SEMESTER
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
Unocal Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Houston, TX
"Nuclear Mechanobiology In Cancer"
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
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Strucontainerctural Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
"Regulatory mechanisms in lysosomes and autophagy"
March 3
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
Vice President and Staff Scientist,
Physiological Chemistry
Genentech
South San Francisco, CA
"Why so many ways to die"
March 17
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
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