The University of Toledo

The University of Toledo
College of Pharmacy
Seminar Series for Medicinal & Biological Chemistry
Spring Semester Schedule, 2012

January 12

January 19

  No Seminar

January 26

  No Seminar

February 2

  No Seminar

February 9

  No Seminar

February 16

  Donald Ronning
  Associate Professor
  Department of Chemistry
  The University of Toledo
  "Exploiting New Targets for Tuberculosis Drug Development"

February 23

  Mohammad El-Dakdouki
  Research Assistant Professor
  Department of Chemistry
  Michigan State University, East Lansing
  "Little Multifunctional Giants for Improved Cancer Therapy
      and Diagnosis"

March 1

  No Seminar

March 8

  Spring Break

March 15

  Christopher Trabbic
  Graduate Research Assistant
  Department of Medicinal & Biological Chemistry
  The University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy

March 22

  Ronald W. Woodard
  Professor
  Frederick F. Blicke Collegiate Prof. & Chair of Medicinal Chemistry
  Director, Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemisty
  University of Michigan
  "A Gram-Positive D-arabinose 5-phosphate isomerase?"

March 29 

 Jacquelyn Cearfoss
  Graduate Research Assistant
  Department of Medicinal & Biological Chemistry
  The University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy
  "The Induction of Oxidative Stress in the Livers of Mice 
       Following Long-Term Exposure to the Water Chlorination
        By-Products, Dichloroacetate and Trichloroacetate"

 April 5

  Joseph Shapiro
  MD Professor and Chairman of Medicine
  The University of Toledo
  "Are Cardiotonic Steroids the Molecular Link Between
      Dietary Salt Intake and Cardiovascular Disease?"

  April 12 

 No Seminar

 April 19

 Jonathan Katz
 Professor of Pediatrics
 University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

April 26 

 Steven M. Firestine
 Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
 Wayne State University
 "Purines and Membranes: Exploration of New Antibiotics"

May 24 

 Angela Wandinger-Ness
 Professor
 Department of Pathology
 University of New Mexico Health Science Center
 "Small GTPases as Therapeutic Targets in Cancer
     and Neuropathies"