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Department Seminars

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Seminar Schedule Fall 2023

Seminars in Pharmaceutical Sciences




(In-person seminars are Wednesdays at 11:30 AM in Room B32 PHARM in Chicago and via remote for Rockford unless otherwise noted)

Course Coordinator: Matt Henke  | José Villegas


Wednesday, August 16


NO SEMINAR



(classes start August 21)


Wednesday, August 23


MANDATORY EHSO REFRESHER LAB SAFETY TRAINING FOR CURRENT/RETURNING STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES


The Environmental, Health and Safety Office (EHSO) will be presenting an annual chemical laboratory safety training program for the College of Pharmacy. THIS REFRESHER TRAINING SESSION IS INTENDED FOR ALL RETURNING EMPLOYEES/STUDENTS WHO WORK IN OR SUPERVISE PERSONNEL IN WET LABORATORIES.


Wednesday, August 30

Multi-omic approaches to stratify the cysteinome


Keriann Backus, PhD, Alexander and Renee Kolin Term Chair, Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA (host: Terry Moore)


Wednesday, September 6


Transforming Alkaloids to Combat Pain and Addiction



Andrew Riley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UIC (host: Nancy Freitag)

Wednesday, September 13


Engineering Medicine at Multiscale via Granular Hydrogels


Amir Sheikhi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University(host: Zongmin Zhao)


Wednesday, September 20


Polypharmacology of Psychedelics and Dissociative Hypnotics: Beyond The Parent Molecule


Cody Wenthur, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Director, Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation MS Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison (host: Andrew Riley)


Wednesday, September 27


Translation and Control of Bacterial Behavior


Erin Carlson, PhD, Smith Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota (host: Matt Henke)


Wednesday, October 4


TBA


Alex Adibekian, PhD, Full Professor in Chemistry and Endowed Chair, UIC (host: Nancy Freitag)


Wednesday, October 11


Peptide-based Nanomaterials: Progress from Structural Analysis to Design


Vince Conticello, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University (host: Jose Villegas)


Wednesday, October 18


TBA


Geoff Zhang, Abbvie (host: AAPS+Rick Gemeinhart)


Wednesday, October 25


Lipidomics-based approaches to study the involvement of lipids in cell fates


G. Ekin Atilla-Gokcumen, PhD, Dr. Marjorie E. Winkler Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo The State University of New York (host: Pavel Petukhov)

Wednesday, November 1


Identifying Druggable Targets for Pain and other Central Nervous System Disorders


Matthew W, Buczynski, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech (host: Paul Carlier)


Wednesday, November 8


Physiologically relevant three-dimensional environments to study cancer: From bench to bedside


Pilar de la Puente, PhD, Assistant Professor, Sanford Research / University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (host: Joanna Burdette)


Wednesday, November 15


TBA


Ishwar Radhakrishnan, PhD, Northwestern University (host: Jose Villegas)


Wednesday, November 22


(Day before Thanksgiving)



TBA


Wednesday, November 29

TBA


Almudena Veiga-Lopez, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Medicine, UIC (host: Jose Villegas)


Wednesday, December 6

NO SEMINAR (Finals Week)



NO SEMINAR