 11, 2025 - Targeted Protein Degradation Event
    Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, Simmons University

    July 18, 2025 - The Many Guises of Reactive Metabolite Signaling
    Yimon Aye, Oxford University

    July 3, 2025 - Activating p53 Y220C with Induced Proximity
    Radosław Nowak, University of Bonn

    May 29, 2025 – BromoCatch: A Self-Labelling Tag Platform for Protein Analysis and Live Cell Imaging
    Maria Rodriguez-Rios and Conner Craigon, CeTPD, University of Dundee

    May 28, 2025 – Bad leaving groups make better strategy: KL-50, DNA methyltransferases, and drug-resistant glioblastoma
    Seth Herzon, Yale University

    May 15, 2025 – Unveiling the Hidden Interactome of CRBN Molecular Glues With Chemoproteomics
    Rebecca Metivier, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    May 15, 2025 – Integrated High-Throughput Proteomics Platform for Degrader Target Discovery and Validation
    Marting Steger, NEOsphere Biotechnologies

    April 8, 2025 – Ins and Outs of Editorial Decisions and Peer Review Process
    A conversation with editors of Cell, Cancer Cell, Molecular Cell and/or Cell Chemical Biology

    April 3, 2025 – Targeted Protein Degradation in the Transmembrane and Extracellular Space
    Peng Chen, Peking University, China

    April 3, 2025 – Combinatorial Mapping of E3 Ubiquitin Ligases to Their Target Substrates
    Chase Suiter, University of Washington

    March 20, 2025 – Targeted Protein Degradation As a Tool to Study UPS Pathway Inhibitors
    Martin Schwalm, SGC Frankfurt

    March 20, 2025 – Harnessing TRIM21 Mechanism for Selective Degradation of Proteopathic Aggregates
    Dean Clift, TRIMTECH Therapeutics

    March 5, 2025 – Molecular Glues - From Protein Degradation to Transcription
    Nathanael Gray, Stanford University

    March 4, 2025 – Strategies for Career Exploration and Planning
    Talya Levitz, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    February 20, 2025 – Drug-Induced CRL5ASB8-Mediated Degradation of XPO1 Occurs via an Allosteric Mechanism
    Yuh Min Chook, UT Southwestern

    February 4, 2025 – Grant Writing Strategies

    January 21, 2025 – Design and Evolution of Photoenzymes for a Sustainable Future
    Adrian Bunzel, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

    January 7, 2025 – Networking Event
    Networking event speakers

    December 3, 2024 – How to Give an Effective (Job) Talk
    Milka Kostic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    November 20, 2024 – CDoT @ Broad: Current Projects and Services
    Oivin Guicherit, Center for the Development of Therapeutics (CDoT), The Broad Institute

    September 25, 2024 – High-Quality Hits from Xchem with Fast-Forward Fragments Combining HT Crystallography, Fragment Merging and Low-Cost Robotics
    Frank von Delft, Diamond Light Source, Oxford University, UK

    September 12, 2024 – Targeted Protein Degradation Annual In-Person Symposium
    Agenda and speakers

    August 28, 2024 – Chemical Biology Seminar Series: Chemical Approaches To Trap Key Intermediates in the Ubiquitin Conjugation Cascade
    Christopher D. Lima, Sloan Kettering Institute, NYC, USA and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA