M-Screen Demo
Colloquium Archive
2008
January 18, 2008
David Ginsburg, M.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Howard Hughes Investigator
University of Michigan
"High Throughput Screening In Vivo for New Anticoagulants and Anti-bacterials: A Work in Progress"
February 15, 2008
P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery; Department of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Allosteric Modulators of GPCRs as a Novel Approach to Treatment of CNS Disorders"
March 21, 2008
Ronald Woodard, Ph.D.
Chair of Professional Studies; Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
University of Michigan
"Redefining the Requisite Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Structure in Escherichia coli"
April 18, 2008
John S. Lazo, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Director, Drug Discovery Institute
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases as Molecular Targets for Novel Anticancer Agents"
May 16, 2008
James A. Shayman, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
Associate Vice President for Research, Health Sciences
University of Michigan
Title: "The design, study, and clinical application of small molecule inhibitors of glycosphingolipid synthesis"
2007
December 14
Mic Lajiness, M.S.
Principal Research Scientist
Eli Lilly
Title: Enabling Discovery Through Integrated Informatics Systems
November 16
Hollis Showalter, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
College of Pharmacy
Title: University of Michigan Medicinal Chemistry Core Synthesis Laboratory: Who we are and what our role in drug discovery is
Thursday, October 18
In conjunction with Chemical Engineering
Lecture is at 11:30 a.m. in 1013 HH Dow
Wei-shou Hu, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
Topic: Reaction Engineering Classics in Post-Genomic Biotechnology
September 21
Jinsang Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
Title: “Functional Conjugated Polymers for Signal-amplifying Biosensor and Sensor Arrays”
May 18
Mark O’Neil Johnson, Ph.D.
Sequoia Sciences
Title: "Bringing Nature Back to Drug Discovery: Natural Molecules
in an Antibacterial Program"
March 16
Randy A. Hall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Emory University School of Medicine
Title: "Proteomic Analyses of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Interactions with PDZ Scaffolds"
February 16
Erdogan Gulari, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Title: "Light Gated Synthesis Technology for Low Cost Oligonucleotide, Peptide Microarrays and Synthetic Genes"
January 19
Michael Mayer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Title: "Arrays of Biomembranes to Screen for Drug-Membrane Interactions"
Jay Guo, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Title: "Label-free Biosensors Based on Optical Microresonators"
2006
December 15
Anna Mapp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Title: "Small Molecule Control of Gene Upregulation"
November 17
Robert A. Fecik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Minnesota
Title: "Polyketide Synthase Affinity Labels for Combinatorial Biosynthesis"
October 20
Anuj Kumar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, MCDB
Title: "Plasmid-Based FP-Fusions for FRET in Yeast"
John Montgomery, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemistry
Title: "New Chemical Reactions for Assembly of Macrolides and Related Structures"
September 15
Angela Koehler, Ph.D.
Institute Fellow, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Title: "Building a Platform for High-Throughput Ligand Discovery using Small-Molecule Microarrays"
May 19
Shaomeng Wang, Ph.D.
Internal Medicine, Medicinal Chemistry (College of Pharmacy), University of Michigan
Title: "A Small-molecule Approach to Target Protein-protein Interactions and Apoptosis Regulators"
April 21
Carol Fierke, Ph.D.
Chair Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
Title: "Biochemistry of Zinc: Catalysis, Inhibition and Homeostasis"
February 17
Robert Fuller, Ph.D.
Assoc. Chair Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
Title:"How to Combat Infectious Disease from Avian Flu to Anthrax by Inhibiting Host Cell Proteolysis"
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January 20
Clay Brown, Ph.D.
Center for Structural Biology, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
Title: "Process and Strategy in High-Throughput Protein Expression"
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2005
December 16
Richard R. Neubig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology; Associate Director, CCG, University of Michigan
Title: "Interpreting HTS data -Which Hit Becomes a Lead?"
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November 17
Roger Newton, Ph.D.
Maybridge Limited
Title: "Heterocyclic Chemistry and Drug Discovery"
October 26
Stuart Decker and Martha Larsen
Title: "UM Center For Chemical Genomics"(presented at LSI Colloquium)
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October 21
Alex Bridges, Ph.D.
QuatRx Pharmaceuticals
Title:"Can the Dinosaurs be Displaced? Will Universities Find a Niche Inside the Evolving Pharmaceutical Ecosphere?"
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