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Seminar Schedule


Spring 2013 Seminar Program

Fridays 3:15 – 4:30 pm; Lyons Dental School Building 442; 4th floor unless noted otherwise
(Coffee & Snacks @ 2:30 pm in Break Room of Suite 212, Biotech Park I)

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
 
"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*
 "Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of 14-N-Substituted Naltrexone Derivatives as Opioid Receptor Ligands" Orgil Elbegdorj (Graduate Student presenting his Research Seminar)
Feb 1st "Synthetic Allosteric Effectors of Human Hemoglobin - Approach to Treat Cardiovascular Diseases" Martin Safo (Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, VCU)
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*
 "Thrombin Allosteric Modulators: Site of Binding and Detailed Interactions" May Abdel Aziz (Graduate Student presenting her Research Seminar)
Mar 1st

"Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) Inhibitors as Anti-cancer Therapeutics" Sudha Korwar (Graduate Student)

Mar 8th 

Spring Break

 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)

Apr 5th
"Molecular Imaging with PET and Drug Discovery" Emily Wade (Graduate Student), **CANCELLED AND WILL BE SCHEDULE FOR ANOTHER DAY
 Apr 12th
"Cross-Linking and Mass Spectrometry for Structural Elucidation of proteins" Daniel Afosah (Graduate Student)
 Apr 19th
"Chemical Probe Targeting the Mu Opioid Receptor - Chemokine Receptor CCR5 Heterodimer: Implication for NeuroAIDS" Christopher Arnatt (Graduate Student presenting his Research Seminar)
 Apr 25th
"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)
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)
 Apr 29th
"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
  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

*Please note this seminar will be held on Tuesday at 12:00 noon in Smith 103.

*Please note this seminar will be held on Thursday at 10:30am in McGuire Hall room 200.

*Please note this seminar will be held on Tuesday at 9:00am in Biotech I, In The Robert Ball Conference Room, 1st Floor

** Please look for an updated circular for day, time & place information. 


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Virginia Commonwealth University | School of Pharmacy
410 North 12th Street | Room 500
P.O. Box 980581
Richmond, Virginia 23298-0581
Phone: (804) 828-3000 | Toll-Free Line: (800) 330-0519 | Fax: (804) 827-0002
E-mail: pharmacy@vcu.edu
Updated: 10/18/2012

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