PROGRAM

2025Head

Symposium Location

UC San Diego
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
9255 Pharmacy Lane, MC 0657
La Jolla, CA 92093-0657
Pharmaceutical Sciences Building (lower level)
Health Sciences Education Center Auditorium

(For speaker presentation instructions please scroll down)

Schedule
 

 

 

 

Friday, November 14, PSB auditorium, SSPPS, UCSD, La Jolla

8:30 AM Doors open Pick up your name tag and have some Coffee & bagels
9:00 Session 1
Susan Taylor
moderator
Welcome  -  Pascale Marchot, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Univ. France
9:10 Introduction -  Susan Taylor and Palmer Taylor, UC San Diego
9:30   Greetings  -     Larry Brunton, UC San Diego
Joan Heller Brown, UC San Diego
Shelley Camp, PT Lab manager emeritus
9:55 Steven Sine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MI
Interfaces in Pharmacology and Beyond
10:25 Coffee break
10:55   Session 2
Pascale Marchot
Yves Bourne
moderators
Joel Sussman, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Acetylcholinestearase: Structure to Function and Beyond
11:25 Gisela Camacho, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,TX
Targeting the Monoamine Transporters:  Chemical Tools and Potential Therapeutics
11:45 Hans-Jurgen Kreienkamp, Hamburg University, Germany
From Acetylcholine to Argonaute
12:00 LUNCH ON SITEfor confirmed participants
1:00 PM Session 3
Zrinka Kovarik
moderator
K. Barry Sharpless, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA
Aiming to Capture the High Points of Our 20+ Year Project Together
1:25 Zrinka Kovarik, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia
Reactivation of Acetylcholinesterase: A Shared Research Focus for Nearly 30 Years
1:45 Scott Hansen, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, China
A Look Back on Allosteric Activation
2:05 Akos Nemecz, University of Nicolas Copernicus, Poland
Breathing Life into the Acetylcholine Binding Protein
2:15 Zoran Radić, UC San Diego
Structure-based Design of Uncharged Bis-oxime Antidotes Against OP Poisoning
2:25 Yvonne Rosenberg, PlantVax Inc., Rockville, MD
The Rewards of Scientific Commitment: Post Exposure RS194B Oxime is the Most Efficacious Single-Administration Treatment Today Against Lethal OP Nerve Agents and Insecticides in Primates
2:35   John Yamauchi, Schrödinger, Inc., USA 
Computational Approaches to Nicotinic Ligand Selectivity
2:50 Coffee break
3:20   Session 4
Palmer Taylor
moderator
Davide Comoletti, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Pacific, Atlantic, and trans-Pacific explorations
3:50   Andy McCammon, UC San Diego
Structure and Dynamics in Pharmacology
4:10 Ryan Hibbs, UC San Diego
Acetylcholine Receptors in Sickness and in Health: From Structure to Therapy
6:00–9:00   Cocktails and Dinner at the Birch Aquarium        by invitation only
     

Saturday, November 15, PSB auditorium, SSPPS, UCSD, La Jolla

8:30 AM Doors open Coffee & bagels
8:50   Welcome  -     Susan Taylor, UC San Diego
9:00 Session 5
William Gerwick
moderator
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Institut Pasteur, France (via Zoom)
The Nicotine Receptor: An Allosteric Protein From the Molecular to the Cognitive Level
9:20 Baldomero Olivera, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Cell-specific Expression of Different Nicotinic Receptor Subtypes
9:50 William Fenical, UC San Diego SIO
Lophotoxin and the Incredible Insight of Palmer Taylor
10:00 William Gerwick, UC San Diego
Exploring Marine Biodiversity for Drug Discovery through SSPPS Collaborations
10:20 Coffee break
10:50 Session 6
Larry Brunton
moderator
Bradley Moore, UC San Diego
Fulfilling Palmer's Vision to Build a Premier Pharmacy-oceanography Partnership at UC San Diego
11:10 Tadeusz Molinski, UC San Diego
Calcium Ion-Channel Modulators. Bounty from the Sea and Four Decades of Research
11:20 Pascale Marchot / Yves Bourne, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Univ, France
Macrocyclic Imine Phycotoxins and AChBP: What's on my Seafood Platter?
11:40 Susumu Kawamoto, Chiba University, Japan
A wonderful Encounter in Southern California, and Then
11:50 Hideki Onishi, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Japan
Does Thiamine Deficiency Still Occur Despite our Modern Eating Habits?
12:00 LUNCH ON SITE                                                               for confirmed participants
1:00 Session 7
Vince Dionne
moderator
Mark Schumacher, UC San Francisco
“Two Roads Diverged”: A Clinician-scientist’s Journey in Pain Research
1:30   Jerold Chun, Sanford Burnham Prebys
Lipid Receptors and Wonderful Wines with Palmer
1:50 Craig Venter 
(TBD)
2:10 Coffee break
2:40 Session 8
Brookie Best
moderator
Brookie Best, UC San Diego
A Legacy of Excellence: Celebrating Dr. Palmer Taylor's Contributions to Pharmacy Education
2:50 Pieter Dorrestein, UC San Diego
The Journey from Microbial Conversations to the Global Data Science of Small Molecules
3:20 Vivian Hook, UC San Diego
Innovative Therapeutics Research by SSPPS Educational Programs and Collaborators
3:30 David Gonzalez, UC San Diego
The Center for Advanced Proteomics at UCSD's Department of Pharmacology and the SSPS
3:40 Katarzyna Kaczanowska, Poland
Advances in Targeted Protein Degradation
3:50 Dong Wang, UC San Diego
Unravel the “Dark Matter” of Transcription
4:00 Geoffrey Chang, UC San Diego
Ligand-gated Fluorescent Sensors
4:10 Ruben Abagyan, UC San Diego
Bridging In Silico Protein Structures and Chemical Spaces to Lab and Clinic
4:20   Closing remarks (Paul Insel and Zrinka Kovarik)
6.00   Dinner at the Taylors’ Residence                       by invitation only

 

 

Speaker presentation instructions:

  1. Please email us your presentation files as soon as practical to zradic@health.ucsd.edu. If the file is too large for email, please deposit it to "Google Drive" or alternative, and email corresponding link to zradic@health.ucsd.edu.

  2. Please prepare your presentation in a MS PowerPoint  .pptx or Adobe .pdf formats. Other formats will not be supported. The SSPPS auditorium computer is a PC running MS Office version LTCS Pro Plus 2021.

  3. For optimal testing (and in the interest of adhering to the schedule) we encourage you to email us your files, however individual presentation files will be accepted on a USB memory stick (thumb drive) in the SSPPS auditorium before your indicated presentation session (during preceding breakfast breaks, coffee breaks or lunch breaks) for transfer to the podium PC.

  4. Use of individual laptops for presentations is discouraged. However, if you absolutely need to use your own personal laptop, please let us know well ahead of time.

  5. While we will do our best to make your presentation work, your chances will be the best if you follow #1. It will allow us to adhere to the timed schedule of the program.

  6. We plan on A/V recording all symposium sessions. Please provide us with your written consent for recording your presentation. Presentations without consent will be edited out from the A/V recordings of the symposium, after the symposium.

SSPPSauditorium
 
Please note: The entire UC San Diego campus is smoke and tobacco-free.

“UC San Diego has a smoke and tobacco-free policy, which prohibits the sale, advertising, use, and smoking of tobacco or marijuana/cannabis on university-controlled property, including parking lots. This policy applies to all members of the UC community, including faculty, staff, and students, as well as visitors.” FAQ