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| Seminar Schedule Spring 2024 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) |
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Course Coordinator: Matt Henke | José Villegas |
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Wednesday, January 3 | NO SEMINAR (classes start January 8) |
Wednesday, January 10 | Microbiome in intestinal and extraintestinal disorders Jun Sun, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, College of Medicine, UIC (hosts: Nancy Freitag & Matt Henke) |
Wednesday, January 17 | Leveraging endocrine vulnerabilities in advanced ER+ breast cancer Todd W. Miller, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Pathology, Christine Hamilton Foote Endowed Chair, Co-Leader, Discovery & Developmental Therapeutics Research Program, Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center (host: Debra Tonetti) |
Wednesday, January 24 | *** CANCELLED / WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2024 *** Cecilia Caino, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver (host: Shilpa Sant) |
Wednesday, January 31 | Mapping the Molecular Machines of the Cell Kevin Drew, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago (host: José Villegas) |
Wednesday, February 7 | Engineering the tumor cell niche to study dormancy and drug resistance in metastatic breast cancer Shreyas Rao, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama (host: Shilpa Sant) |
Wednesday, February 14 | Nano-hijacking myeloid cells for brain tumor immunotherapy Peng Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (host: Zongmin Zhao) |
Wednesday, February 21 | The Importance of Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development: From Bioanalysis to Dose Finding Chongwoo Yu, PhD, Office of Clinical Pharmacology (OCP), Office of Translational Sciences (OTS), Center for Drug Evaluation & Research (CDER), US FDA (host: AAPS) |
Wednesday, February 28 | Using Genetics to Explore Microbe-Host Interactions at the Molecular Level Chun-Jun (CJ) Guo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Jill Roberts Institute for Research in IBD, Weill Cornell Medicine (host: Matt Henke) |
Wednesday, March 6 | Discovering New Enzyme Chemistry From Across The Tree of Life Jonathan Chekan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (host: Matt Henke) |
Wednesday, March 13 | Illuminating the niches that program the immune response Michael Gerner, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Washington (host: Steve Lee) |
Wednesday, March 20 | SPRING BREAK Ryan Shenvi, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research, La Jolla (host: Andrew Riley) |
Wednesday, March 27 | Chemical methods to monitor and manipulate the proteome Tom Kodadek, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology (host: Yu Gao) |
Wednesday, April 3 | The mechanism of eukaryotic mRNA activation Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr., PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University (host: José Villegas) |
Wednesday, April 10 | New tools for flow-based peptide and protein synthesis Nina Hartrampf, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich (host: José Villegas) |
Wednesday, April 17 | Exploring the bacterial terpenome Jeffrey Rudolf, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida (host: Brian Murphy) |
Wednesday, April 24 | Exploring Innovative Frontiers: Harnessing Novel Targets for Pain Therapies Corey Hopkins, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center (host: Terry Moore) |
Wednesday, May 1 | (Finals Week) Jen Heemstra, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis (host: José Villegas) |
Wednesday, May 8 | Integration of Multidisciplinary Knowledge to Accelerate Drug Discovery and Development Tao Liang, PhD, Associate Director, Translational Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacology, AbbVie, Inc., Irvine, California (host: AAPS) |
Wednesday, May 15 | *** POSTPONED -- WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2024 *** Jason Kwan, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (host: Brian Murphy) |