Targeted Protein Degradation (Q3)
January 21-24, 2024  | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
James E. Bradner, Eric S. Fischer and Brenda A. Schulman
Scholarship Deadline: Oct. 26, 2023 | Abstract Deadline: Oct. 26, 2023 | Early Registration Deadline: Nov. 16, 2023
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, January 21, 2024
4:00–8:00 PM Arrival and Registration Longs Peak Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Longs Peak Foyer
Monday, January 22, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peaks
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  Ning Zheng, University of Washington
Targeting Ubiquitin Ligases: From Hormones to Metabolites
 
9:00–11:15 AM Mechanisms of the Ubiquitin System (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  Brenda A. Schulman, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Structural Mechanisms of Dynamic Multiprotein E3 Ligases
 
  Michael Rape, University of California, Berkeley
Novel Cullin-RING E3 Ligase Mechanisms Discovered through Deciphering Pathways Underlying Cellular Differentiation
 
  Henry M. Colecraft, Columbia University
Developing Targeted Deubiquitination: Opportunities for Therapeutic Protein Stabilization
 
  Jin Wang, Baylor College of Medicine
Short Talk: Short Talk: Unexpected Discoveries Through Developing BTK PROTACs
 
  Ana Marcu, Genentech
Short Talk: Short Talk: Developing Discovery Proteomics Technologies to Elucidate HLA Neoantigen Presentation
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup Quandary Peaks
11:15–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Quandary Peaks
2:30–4:30 PM Workshop Longs Peak
  Sebastian Kenny, University of Washington
De novo Design of Virus-Inspired 'Molecular Glues' to Efficiently Degrade Target Proteins
 
  Hai-Tsang Huang, Broad Institute
Profiling E3 Substrate Ubiquitylation by Ubiquitin-specific Proximity Labeling
 
  Justin Reitsma, AbbVie, Inc.
Degrader Speedometer: Quantitative Measurement of Degrader Rate of Targeted Protein Degradation
 
  Jessie Kroonen, UMC Utrecht
Surface Removal and Lysosomal Degradation of PD-L1 using SureTACTM Technology
 
  Hui Myeong Wang, Postech
Encoded Display of Chemical Libraries on Nanoparticles for Rapid Discovery of Potent Protein Ligands
 
  Shourya S. Roy Burman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Continuous Evolution of Compact Protein Degradation Tags Regulated by Selective Cereblon Molecular Glues
 
  Lori Emert-Sedlak, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Targeted Degradation of HIV-1 Nef Efficiently Restores Cell-surface CD4 and MHC-I Expression and Blocks HIV-1 Replication
 
  Juliane Elisabeth Müller, Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg
Targeted Protein Degradation Reveals a Scaffolding Function of Aurora-A Kinase
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Chemical Biology of Protein Degradation Longs Peak
  Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee, School of Life Sciences
How PROTAC Degraders Work and Why the Ternary Complex Matters
 
  Nathanael Gray, Stanford University
Transcription Factor Chemical Induced Proximity – Reprogramming Cellular Function
 
  James E. Bradner, Novartis
The Chemical Biology of Targeted Protein Degradation
 
  Ashley Julio, UCLA
Short Talk: Short Talk: Pervasive Aggregation and Degradation of Host and Viral Proteins in Response to Cysteine-Reactive Electrophilic Compounds
 
  Brian B. Liau, Harvard University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Chemical Facsimile of KBTBD4 Cancer Mutations Promotes Corepressor Degradation
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peaks
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Quandary Peaks
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peaks
8:00–11:00 AM Strategies and Targets for Therapeutics in the Ubiquitin Proteasome System Longs Peak
  Russell A. DeBose-Boyd, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Proteostatic Control of the Cholesterol Biosynthetic Pathway
 
  Raymond J. Deshaies, Amgen, Inc.
Cutting-Edge Developments in Targeted Protein Degradation
 
  Nicolas H. Thomä, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by E3 Ligases and Harnessing for Targeted Protein Degradation
 
  Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Malleable Higher-Order Structures in Substrate Receptor SPOP Function and Pathophysiology
 
  Liron Bar-Peled, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Short Talk: DrugMap: A Quantitative Pan-Cancer Analysis of Cysteine Ligandability
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Quandary Peaks
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Quandary Peaks
1:30–2:30 PM Women in TPD & IP Networking Social - Open to All! Castle Peak 1-2
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) Longs Peak
  Michelle R. Arkin, University of California, San Francisco
Professor & Chair, Codirector, Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC)
 
  Helen Walden, University of Glasgow
Professor of Structural Biology, Head of School (Molecular Biosciences)
 
  Ramon J. Whitson, Novartis
Principal Scientist II
 
  Byram Hirsch Ozer, National Cancer Institute
Assistant Research Physician
 
  Heather Bisbee, Cell Press
Associate Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Novel Opportunities in the Ubiquitin System Longs Peak
  Sara Buhrlage, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harnessing DUBs for Protein Stability Therapeutics
 
  Helen Walden, University of Glasgow
Targeting USP1-UAF1 in DNA Repair
 
  Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Medical School
Novel Ubiquitin Modifications Deployed by Pathogenic Bacteria
 
  Zacharias Thiel, Novartis Biomedical Research
Short Talk: Short Talk: Identification of New Entry Points for Autophagy-Mediated Targeted Protein and Organelle Degradation using an Induced-Proximity Screen
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peaks
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Quandary Peaks
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peaks
8:00–11:00 AM Methodologies and Technologies for the Investigation of Protein Degradation Longs Peak
  Marta Cortes-Cros, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Degraders by Design vs. Serendipity: What have we Learned?
 
  Yifat Merbl, Weizmann Institute of Science
Proteasome Profiling : Global Views of Degradation
 
  Xin Zhou, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
TransTAC
 
  Angela Cacace, Arvinas Inc
Oral PROTAC® Degrader Molecules Selectively Clear Pathologic Proteins Underlying Neurodegenerative Diseases
 
  Weicheng Li, UCSF
Short Talk: Short Talk: Intracellular Ubiquitination of a Synthetic Small Molecule Inhibits the UPS
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Development and Discovery of Molecular Glues (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  Eric S. Fischer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
New Mechanism for Protein Degradation Therapeutics
 
  Mary E. Matyskiela, Neomorph Inc.
Expanding the Target Space of Molecular Glue Degraders
 
  Keriann Marie Backus, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Global Proteome Rewiring by Fragment Electrophiles
 
  Michael A. Erb, The Scripps Research Institute
Short Talk: Short Talk: Systematic Remodeling of Protein-Ligand Surfaces for Prospective Molecular Glue Discovery
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Grays/Longs Peak
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peaks
8:00–9:00 PM Trivia Longs Peak
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Quandary Peaks
Thursday, January 25, 2024
8:00–8:00 AM Departure