2011-2012 Colloquium Series

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Colloquium

(2011-2012)

Seminars are held at noon in 90 Snell Library Unless Noted

All are welcome to attend

Coffee, Tea & Cookies will be served

Date	Inviting Faculty	Speaker	Title

09/08/11	Dr. Alex Makriyannis	Ioannis Karageorgos, Graduate Student Center for Drug Discovery, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Functional and Structural Studies of Human and Rat Monoacylglycerol Lipase (MAGL) using MS, NMR and ESR Approaches"

09/15/11	Dr. Thakur	Tanaji Talele, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John's University, Queens, N.Y.	"Design and Synthesis of Indazole & Dihydrobenzofuran Carboxamides as PARP-1 Inhibitors"

09/22/11	Dr. Amiji 333 Curry Student Center	Dr. Amit Singh, Associate Research Scientist Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Bacteriophage Based Technology for Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens"

09/29/11	Dr. Clark	David Milan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine The Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA	"A Zebrafish Model of Human Cardiac Arrhythmia"

10/06/11	Dr. Amiji	Dr. Mansoor Amiji, Chair Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Town Hall Meeting with Graduate Students"

10/13/11	Dr. Deth	Andrea Baccarelli, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Environmental Epigenetics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA	"Environmental Epigenetics - Findings from Human Studies on the Effects of Environmental Pollutants"

10/20/11	Dr. Makriyannis	Marsh D'Souza, Graduate Student Center for Drug Discovery, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Novel Cannabidiol and Endogenous Cannabinoid Analogs"

10/27/11	Dr. Giese	Alexey Fedulov, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Immunologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Envirmental Health, MIPS Program, Boston, MA	"Selective DNA Demethylation"

11/03/11	Dr. Amiji	Shardool Jain, Graduate Student Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Macrophage Targeted Alginate Nanoparticles as Non-Viral Delivery System for Anti-Inflammatory Gene Therapy in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis"

11/10/11	Dr. Amiji	Dr. Martin Yarmush Departments of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	"Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Protection and Repair of Injured Vital Organs"

11/17/11	Dr. Loring	Leon G. Reijmers, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA	"Genetic Dissection of Memory Storage"

11/24/11	Thanksgiving no colloquium

12/01/11	Dr. Makriyannis	Mahmoud Nasr, Graduate Student, Center for Drug Drug Discovery, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Human Monoacylglycerol Lipase in Solution and in the Presence of Phospholipid Bilayer Nanodisc Membrane Models"

12/08/11	Dr. Zhou	Morris White, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Investigator, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA	"The Integration of Central and Peripheral Nutrient Homeostasis by The Insulin Receptor Substrates"

12/15/11	Dr. Makriyannis	Mary-Elizabeth Patti, M.D., Investigator, Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism and Director, Genomics Core Laboratory, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	"STARS and SRF: Novel Targets for Insulin Resistance and Diabetes Pathophysiology"

01/12/11	Dr. Loring	Tom Koperniak, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Investigating Novel Nicotinic Receptor Chaperones Through Ric3 Chaperone Knockdown and STAT3 Signaling"

01/19/12	No Colloquium	TBA	"TBA"

01/26/12	Dr. Thakur	Dr. Steven Goldberg, Chief, Preclinical Pharmacology Section National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, MD	"Kynurenine 3-Monooxygenase Inhibition Reduces Abuse-related Neurochemical and Behavioral Effects of THC in Rats and Squirrel Monkeys"

02/02/12	Dr. Deth	Nate Hodgson, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA	"Soluble Oligomers of Amyloid β Protein Cause Changes in Redox State and DNA Methylation by Inhibiting EAAT3 Mediated Cysteine Uptake"

02/09/12	No Colloquium	TBA	"TBA"

02/16/12	Dr. Amiji	Town Hall Meeting

02/23/12	Dr. Amiji	Dr. David Lambright Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, Umass Medical School	"Structural insights into trafficking regulation by GTPases and phosphoinositides from host and pathogen perspectives"

03/01/12	Dr. Torchilin	Anjali Apte	"TBA"

03/08/12	Spring Break (No colloquium)	TBA	"TBA"

03/15/12	Dr. Amiji	Dipti Deshpande	"TBA"

03/22/12	Dr. Amiji	Mayurkumar Kalariya	"TBA"

03/29/12	Dr. Sitkovsky	Radhika Kini	"TBA"

04/05/12	Dr. Waszczak	Brendan Harmon	"TBA"

04/12/12	Dr. Sitkovsky	Meenakshi Subramanin	"TBA"

04/19/12	Dr. Khaw	TBA	"TBA"

04/26/12	Dr. Loring	Dr. Andrew Tapper	"TBA"

05/10/12	Dr. Amiji	Shanthi Ganesh	"TBA"