2012-2013 Colloquium Series
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Colloquium
(2012-2013)
Seminars are held at noon in 378 The Fenway Unless Noted
All are welcome to attend
Coffee, Tea & Cookies will be served
| Date | Inviting Faculty | Speaker | Title |
| 09/06/12 | Dr. Loring | Takao Hensch, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University |
"Shaping Neural Circuits by Early Experience" |
| 09/13/12 | Dr. Paronis | Girish Chopda, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Establishing Diuresis as a Cannabinoid, CB1 Receptor Effect in Mice" |
| 09/20/12 | Dr. Amiji
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Dr. Srinivas Reddy Boreddy, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Deguelin suppresses pancreatic tumor growth and metastasis by inhibiting epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in an orthotopic model" |
| 09/27/12 | Dr. Torchilin | Nirav Patel Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Reversal of the Multidrug Resistance by Drug Combination using Multifunctional Liposomes'" |
| 10/04/12 | Dr. Torchilin | Robert Riehle Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Combination Anticancer Nanopreparations of Novel Proapoptotic Drugs, TRAIL and siRNA " |
| 10/11/12 | Dr. Amiji | Nada Kaalany, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
"Differential Tumor Sensitivity to Dietary Restriction in a Mouse Model of Lung Cancer" |
| 10/18/12 | Dr. Booth | Clinton Canal, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Center for Drug Discovery, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
"Discovery and development of serotonin 2 receptor modulators to treat neuropsychiatric disorders" |
| 10/25/12 | Dr. Torchilin | Namita Dodwadkar Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Surface Modification of Nano-carriers for Intra-cellular and Sub-cellular Targeting and Delivery" |
| 11/01/12 | Dr. Waszczak | Carol Paronis, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
"Measuring drug-seeking behavior in animals" |
| 11/08/12 | Dr. Torchilin | Abe Abouzeid Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Polyethylene Glycol–Phosphatidylethanolamine / Vitamin E-Based Micelles for the Co-Delivery of Paclitaxel and Curcumin to Overcome Multi-Drug Resistance in Cancer" |
| 11/15/12 | Dr. Khaw | Mikhail Papisov, PhD, Associate Chemist, MGH, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School |
"Development of clinically feasible macromolecular drugs" |
| 11/22/12 | Thanksgiving | No Colloquium |
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| 11/29/12 | AAPS | Dr. Elizabeth Thomas Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute |
"Selective Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitors as Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative and Neuropsychiatric Disorders" |
| 12/06/12 | Dr. Torchilin |
Sean Essex, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Novel Phospholipid-modified Polyethylenimine (PLPEI)-based Nanocarriers for siRNA Delivery" |
| 12/07/12 | Dr. Amiji | Jing Xu Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Multimodal Therapeutic Strategy for Pancreatic Cancer: EGFR-Targeted Gelatin-Based Nanoparticles for Combination Wild-Type p53 Gene and Cytotoxic Drug Delivery" |
| 12/13/12 | AAPS | Dr. Katherine Tucker Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, Dept. of Health Sciences, Director Center for Population Health and Health Disparities |
"B vitamins and cognitive function" |
| 12/17/12 | AAPS | Dr. Tania Konry Center for Engineering in Medicine, Instructor in Surgery, Harvard, Assistant in Bioengineering, MGH |
"Characteristics of Dynamic Cell-Cell Communication and Bioartificial Lymphoid Organs to Study Mechanisms of Immune Regulation" |
| 01/10/13 | Dr. Giese | Jeffrey Ager Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Brandeis University |
"Protein Modifications: Toxic, Protective, and Therapeutic Targets" |
| 01/17/13 | Dr. Gatley | Jill Steinbach Saltzman Laboratory, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
"Designing siRNA Nanoparticles for Treatment of HSV-2 Infection" |
| 01/24/13 | Dr. Kim | Dr. Wessling-Resnick Director of the Division of Biological Sciences and the PhD Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Harvard School of Public Health |
"Chemical Genetics of Iron Transport: The Ferristatin Story" |
| 01/31/13 | Dr. Gatley | Ho-Lun Wong Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, Temple University, School of Pharmacy, Philedelphia, PA |
"Nanocarriers for siRNA Biotherapeutics to Manage Advanced Cancer" |
| 02/07/13 | Dr. Deth | Malav Trivedi Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Opiate and Food-derived opioid peptides mediate redox-based epigenetic changes: Implications in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Autoimmune disorders" |
| 02/14/13 | TBA | No Colloquium |
"TBA" |
| 02/21/13 | TBA | No Colloquium |
"TBA" |
| 02/22/13 | Dr. Amiji | Heather Desaire Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Kansas |
"Enabling Technology for Pharmaceutical Glycoprotein Analysis: Application to HIV-1 Envelope Proteins" |
| 02/28/13 | Dr. Amiji | Lipa Shah |
"Multifunctional Nanoemulsions for Systemic Delivery of Analgesic Peptides to the CNS" |
| 03/07/13 | Spring Break | No Colloquium |
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| 03/14/13 | Malav Trivedi | Feng Zhang Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, MIT |
"Genome Engineering: Technologies and Applications" |
| 03/21/13 | Dr. Thakur | Professor Gangjee Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Mylan School of Pharmacy |
"Discovering New Tricks for Old Dogs: Antifolates as Targeted Chemotherapeutics" |
| 03/28/13 | Dr. Waszczak | Valerie Cullen Associate Director of Preclinical R&D at NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
"The effect of NPT002, Bacteriophage M13, on multiple amyloids involved in neurodegeneration" |
| 04/04/13 | Dr. Thakur | Dr. Roger Papke
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida |
"The molecular pharmacology of Alpha7 nAChR revealed by allosteric modulators" |
| 04/11/13 | TBA | No Colloquium
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"TBA" |
| 04/18/13 | Dr. Amiji | Azizah Jamal-Allial Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Serum 25(OH)D Concentrations and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Longitudinal Analysis from the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study" |