University of Illinois College of Medicine

Department of Pharmacology

Visiting Professor Seminar Series

Spring 2024

Wednesdays at 12:00 PM, 1020 COMRB

SPEAKER

TITLE

DATE

 Karen M Ridge, PhD

Professor of Medicine 
Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Pulmonary Sciences
Northwestern University
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chicago, Illinoi

“Vimentin-Mediated Regulation of Treg 
      Cells: Unraveling its Impact on Lung Repair post-viral Pneumonia.”
 

 

February 28
 

Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
UNC Chapel Hill/North Carolina

“Platelets and Venous Thrombosis”

April 3

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Ang Cui, PhD

 Assistant Professor at Harvard University 
Immunology Research Laboratory

Member of Faculty of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity

“Dictionary of immune responses to cytokines at single-cell resolution”

April 10

 Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD

Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago Illinois

TBA


April 24

Nicholas Banovich, PhD

Associate Professor
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

 Phoenix, Arizona

Characterizing Disease driven alveolar remodeling in situ using spatial transcriptomics 

May 1

Owen J.T. McCarty, Ph.D., FAHA

 Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Oregon Health & Science University 
 (Room: 227, Irwin Auditorium)

 

 “The blood microenvironment and medical devices: the good, bad and the sticky”


May 15

Seminar announcements will be sent out 1 week in advance.

 

Coordinator:  (312) 355-3281

 

Revised:  7/11/2022