The University of Toledo

The University of Toledo
College of Pharmacy
Seminar Series for Medicinal & Biological Chemistry
Fall Semester Schedule, 2011

September 15

September 22

  Xue-Long Sun, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  Cleveland State University
  "Cell Surface Mimetics for Bio-Analytical and Pharmaceutical
      Applications"

September 29

  Stephan Patrick, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology
  The University of Toledo, Health Science Campus
  "Targeting the ERCC1-XPF Endonuclease for Enhanced
     Chemotherapeutic Efficacy"

October 6

 Douglas Hobbs, Ph.D.
 Postdoctoral Research Associate
 Center for Drug Design and Development
 The University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy
 "Structure-Based Design and Synthesis of BACE-1 Inhibitors
     for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease"

October 13

  Bill Hawse, Ph.D.
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  The University of Notre Dame
  "Physical Basis of Antigen Recognition and Signaling
      by T-Cell Receptors"

October 20

  Stephen Sucheck, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Department of Chemistry  
  The University of Toledo
  "Enhancing Immunogenicity of TACA-based Cancer Vaccines"

October 27

  No Seminar

November 3

  No Seminar

November 4

 PaluriSaiShant Rao
  Graduate Assistant
  Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry
  The University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy
  "Structure Activity Relationships for a Series
     of M5 Muscarinic Receptor Modulators"

November 10

  Buthina Abdallah
  Graduate Assistant
  Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry
  The University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy
  "Independent Generation and Investigation of the C3'-deoxy-
      3'-thymidinyl Radical: A Proposed Intermediate in DNA-LEE
         Interactions"

December 17

  No Seminar

December 1 

  Youssef Sari, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor 
  Department of Pharmacology
  The University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy
  "Glutamate Transporter 1:  Potential Target for the Treatment of
       Neurodegenerative Diseases and Drug Abuse"

 December 8

  Edith Janssen, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Molecular Immunology
  Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  "Apoptotic Cell Uptake/Processing/Presentation and the
      Consequences for Immune Tolerance"