Seminar Series

Spring 2024

Programs in Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series

Seminars are Wednesdays in 72 E. Concord St., Room L110 at 2pm, except as noted below

**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of PP&B, please contact Licia Holman for an invitation to the webinar.

Date	Speaker	Title & Host	Location
1/24/24	Liangyou Rui, PhD University of Michigan Medical School	Hepatic and biliary inflammation in liver disease progression (Host: Zhen Jiang)	L110
1/31/24	Anna Krichevsky, PhD Harvard Medical School	Non-coding RNA Regulators of Brain Pathologies: From Brain Tumors to Alzheimer’s Disease (Host: Olga Gursky)	L110
2/7/24	Yimin Zou, PhD UC San Diego	Planar cell polarity proteins in glutamatergic synapse formation and maintenance (Host: Julia TCW)	L110
2/14/24	Takahisa Kanekiyo, MD/PhD Mayo Clinic	APOE and ABCA7 in lipid metabolism and Alzheimer’s disease (Host: Julia TCW)	L110
2/21/24 **3pm	Fan Wang, PhD MIT	General Anesthesia and Pain (Host: Venetia Zachariou)	670 Albany St. rm 107/108
2/28/24	J Kevin Foskett, PhD University of Pennsylvania	CALHM ion-channel synapses in sensory and immune cell signaling (Host: Clint Makino)	L110
3/6/24	Ream Al-Hasani, PhD Washington University	Differential role of accumbal opioid peptides in reward and stress (Host: Venetia Zachariou)	L110
3/20/24	Elena Oancea, PhD Brown University	Opsin 3 in the brain: how light receptors function in the dark (Host: Clint Makino)	L110
3/27/27	Li Huei Tsai, PhD MIT	Enhancing gamma oscillations in Alzheimer’s disease: mechanism and pilot study in humans (Host: Wendy Qiu)	L110
4/10/24	Paula M. Loria, PhD Pfizer	Delivery of clinical candidates for metabolic diseases through innovative small molecule screening (Host: Vanna Zachariou)	Keefer Aud.
4/17/24	Nadia Tsankova, MD/PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine	New Paradigms in Glioblastoma Therapy: Targeting Anti-Invasive Tumor Biology with YAP-TEAD Inhibitors (Host: Venetia Zachariou)	670 Albany St., rm 107/108
4/24/24	Sudha Chakrapani, PhD Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine	Functional Mechanisms and Drug Modulation in Serotonin(3) Receptors (Host: Olga Gursky)	Keefer Aud.
5/1/24	Julia Lemos, PhD University of Minnesota Medical School	The Vulnerable Brain: How experience shapes future stress processing and motivated behavior (Host: Philipp Mews)	Keefer Aud.

Fall 2023

Programs in Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics Seminar Series

Seminars are Wednesdays in 670 Albany St., Room 107/108 at 12:15pm, except as noted below

**If you want to attend a seminar and are not a member of PP&B, please contact Michelle Wiggins for an invitation to the webinar.

Date	Speaker	Title & Host
8/16/23 **1:30pm	Hideyuki Okano, PhD Keio University School of Medicine	Modeling Neurological Diseases Using Genetically Modified Non-Human Primates and Patients-Specific iPSCs (Host: Julia TCW)
9/13/23	Richard Bazinet, PhD University of Toronto	How Diet and the Liver Help to Maintain a healthy Fat Brain (Host: Jim Hamilton)
10/11/23	Elijah Paintsil, PhD Boston University	Anti-Retroviral Therapy Toxicity: Mitochondrion the Master of the Orchestra (Host: Vanna Zachariou)
10/18/23	Bob Austin, PhD Princeton University	Strange Attraction: How Bacteria Avoid Black Holes and Phage (Host: Chris Gabel)
11/1/23	Jim Lillie, PhD	Circuit-Based Approaches to Neuropsychiatric Drug Discovery (Host: Clint Makino)
11/8/23	Meredithe Skiba, PhD Harvard University	Structural Insights into Angiotensin Receptor Modulation by Diverse Ligands (Host: Vanna Zachariou and Clint Makino)
11/15/23	Steven Marx, PhD Columbia University	Unravelling the Mechanisms of Fight or Flight: How the Heart Responds to Adrenergic Signals (Host: Bill Lehman)
11/29/23	Makaia Papasergi-Scott, PhD	Uncovering Transient Structures of GPCR-G Protein Signaling by CryoEM (Host: Vanna Zachariou)
11/30/23 **Thursday	Lori Birder, PhD University of Pittsburgh	TBD (Host: Vanna Zachariou
12/6/23 **Special time: 1:30	Javier Emperador Melero, PhD Harvard University	Distinct Molecular Organization of the Synaptic Release Machinery (Host: Philipp Mews)

Past Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title & Host
1/31/23	Rajan Adhikari, PhD Boston University, P&B	Effect of Apo-opsin Content and Bicarbonate on Sensitivity in Vertebrate Photoreceptors (Host: Chris Gabel)
2/28/23	Ev Yemini, PhD UMass Medical School	In Living Color: Whole Nervous-System Cell Ids to Map Neural Communication and Fate in vivo (Host: Chris Gabel)
3/28/23	Neil Ganem, PhD Boston University, Pharmacology	Identifying Gene Dependencies in Highly-Aneuploid Human Cancers (Host: Chris Gabel)
4/11/23	Olga Gursky, PhD Boston University, P&B	Protein Amyloid Modulators: Structural Basis and Biological Ramifications (Host: Chris Gabel)
5/9/23	Chris Akey, PhD Boston University, P&B	The Yeast Nuclear Pore Complex: A Mechanosensitive Channel (Host: Chris Gabel)
5/22/23 Monday	Michael J. Robertson, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine, P&B	New Horizons in GPCR Structure Based Drug Discovery (Host: Venetia Zachariou)