MedChem Seminars
The Medicinal Chemistry Department seminars involve a mix of prominent researchers from both academic institutions and industry presenting research at the forefront of Medicinal Chemistry (broadly defined). They also include presentations from our own students (dissertation defenses & research seminars). The seminars are held remotely on Thursday, weekly at 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise stated. Select a semester from the drop-down menu below to browse the schedule. Remote Seminars for 2020-2021, Zoom links will be announced via e-mail. Please contact the department at COP-MedChemDept@med.umich.edu if you would like to be added to the MedChemSeminars e-mail announcement group.
January 26, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Luis Cervantes
Medicinal Chemistry Candidate, Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, Univeristy of Michigan
Large Scale Prediction of Relative Free Energies of Ligand Binding Using Multi-Site Lambda Dynamics (MSLD)
Faculty Host: Charles L. Brooks, III ( brookscl@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
January 28, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Troy Halseth
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate; Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Apolipoprotein-Mimetics for the Treatment of Niemann-Pick Diseases
Faculty Host: Anna Schwendeman ( annschw@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
February 2, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Jinghan Liu
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate; Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Structure and Function of Human Cytochrome P450 8B1
Faculty Host: Emily Scott ( scottee@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
February 9, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom virtual
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Sean McCarty
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate; Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Identification and Development of Novel Scaffolds for ꞵ-Cell Proliferation
Faculty Host: Jonathan Sexton ( jzsexton@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
February 11, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Andrew McGrath
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate; Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Nontraditional Amine-Acid Coupling Reactions to Explore Structure-Function Relationships
Faculty Host: Tim Cernak ( tcernak@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
February 16, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Ryan Rutkoski
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate; Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Development of Solid Supported Glycosyl Donors for the Glycosylation of Natural Products
Faculty Host: Pavel Nagorny ( nagorny@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
February 25, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Jesse Wotring
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate, Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Accelerated Compound Repurposing Using High Content Imaging: Application to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Faculty Host: Jonathan Sexton ( jzsexton@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
March 4, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Sherrice Zhang
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate; Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Development of δ-Opioid Receptor (DOR) Positive Allosteric Modulators (PAMs) for the Treatment of Depression
Faculty Host: Andy White ( whitandd@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
March 9, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Yihao Zhuang
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate, Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
Discovery of Novel Natural Products that Inhibit eIF4E Protein-Protein Interactions
Faculty Host: Amanda Garner ( algarner@umich.edu ) Speaker Abstract |
March 18, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Wenbin Tu
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate, Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
TBA
Faculty Host: Shaomeng Wang shaomeng@umich.edu |
March 19, 2021
1:00pm
Zoom Remote
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Maha Hanafi
PhD Candidate, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Michigan, Oral Dissertation Defense
Targeting Sigma-2 Receptor and ZFP91 in Pancreatic Cancer
Faculty Host: Nouri Neamati ( neamati@umich.edu ) |
March 25, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Virtual
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Charles Zhang
Medicinal Chemistry PhD Candidate, Third-Year Student Seminar
College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
TBA
Faculty Host: Jonathan Sexton ( jzsexton@umich.edu ) |
April 8, 2021
4:00pm
Zoom Remote
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Rebecca T. Ruck, PhD
Executive Director of Enabling Technologies, Small Molecule PR&D
Merck Research Laboratories, Process Research & Development
Enabling Technologies for the green synthesis of Pharmaceutical Agents at Merck
Speaker Website |