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

Targeted Protein Degradation Webinar Series

Unveiling the Hidden Interactome of CRBN Molecular Glues With Chemoproteomics

Speaker
Rebecca Metivier, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Integrated High-Throughput Proteomics Platform for Degrader Target Discovery and Validation

Speaker
Marting Steger, NEOsphere Biotechnologies

May 15, 2025 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom. Please register.
This webinar series is open to the local scientific community. View the full schedule of future webinars.

Chemical Biology Seminar

Bad leaving groups make better strategy: KL-50, DNA methyltransferases, and drug-resistant glioblastoma

Speaker
Seth Herzon, Yale University

May 28, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Jimmy Fund Auditorium
35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

This event is open to the local scientific community.

Targeted Protein Degradation Webinar Series

BromoCatch: A Self-Labelling Tag Platform for Protein Analysis and Live Cell Imaging

Speakers
Maria Rodriguez-Rios and Conner Craigon, CeTPD, University of Dundee

May 29, 2025 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom. Please register.
This webinar series is open to the local scientific community. View the full schedule of future webinars.

Explore Past Events

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