Spring 2025


Seminar Schedule Spring 2025
Seminars in Pharmaceutical Sciences


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



Wednesday, January 8





NO SEMINAR



(classes start January 13)


Wednesday, January 15


TBA


Xiaoyu Tang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory

Wednesday, January 22


TBA


TBA

Wednesday, January 29


TBA


TBA


Wednesday, February 5





TBA



TBA



Wednesday, February 12



TBA



TBA


Wednesday, February 19



TBA


Bumsoo Han, PhD, Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (host: Rick Gemeinhart)



Wednesday, February 26



TBA


Greg Voth, PhD, Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago (host: José Villegas)



Wednesday, March 5



TBA


Albert Bowers, PhD, Associate 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



TBA


Michael Bachman, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan (host: Nancy Freitag)



Wednesday, March 19


TBA


Valerie Paul, PhD, Head Scientist, National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution (hosts: Matt Henke / Kate Warpeha)



Wednesday, March 26



SPRING BREAK


J.P. Gerdt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington (host: Matt Henke)



Wednesday, April 2



TBA


Andrew Lowell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech (host: Paul Carlier)


Wednesday, April 9



TBA


TBA



Wednesday, April 16



TBA


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



TBA


Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine (host: Nancy Freitag)


Wednesday, April 30

TBA


TBA

Wednesday, May 7

NO SEMINAR (Finals Week)



NO SEMINAR



Course Coordinator: Matt Henke  | José Villegas