SEMESTER
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
Visiting Professor Seminar Series
Fall 2017
Wednesdays at 12:00 PM, 1020 COMRB
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
September 13
"Biophysical Analysis of Molecular Interactions at the Cell Surface"
September 27
David A Weitz, PhD
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Applied Physics
John a Paulson School of Engineering
& Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
"Droplet Microfluidics for
Single-cell Studies"
October 4
Mrs George A Winzer Professor in
Cell Biology & Chair
Chemical & Systems Biology Dept
Stanford U School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
"Mitogen and Stress Control of Cell
Cycle Entry and Exit in Mammalian Cells"
**Tues,
October 24
"T Cell Exhaustion and
PD-1 Therapy"
October 25
Director, Institute for Cardiovascular &
Metabolic Research
University of Reading, UK
POSTPONED.
November 1
Director
National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, MD
"Seizing Unprecedented Opportunities: Pursuit of Strategic Priorities in Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Science"
November 8
Mellichamp Chair Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
U California - Santa Barbara
POSTPONED.
November 15
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD
Vice Chair of Immunology
Rose Marie Thomas Endowed Chair
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
"Regulators of Inflammatory
Responses"
November 28
Professor, Anethesia
Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Cambridge/Boston, MA
"Polymeric Nanoparticles:
Tumor Microenvironment and Implications for New Nanoparticle
Design and Development"
All seminars will be held in College of Medicine Research Building, located at 909 S Wolcott Ave
in Room 1020 Moss Auditorium unless designated above.
Coordinator: (312) 355-3281
Revised: 11/21/17