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PHARMACOLOGY SEMINARS

The Department of Pharmacology hosts vibrant seminar speakers every academic year to inspire new scientific thoughts and exploration.

BROWSE SEMINARS
PHARMACOLOGY SEMINARS Krebs Lecture Laura Sheard Lecture Calendar of Events

Autumn 2020

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First Year Pharmacology Graduate Students

12/18/20

2:30PM

via zoom

Rotation Talks

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Hosted by John D. Scott

Janani Gopalan

Pharmacology Graduate Student
Doctoral Thesis Defense

12/14/20

9:30AM

via zoom

An anchored phosphatase-deacetylase subcomplex regulates renal ciliary homeostasis

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Hosted by Smita Yadav

Helen Bateup, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
The Helen Wills
Neuroscience Institute
University of California, Berkeley

12/10/20

10:30AM

via zoom

The multifaceted roles of TSC-mTOR signaling in neural development, function and disease

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Hosted by Bill Catterall

Eduardo A. Perozo, PhD

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics;
Pritzker Fellow
University of Chicago

12/3/20

10:30AM

via zoom

Washington Foundation for Molecular Pharmacology Lecture – Electromechanical coupling in Voltage-Dependent K+ Channels

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Anton Bennett, PhD

Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Comparative Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

11/19/20

10:30AM

via zoom

Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Health and Disease

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Hosted by Shao-En Ong

Donita C. Brady, PhD

Presidential Professor of Cancer Biology
University of Pennsylvania

11/5/20

10:30AM

via zoom

Cellular and Molecular Determinants of Copper Activation of Protein Kinases in Cancer

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Hosted by Smita Yadav

Gia K. Voeltz, PhD

Professor
University of Colorado Boulder
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

10/22/20

10:30AM

via zoom

ER contact sites regulate the structure and dynamics of other organelles

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Hosted by John D. Scott

Luis Fernando Santana, PhD, FAHA

Professor & Chair
Arline Miller Rolkin Endowed Chair
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
University of California, Davis

10/15/20

10:30AM

via zoom

Sex-specific variations in K+ and Ca2+ channel function in Vascular Smooth Muscle

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Hosted by Smita Yadav

Sabrina Spencer

10/8/20

10:30am

via zoom

Proliferation-quiescence control in normal cells and drug-treated cancer cells