Seminar Archives 2022-2023

When and WherePresenter and Seminar Title
Tuesday,
September 20, 2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Lori L. Isom, Ph.D.; Maurice H. Seevers Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Professor of Neurology, Michigan Neuroscience Institute Affiliate, Univ. of Michigan Medical School, Fellow; ASPET Fellow

Seminar Title: “Discovering mechanisms of developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with SUDEP”.

Host: Dr. Lorraine Gudas


Tuesday,
October 4, 2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Emmanuel P. Giannelis, Ph.D; Materials Science and Engineering Vice President for Research and Innovation; Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering; Cornell University  

Seminar title: "A Nanotechnologist’s View of Biomedicine" 

Host: Dr. Anthony Sauve


Tuesday,
October 18, 2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

(POSTDOC SEMINAR SERIES)

David Bauer, Ph.D; Postdoctoral Associate, Dr. Jason Lewis laboratory; MSKCC

Seminar Title: "A New Theranostic Tool - Diagnostics and Therapy with Radiolead."

Host: Dr. Jason Lewis

Min Xia, Ph.D.; Postdoctoral Associate, Dr. Ari Melnick Laboratory, Weill Cornell Medicine

Seminar Title: "Precision therapy for DLBCL by targeting B cell receptor pathway and the mechanism for therapeutic resistance."

Host: Dr. Ari Melnick


Tuesday,
November 1, 2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD; Director, MSK Center for Hematologic Malignancies; Edward P. Evans Endowed Chair for MDS

Seminar Title: "Understanding & Targeting Altered RNA Splicing in Cancer"

Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas


Tuesday,
November 15, 2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Jonathan H. Zippin, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.D

Seminar Title: “cAMPing out on the dark side of melanoma”

Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas


Tuesday,
November 29,2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

(POSTDOC SEMINAR SERIES)

Vladimir Despic, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, WCM - Dr. Samie Jaffrey's Lab

Seminar Title: “Dynamic methylation of the mRNA cap structure regulates the innate immune response”

Host: Dr. Samie Jaffrey

 

Bethany Schaffer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, WCM - Dr. John Blenis' Lab

Seminar Title: “Dynamic methylation of the mRNA cap structure regulates the innate immune response”.

Host: Dr. John blenis


Tuesday,
December 13,2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Garret A. Fitzgerald, M.D., FRS, Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine

Seminar Title: “Sex, Drugs, Age and Time. Perspectives in Chronobiology”

Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas


Tuesday,
December 27, 2022

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Jeffrey Pessin, Ph.D., Chair and Director-Diabetes Research Center

Seminar title: “Temporal and spatial cellular heterogeneity of hepatocyte metabolism”

Host: Dr. Lorraine J.  Gudas


Tuesday,
January 10, 2023

Virtural Seminar

Bin Gao, M.D., Ph.D., FAASLD, Chief-Laboratory of Liver Diseases, NIH

Seminar Title:: “Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Targets of Alcoholic Hepatitis”

Host: Dr. Marta Melis


Tuesday,
January 24, 2023

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Jacob Geri, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, WCM

Seminar Title: : “Photocatalytic Proximity Labeling”

Host: Dr. Lorraine J. Gudas


Tuesday,
February 21, 2023

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Robert Gatenby, M.D., Department Chair, Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Mofit Cancer Center

Seminar Title: "Integrating evolutionary dynamics into cancer therapy for control and cure”

Host: Dr. Dawid Nowak


Tuesday,
March 7, 2023

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Olga Anczuków-Camarda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Seminar Title: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Of Splicing Alterations in Cancer”

Host: Dr. Dawid Nowak


Tuesday,
March 21, 2023

Room A-250, 

4:00 pm

Julia Busik, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Michigan State University

Seminar Title: "Ceramide-Centric View of Diabetic Retinopathy.

Host: Dr. Richard N. Kolesnick


Tuesday,
April 4, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Roger Sunahara, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology, University of California - San Diego

Seminar Title: “The Open Conformation of Heterotrimer G Proteins and Their Implications in Cellular Signaling”

Host: Dr. Lonny Levin and Dr. Jochen Buck


Tuesday,
April 18, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Carmen Dessauer, Ph.D., Professor, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School, Program Director, Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists (TIPS)

Seminar Title:  "Unique Scaffolding of Adenylyl Cyclase for Cardiac Function” 

Host: Dr. Lonny Levin and Dr. Jochen Buck


Tuesday,
May 2, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Geoffrey Abbott, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology & Biophysics School of Medicine, University of California - Irvine
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Personnel School of Medicine, Vice Dean, Basic Science Research School of Medicine

Seminar Title: : “Potassium channel-targeted small molecule discovery from plants"

Host: Dr. Roberto Levi


Tuesday,
May 16, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

Henry Colecraft, Ph.D., Professor, Columbia University

Seminar Title: “Engineering ion channel regulation: basic mechanisms to translation”

Host: Domenic Gargiulo-Graduate Student


Tuesday,
May 30, 2023

Room A-250,

4:00 pm

*DR. ANTHONY SAUVE MEMORIAL SEMINAR*

Vern Schramm, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Seminar Title: “Transition state analogs as drug candidates”

Host: Dr. Lorraine Gudas

Weill Cornell Medicine Pharmacology 1300 York Avenue,
Room E-409
New York, NY 10021 Phone: (212) 746-6250 Fax: (212) 746-8835