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Seminars

 

January 2025

Date Time Seminar
16
Thursday,
Jan.
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "The Narrower-spectrum Activity of Ibezapolstat for the Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infection is Mediated by PolC-variant Lachnospiraceae and Oscillospiraceae"
Speaker: Jacob McPherson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research, UHCOP
Mentor: Kevin Garey
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
23
Thursday,
Jan.
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Targeting Neuroinflammation: NLRP3 as a Therapeutic Target for Vascular Dementia"
Speaker: Adnan Akif, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UHCOP
Mentor: Jiukuan Hao
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
30
Thursday,
Jan.
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Understanding the Pharmacological Contribution of High Mobility Group Box-1 (HMGB1) towards Nicotine Associated Podocyte Damage and Glomerulosclerosis"
Speaker: Sayantap Datta, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UHCOP
Mentor: Krishna Boini
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom

February 2025

Date Time Seminar
6
Thursday,
Feb.
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "K2P Potassium Channels Affect Endothelin A Receptor and Vasoreactivity in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis–Pulmonary Hypertension (IPF–PH) Patients"
Speaker: Hala Abdelnasser, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UHCOP
Mentors: Bradley McConnell and Richard Bond
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
13
Thursday,
Feb.
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Translating Cardiovascular Genomics to Potential Treatments"
Speaker: Y. Eugene Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Frederick Huetwell Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Host: Bradley McConnell
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
20
Thursday,
Feb.
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Cardiomyocyte Cell Cycle Activity in the Adult Heart"
Speaker: Loren J. Field, Ph.D., Professor, Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Host: Bradley McConnell
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
27
Thursday,
Feb.
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Design RNA nanoparticles with motile and deformable mechanisms for spontaneous cancer-specific targeting with undetectable toxicity or side effects"
Speaker: Peixuan Guo, Ph.D., Professor and Sylvan Frank Endowed Chair, Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Director of Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Host: Bin Guo
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom

March 2025

Date Time Seminar
4
Tuesday,
March
 11:00 a.m.
PHOP Seminar
Title: "#HEOR #RWD What Can We Answer with Real-World Data?"
Speaker: Jieni Li, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, UHCOP
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
6
Thursday,
March
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "One Bad Apple?: Mechanisms of Host-microbe and Microbiome Interactions of Pathogenic Stenotrophomonas bacteria with Wild and Domesticated C. elegans Nematodes"
Speaker: Michael Herman, Ph.D., Professor and Director, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Host: Mingfu Wu
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
27
Thursday,
March
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Development and Clinical Testing of NKT Cell Cancer Immunotherapy"
Speaker: Leonid S. Metelitsa, M.D., Ph.D., Endowed Chair in Cancer Immunotherapy, Texas Children's Hospital, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Host: Xinli Liu
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom

April 2025

Date Time Seminar
3
Thursday,
April
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Empowering Personalized Healthcare with Nano and Micro Technologies"
Speaker: Tony Ye Hu, Ph.D., Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation, Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology, Tulane University, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Host: Xinli Liu
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
10
Thursday,
April
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title:TBD
Speaker: Thomas Cooper, M.D., Professor, Departments of Pathology & Immunology, Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Host: Ravi Singh
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
17
Thursday,
April
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: TBD
Speaker: Sarah Woodfield, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, and Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Host: Meghna Trivedi
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom
24
Thursday,
April
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: TBD
Speaker: Kyoji Tsuchikama, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
Host: Alexander (Sasha) Statsyuk
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom

May 2025

Date Time Seminar
1
Thursday,
May
 4:00 p.m.
PPS Seminar
Title: "Exploring the Therapeutic Vulnerabilities of p53 Mutant Cancers: Insights from Novel Mouse Models"
Speaker: Rasoul Pourebrahim, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Leukemia - Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Host: Radbod Darabi
Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom