Pharmacology Seminar Series
Due to the current COVID-19 situation and safety regulations, all of the summer and fall seminars will be held virtually through Zoom.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 9, 2020 | 12 pm | Lucia Peixoto, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Sciences Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Washington State University Spokane, Washington | "Sleepless in the Spectrum" | Zoom |
| October 14, 2020 | 12 pm | Aimin Liu, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas | "Mechanistic Enzymology of the Tryptophan-Kynurenine Pathway" | Zoom |
| October 21, 2020 | 12 pm | Barry R. O’Keefe, Ph.D. Director, Molecular Targets Program Center for Cancer Research Chief, Natural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis National Cancer Institute Frederick, Maryland | "The NCI Program for Natural Products Discovery: A Resource for Novel Bioactive Natural Products Against All Disease States" | Zoom |
| November 4, 2020 | 12 pm | Stan B. Floresco, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of British Columbia | "Prefrontal ventral striatal circuits underlying different aspects of aversively-motivated behavior" | Zoom |
| November 11, 2020 | 12 pm | Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Ph.D. Department of Biology School of Arts and Sciences University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | "Neural circuit mechanisms and technology for pain and social touch" | Zoom |
| December 2, 2020 | 12 pm | Doug E. Frantz, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry University of Texas San Antonio San Antonio, Texas | "From Cancer to COVID to Catalysis: The Broad Spectrum of Organic Chemistry in Drug Discovery" | Zoom |