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Department Seminars

Seminar Schedule Fall 2025
Seminars in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSCI 595)

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


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





Ionic Liquids: A promising strategy to enhance the delivery of drugs with low aqueous solubility and/or permeability



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


Leveraging the Natural Cellular and Biomolecular Interactions in Blood for the Design of Targeted, Anti-Inflammatory Particle Therapeutics


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



Synergy by Design: Building Precision Antibiotic Combinations for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales


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