Spring 2022 Graduate Student and External Speaker Seminar Series
Tuesday and Thursday seminars are scheduled at 11:00 AM. Titles will be posted as they become available.
| Speaker | Title | Date |
| Dr. Paul Boudreau | Course Expectations | January 18, Tuesday |
| Selina (Zhi) Cheng Prospectus Defense |
Development of a Novel Real-time Gradient HPLC Coupled with Inline Hydroxyl Radical Protein Footprinting Method for Dynamic Protein System Analysis | January 20, Thursday |
| Dr. Craig W. Lindsley Professor of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry Vanderbilt School of Medicine |
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Dystonia | January 27, Thursday |
| Dr. Najat Saliba Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry American University of Beirut |
Air pollution: The invisible deadly shadow | February 1, Tuesday |
| Hanan Albataineh | Assessment of Evolutionary Relationships for Prioritization of Myxobacteria for Natural Product Discovery | February 8, Tuesday 11:00am |
| Ayoub Kdimy | Phytochemistry and Biological Activities of Moroccan Capparis spinosa L.: A Medicinal Plant with Various Therapeutic Properties | February 8, Tuesday 11:30am |
| Dr. Katherine Zink Scientist II Enveda Biosciences |
Smoke as a matrix for the investigation of exogenous exhalable cannabis components | February 15, Tuesday |
| Amena Begum | Progress Toward the Stepwise Synthesis of Difluorinated Benzopyrans | February 22, Tuesday 11:00am |
| Eslam Elhanafy | Elucidating Structural Role of Disease-associated Mutations in Cardiac Voltage-gated Sodium Channels Nav 1.5 | February 22, Tuesday 11:30am |
| Andrew Ahearne | Isolation of Novel Myxobacteria and Discovery of Novel Metabolites Through Genome Mining and Activity-guided Fractionation | February 24, Thursday |
| Cellas Hayes Prospectus Defense |
Uncovering the IGF-1 Signaling Mechanisms Responsible for Neuroprotection Following Stroke | March 1, Tuesday |
| No Seminar | No Seminar | March 15, Tuesday |
| No Seminar | No Seminar | March 17, Thursday |
| Emaya Moss | Physiological Corticosterone Attenuates gp120-mediated Microglial Activation and is Associated with Reduced Anxiety-Like Behavior | March 22, Tuesday 11:00am |
| William Neal | Predictive machine learning vs. traditional QSAR modeling methods: A case study of known PXR activators | March 22, Tuesday 11:30am |
| Salahuddin Mohammed Dissertation Defense |
HIV-1 Tat and Opioids: Implications for Stress-Related Psychopathology | March 22, Tuesday 1:00pm TCRC 2066 |
| Dr. Mahmoud Moradi Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Arkansas |
Computational Exploration of Protein Conformational Flexibility from Membrane Insertases to Coronavirus Spike Proteins | March 29, Tuesday |
| Dr. Spencer Peck Principal Scientist at Pfizer |
Investigating the Mode of Action of the MEK Inhibitor ARRY-134 | April 5, Tuesday |
| Dr. Jenny Wilkerson Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center |
Cannabis-Derived Compounds and GABA-B Agonists as Novel Therapeutics to Treat Pathological Pain | April 12, Tuesday |
| Maali Alshammari Dissertation Defense |
Synthetic Studies on Valuable Fluorinated Building Blocks | April 13, Wednesday 1:00pm TCRC 2066 |
| Hayley Prescott Dissertation Defense |
Botanical Aphrodisiacs for Women’s Health | April 15, Friday 1:00pm TCRC 1044 |
| Moneerah Alqahtani Dissertation Defense |
Late-stage Diversification of Select Natural Products – New Chemical Entities with Improved Biological Activities | April 18, Monday 12:00pm TCRC 1044 |
| Mehjabeen Hossain | Designed Release of 5HT2A Agonists to Treat Depression | April 19, Tuesday 11:00am |
| Mario Djugovski | From Gem-difluoro Olefins to Fully Substituted 1,2,3-triazoles; Catalyst-free and Regioselective Synthesis | April 19, Tuesday 11:30am |
| Reem Alkhodier Prospectus Defense |
Molecular Modeling Studies on Fluorinated Organic Molecules for Medicinal Chemistry | April 21, Thursday |
| Cody Porter | Impact of Varying Doses of Exogenous AGEs on Cardiac Fibroblast Migration |
April 26, Tuesday 11:00am |
| Maggie Craze | Determining the Impact of Season, Location, and Extraction Technique on the Analysis of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Filters | April 26, Tuesday 11:30am |