SEMESTER
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"
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"
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"
November 10
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.
Seminar Links will be sent out 1 week in advance
Coordinator: eherre35@uic.edu
(312) 4137562
Revised: 8/30/2021