Department of BioMolecular Sciences

Spring 2018 Graduate Student and External Speaker Seminar Series

All Seminars located in TCRC 2066

Tuesdays at 11 am

Thursdays at 10 am

(Titles will be posted as they become available. Changes are noted in red.)

Speaker	Title	Date
Moneerah Alqahtani	A Search for Small Molecule Inhibitors of S100B	January 23, Tuesday
NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR	January 25, Thursday
Disha Prabhu	Role of Astrocytic IGF-1 in Regulation of Learning and Memory	January 30, Tuesday
Dr. David Colby	Introduction to Seminar & Presentation Skills	February 1, Thursday
NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR	February 6, Tuesday
NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR	February 8, Thursday
Thanh-Thanh Claire Tran	Screening of Anti-cell Proliferative Activity of a Collection of Plant Extracts Belonging to Annonaceae Family and their Activity Towards NRF-2/ARE Pathway	February 13, Tuesday
AyoOluwa Aderbigbe Barbara Adaikpoh	Peripherally-restricted CB1 Blockers Production of Cryptic Metabolites from Predatory Archangiaceae in Response to Quorum Sensing Signal Interception	February 15, Thursday
NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR	February 20, Tuesday
Mohammed Riaz Mohammed Hawwal	Developing Hydroxyl Radical Footprinting as a Screening Technology Phytochemical Investigation of Mimosa pigra	February 22, Thursday
Dr. Alexander Perryman Senior Researcher; Center for Emerging & Re-emerging Pathogens Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience Rutgers University-NJ Medical School Guest Speaker	Novel Computational Approaches to Chemical Tool Discovery and Translational Research for Infectious Diseases	February 27, Tuesday
TBD	TBD	March 1, Thursday
Dr. Trent E. Balius Postodoctoral Scholar, University of California Shoichet Lab, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Guest Speaker	Expanding Accessible Chemical Space for Ligand Discovery	March 5, Monday 10:00 am TCRC 1044
Shukria Akbar Niloofar Khaje	Activation of Cryptic Metabolic Space of Predatory Cystobacter ferrugineus Cbfe23 and Myxococcus xanthus by Quorum Sensing Molecules Probing the Interaction of COSMC with T-synthase Peptide Using Hydroxyl Radical Protein Footprinting by Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Proteins	March 6, Tuesday
Dr. Michael Garrett Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephology), Director, Institutional Molecular and Genomics Core Facility (MGCF), University of Mississippi Medical Center Guest Speaker Host: Kristie Willett	Genetics, Animal Models, and Therapeutics for Human Diseases	March 8, Thursday
NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR	March 13, Tuesday
NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR	March 15, Thursday
Hao Liu Stephanie Burr	Study the Structure and Function Relationship of Heparin/Heparan Sulfate Rap1a Intersects the AGE/RAGE Signaling Cascade	March 20, Tuesday
Dr. Alberto del Arco Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Health, Exercise Science, and Recreation Management, University of Mississippi Guest Speaker Host: Nicole Ashpole	Prefrontal cortex neuronal representation of cognitive flexibility and stress response	March 22, Thursday
Jawaher Alkhamisy Ibrahim Almarabi	Inhibition of Fatty Acid Desaturation is Detrimental to Cancer Cell Survival in Metabolically Compromised Environments Anti-inflammatory Prenylated Phenylpropenols and Coumarin Derivatives from Murraya exotica1	March 27, Tuesday
NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR	March 29, Thursday
Maali Alshammari Nicholas Akins	The Application of Carbon-Silicon Switch Strategy in Medicinal Chemistry The Inhibition of Glycolysis: Glucose Transporter as a Potential Anticancer Target	April 3, Tuesday
Dr. Richard Lee Member, St. Jude Faculty, Interim Chair, Chemical Biology & Therapeutics Adjunct Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Guest Speaker Host: Sudeshna Roy	Nature versus nurture; Developing therapeutics for chronic bacterial infection	April 5, Thursday
Reem Alkhodier Sweta Adhikari	The Potential for Using 2-azaspiro[3.3]heptane Analogs in Drug Design Fluorinated Heterocycles in Drug Discovery	April 10, Tuesday
Cody Wilson Senior Director at The Coca-Cola Company Guest Speaker Host: Kristie Willett	Risk Assessment and Toxicology in the Food Industry	April 12, Thursday
Hanan Albataineh Eric Hodges	Stereospecific Formation of Di- and Trisubstituted Double Bonds by the Successive Action of Ketoreductase and Dehydratase Domains in Polyketide Synthases Cannabinoids: Applications in the Aging Brain	April 17, Tuesday
Munia Sowaileh	Fluorinated Organic Molecules for Medicinal Applications	April 17, Tuesday 12:30 pm TCRC 2066
Dr. Ralph D. Sanderson Professor of Pathology, Division of Molecular & Cellular Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Guest Speaker Host: Josh Sharp	Heparanase-mediated regulation of exosomes that promote tumor progression and chemoresistance	April 19, Thursday
Michael Cunningham	Synthetic Investigation of Natural Products Causing Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration	April 20, Friday 8:00 am TCRC 2066
Amelia Clayshutle Ann Fairly Barnett	Environmental stress restructures host microbiome and secondary metabolism in marine sponges *Effects of the biocide tributyltin (TBT) on the physiological processes and mechanisms of oysters (Crassostrea sp.)*	April 24, Tuesday TCRC 1044
Kelsey McPherson	Synthesis and Evaluation of Dual-Acting Ligands for Mu Opioid and Neuropeptide FF Receptors	April 24, Tuesday 3:30 pm TCRC 2066
Dr. Donna Gordon Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University Guest Speaker Host: Jamie Stewart	Characterizing the antifungal occidiofungin: The hunt for its biological target	April 26, Thursday
Najla Alzaid	Exploring novel botanical ingredients for cosmetics – Efficacy and Safety of Triterpenes	April 30, Monday 8:30 am TCRC 1044
James Gledhill Zachary Miller	Immunological role of hemocytes and thymosin-β protein in oysters and effects of environmental stressors on oyster immune function Using the zebrafish scn1lab model to study drug resistant epilepsy	May 1, Tuesday
Dr. Jared Delcamp Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Guest Speaker Host: David Colby	Small Molecules for Photon Management in NIR and SSM Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells	May 3, Thursday