Monday, 28th July
21st International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2025
Days
Monday, 28th July
Tuesday, 29th July
Wednesday, 30th July
Thursday, 31st July
Friday, 1st August
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Speakers
Registration Opens
7:00AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 28th July
Terrace Theatre Foyer
Conference Opening Remarks
8:20AM - 8:30AM
Monday, 28th July
Terrace Theatre
Plenary Session 1 - Dianne Neuman
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 28th July
Terrace Theatre
Phenazines Facilitate an Extremely Low Power Maintenance Metabolism on Life’s Metabolic Edge
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Dianne K Newman
Metalloprotein 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 28th July
A radical solution for C(sp
3
)–C(sp
3
) bond formation during the biosynthesis of macrocyclic membrane lipids
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Squire Booker
Discovery of a biotin synthase that utilizes an auxiliary 4Fe−5S cluster for sulfur insertion
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TYLER GROVE
Lipoxygenase: a homely metalloenzyme with gorgeous biological relevance.
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Ted Holman
Mechanism of controlled radical initiation by radical SAM GTP 3’,8-cyclase in molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis
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Kenichi Yokoyama
Imaging 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 28th July
Chemical Probes for Lighting up Life Processes
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Ankona Datta
Molecular probes for live cell analysis of zinc-dependent metalloenzymes
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Emily Que
Extracellular aldehyde sensing probes for in vivo imaging
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Peter Caravan
Probing biological copper in the subfemtomolar regime
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Christoph J. Fahrni
Synthetic 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 28th July
Bio-Inspired Catalyst Design for Small Molecule Activation in Multi-Electron Reduction Processes
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Carole Duboc
Oxidation Reactivity of Mononuclear Tetrahedral Copper(II) Complexes
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Shinobu Itoh
Mono- and bimetallic Mabiq complexes for self-sensitized photocatalysis
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Corinna R. Hess
Thermodynamic Properties and Reactivity of Mn
III
-hydroxo and Fe
III
-hydroxo Complexes that Mimic Lipoxygenase Enzymes
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Tim Jackson
Energy/Green 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 28th July
Coupling nitrogenase to nanocrystals for the light-driven N
2
reduction to ammonia.
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Paul W. King
Biologically Inspired Catalytic Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Technologies
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Smaranda Marinescu
Integration of Vitamin B
12
Derivative with Semiconductor for Sustainable Green Organic Synthesis
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Hisashi Shimakoshi
Bio-nano systems for solar hydrogen production
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Kara L Bren
Theory 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 28th July
Computational Investigation of Oxidative Enzymes for Plastic and Biopolymer Degradation
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Luca Bertini
Mechanistically-relevant proton tunneling in [NiFe] hydrogenase is triggered by a glutamate 'flick': a combined structural, kinetic, and theoretical study
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Philip A Ash
Discovery and characterization of reactive high-valent Fe(IV)-oxo complexes
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Marcel Swart
Reaction Mechanisms of Metal-Oxygen Compounds by Density Functional Theory: Compound I and II Examples
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Kyung-Bin Cho
Computational studies on structure-function relationship of metalloproteins
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Yasuteru Shigeta
Morning Coffee Break
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Monday, 28th July
Seaside Pre-function & Lobby area
Nitrogenase 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 28th July
Nitrogenase: Beyond the Resting State
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Douglas C Rees
Hydride, Proton, and Sulfur Dynamics in Nitrogenase
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Simone Raugei
Insights into the Biogenesis, Regulation, and Activity of Nitrogenase in Methanogens
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Daniel J Lessner
Methylthio-alkane reductase use nitrogenase metalloclusters for carbon-sulfur bond cleavage - catalytic and mechanistic insights into nitrogenase-like enzymes
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Johannes G Rebelein
Heme Biology 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 28th July
A heme-dependent conformational switch in the
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
PhuS protein drives its function from transcriptional regulator to heme chaperone
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Angela Wilks
How does heme move? Biochemical mapping of the heme transport channel in cytochrome
c
biogenesis
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Molly C Sutherland
Heme homeostasis in the nontuberculous mycobacteria.
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Rebecca Donegan
The ins and outs of heme transport: Vesicular dynamics drive transporter sorting
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Iqbal Hamza
Imaging 2.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 28th July
Harnessing the excited states of metal complexes for phototherapy applications
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Sherri McFarland
A single molecule chelation platform enabling sequential diagnostic, optical imaging and radiotherapy in a preclinical mouse model of cancer
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Eszter Boros
Developing a small-molecule antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning
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Timothy C. Johnstone
Seeing is believing: But just what is it that we are really seeing?
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Thomas Meade
Protein Structure 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 28th July
A Novel Proposal for the Mechanism of Quercetin Dioxygenases
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Patrick J Farmer
Breaking it All Down: Formate Oxidation, CO
2
Reduction and NADH/NAD
+
Turnover in Formate Dehydrogenase
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Paul V Bernhardt
Exploring the conformational space of the mobile flap in
Sporosarcina pasteurii
urease by cryo-electron microscopy
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Stefano Ciurli
Visualization of the protein-inorganic interface by cryo-electron microscopy
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Brent Nannenga
Controlling C-H Bond Activation: Allosteric Regulation of Cytochrome P450 Catalysis
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Alec H Follmer
Energy and Synthetic Systems 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 28th July
Understanding the catalysts of environmental methanotrophy across landscapes
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John S. Magyar
Development of Efficient Electrochemical C1-Selective Catalytic Processes for Energy Storage
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Steve Sheng-Fa Yu
Effect of Structural Distortion on the Oxidation Reactivity of a Di(μ-oxido)dinickel(III) Complex
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Yuma Morimoto
Routes to bioinspired nickel-carbonite entities and their interaction with metal ions
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Christian Limberg
C–H Activation via Bond Weakening at High-Spin Fe
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W. Hill Harman
Lunch Break
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Monday, 28th July
M-S Chemistry 1.0
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 28th July
Functional roles for non-canonical electronic structures of iron-sulfur clusters
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Daniel LM Suess
From Rhombs to Higher-Order Clusters: Redox-Driven Conversions and Electronic Modulation of Iron-Sulfur Cubanes.
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Victor Mougel
Controlling Oxidation and Reactivity in Transition-Metal Complexes through Electronic and Steric Effects
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Jaeheung Cho
Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methane by a Mo-Fe-S Cube
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Kazuki Tanifuji
Heme Biology 2.0
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 28th July
A role for the metallothionein CmtA from the fungal pathogen
Aspergillus fumigatus
in [2Fe-2S] cluster storage and trafficking
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Caryn E. Outten
Structure and function in oxidative stress response proteins from emerging pathogens
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Sarah EJ Bowman
Illuminating Heme Trafficking and Signaling in Health and Disease
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Amit R. Reddi
Anaerobic heme catabolism by three bacterial pathogens: divergent ways to protect the organisms from a toxic intermediate.
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Kirsten Wolthers
Methods to Probe Function 1.0
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 28th July
How Protein Film Electrochemistry has Advanced Bio-inspired Catalysis
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Fraser Armstrong
Fourier Transform Voltammetry for Deconvoluting Biological Electron Transfer
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Alison Parkin
From Static to Dynamic: Evolving Methods in Protein Structure Determination at the SSRL Synchrotron
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Aina Cohen
a High Power (10 W) TWT-based Pulse EPR Spectrometer Operating at 263 GHz designed for Bioinorganic EPR spectroscopy
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R David Britt
Fe and Beyond 1.0
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 28th July
Structural and functional profiling of cancer-associated variants of MUTYH reveal allosteric roles for its [4Fe-4S] cluster and Zn cofactors in DNA repair
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Sheila S. David
Revealing the Structural Basis of CYP85A3-Catalyzed Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis
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Shingo Nagano
Transcending Iron: Life's Expansion into New Niches
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Anne-Frances Miller
Heme, zinc, nitric oxide, and oxidative stress in bacterial H-NOX signaling and metabolic remodeling
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Erik Yukl
Imaging 3.0
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 28th July
Advancing spatial metallomics and metal-nucleic acids/metal-protein interactomes using metal-specific DNAzymes
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Yi Lu
Chemical tools for imaging and omics analysis of iron and heme
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Tasuku Hirayama
A Dithiolene Detour: Sensing and Imaging with 2,3,6,7-Tetrathiafulvalene Tetrathiolate Complexes
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John S Anderson
Development of metal-based probes and analytical techniques for quantifying plant microbe interactions.
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Brian C Sanders
Afternoon Coffee Break
4:00PM - 4:15PM
Monday, 28th July
Seaside Pre-function & Lobby area
Plenary Session 2 - Joan Broderick
4:15PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 28th July
Terrace Theatre
A Radical Walk from Anaerobic Metabolism to Human Disease
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Joan B Broderick
Poster Session 1
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Monday, 28th July
Welcome Reception
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Monday, 28th July
The Cove
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