Department of BioMolecular Sciences
Spring 2020 Graduate Student and External Speaker Seminar Series
Starting March 19th all graduate seminars will be offered via Zoom. If you would like an invitation to a talk, please let Dr. Zia Shariat-Madar know at madar@olemiss.edu.
Thanks for your understanding.
(Titles will be posted as they become available. Changes are noted in red.)
Speaker | Title | Date |
Dr. Ziaeddin Shariat-Madar | Intro. of New Students, Seminar & Graduate Program | January 21, Tuesday |
Shukria Akbar | Myxobacterial Predatory Interactions with Pseudomonas Prey and its Signaling Molecules | January 28, Tuesday |
Ibrahim Almarabi | Botanical Dietary Supplements (Cyanotis vaga) | February 4, Tuesday |
Dr. Lee Bidwell Associate Professor University of Mississippi Medical Center Guest Speaker |
Therapeutic Angiogenesis Using a New Class of Elastin-based Biologics | February 11, Tuesday |
Maali Alshammari | Synthetic Studies on Fluorinated Organic and Inorganic Compounds | February 18, Tuesday |
Andrew Ahearne | Emulating Evolutionary Processes to Morph Aureothin-type Modular Polyketide Synthases and Associated Oxygenases | February 20, Thursday |
Nick Akins | Design and Synthesis of Salvinorin-based Compounds for Opioid Receptors | February 25, Tuesday |
Md Imdadul H. Khan | Design and Synthesis of Phenoxy-phenyl-naphthoquinone as Antimalarial | February 27, Thursday |
Taghreed Majrashi | Chemical and Biological Evaluations of Asimina triloba and Rollinia mucosa | March 2, Monday 1:00 – 2:00pm |
Reem Alkhodier | Developing Fluorinated Organic Molecules for Medicinal Chemistry | March 3, Tuesday |
Ben Sawyer | Recent Development in Antimalarial Compounds | March 5, Thursday |
No Seminar | No Seminar | March 10, Tuesday |
Alysia Gonzales | NMR-based structural characterization of a glucan isolated from Ganoderma lucidum | March 17, Tuesday Postponed |
Salahuddin Mohammed | HIV-1 Tat Dysregulates the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Stress Axis and Potentiates Oxycodone-mediated Behavior of Proestrous Female Mice partly via Actions at the Glucocorticoid and Corticotrophin Receptor | March 19, Thursday 11:00 am |
Alaa Qrareya | HIV-1 Tat Promotes Age-Related Cognitive, Anxiety-like, and Antinociceptive Impairments in Mice that are Moderated by Aging Endocrine Status | March 24, Tuesday 11:00 am |
Selina Cheng | Systematic Evaluation of Amphiphilic Structure Environments on Protein Modification by Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Proteins (FPOP) | March 26, Thursday 11:00 am |
Tomayo Berida | Efforts Toward the Development of Narrow Spectrum Antitubercular Agents | March 31, Tuesday 11:00 am |
Baharul Islam | Potential of RORγt Agonists in Cancer Immunotherapy | April 2, Thursday |
Alysia Gonzales | NMR-based Structural Characterization of a Glucan Isolated from Ganoderma lucidum | April 14, Tuesday 11:00 am |
William Vignovich | Conformational Assessment of Regular Sulfated Carbohydrates in Solution | April 16, Thursday 11:00 am |
Dr. Zach Pandelides Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Mississippi Department of BioMolecular Sciences Guest Speaker |
Acute and chronic outcomes of developmental exposure to cannabidiol and Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol in zebrafish | April 17, Friday 11:00 am |
Disha Prabhu Dissertation Defense |
Role of Astrocytic IGF-1 signaling in Regulation of Astrocyte Structure, Function and Cognition | April 21, Tuesday 1:00 pm |
Mehjabeen Hossain | Repurposing antithrombotics to prevent platelet-mediated cancer metastasis | April 23, Thursday 11:00 am |
Amna Adam Dissertation Defense |
Application of Fluorinated Reagents in Synthesis and Drug Discovery | April 23, Thursday 1:00 pm |
Erik Hodges Dissertation Defense |
Behavioral Chronopharmacology of Cannabinoids in Young and Aged Mice | April 24, Friday 10:00 am |
Hayley Prescott | Botanical Aphrodisiacs for Women’s Health | April 28, Tuesday 11:00 am |
Hanan Albataineh | Solo acylhomoserine lactone synthase from predatory myxobacterium suggests beneficial participation in interspecies cross talk |
April 30, Thursday 11:00 am |
Thanh-Thanh (Claire) Tran Dissertation Defense |
Biological Evaluation of Maasia Glauca (Hassk.) Mols, Kessler & Rogstad | May 4, Monday 10:00 am |
William Vignovich Thesis Defense |
Conformation and Binding Aspects of Sulfated Carbohydrates by Liquid-state NMR | May 4, Monday 2:00 pm |
Stephanie Burr | Rap1a Mediates ECM Remodeling by Intersecting AGE/RAGE Signaling in Type II Diabetes Mellitus | May 5, Tuesday 11:00 am |