Weekly Seminars

Interdisciplinary Science, Engineering and Health Science Seminars

Swenson College encourages an exchange of ideas and collaboration between disciplines at UMD. Anyone organizing a seminar that would like to include it in this list can contact [email protected].

For the week of April 22-28, 2024 

Monday, April 22
Title: Development of novel GSTP1 inhibitors as potential anticancer agents        
Speaker: Greeshma Kumpati; PhD student, Mereddy Lab
Time/Location:3 pm, in SMED 142 and on Zoom
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Tuesday, April 23
Title: Screening the Disease Targeting Peptide Using in vivo Phage Display Technique
Speaker: Hae chan Kim, PhD Student, Pang Lab
Title: Drugging the Undruggable: Kras Pathway in Cancer
Speaker: Ruisi Leng, PhD Student, Elmquist Lab
Time/Location: 3:00 pm CT; Moos 5-125 (TC) / Zoom
Zoom by request only, [email protected]
Host: PHM 8100/Phar 6260 Pharmaceutics Seminar (Department of Pharmaceutics)

Title: New tools for flow-based peptide and protein synthesis
Speaker: Dr. Nina Hartrampf, Professor, University of Zurich
Time/Location: 3:35 pm CT; 1-450 Moos (TC)/165 LSci (DL)
Zoom by request, [email protected]
Host: Phar 6150 Medicinal Chemistry Seminar (Dr. Dan Harki, Department of Medicinal Chemistry)

Wednesday, April 24
Title: Local and diffuse actions of glutamate
Speaker: Jacques Wadiche, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Heerskink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Time/Location: 3:30 pm CT/ Room 142, School of Medicine & Zoom
Zoom link: https://z.umn.edu/ahcJacquesWadiche
Host: Yi-Mei (Amy) Yang, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, UMN Medical School, Duluth campus

Thursday, April 25
Title: Organismal biology in the age of AI
Speaker: Dr. Arthur Porto
Time/Location: 4:00pm, Lsci 185
Host: Earth & Environmental Sciences Dept