| Jan 15th* |
"Working in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Then and Now: A Personal Perspective" Jennifer Cairns (Sanofi-Aventis) |
| Jan 18th |
"How to Give a Bad Seminar" Richard A. Glennon (Chair, Alfred and Frances Burger Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, VCU) |
Jan 25th
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"A Novel Class of Positive Allosteric Modulators of a4ß2 Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: Synthesis and In vitro Studies: Atul Jain (Graduate Student presenting his Research Seminar) |
Jan 29th*
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"Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of 14-N-Substituted Naltrexone Derivatives as Opioid Receptor Ligands" Orgil Elbegdorj (Graduate Student presenting his Research Seminar)
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| Feb 1st |
"Synthetic Allosteric Effectors of Human Hemoglobin - Approach to Treat Cardiovascular Diseases" Martin Safo (Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, VCU)
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| Feb 8th |
"Brains, Behavior and Drugs: The OCT Connection" Douglas Sweet (Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, VCU) |
| Feb 15th |
"Shape Complementarity Chemical Genetic Strategy for Protein Kinase" Mao Yunfei (Graduate Student) |
| Feb 22nd |
"The Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Drug Development" Jacqueline Meadows (Graduate Student) |
Feb 28th*
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"Thrombin Allosteric Modulators: Site of Binding and Detailed Interactions" May Abdel Aziz (Graduate Student presenting her Research Seminar)
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| Mar 1st |
"Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) Inhibitors as Anti-cancer Therapeutics" Sudha Korwar (Graduate Student)
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| Mar 8th |
Spring Break
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| Mar 15th |
"Tandem Photoaffinity Labeling-bioorthogonal Conjugation in Medicinal Chemistry" Urjita Shah (Graduate Student) |
| Mar 22nd |
"Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons: Development, Mechanism, and Recent Advances in the Drug Discovery Field" John Saathoff (Graduate Student) |
| Mar 29th |
"Nanoparticles in Medicinal Applications" Alhumaidi Alabbas (Graduate Student)
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Apr 5th
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"Molecular Imaging with PET and Drug Discovery" Emily Wade (Graduate Student), **CANCELLED AND WILL BE SCHEDULE FOR ANOTHER DAY |
Apr 12th
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"Cross-Linking and Mass Spectrometry for Structural Elucidation of proteins" Daniel Afosah (Graduate Student)
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Apr 19th
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"Chemical Probe Targeting the Mu Opioid Receptor - Chemokine Receptor CCR5 Heterodimer: Implication for NeuroAIDS" Christopher Arnatt (Graduate Student presenting his Research Seminar)
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Apr 25th
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"Understanding molecular interactions: Applications of HINT-based tools in the structural modeling of novel anti-cancer and anti-viral targets, and in protein-protein docking" Hardik Parikh (Graduate Student presenting his Research Seminar)
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| Apr 26th |
"The development and applications of the HINT scoring function: exploring colchicine-site anticancer agents and tautomerism" Chenxiao Da (Graduate Student presenting his Research Seminar)
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Apr 29th
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"Adventures in Illicit Drug Intelligence: Analytical, Organic Synthesis, and Medicinal Chemistry Applications" Melissa L. Barnier, PhD Candidate, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, Griffith University, Australia
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May 3rd |
"Structural Studies of Pyridoxal 5' -Phosphate Salvage Pathway Enzymes:
E. coli Pyridoxal Kinase and Human Pyridoxal 5' -Phosphate Phosphatase" Christina Camara (Graduate Student presenting her Research; **CANCELLED
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