The Southeast Chemical Biology Symposium, “Small-Molecules for Understanding Life and Managing Disease,” will be held April 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Coverdell Auditorium. A keynote speech by Stuart L. Schreiber, the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, is open free to the public.
Organized by the UGA Chemical Biology Group, the conference will feature talks selected from abstracts submitted by faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and undergraduate students. The symposium will include a poster session and collaborative interactions between scientists from all career stages.
Schreiber is director of the Center for the Science of Therapeutics and one of four founders of the Broad Institute, where he is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research integrates chemical biology and human biology to advance the science of therapeutics. He is known for having developed systematic ways to explore biology, especially disease biology, using small molecules and for his role in the development of chemical biology. Schreiber’s keynote presentation will conclude the symposium.
More information on the Chemical Biology Group is available at cbg.uga.edu.