WORK IN PROGRESS
GMS 7939
Spring 2015
Jan 7
Zhengping Yi-PhD-Associate Professor, Wayne State University
Jan 14
Sushant Bhatnagar-PhD-Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin
Jan 21
Janet Sparks, PhD-Professor, University of Rochester
Jan 28
Ritesh Tandon, PhD-Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Feb 4
Amit Kapoor, PhD-Assistant Professor, Columbia
Feb 11
Sihem Boudani, PhD-Assistant Professor, University of Utah
Feb 18
John Yoon, PhD, MD-Instructor, Harvard Medical University
Feb 25
Xingmin Sun, PhD-Assistant Professor, Tufts University
Mar 4
Spring Break
Mar 11
Laura Hamel, PhD-Student, Deschenes Lab
Mar 18
No WIP Seminar
Mar 25
Edward Turos, PhD-Professor, USF Dept of Chemistry
Apr 1
Ioannis Gelis, PhD-Assistant Professor, USF Dept of Chemistry
Apr 8
Greg Gerdeman, PhD, Asst. Professor of Biology, Eckerd College
Apr 15
No WIP Seminar
Apr 22
Jared Tur, PhD Student, Dr. Dickey’s Lab
Apr 29
Shelly Deforte, PhD-Student, Uversky’s Lab
Wednesdays | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MDL 1005
Contact Dr. Yu Chen
for information
ychen1@health.usf.edu
WORK IN PROGRESS
GMS 7939
Fall 2014
Sept 10
John Lockhart-PhD Student, Evsikova/Evsikov Lab
“Analyzing Mouse Transcriptome in a Galaxy not so Far Away”
Sept 17
Bosko Stojanovski-PhD Student, Ferreira Lab
“Understanding the intricate relationship between the structure and catalytic function of 5aminolevulinate synthase”
Sept 24
Juan Del Valle, PhD-Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Moffitt
“Small molecules targeting XBP-1s expression in cancer”
Oct 1
Katherine Scott, PhD-Associate Professor, Integrative Biology
“Genes encoding novel components of the CO2 concentrating mechanism of a
hydrothermal vent chemolithoautotroph”
Oct 8
Yiru Qin-PhD Student, Zhou Lab
“Novel Graphene-Based Nanoparticles for Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis and Therapeutics”
Oct 15 Angela Holton-PhD Student, AltiokLab
“A Novel Microfluidics Approach for Evaluating Tumor Response to Cancer Therapies”
Oct 22
Larry Dishaw, PhD-Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
“Bacterial communities in the gut: investigating the ‘where’ and the ‘how’ with an
alternative model system”
Oct 29
David Merkler, PhD-Professor, Chemistry
“Identification of an Arylalkylamine N-acyltransferase Enzyme that Catalyzes the Formation of
Long-chain N-Acylserotonins and N-Acyldopamines”
Nov 5
Martin Muschol, PhD-Associate Professor, Physics
“Prion-like Self-Replication of Amyloid Oligomers”
Nov 12
Stanley Stevens, PhD-Assistant Professor, CMMB
“New capabilities for proteomics-based research at USF using a hybrid quadrupole-Orbitrap
mass spectromete”
Nov 19
Sameer Varma, PhD-Assistant Professor, CMMB
“Allosteric regulation of paramyxovirus entry into host cells”
Dec 3
Mallory Gillam-PhD Student, Ferreira Lab
“Mediating Iron Delivery to Ferrochelatase”
Dec 10
Emmanuel Smith-PhD Student, Chen Lab
“"Structural analysis of LpxA activity and selectivity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Wednesdays | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MDL 1005
Contact Dr. Yu Chen
for information
ychen1@health.usf.edu
WORK IN PROGRESS
GMS 7939
Summer 2014
May 21
Krishna Reddy
PhD Student (Robert Deschenes Lab-MM)
June 4
Vedad Delic
PhD Student(Patrick Bradshaw Lab-CMMB)
June 11
Neil Copes
PhD Student (Patrick Bradshaw Lab-CMMB)
June 18
Nhan Tu
PhD Student(Burt Anderson Lab-MM)
June 25
Justin Gibbons
PhD Student (Alexei Evsikov Lab-MM)
July 9
Bruce Citron
Professor (Moffitt Cancer Center)
July 16
Eric Lewandowski
PhD Student(Yu Chen Lab-MM)
July 23
Angela Holton
PhD Student (Soner Altiok Lab-Moffitt)
July 30
Alexis Killeen
PhD Student(Caralina Marin de Evsikova Lab-MM)
Wednesdays | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MDL 1005
Contact Dr. Marin de Evsikova
for information
cmarinde@health.usf.edu
WORK IN PROGRESS
GMS 7939
Spring 2014
January 15
Carrie Butler
PhD Student (Michael White Lab-MM)
January 22 Peter Medveczky
Professor (Molecular Medicine)
January 29 Shelly Deforte
PhD Student (Vladimir Uversky Lab)
February 5 Alexei Evsikov
Assistant Professor (Molecular Medicine)
February 12 Shengyu Yang
Assistant Professor (Moffitt)
February 26 David Kang
Associate Professor (Molecular Medicine)
March 19
Hana Totary-Jain
Assistant Professor (Mol. Pharm. Phys.)
March 26
Laura Hamel
PhD Student (Robert Deschenes Lab-MM)
April 2
Ernst Schönbrunn
Associate Professor (Moffitt)
April 9
Ruan Cox
PhD Student (Narasaiah Kolliputi Lab-MM)
April 16
Nikolay Malinin
Assistant Professor (Mol. Pharm. Phys.)
April 23
Niketa Patel
Associate Professor (Molecular Medicine)
April 30
Stephen Liggett
Vice Dean For Research (USF Health)
Wednesdays | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MDL 1005
Contact Dr. Marin de Evsikova
for information
cmarinde@health.usf.edu
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDL 1005
Fall 2013
August 28th …..…..
Brant Burkhardt, PhD, Assistant Professor (Cell Biology,
Microbiology & Molecular Biology)
September 4th ……
Larry Dishaw, PhD, Assistant Professor (Pediatrics/Children’s
Research Institute) ?
September 11th ..…
Alexei Evsikov, PhD, Assistant Professor (Bioinformatics Core
Facility)
September 18th ..…
Jared Tur, PhD student (Tipparaju lab/Pharmaceutical
September 25th .….
Sciences)
Younghoon Kee, PhD, Assistant Professor (Cell Biology,
Microbiology & Molecular Biology)
October 2nd …….....
Emmanuel Smith, PhD student (Yu lab)
October 9th .……..
Daniel Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor (Pharmaceutical Sciences)?
October 16th ..…….
Bosko Stojanovski, PhD student (Ferreira lab)
October 23rd ..…….
Nadine Nelson, PhD student (Ghansah lab)
November 6th ..…..
Laura Blair, PhD student (Dickey lab)
November 13th .…..
Stanley Stevens, PhD, Assistant Professor (CMMB)
November 20th …...
Mallory Gillam, PhD student (Ferreira lab)
December 4th .…....
Chih-Chi “Andrew” Ju, PhD Assistant Professor (Moffitt)
For more information, please contact: Carrie Marin de Evsikova, PhD
cmarinde@health.usf.edu
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDA 1096
Summer 2013
May 15th ….…..…..
Vladimir Uversky, PhD, Associate Professor
May 22nd …………
Joshua Radke, PhD student (White lab)
May 29th ………..…
Nhan Tu, PhD student (Anderson lab)
June 5th ………..…
Denise Cooper, PhD, Professor
June 12th ……...….
Erica Fratz, PhD student (Ferreira lab)
June 19th ……..…..
Sheeba Varghese Gupta, MPharm, PhD, Assistant Professor
(Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy)
June 26th …….…...
Vrushank Davé, PhD, Assistant Professor (Pathology &
Cell Biology)
July 10th ...........….
Eric Lewandowski, PhD student (Chen lab)
July 17th ..…....…..
Chris Laird, PhD student (Anderson lab)
July 24th …......…...
Robert Gatenby, MD, Professor (Moffitt)
July 31st ……...…..
?Lynn Wecker, PhD, Professor (Psychiatry & Neurosciences)
August 7th ..……....
?Bernd Sokolowski, PhD, Professor (Otolaryngology)
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDA 1096
Spring 2013
January 9th .…..…..
Bob Deschenes, PhD, Professor
January 16th ………
Matt Smith, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Haura Lab, Moffitt)
January 23th …...…
George Blanck, PhD, Professor
January 30th …...…
Mary Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor (Pathology & Cell
February 13th ……..
Biology)
Marcia Gordon, PhD, Professor (Molecular Pharmacology
& Physiology)
Laura Hamel, PhD student (Deschenes lab)
February 20th .…...
Joshua Gamsby, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Morgan Lab,
February 27th ...….
Moffitt)
Mark McLaughlin, PhD, Professor (Chemistry/Moffitt)
March 6th ..…...…..
Soner Altiok, MD/PhD, Professor (Moffitt)
March 20th …....…...
Ruan Cox, PhD student (Kolliputi lab)
March 27th …….…..
Siva Panguluri, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Tipparaju Lab,
April 3rd ..………....
College of Pharmacy)
Danielle Gulick, PhD, Assistant Professor
April 10th …….…....
Derek Nichols, PhD student (Chen lab)
April 17th …….…....
Jillian Whelan, PhD student (Teng lab)
April 24th …….…....
Chad Dickey, PhD, Associate Professor
February 6th …..….
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDL 1003
Summer 2012
May 9th
……….....
Awet Tecleab, PhD student (Sebti lab, Moffitt)
May 16th ….…...…
Eduardo Sotomayor, MD, Professor (Moffitt)
May 23th ….…...…
Dominic D’Agostino, PhD, Assistant Professor (Molecular
Pharmacology & Physiology)
May 30th ….…...…
Narasaiah Kolliputi, PhD, Assistant Professor (Internal
Medicine)
June 6th …..…...…
Diane Allen-Gipson, PhD, Assistant Professor (Pharmaceutical
Science, College of Pharmacy)
June 13th ….……...
Jaya Padmanabhan, PhD, Assistant Professor
June 20th …….…..
Yu Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor
June 27th ...……….
Nhan Tu, PhD student (Anderson lab)
July 11th ……….....
Terianne Wong, PhD student (Shyam Mohapatra lab)
July 18th ….……....
Kenneth Ugen, Professor
July 25th …..….…..
Bosko Stojanovski, PhD student (Ferreira lab)
August 1st
…..…..
George Jiazhi Sun, MD, Assistant Professor (Pharmaceutical
Sciences/COP & Molecular Medicine)
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDL 1003
Spring 2012
January 11th …...…
Vladimir Uversky, PhD, Associate Professor
January 18th …...…
Joe Abisambra, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Dickey lab)
January 25th …...…
Srinivas Tipparaju, PhD, Assistant Professor (Pharmaceutical
February 1st …...…
Science, College of Pharmacy)
Jing-Dong Ye, PhD, Assistant Professor (Chemistry, UCF)
February 8th ……...
Keith Pennypacker, PhD, Professor (Molecular Pharmacology
February 22rd …….
& Physiology)
Sumeer Varma, PhD, Assistant Professor (Cell Biology,
Microbiology & Molecular Biology)
Pearlie Burnette, PhD, Associate Professor (Moffitt)
February 29th ….....
Dmitry Gabrilovich, MD,PhD, Professor and Head (Moffitt)
March 7th ………....
Santo Nicosia, MD, Professor and Chair (Pathology & Cell
February 15th ……..
Biology)
March 14th …….…..
Angela Holton, PhD student (Altiok lab, Moffitt)
March 21st …….…..
Lee Woodcock, PhD, Assistant Professor (Chemistry)
March 28th …...…....
Shara Pantry, PhD student (Medveczky lab)
April 4th …………....
Michael Cheung, PhD student (Shyam Mohapatra lab)
April 11th ……..…....
Lisa Smith, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (Anderson lab)
April 18th …….…....
Denise Cooper, PhD, Professor (James A. Haley VA Hospital)
April 25th …….…....
Elena Suvorova, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow (White lab)
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDL 1003
Fall 2011
August 31st …..…..
Bill Baker, PhD, Professor (Chemistry)
September 7th ……
John Adams, PhD, Professor (Global Health/COPH)
September 14th ..…
James Riordan, PhD, Assistant Professor (Cell Biology,
Microbiology & Molecular Biology)
September 21st ..…
Niketa Patel, PhD, Assistant Professor
September 28th .….
Duane Eichler, PhD, Professor
October 5th …….....
Carlos F. Santos, PhD, CSO Accentia Biopharmaceutics Inc.
October 12th .……..
Thomas Unnasch, PhD, Professor (Global Health/COPH)
October 19th ..…….
Wilbur Milhous, PhD, Professor (Global Health/COPH)
October 26th ..…….
Huntington Potter, PhD, Professor
November 2nd …....
Yvonne Davis, PhD student (Subhra Mohapatra lab)
November 9th ...…..
Chad Dickey, PhD, Assistant Professor
November 16th .…..
Emmanuel Smith, PhD student (Chen lab)
November 30th …...
Subhra Mohapatra, PhD, Assistant Professor
December 7th .…....
Edward Weeber, PhD, Associate Professor (Molecular
Pharmacology & Physiology)
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDL 1003
Summer 2011
May 18th …..…...…
Esteban Celis, MD/PhD, Professor (Moffitt)
May 25th …..…...…
Myrna Ortiz-Ruiz, PhD student (Gabrilovitch lab, Moffitt)
June 1st
Burt Anderson, PhD, Professor
….…...…
June 8th ….…….....
Tina Fiorelli, PhD student (Padmanabhan lab)
June 15th …..……..
Lindsey Shaw, PhD, Assistant Professor (Cell Biology,
Microbiology & Molecular Biology)
June 22nd …..…….
Shufeng Zhou, MD/PhD, Professor & Chair (Pharmaceutical
Science, College of Pharmacy)
June 29th …...…….
David Mitchell, PhD, Assistant Professor
July 6th ..………....
Terianne Wong, PhD student (Shyam Mohapatra Lab)
July 13th ..…….…..
Joshua Radke, PhD student (White Lab)
July 20th ..…….…..
Javier Cuevas, PhD, Associate Professor (Molecular
Pharmacology & Physiology)
July 27th .…...…....
Derek Nichols, PhD student (Chen lab)
August 3rd ………...
Greg Hunter, PhD, Assistant Professor
August 10th ……....
Yvonne Davis, PhD student (Subhra Mohapatra Lab)
Department of Molecular Medicine
Graduate Seminar GMS 7939
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MDA 1096
Fall 2010
September 1st ..…..
Michael Teng, PhD, Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine)
September 8th ……
Jesse Arbuckle, PhD student (Medveczky lab)
September 15th ..…
Alberto van Olphen, PhD, Assistant Professor (Global Health)
September 22th ..…
MJ Holloway, PhD student (Seyfang lab)
September 29th .….
Celso Silva, MD, Assistant Professor (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
October 6th …….....
Jay Dean, PhD, Professor (Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology)
October 13th .……..
Huntington Potter, PhD, Professor
October 20th ..…….
Matt Smith, PhD student (Wright lab, Moffitt)
October 27th ..…….
Amorce Lima, PhD student (Anderson lab)
November 3rd …....
Sandy Westerheide, PhD, Assistant Professor (Cell Biology,
Microbiology & Molecular Biology)
November 10th .…..
Kelly Barrios-Marrugo, PhD student (Celis lab, Moffitt)
November 17th .…..
George Blanck, PhD, Professor
December 1st .…....
Patricia Kruk, PhD, Professor (Pathology & Cell Biology)
December 8th .…....
David Birk, PhD, Professor (Pathology & Cell Biology)
WORK IN PROGRESS SERIES SPRING 2010
The work in progress discussion groups are an informal venue for faculty , graduate students
and post doctoral fellows to present ongoing research and provides opportunities for shaping
proposals, critiquing ongoing research, and giving and receiving constructive peer review. They
are open to the public.
(All seminars held each Tuesday in MDL 1005 at 4PM)
January 12th, 2010
Sergiy Borysov, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
PI: Huntington Potter, PhD
**12PM Byrd Center**January 26th, 2010
Tina Fiorelli***CQE***
"Regulation of Secretases and Processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein During Cell
Cycle Progression and Apoptosis”"
Comprehensive Qualifying Exam
Major Professor: Jaya Padmanabhan, PhD
February 2nd, 2010
Srinavas Nagaraj, PhD
"Structure, function, and evolution of intrinsically disordered proteins"
Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, CMMB & FCoE BITT
Host: Robert J. Deschenes, PhD(MM)
February 16th, 2010
Tim Boyd
PhD Candidate
Major Professor: Huntington Potter, PhD
February 23rd, 2010
Terianne Wong
PhD Candidate
Major Professor: Shyam Mohapatra, PhD (Internal Medicine)
March 2nd, 2010
Jun Tan, PhD
Professor
Psychiatry
March 9th, 2010
**********************SPRING BREAK**********************
March 16th, 2010
Alex Corzo
PhD Candidate
Major Professor: Dmitry Gabrilovich, PhD
**10:00AM**March 22nd, 2010
Shara Pantry***CQE***
PhD Candidate
Major Professor: Peter Medveczky, PhD
March 24th--March 26th, 2010
*************************SIPAIID SYMPOSIUM**********************
March 30th, 2010
Bruce Citron, PhD
Professor
Bay Pines Va Healthcare System
April 6th, 2010
Myrna Ortiz-Ruiz
PhD Candidate
Major Professor: Dmitry Gabrilovich, PhD (Moffitt)
April 13th, 2010
Ramaswamy Subramanian
Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms
National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS); Bangalore, India
April 20th, 2010
John Tsibris, PhD
Professor
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
April 27th, 2010
Ernst Schönbrunn
Associate Professor: Dept of Oncological Sciences-Moffitt
Scientific Director: Structural Biology Core Facility