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| When and Where | Presenter and Seminar Title |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Lakshmi A. Devi, Ph.D., Vice-chair for Education, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Professor- Department of Neuroscience, Dean for Academic Development and Enrichment, Director-office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Seminar Title: “G Protein-Coupled Receptor Dimers and Orphans: Novel Therapeutic Targets for Pain and Addiction” Host: Dr. Lorraine Gudas |
| Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Shengkan “Victor” Jin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmacology Department, Member- The Cancer Institute of New Brunswick, N.J., Member Center for Lipid Research of New Brunswick, N.J., Member-The Cardiovascular Institute of New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Seminar Title: “Two Platforms for Therapeutic Development: the RNA-Aptamer Mediated Base Editing for Gene and Cell Therapy, and Mitochondrial Uncoupling for Metabolic Diseases and Cancer” Host: Dr. Lorraine Gudas |
| Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Geoffrey S. Pitt, M.D.,Ph.D., Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine Seminar Title: "FGF13: Novel functions for a non-growth factor" Host: Dr. Lorraine Gudas |
| Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Robert J. Devita, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences and the Director of the Medicinal Chemistry Core of the Drug Discovery Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Seminar Title: “Small Molecule Drug Discovery – Transitioning from Industry to Academia" Host: Dr. Lorraine Gudas |
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Elena Oancea, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Sciences, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology, Brown University Seminar Title: "Melanocytes in black and white: intracellular ion channels and transporters that regulate human pigmentation" Host: Dr. Jonathan Zippin |
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Elizabeth A. Heller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Seminar Title: "Chromatin-mediated alternative splicing regulate cocaine reward" Host: Dr. Miklos Toth |
Tuesday, December 28, 2021 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Pengbo Zhou, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Seminar Title: "Ubiquitin-Proteolytic Control of DNA Repair, Reproduction and Tumorigenesis" Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas |
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Annarita Di Lorenzo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Seminar Title: "Sphingolipid Metabolism: A Therapeutic Target for Cardiovascular Diseases” Host: Dr. Roberto Levi |
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Etienne Sibille, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto Seminar Title: " GABA deficits and Cognition in Depression and Aging: Origin, Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutics” Host: Drs. Lorraine J. Gudas & Miklos Toth |
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Room A-250, 4:00 pm | Karen Wu, Ph.D., President, Co-Founder at Lucerna, Inc. Seminar Title: "RNA: From the Ignored Molecule to Being the New “It” Target in Biotechnology (and How it Shaped My Career Path)” Host: Dr. Samie Jaffrey |
