#  Professor Steven Banik (Stanford University) 

 



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 **May 19, 2026** 

 04:15PM - 05:45PM EDT 

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 **Pfizer Lecture Hall**  



 

 



 

Title: **Detecting and Rewiring Cellular Interatomes**

Abstract:

Changes in protein localization and abundance are hallmarks of altered cell state and function. This lecture will describe technologies that harness mammalian machinery to manipulate and measure these changes, enabling mechanistic insight and therapeutic discovery. Targeted protein relocalization and programmed manipulation of RNA using human Argonaute proteins exemplify recent approaches to directly rewire cellular behavior. In parallel, designer cellular circuits that relay downregulation of a protein-of-interest into user-defined outputs via ratiometric transcriptional activationprovide scalable and sensitive readouts for small molecule discovery and high- throughput mapping of proteostasis networks for reprogramming cell behavior and addressing challenging disease targets.

Biography:

Steven Banik is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at Stanford University and an Institute Scholar at the Sarafan ChEM-H Institute. Steven earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University working with Professor Eric Jacobsen. He conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi at Stanford University. His research combines chemical biology, organic chemistry, protein engineering, cell and molecular biology to precisely manipulate the biological machines present in mammalian cells and drive discovery at the molecular and genetic scales. His group’s work has been recognized with the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Pew Biomedical Scholars Award, Beckman Young Investigator Award, Moore Foundation Inventor Fellowship, a Hypothesis Fund Award, Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.



 

 



 

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