MECC 2022

The 42nd Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference

15 October 2022

Loyola University Chicago

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend MECC 2022! The science was outstanding and it was great to see everyone. Special thanks to all of our sponsors and to Loyola University for hosting the event! Hope to see all of you in 2023 at Northwestern University!


Congratulations to ouR Poster Award Winners!

Amr El-Araby (University of Notre Dame)

Mary Fergus/Leah Pierce (Grand Valley State University)

Clara Frazier (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Emma Kelley (Loyola University, Chicago)

Kaitlyn Kiernan (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Walton Smith (Wilfred Laurier University)


The MECC provides a convenient, inexpensive, and invaluable forum for scientific exchange and collegial interactions among researchers working at the forefront of enzymology and its interface with biomedical and pharmaceutical science. This one-day conference is held annually in the Chicago area. The MECC attracts academic and industrial researchers from over a dozen states in the Midwest, ranging from Minnesota to Texas and Kentucky to Kansas. Posters are welcomed from all participants, but not obligatory. Oral presentations, selected from the submitted abstracts, feature graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and a few faculty (mostly assistant professors) from the region.

Program Chair: Patrick O'Brien, University of Michigan

Local Arrangements Chair: Graham Moran, Loyola University Chicago