Department Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
Seminar Schedule Fall 2025 |
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(In-person seminars are Wednesdays at 11:30 AM in Room B32 PHARM in Chicago and via remote for Rockford unless otherwise noted) |
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Wednesday, August 20 | NO SEMINAR (classes start August 25) |
Wednesday, August 27 ONLINE ONLY | EHSO ANNUAL SAFETY TRAINING REFRESHER FOR CURRENT/RETURNING STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES THIS REFRESHER TRAINING SESSION IS INTENDED FOR ALL RETURNING PSCI GRADUATE STUDENTS, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, STAFF RESEARCHERS, AND RESEARCH-TRACK FACULTY WHO WORK IN OR SUPERVISE PERSONNEL IN WET LABORATORIES NOTE THAT THIS TRAINING IS ONLINE VIA ZOOM ONLY. |
Wednesday, September 3 | Abhijit Date, PhD, MPharmSc, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona (host: Shilpa Sant) |
Wednesday, September 10 12:00 Noon Room 1017 MBRB Auditorium | JOINT MCDB / PSCI Seminar *** NOTE TIME & ROOM CHANGE *** MARINE CHEMICAL ECOLOGY IN A CHANGING OCEAN Valerie Paul, PhD, Director and Head Scientist, Smithsonian Marine Station, The Smithsonian Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida (host: Kate Warpeha) |
Wednesday, September 17 | SIRT2 inhibitors in cancer and inflammation Hening Lin, PhD, James and Karen Frank Family Professor, Biological Sciences Division, Department of Medicine; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago (host: Paul Carlier) |
Wednesday, September 24 | Engineering cells for therapeutic delivery Zongmin Zhao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UIC (host: Nancy Freitag) |
Wednesday, October 1 | Metabolism at the Human-Microbe Interface Jason Crawford, PhD, Professor, Departments of Chemistry & Microbial Pathogenesis, Institute of Biomolecular Design & Discovery, Yale University (host: Matt Henke) |
Wednesday, October 8 | Leveraging viral E3 ligases for disease-specific targeted protein degradation Kyle Mangano, PhD, Induced Proximity Platform, Amgen Research, Thousand Oaks, CA (hosts: Shura Mankin & Nora Vazquez-Laslop) |
Wednesday, October 15 | Lola Eniola-Adefeso, PhD, Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Dean, College of Engineering, UIC (host: Nancy Freitag) |
Wednesday, October 22 | *** CANCELLED / POSTPONED *** Amy Hauck Newman, PhD, Scientific Director, NIDA IRP; Chief, Molecular Targets and Medications Discovery Branch; Chief, Medicinal Chemistry Section; Director, Medication Development Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH (host: Andrew Riley) |
Wednesday, October 29 | Zackery Bulman, PharmD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Retzky College of Pharmacy, UIC (host: Nancy Freitag) |
Wednesday, November 5 | Controlling Nucleotide-Based Drug Disposition with Medicinal Chemistry Eric Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University School of Medicine (host: Terry Moore) |
Wednesday, November 12 | Neurons and receptors in the interpeduncular nucleus underlying nicotine withdrawal Christian J Peters, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, UIC (host: Andrew Riley) |
Wednesday, November 19 | A New Type of Molecular Glue: RNA Splicing Modulators Jingxin Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago (host: Bryan Lampkin) |
Wednesday, November 26 | NO SEMINAR (Day before Thanksgiving) NO SEMINAR |
Wednesday, December 3 | This might sound cheesy but we need to know more about single cells Laura Sanchez, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz (host: Joanna Burdette) |
| Wednesday, December 10 | NO SEMINAR (Finals Week) NO SEMINAR |
Course Coordinator: Bryan Lampkin |
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