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Previous Symposia

 

March 28, 2024

Energetic Foundations & Futures of Life

  • Dr. Wolfgang Nitschke
  • Dr. Gary Brudvig
  • Dr. Shelley Minteer

2024 Naff Brochure

2024 Naff Photo Gallery

  • First Place: Jenna Rector
  • Second place: Sahar Bayat
  • Honorable Mention: Alyson Ackerman
  • Honorable Mention: David Lu
April 21, 2023

Oxidative Stress in Neurodegeneration: Focus on Alzheimer Disease

  • Dr. Barry Halliwell
  • Dr. Marzia Perluigi
  • Dr. Mark Mattson

2023 Naff Brochure

2023 Naff Photo Gallery

2023 Additional Roundtable Presentations Photo Gallery

2023 Naff Poster Competition Photo Gallery

  • First Place: Rohan Desai
  • Second Place: Josiel Barrios Cossio
  • Third Place: Laiken Griffith
April 1, 2022

Innovation in Molecular Neuroscience

  • Dr. Erin Calipari
  • Dr. Tim Harris
  • Dr. Elizabeth Hillman
  • Dr. Baljit Khakh

2022 Naff Brochure

2022 Naff Photo Gallery

2022 Naff Poster Competition Photo Gallery

  • First Place: Rebekah Duke
  • Second Place: Rose Pham
  • Honorable Mention: Khaga Neupane
March 27, 2020

Cancelled due COVID-19.

Cannabinoids: Policy, Use and Safety

  • Dr. Christopher Hudalla
  • Dr. John B Ingram
  • Mr. Andrew Freedman
April 5, 2019

Small Molecules and Biological Function

  • Dr. Chris Chang
  • Dr. Peter Schultz
  • Dr. Stephen Frye

2019 Naff Brochure

March 23, 2018

Bioelectrochemistry and Biocatalyis

  • Dr. Richard Crooks
  • Dr. Shelley Minteer
  • Dr. James Rusling
  • Dr. David Cliffel

2018 Naff Brochure

2018 Naff Photo Gallery

March 31, 2017

Biolectronics: Where Chemistry, Medicine, and Materials Meet

  • Dr. Zhenan Bao
  • Dr. Alon Gorodetsky
  • Dr. George Malliaras
  • Dr. John Rogers

2017 Naff Brochure

2017 Naff Photo Gallery

April 29, 2016
  • Dr. Rommie Amaro
  • Dr. Jens Meiler
  • Dr. David Baker

2016 Naff Brochure

March 6, 2015
  • Dr. Philip Tinnefeld
  • Dr. Taekjip Ha
  • Dr. Carlos Bustamante

2015 Naff Brochure

April 25, 2014
  • Dr. Hao Yan
  • Dr. Donald Ingber
  • Dr. Todd Yeates

2014 Naff Brochure

April 12, 2013
  • Dr. Ada Yonath
  • Dr. Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy
  • Dr. Robert Hazen

2013 Naff Brochure

2013 Photo Gallery

May 4, 2012

Metals and Proteins

  • Dr. Harry Gray
  • Dr. Yi Lu
  • Dr. Brian Crane

2012 Naff Brochure

April 8, 2011

 Biochemistry at Interfaces

  • Dr. Georges Belfort
  • Professor Ralph Nuzzo
  • Professor Paul Weiss

2011 Naff Brochure

April 23, 2010

Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials

  • Professor Daniel Morse
  • Professor Joanna Aizenberg
  • Professor Chad Mirkin
April 24, 2009

Protein Design and Engineering

  • Professor Michael H. Hecht
  • Professor Alanna Schepartz
  • Professor Peter G. Schultz
April 4, 2008

Inorganic Materials for Biomedical Imaging and Therapeutics

  • Professor Thomas J. Meade
  • Professor Harry C. Dorn
  • Professor Wenbin Lin
April 13, 2007

Enzyme Catalysis and Mechanisms

  • Professor John A. Gerit
  • Professor Vern L. Schramm
  • Professor JoAnne Stubbe
March 31, 2006

Mass Spectrometry of Biological Systems

  • Professor Richard Caprioli
  • Professor John Yates
  • Professor Graham Cooks
April 15, 2005

Oxidative Stress in Aging and Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disorders

  • Professor Irwin Fridovich
  • Professor Earl Stadtman
  • Professor William Markesbery
  • Professor Tim Greenamyre
  • Professor Don Cleveland
  • Professor Barry Halliwell
April 2, 2004

Adult Stem/Progenitor Cells

  • Professor Pasko Rakic
  • Professor Catherine Verfaillie
  • Professor Steven Goldman
April 18, 2003

Neuroscience

  • Professor Susumu Tonegawa
  • Professor Richard Mains
  • Professor Ashley I. Bush
April 26, 2002

Nucleic Acids

  • Professor Ronald R. Breaker
  • Professor Stephen J. Lippard
  • Professor Alan M. Lambowitz
April 20, 2001

Proteomics

  • Professor Edward Marcotte
  • Professor Kenneth Walsh
  • Professor George D. Rose
  • Dr. Thomas Terwilliger
April 7, 2000

NMR Spectroscopy in Biological Chemistry

  • Dr. Ad Bax
  • Professor Stanley Opella
  • Professor Michael Summers
  • Professor David Wemmer
April 16, 1999

Carbohydrates and Cell Recognition

  • Professor Chi-Huey Wong
  • Professor Laura L. Kiessling
  • Professor Ole Hindsgaul
  • Professor C. Fred Brewer
April 13, 1998

Toxicology of Environmental Chemicals that Act as Hormones

  • Dr. Louis J. Guillette, Jr.
  • Dr. Kenneth S. Korach
  • Dr. Stephen H. Safe
April 8, 1997

The Role of Combinatorial Chemistry in Drug Design

  • Professor Jonathan A. Ellman
  • Dr. Hendrik Mario Geysen
  • Professor Kim D. Janda
  • Professor Arno F. Spatola
April 15, 1996

Biochemistry of RNA

  • Professor Phillip A. Sharp
  • Professor Olke C. Uhlenbeck
  • Professor James R. Williamson
April 12, 1995

Biofunctional Membranes and Biomaterials

  • Professor Dennis Chapman
  • Professor Janos H. Fendler
  • Professor Buddy D. Ratner
April 11, 1994

Nitrogenase:The Chemistry of Biological Nitrogen Fixation

  • Professor Dimitri N. Coucouvanis
  • Professor Robert R. Eady
  • Professor William E. Newton
  • Professor Douglas A. Rees
April 5, 1993

Enzyme Catalysis - Mechanism, Structure and Design

  • Professor Stephen J. Benkovic
  • Professor Perry A. Frey
  • Professor William P. Jencks
  • Professor Gregory A. Petsko
April 13, 1992

Protein Folding

  • Professor Robert L. Baldwin
  • Professor Barry Honig
  • Professor Kenneth Dill
  • Dr. Saskia van der Vies
April 18, 1991

Initiation of Protein Synthesis in Eukaryotes

  • Professor Michael B. Mathews
  • Professor Hans Trachsel
  • Professor Richard J. Jackson
  • Professor Robert E. Thach
April 16, 1990

Molecular Recognition

  • Professor Ronald Breslow
  • Professor William F. DeGrado
  • Professor Andrew D. Hamilton
  • Professor Steven C. Zimmerman
April 24, 1989

Biosensors

  • Dr. Robert K. Kobos
  • Professor Jerome S. Schultz
  • Professor R. Mark Wightman
  • Professor Lemuel B. Wingard
March 28, 1988

Structure and Function of Small RNA Viral Pathogens

  • Professor Michael G. Rossmann
  • Professor Mark A. McKinlay
  • Professor Roland R. Rueckert
  • Professor Eckard Wimmer
April 24, 1987

Electron Transfer in Metalloproteins

  • Professor Harry B. Gray
  • Professor Brian M. Hoffman
  • Professor George McLendon
  • Professor William H. Orme-Johnson
April 7, 1986

Radionuclides in Chemistry and Medicine

  • Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow
  • Professor Henry N. Wagner, Jr.
  • Dr. Alfred P. Wolf
May 3, 1985

New Biochemical Insights Via NMR

  • Professor Brian R. Reid
  • Professor David E. Wemmer
  • Professor Stanley J. Opella
  • Professor Robert G. Shulman
March 30, 1984

The New Embryology:Molecules and Mechanisms Determining Animal Form

  • Professor Gerald M. Edelman
  • Professor Bruce A. Cunningham
April 22, 1983

Structure and Function of Cytochrome P-450

  • Professor I. C. Gunsalus
  • Professor D. Dolphin
  • Professor J. Groves
  • Professor M. Coon
April 30, 1982

Artificial Photosynthesis

  • Professor Melvin Calvin
  • Dr. Joseph J. Katz
April 24, 1981

Transmembrane Signalling:Receptors, Hormones and Neurotransmitters

  • Dr. Julius Axelrod
  • Dr. Pedro Cuatrecasas
April 25, 1980

Structure and Functions of Cell Membranes

  • Dr. Charles Tanford
  • Dr. Efraim Racker
April 23, 1979

Interrupted Genes and RNA Splicing

  • Dr. Benjamin Lewin
  • Dr. Phillip A. Sharp
March 31, 1978

Regulation of Enzyme Activity

  • Professor William N. Lipscomb
  • Professor Thomas A. Steitz
April 1, 1977

Studies on the Conformation of Peptides and Proteins in Solution

  • Dr. Christian B. Anfinsen
  • Dr. Alan Schechter
March 26, 1976

Structures, Synthesis and Biological Functions of Nucleic Acids

  • Professor H. Gobind Khorana
  • Professor Dieter Soll
March 28, 1975

Chemistry and Molecular Biology of Immunoglobulins

  • Professor Gerald M. Edelman
  • Professor Bruce A. Cunningham