INVITED LECTURES
2024
UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, Los Angeles, CA – Invited Speaker (January 2024)
UCI Pharmaceutical Sciences, Irvine, CA – Invited Speaker (January 2024)
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA – Invited Speaker (January 2024)
2023
6th RNA Targeted Drug Discovery & Development Summit 2023 – Virtual Invited Speaker (December 2023)
Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, Philadelphia, PA – Invited Speaker (December 2023)
Kornberg Innovation Seminar Promega, Madison Wisconsin – Invited Speaker (November 2023)
UNSW RNA Institute Sydney, Australia – Invited Speaker (October 2023)
UF Department of Chemistry, Gainesville, FL – Invited Speaker (October 2023)
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX – Invited Speaker (October 2023)
Watanabe Symposium Chemical Biology, Indiana University – Invited Speaker (September 2023)
AVIDD/SyneRx Annual Retreat, Stanford – Invited Speaker (September 2023)
Stanford Genetics Conference on Structural Variants and DNA Repeats – SVAR23. Invited Speaker (September 2023)
RNA Assay Development & Screening Summit Boston. Invited Speaker (August 2023)
Tau Consortium TCIM2023 Boston. Invited Speaker (June 2023)
Target ALS Annual Meeting Boston. Invited Speaker (May 2023)
BioMed Conference Proximity-inducing pharmacology: Targeted protein degradation and beyond”, Barcelona. Invited Speaker (May 2023)
9th NovAlix conference “Biophysics in Drug Discovery”, Philadelphia. Invited Speaker (April 2023)
Biological Discovery through Chemical Innovation and Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University. Invited Speaker (April 2023)
Caspi Lecture, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Invited Speaker (March 2023)
C9orf72 FTD/ALS Summit Barrow Neurological Institute, Arizona. Invited speaker (March 2023)
Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, New Jersey. Invited Speaker (February 2023)
3rd PSL Biology Symposium. Paris France. Invited Speaker (Jan 2023)
2022
EISAI Center for Genetic Guided Dementia Discovery, Massachusetts. Invited Speaker (Dec 2022)
5th RNA-target Drug Discovery Conference – Boston. Invited Speaker (Dec 2022)
Virtual Workshop RNA The Quest for Innovative Molecular Treatment Modalities for Intractable Disease Targets. Invited Speaker (November 2022)
Discovery on Target, Boston. Invited Speaker (October 2022)
Oligonucleotides Chemistry & Therapeutics Symposium. Berlin Germany. Invited Speaker (Sept 2022)
Chemical Biology meets Drug Discovery, Francis Crick Institute. London. Invited Speaker (Sept 2022)
University of Dundee, Division of Biological Chemistry & Drug Discovery (BCDD) External Virtual Seminar: Invited Speaker (August 2022)
NIAID Virtual Workshop: Targeted Protein Degradation for The Development of Anti-Infectives. Invited Speaker (July 2022)
Bringing Chemistry to Medicine Virtual Symposium. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Invited Speaker (July 2022)
Weill Cornell Medical College. New York City, NY. Invited Speaker (June 2022)
37th ACS National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. New York City, NY. Invited Speaker (June 2022)
RNA Therapeutics: From Concept to Clinic. RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School. Invited Speaker (June 2022)
NIEHS & NHGRI RNome Virtual Workshop: Capturing RNA sequence and transcript diversity – from technology innovation to clinical application. Invited Speaker (May 2022)
Cornell University, Department of Chemistry. Ithaca, NY. Invited Speaker (May 2022)
Target ALS Annual Meeting. Cambridge, MA. Invited Speaker (May 2022).
ACS Spring 2022. San Diego, CA. Invited Speaker (March 2022).
RNA Leaders World Conference. Basel, Switzerland. Invited Speaker; E-Lecture (March 2022).
Undruggable Conference. Boston, MA. Invited Speaker. (March 2022).
2021
17th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (September 2021)
Janssen Research & Development Global Discovery Meeting. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (September 2021).
Undruggable Leaders Forum. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (September 2021).
The RNA Structure Symposium Virtual Conference. Invited Speaker (June 2021).
Drug Discovery Chemistry | Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s 2nd Annual RNA-Targeting Small Molecule Drugs. Designing and Optimizing Small Molecules to Modulate Diverse RNA Motifs and Pathways. Featured Presentation (May 2021).
Yale University | Chemical Biology and Organic Synthesis Virtual Symposium. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (May 2021).
Dana-Farber | Targeted Protein Degradation Webinar Series. Invited Speaker (April 2021).
The Spectrum at Scripps Research Virtual Summit. Drug Discovery Technologies. E-Lecture (March 2021)
International Conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR) E-Event. Invited Speaker (March 2021).
McGill University. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (February 2021).
Oxford Global | Virtual Targeted Protein Degradation and PROTAC Symposium. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (February 2021).
Blaffer Virtual Lecture Series | MD Anderson Cancer Center. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (February 2021).
DMCCB Basel Symposium: Targeting RNA by Small Molecules. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture. Livestreamed virtual event (February 2021).
Montana State University. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (January 2021).
Drug Discovery News. Webinar: Racing Against COVID-19: Drug and Vaccine Development (January 2021).
2020
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative | Neurodegeneration Challenge Network. E-Lecture (December 2020).
ORIC Pharmaceuticals. Invited Speaker. E-Lecture (December 2020).
Hansonwade: 3rd Annual RNA Targeted Drug Discovery Summit. Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (December 2020).
University of California – Berkeley. Department of Chemistry, ACS Undergraduate Chemistry Student Invited Speaker (November 2020).
Oxford University. Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Colloquium (November 2020).
International Consortium of COVID19-NMR: “Exploring the Druggability of SARS-CoV-2”. Invited Speaker and Panelist. Livestreamed virtual event (November 2020).
NIH SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Therapeutics Summit. Invited Panelist. Livestreamed virtual event (November 2020).
National Cancer Institute. Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (October 2020).
Princeton University: ACS Fall Organic Symposium. Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (October 2020).
Hansonwade: 3rd Annual Targeted Protein Degradation Summit. Invited Workshop Leader. Livestreamed virtual event (October 2020).
Applied Pharmaceutical Chemistry Conference 2020. Plenary Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (October 2020).
California Institute of Technology: “Frontiers in Chemical Biology Symposium.” Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (September 2020).
RiboClub: 21st Annual Meeting | “RNA Biology and Technology: The Current Pandemic and Beyond.” Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (September 2020).
Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College. Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (September 2020).
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (August 2020).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. Participant. Livestreamed virtual event (June 2020).
Basel Chemical Society. Invited Speaker. Livestreamed virtual event (June 2020).
2020 Packard Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. Invited Speaker. Baltimore, MD (March 2020).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting and Tau 2020 Global Conference. Participant. Washington, DC (February 2020).
Amgen, Inc. Invited Speaker. Thousand Oaks, CA (January 2020).
SLAS 2020 International Conference & Exhibition. Invited Speaker. San Diego, CA (January 2020).
2019
Chemical Biology & Physiology 2019. Invited Speaker. Portland, OR (December 2019).
Iberoamerican Symposium of Organic Chemistry (SIBEAQO). Keynote Speaker. Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba (December 2019).
RNA: From Biology to Drug Discovery | inaugural symposium at The Scripps Research Institute. Jupiter, FL (December 2019).
Johns Hopkins University. Invited Speaker. Baltimore, MD (November 2019).
Eli Lilly. Invited Speaker. Indianapolis, IN (November 2019).
Tel Aviv University. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences. Sackler Symposium and Prize Reception. Tel Aviv, Israel (October 2019).
Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Invited Speaker. Beersheba, Israel (October 2019).
The Scripps Research Institute. Front Row Lecture Series. La Jolla, CA (October 2019).
The Scripps Research Institute. Department of Neuroscience Seminar Series. La Jolla, CA (September 2019).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. San Diego, CA (August 2019).
The RNA Club. Invited Speaker. Warsaw, Poland (June 2019).
The 24th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society. Invited Speaker. Krakow, Poland (June 2019).
The Royal of Society of Chemistry’s 2nd Annual Anglo-Nordic Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. Invited Speaker. Snekkersten, Denmark (June 2019).
Astrazeneca, PLC. Invited Speaker. Gothenburg, Sweden (June 2019).
Mercer University. Invited Speaker sponsored by The Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions. Macon, GA (April 2019).
ACS Division of Biological Chemistry. Invited Speaker and Session Presider. Orlando, FL (March 2019).
University of Albany. Keynote Speaker. Albany, NY (March 2019).
Genentech, Inc. Invited Speaker. San Francisco, CA (January 2019).
2018
International SYNGAP1 Conference. Invited Speaker. Jupiter, FL (November 2018).
Cope Scholar Symposium for M.G. Finn, hosted by ACS. Invited Speaker. Augusta, GA (November 2018).
EMD Serono, Inc. Invited Speaker. Boston, MA (October 2018).
AbbVie, Inc. Invited Speaker. Worcester, MA (October 2018).
Case Western Reserve University. Invited Speaker. Cleveland, OH (October 2018).
GNF (Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation)’s 4th Annual Technology Showcase. Invited Speaker. San Diego, CA (October 2018).
Duke University. Invited Speaker. Durham, NC (September 2018).
The Hereditary Disease Foundation’s Milton Wexler Celebration of Life. Invited Speaker. Cambridge, MA (August 2018).
Gordon Research Conference. Invited Speaker. Sunday River, ME (July 2018).
19th Tetrahedron Symposium. Participant and Editorial Board Member. Riva del Garda, Italy (June/July 2018).
Boehringer Ingleheim. Invited Speaker. Biberach, Germany (June 2018).
Gordon Research Conference. Invited Speaker. Andover, NH (June 2018).
Weizmann Institute of Science. Invited Speaker and Barry Cohen Prize Recipient. Rehovot, Israel (June 2018).
Baylor College of Medicine. Invited Speaker Houston, TX (May 2018).
Bayer AG. Invited Speaker Berlin, Germany (May 2018).
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG. Invited Speaker. Basel, Switzerland (May 2018).
ACS National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. Participant and Panelist. Nashville, TN (May 2018).
Florida Atlantic University’s Frontiers in Science Lecture. Boca Raton, FL (March 2018).
Rutgers University. Invited Speaker. New Brunswick, NJ (February 2018).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. Participant and Panelist. Irving, TX (January 2018).
The Scripps Research Institute’s Faculty Lecture Series. Invited Speaker. La Jolla, CA (January 2018).
2017
Osaka University and consortium affiliates. Invited Speaker. Osaka, Japan (December 2017).
Sanders Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Seminar Series: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, and Weill Cornell Medicine. New York, NY (September 2017).
The New York Academy of Sciences’ “Targeting RNA Using Small Molecules” Symposium. Invited Speaker. New York, NY (September 2017).
Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Finalist. New York, NY (September 2017).
Gordon Research Conference. Invited Speaker. Stowe, VT (July 2017).
18th Tetrahedron Symposium. Participant and Editorial Board Member. Budapest, Hungary (June-July 2018).
Gordon Research Conference. Invited Speaker. Mount Snow, VT (June 2017).
2017 Biohub Seminar Series (AstraZeneca). Waltham, MA (May 2017).
2017 RNA Biology Symposium, National Cancer Institute (NIH). Washington, DC (April 2017).
253rd ACS National Meeting. San Francisco, CA (April 2017).
University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI (March 2017).
Iowa State University. Ames, IA (March 2017).
University of Illinois. Urbana, IL (February 2017).
BNY Mellon Wealth Management. Ft. Lauderdale, FL (January 2017).
2016
1st International Conference on Biomolecular Systems Research. Berlin, Germany (November 2016).
Bristol-Myers Squibb/Scripps Symposium. Pennington, NJ (September 2016).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. Denver, CO (August 2016).
Annual Blavatnik Science Symposium. New York, NY (July 2016).
17th Tetrahedron Symposium. Barcelona, Spain, (June/July 2016).
World Preclinical Congress. Boston, MA (June 2016).
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Memphis, TN (May 2016).
Denali Therapeutics. San Francisco, CA (April 2016).
Target ALS Foundation Annual Meeting. New York, NY (April 2016).
Bristol-Myers Squibb Chemistry Symposium. Pennington, NJ (April 2016).
SAB/CAB Sigma RNA Symposium. Albany, NY (March 2016).
University of Colorado. Boulder, CO (February 2016).
Columbia University. New York, NY (January 2016).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. Fort Worth, TX (January 2016).
Biogen. Boston, MA (January 2016).
2015
NIH High Risk – High Reward Symposium. Bethesda, MD (December 2015).
University of Florida. Gainesville, FL (December 2015).
RNA Day at GlaxoSmithKline. Philadelphia, PA (November 2015).
Pfizer. Boston, MA (November 2015).
16th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery. Jersey City, NJ (October 2015).
University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM (September 2015).
2015 Annual Myotonic Dystrophy [MDF] Conference. Washington, DC (September 2015).
Annual Blavatnik Science Symposium. New York, NY (August 2015).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. San Francisco, CA (July 2015).
Gordon Research Conference. Newport, RI (June/July 2015).
Gordon Research Conference. New London, NH (June 2015).
Target ALS Meeting. New York, NY (April 2015).
University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry. Chicago, IL (April 2015).
249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. Denver, CO (March 2015).
Packard Center, Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. Baltimore, MD (March 2015).
AstraZeneca, Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA (March 2015).
Molecular Biophysics Training Program (MBTP), University of California. San Diego, CA (February 2015).
ChEM-H (Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health), Stanford University. Stanford, CA (February 2015).
Novartis. Emeryville, CA (February 2015).
University of Alabama, Department of Chemistry. Birmingham, AL (February 2015).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. Fort Worth, TX (January 2015).
2014
University of Florida, Brainstorming DM1. Gainesville, FL (December 2014).
ALS Therapy Development Institute: 10th Annual Leadership Summit. Boston, MA (November 2014).
Bristol-Myers Squibb. Wallingford, CT (November 2015).
Keynote Speaker at NY CAP Research Alliance: University at Albany, Albany Medical College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Albany, NY (October 2014).
Boehringer Ingelheim. Ridgefield, CT (October 2014).
Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation National Meeting and Conference. Washington, DC (September 2014).
248th ACS National Meeting, Division of Organic Chemistry. San Francisco, CA (August 2014).
248th ACS National Meeting, Division of Medicinal Chemistry Awards Symposium. San Francisco, CA (August 2014). David W. Robertson Award from the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. San Francisco, CA (July 2014).
Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University. Newport, RI (July 2014).
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Cambridge, MA (June 2014).
Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Boston, MA (June 2014).
AstraZeneca Symposium, Scripps Florida. Jupiter, FL (June 2014).
Recent Advances in Chemical Biology, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA (May 2014).
Scripps Florida, Novartis Lectureship in Chemical Biology Seminar Series in honor of Ron Breaker (Yale). Jupiter, FL (May 2014).
Target ALS Consortium Meeting. New York, NY (April 2014).
Merck & Co. Rahway, NJ (April 2014).
Cydan Development, Inc. Cambridge, MA (April 2014).
247th ACS National Meeting. Dallas, TX (March 2014).
Bristol-Myers Squibb. Wallingford, Connecticut (February 2014).
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Chemistry. La Jolla, CA (January 2014).
Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening (SLAS). San Diego, CA. SLAS Innovation Award Finalist (January 2014).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. Fort Worth, TX (January 2014).
2013
AstraZeneca. Mölndal, Sweden (December 2013).
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH) Workshop on RNA Structure, Function, and Targeting. Bethesda, MD (November 2013).
CHDI (“Cure Huntington’s Disease Initiative”) RNA Workshop. Princeton, NJ (November 2013).
Biomarin – video presentation. (November 2013).
FIBER Forum. Kobe, Japan (November 2013).
International Nucleic Acids Symposium. Yokohama, Japan (November 2013).
RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease, 8th Brain Research Conference. San Diego, CA (November 2013).
Symposium on RNA Biology X: RNA Tool & Target, University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC (October 2013).
Novartis. Cambridge, MA (October 2013).
FRAXA Investigators Meeting. Southbridge, MA (September 2013).
246th ACS National Meeting. Indianapolis, IN. Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (September 2013).
Genzyme Corporation. Cambridge, MA (June 2013).
2013 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Scientific Conference. Washington, DC (April 2013).
2013 Winter / Spring Pharmacology Program Research Seminar Course, Weill Cornell Medical College. New York, NY (April 2013).
Novartis. Cambridge, MA (March 2013).
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, South Florida Academic Leadership Symposium. Jupiter, FL (March 2013).
Isis Pharmaceuticals. Carlsbad, CA (February 2013).
2013 Frontiers in Biomedical Research Symposium. Indian Wells, CA (February 2013).
Tau Consortium Investigators’ Meeting. New York, NY (January 2013).
2012
University of Florida, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology. Gainesville, FL (November 2012).
2012 RiboClub – New Frontiers of RNA Biology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics. Quebec, Canada (September 2012).
Workshop on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders. St. Helena, CA (July/August 2012).
7th International Conference on Unstable Microsatellites and Human Disease. Strasbourg, France (June 2012).
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Biochemistry. Worcester, MA (April 2012).
243rd ACS National Meeting. San Diego, CA. David Y. Gin New Investigator Award (March 2012).
Broad Institute, Chemical Biology Program. Cambridge, MA (March 2012).
University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry. Minneapolis, MN (February 2012).
SomaLogic. Boulder, CO (January 2012).
2011 – 2004
University of Florida – Clearwater, IDMC-8-001 – 8th International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium. Clearwater Beach, FL (December 2011).
CHDI (“Cure Huntington’s Disease Initiative”) Meeting. New York, NY (November 2011).
Florida Atlantic University Medical School. Boca Raton, FL (October 2011).
The RNA Institute, University of Albany, Albany, NY (October 2011).
CHDI (“Cure Huntington’s Disease Initiative”) Foundation. New York, NY (September 2011).
RNA World to the Clinic. Washington, DC (September 2010).
Marigold Foundation Therapeutic Strategies for Myotonic Dystrophy Workshop. Calgary, Canada (September 2010).
University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC (October 2009).
Scripps Florida, Department of Chemistry. Jupiter, FL (October 2009).
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry. Centre County, PA (December 2008).
National Research Council Canada (NRC), Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences. Ottawa, Canada (March 2008).
235th National ACS Meeting. New Orleans, LA (April 2008).
University of Maryland, Bioscience Research Day. College Park, MD (December 2007).
234th National ACS Meeting. Boston, MA (August 2007).
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH) Sponsored Workshop. Bethesda, MD (April 2007).
233rd National ACS Meeting. Chicago, IL (March 2007).
Buffalo State University, Department of Chemistry. Buffalo, NY (February 2007).
Canisius College, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Buffalo, NY (January 2007).
SUNY Fredonia, Department of Chemistry. Fredonia, NY (December 2006).
University of Rochester, Harrison Howe Chemical Biology Symposium. Rochester, NY (October 2006).
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Buffalo, NY (September 2006).
Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry. Rochester, NY (2006).
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. Buffalo, NY (2006).
SUNY Brockport, Department of Chemistry. Brockport, NY (2006).
Indiana University, Department of Chemistry. Bloomington, IN. (2005).
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Pharmacology. Baltimore, MD (2005).
University at Buffalo, Department of Chemistry. Buffalo, NY (2005).
Cornell University, Department of Chemistry. Ithaca, NY (2005).
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry. Philadelphia, PA (2005).
Tufts University, Department of Chemistry. Medford, MA (2005).
University of Florida, Department of Medicinal Chemistry. Gainesville, FL (2005).
RNA Tools & Targets. San Diego, CA (2004).
University of Alberta, Department of Chemistry. Edmonton, Canada (2004).