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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

Winter 2023

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Melissa MacEwen

Graduate Student

2/23/23

10:30AM

Room T-747

Mechanisms and Physiological Implications of Mitochondrial and Cellular Calcium Signaling

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Dr. James Murphy

Division Head, Division of Inflammation
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

3/23/23

2:30pm

Room T-739

Licence to kill: understanding how the zombie protein, MLKL, is triggered to kill cells by necroptosis

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Dr. Ehud Isacoff

Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

2/28/23

2:30pm

Room T-739

Photo-pharmacology for neural circuits

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Laura Sheard Lecture

Dr. Shingo Kajimura

Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, HHMI

2/7/23

2:30pm

Room T-739

How do we make heat?

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Dr. Myron Evans

Principal Investigator | Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research
Seattle Children’s Research Institute

3/14/23

2:30pm

Room T-739

Identification and targeting of novel dependencies in pediatric medulloblastoma

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Dr. Stephanie Correa

Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology
University of California, Los Angeles

1/24/23

2:30pm

Room T-739

Conditional effects of estrogens on the neural circuits that control feeding in mice