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MIKI 2008


Medicinal & Natural
Products Chemistry Graduate Seminar Series (46:227)
College
of Pharmacy, S538 Phar
Tuesdays at 4:00 pm (unless otherwise noted)

Coffee and Cookies at 3:50 pm
Seminar Coordinators: Kevin Rice and David Roman

Fall Semester Speaker Title
Sept 1 Dr. Jon Doorn, Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, University of Iowa Protein Modification and Parkinson’s Disease: Role of a Reactive Intermediate of Dopamine Catabolism
Sept 8 Dr. Geert-Jan Boons, Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia Towards a fully synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccine for cancer.
Sept 15 Dr. Ruiwen Zhang, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Acetazolamide: More than just a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.
Sept 22 Dr. Ernesto Fuentes, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Iowa "Distinct PDZ Domain Specificity in Tiam-family GEFs"
Sept 29 Dr. Songhai Chen, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Iowa Function and regulation of heterotrimeric G protein bg subunits in leukocyte migration and tumor progression
Oct 6 Dr. Blake Peterson, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas

"Synthetic Mimics of Mammalian Cell Surface Receptors"

Oct 13 Dr. Charles Falany, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham “Human cytosolic SULT 2 family: insights into regulation, structure and substrate reactivity”
Oct 20 CBB Conference No Seminar
Oct 27 Dr. Hiroshi Hiasa, Department of Pharmacology,

University of Minnesota

Topoisomerase catalytic inhibitors: Teaching old targets new drugs
Oct 30 Kevin Anderson, Thesis Defense, Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, U of Iowa Glycan Targeted Gene Delivery to the Dendritic Cell Sign Receptor
Nov 10 Dr. Erik Swenson, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington

"Acetazolamide: Carbonic anhydrase inhibition and beyond."

Nov 17 Dr. Roberta King, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Rhode Island 

Structural Bioinformatics Approach for Analysis & Prediction of Sulfotransferase Function.

Nov 24 Thanksgiving No Seminar
Dec 1 Dr. Paul Blakemore, Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University Ambifunctional Molecular Systems in Organic Synthesis
Jan 26 Dr. James Gloer, Department of Chemistry, The University of Iowa  
Feb 2 Aaron Monroy, Graduate Student, Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, U of Iowa  
Feb 9 Koby Kizzire, Graduate Student, Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, U of Iowa  
Feb 16 Kathleen Cornelius, Graduate Student, Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, U of Iowa  
Feb 23 Dr. Ron Woodard, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan  
Mar 2 Dr. Christine Chow, Department of Biochemistry,

Wayne State University

 
Mar 9 Dr. Craig Lindsley, Pharmacology Program in Drug Discovery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Discovery and development of allosteric ligands for Class A and C GPCRs: Novel approaches for Schizophrenia, AD and PD
Mar 16 Spring Break No Seminar
Mar 30 Dr. Scott Franzblau, Tuberculosis Institute, College of Pharmcy, University of Illinois at Chicago  
April 6 Dr. Serrine Lau, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona  
April 13 Research Week No Seminar
April 20 Dr. Theresa Reineke, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech  
April 27 Dr. Chris Rochet, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University  

 

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