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June 7, 2013: The 40th Annual Pharmacology Colloquium at Wayne State University

The 40th Annual Pharmacology Research Colloquium was hosted this year by Wayne State University Dept. of Pharmacology.  This Pharmacology Colloquium brings together graduate students and faculty from the “pharmacology” departments of the Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and the University of Toledo, College of Medicine for a day long scientific program.  Each of the schools takes turns in hosting this annual event. The colloquium primarily provides a forum for doctoral students to present their research in both oral and poster presentations and an opportunity for all participants to exchange ideas.  These colloquia were initiated 41 years ago by Dr. Theodore M. Brody of Michigan State University and Dr. Benedict Lucchesi of the University of Michigan.  

Welcome addresses were delivered by Dr. Bonnie Sloane, Chair of the WSU Dept. of Pharmacology and Dr. Valerie Parisi, Dean od the WSU Medical School

The program included 13 oral presentations, including those by UT students Resmi Pillai, Gauarav Mehta, Qiming Duan and Jian Wu, 40 poster presentations including 7 presented by UT students.  The keynote lecture was presented by John S. Lazo, Ph.D. current president of ASPET and Associate Dean for Basic Research at the University of Virginia. 

 

Dr. Bonnie Sloane welcomes participants

Dr. Valerie Parisi, Dean of the Medical School, WSU

Auditorium

 ORAL SESSION 1:  Moderators were Aimalie Hardaway and Larisa Kruger

Kate O'Brien, (MSU)

 

Kate O'Brien from Michigan State University

Diane Calinski, (UM)

Diane Calinski, (UM)

Gina Zoratti (WSU)

Gina Zoratti (WSU)

Resmi Pillai (UT)

Gaurav Mehta (UT)

Gaurav Mehta (UT) was awarded 1st Place in oral prsentation competition

COFFEE BREAK

Lin Mo and Xinghai Liu from North Sichuan Medical College are visiting scholars at the UT College of Medicine

UT students, Prince Tuffour Ampem, Sumeet Solanki, Prabhat Dube, Harshal Wagulde and Resmi Pillai

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Daniel Huereca (WSU) introduces keynote lecturer Dr. John Lazo John S. Lazo, Ph.D. current president of ASPET and Associate Dean for Basic Research at the University of Virginia.

Keynote Speaker John Lazo, Ph.D. current president of ASPET and Associate Dean for Basic Research at the University of Virginia

Keynote Speaker John Lazo, Ph.D. current president of ASPET and Associate Dean for Basic Research at the University of Virginia

Sandrine Pierre, PhD (UT)

Keynote Speaker John Lazo, Ph.D. current president of ASPET and Associate Dean for Basic Research at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Paul Hollenberg (UM) and Xi Cheng (UT)

 LUNCH and POSTERS

Neha Aggarwal (WSU)

Xiaoyu Cui (UT)

Katherine Ryland (UM) discusses her poster with Dr. Zijian Xie (UT) and Gaurav Mehta

Namrata Madan (UT) discusses her poster with Drs. Jennifer Hill, (UT) and Cheryl Rockwell (MSU)

 

Kelly McGregor (WSU)

Varunkumar Pandey (UT) discusses his poster with Izabela Podgorski (WSU)

Harshal Wagulde (UT) explains his poster to Resmi Pillai

Prince Tuffour Ampem (UT)

 

Prabhat Dube, Sumeet Solanki and Robert Lee (UT)

Nusrat Matin and Kate O'Brien (MSU)

  

Kristoff Homan (UM)

Joseph Nichols (UM)

Cong-Zhen Qiao (UM)

Dr. Benedict Lucchesi and Jessica Das (UM)

Saja Khuder (UT) discusses her work with Anne Dorrance (MSU)

Courtney Giordano (WSU), Ninitha Asirvatham-Jeyaraj (MSU) and Xi Cheng (UT)

Kristoff Homan (UM), Jorge Iniguez-Lluhi (UM) and Paul Hollenberg (UM)

Joseph Nichols (UM) discusses cocaine esterase with Keely Erhardt and others

Xiaoliang Wang (UT) and ?

Andrew Storaska (UM) presents his poster to Dr. Cheryl Rockwell (MSU). Andrew won 1st place in the poster presentation competition.

Katherine Ryland (UM) second place winner in the poster competition discusses her work with keynote speaker Dr. John S. Lazo and Dr. Nick Davis (WSU)

Seema Shah (WSU) explains her work to Dr. Zijian Xie (UT)

Carrie Johnson (UM) discusses her poster with Gaurav Mehta (UT)

Cameron Capper (UM)

Xi Cheng (UT), Dr. John Lazo, Dr. Nick Davis (WSU) and Katherine Ryland (UM)

Isola Brown (MSU) and Brittany Winner (MSU)

Natalia Kovalova (MSU) discusses her poster with Dr. Zijian Xie (UT)

Neha Aggarwal (WSU) presents her poster to Dr. Jennifer Hill (UT)

Drs. Andrew Beavis (UT) and Sandrine Pierre (UT).

Vyvyca Walker (UM) discusses her work

Resmi Pillai and Namrata Madan (UT)

Wen Qu (WSU) explains her work to Xiaoliang Wang (UT)

ORAL SESSION II: Moderators Paulo Pires (MSU) and Kathryn Livingston (UM)

Jason Kehrl (UM) takes a question

Larisa Kruger (UM)

Paulo Pires, (MSU)

Moderator Kathryn Livingston (UM) shows Paulo Pires (MSU) the orange card

Min Shen (WSU)

ORAL SESSION #3: Moderators were Namrata Madan (UT) and Courtney Giordano (WSU)

Aaron Burr, (WSU)

Ninitha Asirvatham-Jeyaraj (MSU)

Qiming Duan (UT)

Qiming Duan (UT)

Jian Wu (UT)

Jian Wu (UT)

Dr. Nick Davis (WSU) acknowledges those who helped him organize the colloquium

AWARDS RECEPTION

Lining up for some great food from Slows BBQ

Drs. Nick Davis (WSU) and Benedict Lucchesi (UM) show the awards plaques for best oral presentation and best poster presentation

Drs. Davis and Lucchesi present Aaron Burr (WSU) the award for second place in the oral presentations

Award for 1st place in the oral presentation contest goes to Gaurav Mehta (UT)

Katherine Ryland (UM) receives the award for 2nd place in the poster presentation contest

Andrew Storaska (UM) is awarded 1st place for his poster

Dr. Benedict Lucchesi offers some words of wisdom to the students