University of Illinois College of Medicine

Department of Pharmacology

Visiting Professor Seminar Series

Fall 2021

Wednesdays at 12:00 PM, via Zoom

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE


September 15


Jonathan Kagan, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics,

Boston Children's Hospital,

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA,

"Initiation and Regulation of Innate Immunity"

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September 29

Sarah Walmsley, PhD

 Professor, Chair of Respiratory Medicine Center for Inflammation Research

The University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland

"Metabolic and oxygen dependent regulation of the innate immune response"


October 13 

Valentina Gandin, PhD

Research Scientist,

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Research Campus

Ashburn, VA

To Be Announced



October 23 

Jahar Bhattacharya, M.D., D.Phil

Director of Lung Research at the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

CUMC

New York, NY

To Be Announced

October 27

Anant Parekh, PhD

Assistant Professor,

Physiology & Biophysics

UCI

Irvine, CA

"Excitation-Transcription Coupling: Signaling Between Orai Calcium Channels And The Nucleus"


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November 3

Siyuan (Steven) Wang, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology

Yale School of Medicine

 New Haven, CT

"Image-based Spatial Genomics and Multiomics"


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November 10 

Josef Penninger, PhD

Director, Life Sciences Institute

Professor, Department of Medical Genetics

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

To Be Announced

November 17

Noam Stern-Ginossar, PhD

Principal Investigator

Department of Molecular Gentics

Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovot, Israel

To Be Announced.


December 1 


Wei Tong, PhD 

Professor of Pediatrics,

    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,

    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,

    Co-Director, Hematopoietic Stem Cell program,

    Institute for Regenerative Medicine at UPENN

Philadelphia, PA

To Be Announced.


December 8

Ke Chang Ph.D

Randall B. Terry, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

UNC-Chapel Hill & NC State University

College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University

Raleigh, NC

To Be Announced.


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Seminar Links will be sent out 1 week in advance                 

Coordinator: eherre35@uic.edu 

(312) 4137562

Revised:  8/30/2021