Seminar Programs
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers the following types of seminars:
- a regular Departmental (PSCI 595) Seminar Series with seminars presented by invited speakers from both UIC and other institutions (currently scheduled on Wednesdays at 11:30am in the College of Pharmacy)
- a Trainee Talks Series with short seminars presented by Postdocs and Graduate Students from or affiliated with the department (currently scheduled for alternating Monday mornings in the MBRB Auditorium)
- special seminars that are either presented on a recurring basis (often annually as with the Farnsworth and Webster-Sibilsky Lecture series) or on an ad-hoc basis
Upcoming PSCI Seminars Heading link
| 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 | TBA TBA |
Wednesday, January 29 | TBA TBA |
| Wednesday, February 5 | TBA TBA |
| Wednesday, February 12 | TBA Haichen Nie, PhD, Associate Director at Teva Pharmaceuticals (host: Angeliki Andrianopoulou/AAPS) |
| Wednesday, February 19 | TBA Bumsoo Han, PhD, Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (host: Rick Gemeinhart) |
| Wednesday, February 26 | TBA 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 Valerie Paul, PhD, Head Scientist, National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution (hosts: Matt Henke / Kate Warpeha) |
| 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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PSCI Trainee Talks Heading link
| Date | Lab 1 | Lab 2 |
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| 10/7/2024 | Angela Nguyen (Ondrus lab) | Ana Lopez-Hernandez (Riley Lab) |
| 11/4/2024 | Sruthi Mohan (Carlier lab) | Monica Haughan (Burdette Lab) |
| 12/2/2024 | Du'a Al-Smadi (Eustaquio lab) | Rocío Rivera Rodríguez (Johnson Lab) |
| 1/13/2025 | Nana Oblie (Henke Lab) | Dee Dee Aman (Freitag Lab) |
| 2/3/2025 | Trevor Dean - Moore Lab | Abigail Gligor (Sant Lab) |
| 3/3/2025 | Sriranjani Srikanth - Ondrus Lab | Ian McIntire (Federle Lab) |
| 4/7/2025 | Jane Miglo (Burdette Lab) | Giridhar Chandrasekharan (Freitag lab) |