Department Seminars
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| Seminar Schedule Spring 2025 |
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(In-person seminars are Wednesdays at 11:30 AM in Room TBA PHARM in Chicago and via remote for Rockford unless otherwise noted) |
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| Wednesday, January 8 | NO SEMINAR (classes start January 13) |
Wednesday, January 15 | Natural Products: Advancing Toward Hypothesis-Driven Science Xiaoyu Tang, PhD, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Institute of Chemical Biology, Guangming District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China (host: Brian Murphy) |
Wednesday, January 22 | NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR |
Wednesday, January 29 | Advancing the frontiers of design-driven medicine with synthetic biology Joshua N. Leonard, PhD, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University (host: Joanna Burdette) |
| Wednesday, February 5 12pm - 1pm 1017 MBRB Auditorium | MCBD / PSCI Seminar: John Karanicolas, PhD, Head of Computational Drug Discovery, AbbVie, North Chicago (hosts: Kevin Drew / José Villegas -- Joint with Biological Sciences) |
| Wednesday, February 12 | Haichen Nie, PhD, Associate Director at Teva Pharmaceuticals (host: Angeliki Andrianopoulou/AAPS) |
| Wednesday, February 19 | Bumsoo Han, PhD, Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (host: Rick Gemeinhart) |
| Wednesday, February 26 | Overcoming the Multiscale Simulation Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: The HIV Virus as an Example Greg Voth, PhD, Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago (host: José Villegas) |
| Wednesday, March 5 | TBA Albert Bowers, PhD, Associate Professor & Vice Chair, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (host: Bryan Lampkin) |
| Wednesday, March 12 | TBA Michael Bachman, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan (host: Nancy Freitag) |
| Wednesday, March 19 | TBA Alice Cheng, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Committee on Microbiology, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago (host: Matt Henke) |
| Wednesday, March 26 | SPRING BREAK J.P. Gerdt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington (host: Matt Henke) |
| Wednesday, April 2 | TBA Andrew Lowell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech (host: Paul Carlier) |
| Wednesday, April 9 | TBA Bharath Chelleboina, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois Chicago (host: Jeremy Johnson) |
| Wednesday, April 16 | TBA Alison Axtman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Structural Genomics Consortium UNC, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (host: Andrew Riley) |
| Wednesday, April 23 | TBA Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine (host: Nancy Freitag) |
Wednesday, April 30 | TBA Allison Walker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University (host: Alessandra Eustaquio) |
| Wednesday, May 7 | NO SEMINAR (Finals Week) NO SEMINAR |
| Course Coordinator: Matt Henke | José Villegas |
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