Agenda for May 2, 2025

a flashy banner that says Chemical Screening Center Symposium

10 am, 10:45 am, 11:30 am: pre-scheduled tours of CSC (advance signup on registration form required)

1  pm registration table opens (in atrium with coffee and tea) and registrants move into PSB240

1:30 pm welcome remarks – Scott Lokey and land acknowledgement – Beverley Rabbitts

1:40 pm Keynote – Cameron Pye
“From Benchtops to Boardrooms: Building a Biotech From My UCSC PhD Thesis”

Cameron's headshot and a bit of text with his affiliation and alum status

About the speaker: Dr. Pye is a co-founder and CEO of Unnatural Products, a startup company in Santa Cruz. He graduated from UCSC in 2017 with a PhD in Chemistry & Biochemistry, having done his thesis with Scott Lokey, including work in the Chemical Screening Center. He will tell us about UNP’s research and also his journey that took him through his PhD and into starting a successful company. LinkedIn.

2:20 Faculty talk #1 – John MacMillan “A Retrospective Look at the Center for High Content Function Annotation and the Role of High Throughput Screening“

2:50 Coffee break with cookies

3:05 Faculty talk #2 – Vicki Auerbuch Stone “Antimicrobial Drug Discovery in Academia”

3:30 Trainee short talk #1 – Diksha Sharma (Partch lab) website

3:47  Trainee short talk #2 – Peter Ngoi (Rubin lab) LinkedIn

4:04 Trainee shorty talk #3 – Gwen Thomas (Hinck lab) LinkedIn

4:21 Thank you to our speakers and sponsors: Revvity,  BioTek (part of Agilent), Beckman Coulter, Molecular Devices – Beverley Rabbitts

4:22 pm Catered reception in the foyer

5:30 pm end

The CSC logo has four yellow hexagons and the letters UCSC superimposed in blue. the CSC portion is spelled out as Chemical Screening Center.
Add this event to your Google calendar here. Please note that registration is required of all participants. Please use this form to register by April 18, 2025. Registration is free, but optional donations can be made using this link.  For additional information for sponsors and about vendor tables, please see this link. Find the event flyer here.