2008 - 2009 Pharmaceutical Sciences Colloquium

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Colloquium

(2008-2009)

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

9/25/08	Dr. Ohta	Dr. Jorgen Kjarergaard Northeastern University Boston, MA	Electrofusion of Syngeneic DCs and Tumor Generates Potent Therapeutic Vaccine.
10/02/08	Dr. Deth	Dr. Rahul Ray Department of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Diabetes Boston Uniersity School of Medicine	Nuclear Transcriptional Factors as Molecular Targets for Drug Discovery and Delivery
10/09/08	Dr. Boisse	Cancelled	Cancelled
10/16/08	Dr. Gatley	Cancelled	Cancelled
10/23/08	Dr. Pouyani	Cancelled	Cancelled
10/30/08	Dr. Campbell	Cancelled	Cancelled
11/06/08	Dr. Sitkovsky	Dr. Sitkovsky Northeastern University Boston, MA	The Hypoxia-Adenosinergic Pathway in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences: The Conversation
11/13/08	Dr. Torchilin	Cancelled	Cancelled
11/20/08	Dr. Gatley	Dr. Scott Lukas McLean Hospital	Alcohol, Kudzu FMRI
12/04/08	Dr. Amiji	Manmohan Singh Head of, Vaccine Delivery & Formulation Research, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Cambridge, MA	"Anionic Microparticles for Delivery of Antigens and Immune Potentiators" (Location 320-322 CSC)
12/11/08	Dr. Giese	Robert Herrick Senior Lecturere Department of Environmental Health Harvard School of Public Health	Assessing Exposures in Environmental Studies. Three cases: polycyclic aromatic compounds, PCBs, and antieoplastic agents
12/18/08	Dr. Loring	Carlos D. Aizenman Department of Neuroscience, Brown University	"Regulation of neural excitability by polyamines in the developing Xenopus brain"
01/08/09	Dr. Pouyani	Dr. Irene E. Kochevar Wellman Center for Photomedicine Massachusetts General Hospital	"Light-activated Tissue Repair "
01/15/09	Dr. Ferris	Dr. Ferris Professor, Director Center for Translational Imaging	"Imaging the Neural Circuitry and Neurochemical Control of Aggressive and Sexual Motivation".
01/22/09	Dr. Gatley	Barbara Shukkit-Hale US Dept of Agriculture	Fruits and Vegetables can Improve Neuronal and Behavioral Function in Old Rats
01/29/09	Dr. Gatley	Dr. Philip Liu MGH/Martinos Center	"Antisense-Drugs and the Brain: Delivery and MR Imaging"
02/05/09	Dr. Ohta	Dr. Akio Ohta Northeastern University	"Improvement of Adoptive Tumor Immunotherapy by the Induction of Adenosine-Resistant Anti-Tumor T cells".
02/12/09	Dr. Deth	Cancelled	Cancelled
02/19/09	Dr. Boisse	Toby (Torbjorn) Jarbe Northeastern University Center for Drug Discovery (CDD), Pharm. Sci.	"From Uppsala, Sweden to Northeastern, Boston and how it got that way"
02/26/09	Dr. Loring	Vishnu Hosur Northeastern University Boston, MA	"Gene Regulation of a4b2 Nicotinic Receptor Expression: Microarray Analysis of Nicotine-Induced Receptor Upregulation and Anti-Inflammatory Effects"
03/03/09	Dr. Makriyannis	Patricia H. Reggio, Ph. D. Marie Foscue Rourk Professor and Head Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry UNC-Greensboro, NC	"Ligand Binding and Activation of the Cannabinoid CB2 Receptor Identified by Microsecond Timescale Molecular Dynamics"
03/12/09	Dr. Sitkovsky	Dr. Jiang-Fan Chen Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine	"Adenosine A2A receptors and Parkinson's disease: multiple potential benefits and distinct cellular mechanisms"
03/19/09	Dr. Torchilin	Paul Fanning, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Orthopedics and Cell Biology University of Massachusetts Medical School University Campus	"Animal Models of Osteoarthritis: Mechanisms and Drug Testing" located in Room 442 CSC
03/26/09	Dr. Campbell	Please attend the Research Expo	located at the Cabot Gym
04/02/09	Dr. Giese	Zhaohui Sunny Zhou, Ph.D. Faculty Fellow, The Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Northeastern University	"Protein Modifications and Metabolic Profiling"
04/10/09	Dr.Khaw	Dr. Robert Thorne Instructor, Department of Physiology & Neuroscience Co-Organizer, Neuroscience Seminar Series, New York University School of Medicine	"Diffusion of Macromolecules and Nanoparticles in the Living Brain: Insights for Drug Delivery"
04/16/09	Dr. Khaw	Dr. Alexey Vertegel Assistant Professor Clemson, University Clemson, SC	"Targeted Delivery Using Protein Attachment to Nanoparticles"
04/23/09	Dr. Khaw	Cancelled	Cancelled
04/30/09	Dr. Makriyannis	Alan S. Kopin, M.D. Professor of Medicine Director, Molecular Pharmacology Research Center Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine	"Recombinant Approaches to Activating GPCRs: Relevance to Drug Discovery"