Past Pharmacology Seminars

Dr. Yamuna Krishnan

Thursday, June 22nd, 2023

“Intracellular Electrophysiology"

Professor

Dr. Lydia Finley

Thursday, January 26th, 2023

“Metabolic regulation of cell fate transitions”

Associate Member, Cell Biology Program

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Hosted by: Dr. Kathryn Ferguson

Dr. Tom Rapoport

Thursday, January 19th, 2023

“Protein import into peroxisomes reveals new paradigms of protein translocation across membranes”

Professor

Harvard Medical School

Hosted by: Dr. Wei Mi

Dr. Diane Lidke

Thursday, December 15th, 2022“Single Molecule Imaging Provides New Insights into Oncogenic EGFR Signaling”

Professor

University of New Mexico

Cancer Research Facility

Hosted by: Dr. Mark Lemmon

Dr. Mark Peifer

Thursday, December 1st, 2022

“Building the Body Plan: The Miracle of Morphogenesis”

Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill

Hosted by: Dr. David Calderwood

Dr. Poulikos Poulikakos

Thursday, November 17th, 2022

“Targeting Oncogenic Signaling for Cancer Therapy from Resistance Mechanisms to Novel Strategies”

Associate Professor

The Tisch Cancer Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hosted by: Dr. Elias Lolis

Dr. Kun-Liang Guan

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

“The Hippo Pathway: Signaling and Cancer”

Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology

University of California

Hosted by: Dr. Benjamin Turk

Dr. Matthew Potthoff

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

“Endocrine Control of Nutrient and Energy Homeostasis by the Liver”

Roy J. Carver Associate Professor in Neuroscience

and Pharmacology

University of Iowa

Hosted by: Dr. Sangwon Lee

Dr. Gilead Barnea

Thursday, October 20th, 2022

“The Tango toolkit for trans-synaptic tracing and manipulation of neural circuits”

Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor

of Ophthalmology, Visual Sciences, and Neuroscience

Brown University

Hosted by: Dr. Joseph Schlessinger and Irit Lax

Dr. Ryan E. Hibbs

Thursday June 16th

“Structural mechanisms of ion channel gating, pharmacology, and CNS immune disorders”

Associate Professor

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Hosted by Dr. Joel Butterwick

Dr. Wolfgang Peti

Thursday June 9th

“Function and Selectivity of Protein Phosphatases”

Professor and Department Chair

University of Connecticut Health Center

Hosted by Dr. Titus Boggon

Dr. John Kuriyan

Thursday May 19th

“Activation of the EGF Receptor”

Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry

University of California, Berkeley

Hosted by Dr. Leonard Kaczmarek

Dr. Rachelle Gaudet

Thursday May 12th

“Mechanics of an Nramp-Family Transition Metal Transporter”

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Harvard University

Hosted by Dr. Gary Rudnick

Dr. Florentine Rutaganira

Thursday April 28th

“Probing the Origin of Cell Communication in Animals”

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Developmental Biology,

Stanford University

Hosted by Dr. Elias Lolis

Dr. Minglei Zhao

Thursday April 21st

“Structural insights into Ubr1 mediated N-degron polyubiquitination”

Assistant Professor

University of Chicago

Hosted by Wei Mi

Dr. Yifan Cheng

Thursday April 14th

“Single particle cryo-EM of TRPV1: from atomic structure to gating mechanism”

Professor, HHMI Investigator

University of California San Francisco

Hosted by Dr. Wei Mi

Dr. Natalie Ahn

Thursday March 31st

“The importance of protein dynamics for kinase activation and inhibitor design: The case of ERK2”

Distinguished Professor

University of Colorado at Boulder

Hosted by Dr. Benjamin Turk

Dr. Donita Brady

Thursday March 24th

“Cellular and Molecular Determinants of Copper Activation of Protein Kinases in Cancer”

Associate Professor

University of Pennsylvania

Hosted by Dr. Mark Lemmon

Dr. Klaus Hahn

Thursday March 17th

“Spatio-temporal control of GTPase signaling revealed by new optogenetic, biosensor and single molecule imaging tools”

Thurman Distinguished Professor

UNC-Chapel Hill

Hosted by Dr. David Calderwood

Dr. Natalia Jura

Thursday March 10th

“HER2 and HER3 receptor tyrosine kinases - together in sickness and in health”

Associate Professor

University of California, San Francisco

Hosted by Dr. Kathryn Ferguson

Dr. Michael Eck

Thursday Feb. 24th

“Structural insights into the regulation and pharmacology of Ras/MAP kinase pathway”

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs; University of California, San Diego

Hosted by Pharmacology Graduate Students

Dr. Jared Toettcher

Thursday Feb. 17th

“Signaling, illuminated: moving proteins and assembling organelles to crack the signaling code”

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Hosted by Dr. Mark Lemmon

Dr. Paolo Picotti

Thursday, Jan. 3rd

“Proteomes in 3D: Structural barcodes to probe protein functional alterations”

Deputy head of Institute for Molecular Systems Biology

Hosted by Dr. Yansheng Liu

Dr. Avery D. Posey

Thursday, Dec. 9th

"Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells and carbohydrate-based cancer targets"

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology; University of Pennsylvania

Hosted by Pharmacology Postdocs

Dr. Marc N. Wein

Thursday Dec. 2nd

“Signal transduction pathways that control osteocyte differentiation and function”.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Hosted by Dr. Joseph Schlessinger

Dr. JoAnn Trejo

Thursday, Nov. 18th

“Cell Signaling by Protease-activated Receptors”

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs; University of California, San Diego

Hosted by Dr. Joel Butterwick

Dr. Jason Cai

Thursday, Nov. 11th

“PET Imaging in Disease Diagnosis and Drug Development”

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Yale University

Hosted by Dr. Elias Lolis

Dr. Maria Lehtinen

Thursday, Nov. 4th

“Illuminating the choroid plexus - cerebrospinal fluid system in health and disease”

Neuroscientist and Associate Professor; Harvard Medical School

Hosted by Dr. Leonard Kaczmarek

Dr. Cyril Zipfel

Thursday, Oct. 21st

“Regulation of plant receptor kinase-mediated immunity”

Chair of Molecular and Cellular Plant Physiology; University of Zurich

Hosted by Dr. Kathryn Ferguson

Dr. Lewis Kay

Thursday, Oct. 14th

“The importance of dynamics in the function and misfunction of molecular machines”

Professor, Biochemistry; University of Toronto

Hosted by Dr. Sangwon Lee

Dr. Mart Loog

Thursday, Sept. 23rd

“Temporal control of CDK signaling via multi-site phosphorylation”

Head of Laboratory, Professor of Molecular Systems Biology; University of Tartu

Hosted by Dr. Benjamin Turk

Dr. Hoang Duong (Kelly) Nguyen

Thursday, Sept. 16th

“Replenishing the ends: Visualization of human telomerase holoenzyme by cryo-EM”

Group Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular; Biology University of Cambridge

Hosted by Dr. Sangwon Lee

Dr. Maria Sibilia

Thursday, Sept. 9th

“Microenvironmental Drivers of Inflammation and Tumorigenesis”

University Professor; Medical University of Vienna

Hosted by Dr. Irit Lax

Dr. Dirk Slotboom

Thursday, Sept. 2nd

“Interplay between the lipid bilayer and transport proteins in membrane transport processes”

Professor in Biochemistry

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Hosted by Gary Rudnick