Past Events
The following list contains archival listings of BCHM Program events from past academic years. Some of these lists may be incomplete.
2025-2026
9/12/2025
Roland Kersten, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Discovery and biosynthesis of burpitides in plants”
9/19/2025
Michael B. Yaffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Protein Kinase Signaling in Response to Cell Stress and DNA Damage"
9/26/2025
Jared L. Johnson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"Substrate specifity of the human protein kinome"
10/3/2025
Anna B. Loveland, UMass Chan Medical School
“How the ribosome powers up angiogenin”
10/17/2025
Nora Pyenson, New York University
“Studying the virome as a molecular ecosystem”
10/24/2025
Sanjoy Adak, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
“From an eagle-killing cyanotoxin to skatole: A tale of two diiron biosynthetic enzymes”
11/7/2025
Josué Flores Kim, UMass Chan Medical School
“Coordination between surface glycopolymer and cell wall biogenesis modulates envelope integrity and virulence in a bacterial pathogen”
11/14/2025
Alexander Ploss, Princeton University
“What Lurks in the Shadows: Lessons from Emerging and Re-Emerging Flaviviruses”
12/19/2025
Ismael Mingarro Muñoz, University of Valencia
"Biologically determined interfacial scale for proteins at membrane interfaces"
1/23/2026
Morgan Gilman, Boston University
“Molecular-Level Understanding of the Bacterial Cell Wall to Inform Therapeutic Development”
1/30/2026
Michelle Fry, Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital
“Structure of the Acanthamoeba ATP synthase reveals species-specific biochemistry”
2/6/2026
Gene Cordes, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
“All You Need to Know about Drug Discovery: An Adventure Story…”
2024-2025
9/6/2024
Lana Saleh, New England Biolabs
“5-Methylpyrimidine oxidation by TET-like dioxygenases”
9/13/2024
Taekjip Ha, Harvard Medical School
“Probing mechanical selection through accurate prediction”
9/20/2024
Shelley D. Copley, University of Colorado Boulder
“Evolution of Novel Metabolic Pathways”
9/27/2024
Roberto Dominguez, University of Pennsylvania
“DNA mechanics in 3D”
10/18/2024
Aaron T. Smith, University of Maryland
“The ABCs of Prokaryotic Ferrous Iron (Fe²⁺) Homeostasis”
11/8/2024
Elizabeth Campbell, Rockefeller University
“Unraveling Functional Vulnerabilities within the Mycobacterial Transcription Cycle for Precision Targeting”
11/15/2024
Jon Clardy, Harvard University
“PAMPs, DAMPs, and Lipid Codes”
11/22/2024
James Hougland, Syracuse University
“How a peptide hormone GOAT acylated: The chemistry, biology, and endocrinology of ghrelin O-acyltransferase”
12/6/2024
Elizabeth M. Nolan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Metals and Immunity: Explorations of Metal Sequestration by Human Calprotectin”
12/13/2024
Naomi Olsen, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin Complexes”
2/7/2025
Jonathan Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Exploiting Viruses that Kill and Killing Viruses that Exploit: Some Sweet Science"
2/28/2025
Daniel Suess, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Selective ⁵⁷Fe Labeling of Iron–Sulfur Proteins”
3/7/2025
Julia Kardon, Brandeis University
“Controlling mitochondrial function by protein unfolding”
4/4/2025
Will Gibson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“Chemical Biologist”
4/11/2025
Luke Chao, Massachusetts General Hospital
“Regulating mitochondrial dynamics and ultrastructure”
5/2/2025
Hoong Lim, New England Biolabs
“New Insights into an OLD Nuclease”