SEMESTER
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
Visiting Professor Seminar Series
Spring 2016
Wednesdays at 12:00 PM, 1020 COMRB
DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
January 27
Professor
Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Director
Center for Mitochondrial & Epigenomic Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
"Mitochondrial Etiology of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Cancer and Aging"
February 3
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
"Inflammasomes Coordinate Pyrotosis and NK Cytotoxicity to Prevent the Purple Death"
March 9
Ali Shilatifard, PhD
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor
Chair, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
"Enhancer Malfunctions in Cancer"
March 23
Professor of Medicine & Pathology
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine
Boston University Medical School
Boston, MA
"Pluripotent Stem Cell Modeling of Lung Development and Disease"
March 30
Tariq Ghayur, PhD
AbbVie
Senior Principal Scientist & Research Fellow
Abbott Laboratories
Boston, MA
"The Challenges and Excitement of Discovery Research in Pharma/Biotec Setting"
April 13
Assistant Professor
Medicine-Hematology/Oncology
Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
"Breast Cancer Metastasis Driven by RNA Regulation"
April 20
Director
Center for Vascular and Developmental Biology
Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
"Novel Developmental and Functional Aspects of the Lympathic Vasculature"
May 11
"Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell"
May 18
Paul de Kruif Endowed Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Microbiota-Host Immunity Interactions at the Intestinal Barrier"
June 9
"Interrogation of New Pathways Regulating Vascular Function"
All seminars will be held in College of Medicine Research Building, located at 909 S Wolcott Ave
in Room 1020 Moss Auditorium unless designated above.
Coordinator: (312) 355-3281
Revised: 3/3/17