Past Pharmacology Seminars
2022-2023
Dr. Yamuna Krishnan
Thursday, June 22nd, 2023
“Intracellular Electrophysiology"
Professor
University of Chicago
Hosted by: Dr. Moitrayee Bhattacharyya
Dr. Sebastian Klinge
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
“Witnessing ribosome assembly in human cells"
Associate Professor
The Rockefeller University
Hosted by: Dr. Claudio Alarcon
Dr. Michael Grabe
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
“Structural insight into sugar transport by SGLTs”
Professor
University of California, San Francisco
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Rudnick
Dr. Tamir Gonen
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
“Quo Vadis MicroED”
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Physiology
University of California, Los Angeles
Hosted by: Dr. Moitrayee Bhattacharyya
Dr. Filippo Mancia
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
“The molecular mechanisms underlying cellular uptake of vitamin A”
Professor, Associate Vice Chair
Columbia University
Hosted by: Dr. Wei Mi
Dr. Stacy Malaker
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
“Glycoproteomic landscape and structural dynamics of TIM family immune checkpoints enabled by mucinase SmE”
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Yale University
Hosted by: Dr. Karen Anderson
Dr. Jean Schwarzbauer
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
“Fibronectin matrix assembly and its dysregulation in fibrosis”
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Hosted by: Dr. David Calderwood
Dr. Steve Rutherford
Thursday, March 9th, 2023
“The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria as an antibacterial target”
Principal Scientist
Genentech
Hosted by: Dr. Wei Mi
Dr. Jun Huh
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
“Immune modulatory roles of microbial metabolites of bile acids”
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Joel Butterwick
Dr. Benjamin Goult
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
“The MeshCODE theory – does our brain store memories in binary format?”
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Kent
Hosted by: Dr. David Calderwood
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. Steve Almo
Thursday, September 22, 2022
“Selectivity in Biology and Therapeutics”
Professor of Biochemistry
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Elias Lolis and Dr. Karen Anderson
2021-2022
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