University of Illinois College of Medicine

Department of Pharmacology

Visiting Professor Seminar Series

Spring 2021

Wednesdays at 12:00 PM, via Zoom

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE


January 20

Tanmay Lele, PhD

Unocal Professor 

Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering

Texas A&M University 

Houston, TX 

"Nuclear Mechanobiology In Cancer"

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January 27

Jingsong Xu, PhD

Professor, West China Hospital

Sichuan University

Chengdu City, China 

"Directed Neutrophil Migration and Its Unexpected Functions in vivo"


February 3

James Hurley, PhD

Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Strucontainerctural Biology

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

"Regulatory mechanisms in lysosomes and autophagy"


March 3

Dean Sheppard, MD

Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care,  

Allergy and Sleep 

Director, Lung Biology Center 

University of California, San Francisco

 San Francisco, CA 

"Pulmonary Fibrosis – a Misunderstanding Between Epithelial Cells & Fibroblasts?"

March 10

Vishva Dixit, PhD

Vice President and Staff Scientist,

Physiological Chemistry  

Genentech  

South San Francisco, CA 

"Why so many ways to die"


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March 17

Andres Hidalgo Alonso, PhD

Assistant Professor/Group Leader

Spanish National Center for Cadiovasular Research

CNIC

Madrid, Spain 

"Neutrophil Diversity In Time and Space"


April 7 

Timothy Sheahan, PhD
Assistant Professor,

Department of Epidemiology

University of North Carolina School of Global Public Health

Chapel Hill, NC

"Preparing for Tomorrow's Pandemics Today: Accelerating Therapeutic Development with Preclinical Models of Coronavirus Pathogenesis"


May 5 

Medha Pathak, PhD

Assistant Professor, 

 Physiology & Biophysics 

Univeristy of California, Irvine 

Irvine, CA 


"Molecular Choreography of Piezo1 during Development and Repair"

Seminar Links will be sent out 1 week in advance                 


Coordinator:  (312) 355-3281


Revised:  1/04/2021