Seminar Committee Chair - Barbara Vertel, Ph.D. Phone: (847) 578-3443
The MCS Seminars bring in a series of distinguished scientists from all biomedical fields, including several Nobel Laureates. All students and faculty in the SGPS participate in these activities.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are presented at 4:00 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge (room 1.120).
Wednesday, September 14, 2011, George L. Kenyon, Ph. D., Professor in the College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan - "Part I: Creatine Kinase: Structure & Function of an Energetic Enzyme Energetic Enzyme; Part II: Finding a Home at the NSF for Your Chemical Biology Proposal"
Wednesday, November 09, 2011, Bernard Roizman, Sc.D., Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, The University of Chicago - "The Strategy of Conquest: Herpes Simplex vs the Host"
Wednesday, December 14, 2011, Julie Kauer, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology, Brown University - "Drugs, stress and plasticity of VTA synapses"
Wednesday, January 11, 2012, Adrian Gross, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science - "Structural Basis of Potassium Channel Function"
Wednesday, February 08, 2012, Neelam Sharma-Walia , Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science - "Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Human Herpes Virus (KSHV) Induced Eicosanoids: Lipid Mediators of Inflammation"
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, Douglas C. Rees, Ph.D., Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology/Howard Hughes Medical Institute - ABC Transporters: Structures and Mechanisms
*Friday, March 30, 2012 1:00 PM Seminar - George A. Calin, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX - "Coding and non-coding mix in cancers - the lessons for scientists and use for patients" *Please note the day and time of Dr. Calin’s seminar.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012, David E. Nichols, Ph.D., Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology - Purdue University Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology - Title: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the study of G Protein Coupled Receptors
Wednesday, October 13, 2010, Karl Herrup, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Rutgers, "A Fresh Look at the Death of Nerve Cells in Human Disease: New Pathways, New Targets"
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, William Skach, MD, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, "A Fluorescence-Based Approach to Cotranslational Protein Folding"
Wednesday, January 12, 2011, Neil Bradbury, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, "Playing in Traffic: Novel Mechanisms of Ion Channel Targeting"
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, Judith Potashkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, D. James Surmeier, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, "Dopaminergic Control of Striatal Excitability and Synaptic Plasticity"
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D., Eliot V. Newman Professor of Medicine and Pathology Director, Vanderbilt Center for Matrix Biology, Vanderbilt University "Ramifications of Collagen IV Structure to Human Disease"
5th Annual Werner Straus Seminar Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Robert H. Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, "Following Single mRNAs from Birth to Death in Living Cells"
4th Annual Werner Straus Seminar Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Dr. Michael Terns, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Genetics, University of Georgia, "Trafficking of Human Telomerase to Telomeres"
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, Dr. Zissimos Mourelatos, Associate Professor and Director of Neuropathology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, "Piwi proteins and piRNAs"
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Dr. Gregory Petsko, D. Phil., Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University "The Structural Enzymology of Parkinson's Disease"
Werner Straus Memorial Symposium
Archived seminars