Proximity Based Therapeutics (Q4)
January 21-24, 2024  | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Ryan Potts and Michelle R. Arkin
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 Peaks
  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 Peaks
  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
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Emerging Proximity Biology for Target Degradation Grays Peak
  Leon O. Murphy, Casma Therapeutics
Drugging the Autophagy-Lysosomal Pathway
 
  Ryan Potts, Amgen
RNATACs: Targeted mRNA Degradation
 
  William Gibson, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Short Talk: Short Talk: Bifunctional Small Molecules that Induce Nuclear Localization and Targeted Transcriptional Regulation
 
  Ziwen Jiang, University of California, San Francisco
Short Talk: Short Talk: Autophagy Receptor-inspired Antibody-fusion Proteins for Targeted Intracellular 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 Stabilizing Protein-Protein Interactions with Molecular Glues Grays Peak
  Michelle R. Arkin, University of California, San Francisco
Modulating 14-3-3 Interactome
 
  Jan Anne Smith, Revolution Medicines, Inc.
Targeting the Oncogenic State of RAS Mutants with Tricomplex Inhibitors
 
  Goutham Narla, University of Michigan Medical School
From Mutations to Molecules: Lessons Learned from Protein Phosphatase 2A
 
  Ella Livnah, Weizmann Institute of Science
Short Talk: Short Talk: Rationally Designed Bifunctional Ligands Induce Intracellular Precipitation of Symmetric Protein Targets
 
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
 
  Mishtu Dey, Cell Press
Editor-in-Chief
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Predicting and Discovering Ternary Complexes Grays Peak
  Jesus Izaguirre, Stealth Startup
Towards Rational Design of Selective Protein Degraders
 
  Georg A. Petzold, Monte Rosa Therapeutics
Teaching CRBN New Tricks
 
  Heidi Greulich, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Activation of the SLFN12 RNase by Velcrin-Induced PDE3A-SLFN12 Complex Formation
 
  Pranam Chatterjee, Duke University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Design of Programmable Peptide-Guided Proteome Editors via Generative Language Models
 
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 Controlling Post-Translational Modifications by Induced Proximity Grays Peak
  Daniel K. Nomura, University of California, Berkeley
Reimagining Druggability Using Chemoproteomic Platforms
 
  Amit Choudhary, Harvard Medical School
Protein Editing using Small Molecules
 
  Gopal P. Sapkota, University of Dundee
Targeted Ubiquitylation and Dephosphorylation of Proteins Through Proximity-Induction
 
  Endri Karaj, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Short Talk: Short Talk: Development of Haptenizing Chimeras from Known Drugs for Cancer Immunotherapy
 
  Lionel Chia, Foghorn Therapeutics
Short Talk: Short Talk: Hijacking the Transcriptional Activation Potential of BAF for Novel Therapeutic Opportunities
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
3:30–4:30 PM Workshop: New Screening and Profiling Technologies Grays Peak
  Kyle Seamon, Revolution Medicines
Induction of Complexes Between Cyclophilin A and GTP-Bound RAS(ON) Enable Covalent Modification of KRAS(G12D) for Inhibition of G12D-Mutant Cancer Growth
 
  Violeta L. Marin, AbbVie, Inc.
CRISPR Screen Reveals BRD2/4 Molecular Glue Degrader Via Recruitment of DCAF16
 
  Madelon M. Maurice, University Medical Center Utrecht
Employing Membrane-bound E3 Ligases for Targeted Degradation of Cell Surface Proteins using SureTACs Technology
 
  Erik Ehinger, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Improving Anti-tumor Responses by Degrading Proteins that Impose T Cell Exhaustion
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Development and Discovery of Molecular Glues (Joint) Grays/Longs Peaks
  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
 
  Varun Jayeshkumar Shah, Institute of Biochemistry II, Medical Dpt of Univ. Hosp. Frankfurt, Goethe University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Discovery of Novel Molecular Glue Degraders
 
  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 Peaks
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
7:00–11:59 PM Departure