ACADEMIC YEAR
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
PhD Student Research Forum Fall 2017/Spring 2018
Fridays at 12:00 PM, 4175 COMRB
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
September 15
Yedida Bogachkov
(Levitan)
"The Effects of Hypercholesterolemia on Endothelial Angiogenic Properties and Wound Healing"
September 22
Mark Shaaya
(Natarajan/Karginov)
"Developing an Optogenetic Tool to
Control Kinases Activity"
September 29
GEMS Symposium
(No Forum)
October 6
Jugajyoti Baruah
(Wary)
"Determining the Role of Nanog and hTERT in Relation to Adult Endothelial Cell Activities"
October 13
Menglin Liu
(Malik/Rehman)
"Sox17-Mediated Regulation of
Lung Endothelial Regeneration"
October 20
(No Forum)
October 27
Department Retreat
(No Forum)
November 3
Alan Tseng
(Cho)
"Myeloperoxidase Regulation of Neutrophil
Function in Sterile Inflammation"
November 10
Claire Chang
(Du)
"A Selective Role of Gα13 in
GPCR-mediated Integrin Dependent
Neutrophil Transendothleial Migration"
November 17
(No Forum)
November 24
Thanksgiving Break
(No Forum)
December 1
Ian Rochford
(Mehta)
"CREB Controls Generation of
Mature Alveolar Macrophages"
December 8
Ankit Jambusaria
(Malik/Rehman)
"Assessing Temporal Dynamics of LPS
Induced Injury Using Transcriptomics"
DATE
January 12
(No Forum)
January 19
Vanessa Juettner
(Malik/Komarova)
"VE-PTP Scaffold Function is Required for Stabilization of VE-cadherin Adhesion"
January 26
GEMS Interviews
(No Forum)
February 2
Sarah Krantz
(Rehman)
"Role of Mitofusin 2-mediated
Mitophagy in the Differentiation of Human
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells"
February 9
GEMS Interviews
(No Forum)
February 16
James Hyun
(Malik/Pajcini)
"Endothelial Notch Signalling in
Regenerative Arteriogenesis"
February 23
Joshua Jones
(Minshall/Malik)
"Role of Plasmalemmal Vesicle Associated Protein (PV1) in Endothelial Albumin Permeability"
March 2
Victoria Mastej
(Wary)
"Investigating the Role of KLF4 in Lymphatic Endothelial Cell Homeostasis"
March 9
Kilian Sottoriva
(Pajcini)
"Targeting the Notch1 Transcriptional Activation Domain in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"
March 16
(No Forum)
March 23
Priyanka Gajwani
(Rehman)
"The Role of Glycolysis in Endothelial
Adherens Junction Assembly"
March 30
Spring Break
(No Forum)
April 6
Quinn Lee
(Komarova)
"N-cadherin Adhesion Mediated Signaling Maintains Blood Brain Barrier and Cognitive Function"
April 13
Rebecca Bubenheimer
(Tamplin)
"Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
in Remodeling the Perivascular Hematopoietic
Stem Cell Niche"
April 20
Stephen Lenzini
(Shin)
"Engineering Extracellular Vesicle (EV) Biogenesis and Delivery"
April 27
Chia Hao "Gary" Mo
Faculty Candidate
"Revealing Compartmentalized Live Cell Signaling with a Super-resolution and Multiplexing Lens"
May 4
Aziz Khan
(Malik/Cho)
"Role of PECAM-1 homotypic interactions in neutrophil spreading and motility"
May 11
Dianicha Santana
(Komarova)
All forums are held in 4175 COMRB unless designated above.
Coordinator: (312) 355-3281