Pfizer - SBU Symposium
This annual symposium co-hosted by Pfizer and SBU Chemistry seeks to emphasize the
importance of basic science research in drug discovery and development. This symposium
brings together Pfizer scientists and nearby university researchers to share new discoveries
in making molecules, developing drugs, and studying chemistry in living systems. SBU
Chemistry is grateful to Pfizer, our cross-sound neighbors, for supporting this symposium.
Date: September 28, 2023
Danica Rankic
Senior Director and Head of Synthesis - Internal Medicine, Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer
"Synthetic Innovation at the Interface of Drug Discovery and Development"
Patricia Zhang Musacchio
Leonard P. Kinnicutt Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Mild Strategies in the Direct Generation of Carbocation Intermediates from C(sp3)–H
Bonds"
Symposium on the Development and Applications of Bioorthogonal Chemistry
This symposium was hosted in honor of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded, in
part, to Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi, for her development of the field of Bioorthogonal
Chemistry. To highlight the broad impact of this work, a symposium featuring seven
alumni of the Bertozzi lab, including three SBU Chemistry faculty, was held a few
days after the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm.
Date: December 12, 2022
Isaac Carrico, Stony Brook University
"Bioorthogonal Chemistries as Tools to Aid Translational Research"
Stavroula Hatzios, Yale University
"Chemical Tools for Uncovering New Redox Biology at the Host-Microbe Interface"
Jessica Seeliger, Stony Brook University
"It’s (Not Always) a Snap: Clicking Our Way Through the Mycobacterial Cell Wall"
Sloan Siegrist, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Engineering the Mycobacterial Cell Envelope"
Scott Laughlin, Stony Brook University
"Metabolic Engineering and Click Chemistry in E. coli"
"Metabolic Engineering and Click Chemistry in E. coli"
Kevin Yarema, Johns Hopkins University
"Applying Metabolic Glycoengineering to Neural Regeneration"
Michael Boyce, Duke University
"Control of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton by Intracellular Protein Glycosylation"
"Control of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton by Intracellular Protein Glycosylation"