Friday, January 13

TBA

TBA

Friday, January 20

"Recent studies on Schisandra chinensis, Paeonia lactiflora, and Sophora flavescens"

Chun-Tao Che, PhD, Norman R. Farnsworth Professor of Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, UIC

Friday, January 27

"Delivering Curated Chemistry to the World via Crowdsourced Deposition and Annotation on ChemSpider"

Antony Williams, PhD, Vice President, Strategic Development, Royal Society of Chemistry (host: James Graham)

Friday, February 3

Cell Penetrating Peptides as Anti-Cancer agents: Bench to Clinical Trial

Craig W. Beattie, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, UIC (host: Steve Swanson)

Friday, February 10

"Understanding the molecular mechanisms of mycobacterial protein secretion"

Patricia A. Champion, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame (hosts: Mike Federle and Scott Franzblau)

Friday, February 17

"Microbial Proteomics as a Discovery Engine for New Natural Products and Their Biosynthetic Pathways"

Neil Kelleher, PhD, Professor, BMBCB and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University (hosts: Brian Murphy and Jimmy Orjala)

Friday, February 24

"Targeting Keap1-Nrf2 Signaling for Disease Prevention"

Thomas Kensler, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh (hosts: Judy Bolton and Greg Thatcher)

Friday, March 2

(No Seminar)

Tuesday, March 6

Thesis Seminar:
"Effect of nitric oxide on DNA repair dioxygenase - human AlkB homolog 2"

1:30 PM
B32 PHARM

Yuliya Mikhed, Medicinal Chemistry (advisor: Doug Thomas)

Tuesday, March 6

Dissertation Seminar:
"Elucidation of the Histone Deacetylase 6 Pharmacophore"

3:00 PM
212/216 PHARM

Jay Kalin, Medicinal Chemistry (advisor: Alan Kozikowski)

Wednesday, March 7

Dissertation Seminar:
"Synthesis, Optimization, and Preclinical Evaluation of Thiophilic Peptidomimetics as Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease"

12:30 PM
134-1 PHARM

Isaac Schiefer, Medicinal Chemistry (advisor: Greg Thatcher)

Friday, March 9

College of Pharmacy Research Day:

Noon
134-1 PHARM

"Marine Microbial Anticancer Agents Select for Novel Intracellular Targets"

William Fenical, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Director, CMBB, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD (host: Brian Murphy)

Wednesday, March 14

Literature Seminar:
"XCMS for the Processing of LC-MS Data Sets"

8:45 AM
B32 PHARM

Jerry White, Medicinal Chemistry (advisor: Richard van Breemen)

Wednesday, March 14

Dissertation Seminar:
"A High Throughput LC-MS Platform for the Discovery of Vitamin D Receptor Ligands"

9:30 AM
B32 PHARM

Jerry White, Medicinal Chemistry (advisor: Richard van Breemen)

Friday, March 16

WEBSTER-SIBILSKY LECTURE

"From the Hood to the Hospital: How an Indenoisoquinoline Accident Turned into an Anticancer Drug"

Mark S. Cushman, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University

Friday, March 23

No Seminar (Spring Break)

No Seminar

Friday, March 30

"Mycobacterial Polyketide Virulence Factors: Biosynthesis and Inhibition"

Luis E. N. Quadri, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, Brooklyn College - CUNY (hosts: Scott Franzblau and Brian Murphy)

Friday, April 6

"Strategies to Discover Small Molecules as Probes for Biological Problems and Antiviral Drugs"

Colleen Jonsson, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease, University of Louisville (host: Brian Murphy)

Monday, April 9

Dissertation Seminar:
"Female hormone-mediated CYP regulation: Implications in altered drug metabolism during pregnancy"

1:30 PM
134-1 PHARM

Su-Young Choi, Pharmacognosy (advisor: Hyunyoung Jeong)

Friday, April 13

MIKI MEETING - University of Iowa

No Seminar

Friday, April 20

TBA

TBA

Friday, April 27

Dissertation Seminar

Feng Qiu, Pharmacognosy (Advisor: Guido Pauli)

Tuesday, May 1

Dissertation Seminar:
"Anti-TB Drug Leads from Diverse Natural Sources"

10:30 AM
36 PHARM

Chang Hwa Hwang, Pharmacognosy (advisor: Scott Franzblau and Guido Pauli)

Tuesday, May 1

Dissertation Seminar:
"Gonadotropins regulate oncogenic pathways in ovarian surface epithelium in a three-dimensional model"

1:30 PM
3074 MBRB

Tyvette Hilliard, Medicinal Chemistry (advisor: Joanna Burdette)

Wednesday, May 2

Dissertation Seminar:
"Chemoprevention Study of Botanical Dietary Supplements by Mass Spectrometry"

9:30 AM
32 PHARM

Xi Qiu, Pharmacognosy (advisor: Richard van Breemen)

Friday, May 4

No Seminar (Finals Week)

No Seminar

Course Coordinator: Brian T. Murphy <btmurphy@uic.edu>