The Protein Society Annual Symposium 2027 (PS41) July 9 - 12, 2027 | San Francisco, California | Hilton San Francisco Union Square
The 41st Annual Symposium is comprised of 12 scientific sessions and eight award speakers totaling over 100 invited and contributed talks speakers. Our program committee, chaired by Karen Allen, Boston University, and Chuck Sanders, Vanderbilt University, has assembled a program that spans the broad range of protein science, combining critical underpinnings of the field, the latest developments and a vision into the future with career development and technical workshops as well as ample networking opportunities. This year’s symposium continues our commitment to open participation, with each session featuring contributed talks and speakers from across a broad range of topics, and will feature the inaugural recipient of the Martin Karplus Award, established in 2026.
Sean Elliott | Boston University CO2 Transforming Enzymes
Squire Booker | University of Pennsylvania
Kate Pletneva | Dartmouth College Heme Enzymes and Electron Carriers in Energy Pathways
Michelle Chang | Princeton University New Metalloenzyme Discovery
Vahe Bandarian | University of Utah New Enzymatic Transformations and Natural Products
Adrian Whitty | Boston University Protein Conformational Change in Gating Drug-target Binding
Peter Tonge | Stony Brook University Conformational Change and Slow Binding Inhibitors
Maria Spies | University of Iowa Machines Supporting DNA Integrity
Isaac Finau | California Institute of Technology
Katherine O'Toole | New England Biolabs
Jonathan Schlebach | Purdue University Pharmacological Chaperones and Cystic Fibrosis
Sriram Kosuri | Octant Targeting Rhodopsin With pharm-chaps to Treat Retinitis Pigmentosa
Georgios Skretas | Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming” New Methods for Developing Folding Correctors
Sarah Slavoff | Yale University Dark Matter of the Human Genome
Alan Saghatelian | Salk Institute for Biological Studies Peptides That Control Cellular Processes
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis | ETH Zürich MS Identifications of Human Proteins From Proteomics and Peptidomics Datasets
Maria Barna | Stanford University Hetoerogeneity of Ribosomes From Person to Person
Andrei Korostelev | U Mass Chan Medical School In Extracto cryo-EM
Katrin Karbstin | Vanderbilt University Ribosome Homeostasis
Steven Benner | Foundation For Applied Molecular Evolution
Bil Clemons | California Institute of Technology
Karen Fleming | Johns Hopkins University Chaperoning of Outer Membrane Proteins
Wade Van Horn | Arizona State University How Small Molecules Modulate TRP Channels Through Different Mechanisms
Brian Shoichet | University of California San Francisco Drug Screening
Ali Madani | Profluent Frontier Protein Language Models and Functional Protein Generation
Debbie Marks | Harvard University
Jiangning Song | Monash University Informatics in Therapeutic Discovery
Daniela Kalafatovic | University of Rijeka, Croatia AI for Peptide Design
Gaurav Bhardwaj | University of Washington AI-enabled Design of Membrane-permeable Peptide Therapeutics
Birte Hoecker | University of Bayreuth From Protein Scaffolds to Catalysts: Principles for De Novo Enzyme Design
Roberto Chica | University of Ottawa Designing Enzyme Dynamics for New Catalytic Functions
