Spring 2025
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Seminar Schedule Spring 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, 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 | NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR |
Wednesday, January 29 | Advancing the frontiers of design-driven medicine with synthetic biology Joshua N. Leonard, PhD, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University (host: Joanna Burdette) |
Wednesday, February 5 12pm - 1pm 1017 MBRB Auditorium | MCBD / PSCI Seminar: John Karanicolas, PhD, Head of Computational Drug Discovery, AbbVie, North Chicago (hosts: Kevin Drew / José Villegas -- Joint with Biological Sciences) |
Wednesday, February 12 | Haichen Nie, PhD, Associate Director at Teva Pharmaceuticals (host: Angeliki Andrianopoulou/AAPS) |
Wednesday, February 19 | Bumsoo Han, PhD, Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (host: Rick Gemeinhart) |
Wednesday, February 26 | Overcoming the Multiscale Simulation Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: The HIV Virus as an Example Greg Voth, PhD, Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago (host: José Villegas) |
Wednesday, March 5 | Chemoenzymatic Platforms for the Discovery of New Peptide Therapeutics Albert Bowers, PhD, 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 | Patterns of Klebsiella pneumoniae dissemination from the lung Michael A. Bachman, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, |
Wednesday, March 19 | Alice Cheng, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Committee on Microbiology, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago (host: Matt Henke) |
Wednesday, March 26 | SPRING BREAK J.P. Gerdt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington (host: Matt Henke) |
Wednesday, April 2 | Andrew Lowell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech (host: Paul Carlier) |
Wednesday, April 9 | Bharath Chelleboina, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois Chicago (host: Jeremy Johnson) |
Wednesday, April 16 | Tuning a privileged chemical scaffold to target poorly characterized kinases 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 | Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine (host: Nancy Freitag) |
Wednesday, April 30 | 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 |