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Pharmacology Seminar Series: Research Culture Talk: Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library)

User Corinna Alberg and Sara Pensa (Cambridge Africa) and Lucy Woolhouse (Library).

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 09 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Hugh Robinson, Ion Channels, Electrical Activity and Energy Consumption in Neuroendocrine Cancer Cells

User Hugh Robinson, PDN.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Nikita Gamper, Peripheral Gate in Somatosensory System

User Nikita Gamper, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 28 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Helen Walden, Understanding Parkin’s E3 Ligase Activity

User Helen Walden, University of Glasgow.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 21 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Natalie Krahmer, Elucidating the Cell Architecture of Metabolic Liver Disease via Spatial Proteomics

User Natalie Krahmer, Helmholtz Diabetes Center .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 31 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: David Hodson, Interrogating GPCRs from the Single Molecule to the Whole Animal

User David Hodson, University of Oxford.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Sarah Teichmann, Translating the Human Cell Atlas

User Sarah Teichmann, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 17 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Tuomas Knowles, Protein Phase Transitions

User Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 10 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Structural characterisation of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

User Ivan Campeotto, Assistant Professor in Microbial Biotechnology.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Dr Florian Merkle, Drug Discovery, Action, and Repurposing in iPSC-derived Neurons

User Florian Merkle, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

David James Seminar: Dr Feng Zhang - Exploration of Biological Diversity

User Zhang, MIT.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Pharmacology Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series:Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger, Milk it! The Cambridge Lactation Lab Vision

User Alecia-Jane Twigger, Cambridge Lactation Lab.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Developing More Effective Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Pain

User David Hughes, University of Glasgow.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Lipid Nanoparticles that Enable the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and Gene Therapies

User Pieter Cullis, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Monday 03 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Human Pain Genetics

User Geoff Woods, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Pharmacology Seminar Series: Title TBC

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

User Dr Javier Aguilera Lizarraga, Dr Anwit Pandit.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Redirecting innate immune mechanisms against aggregated proteins

User Dr William McEwan, University of Cambridge UK Dementia Research Institute.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Delaying and Measuring ageing

User Dr Ivana Bjedov, University College London Cancer Institute.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Harnessing the principles of cellular resilience for therapeutics

User Dr Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Computational Microbiology of the E. coli cell envelope

User Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Not too big and not too small – Bicycle peptides for precision targeted therapies

User Dr Liuhong Chen, Bicycle Therapeutics.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Molecular insights into GABA-A receptor pharmacology

User Dr Paul Miller, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

PDRA Talks: Nuclear envelope integrity in health and disease | A role for the proton

User Dr Anne Janssen, Dr Luke Pattison, University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

A novel type of proteasome condensates that can target toxic protein aggregates

User Dr Yu Ye, Imperial College London, Department of Brain Science.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

David James Seminar: Molecular mechanisms regulating human weight regulation

User Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS, University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Biochemistry Abstract.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

StaRs™ and Structures – a door to the GPCR pharmacological and drug discovery universe

User Dr Alastair Brown, Sosei Heptares, Translational Biosciences.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Not just an affair of the heart: A look at ERG channels and Kv7 channels in

User Professor Iain Greenwood, St George’s University, Department of Life and Environmental Science.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology ..

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical methods in small molecule drug discovery

User Dr Stanislava Panova, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Senior Research Associate.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Why it’s important to think about equity, diversity and inclusion when designing, running, analysing and reporting clinical trials

User Professor Shaun Treweek University of Aberdeen, Health Services Research.

House Zoom.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering post-translational regulation of ion channels: basic mechanisms to translation

User Professor Henry Colecraft, University of Columbia.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

A novel mechanism of selective inhibition of Glycine receptors observed by Cryo-EM | Controlling and combining signal activation for adhesion and receptor bridging

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 17 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Implications and molecular mechanisms of MOK, a new signaling kinase in neurodegenerative neuroinflammation

User Dr Cintia Roodveldt University of Seville .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

GABA-A receptor subtypes controlling pain and itch

User Professor Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 03 November 2023, 12:30-13:30

Title to be Confirmed

User Dr Alastair Brown, Heptares, Cambridge.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Exploiting nuclear envelope dysfunction in progeria to identify new therapeutic targets for ageing

User Dr Delphine Larrieu, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 20 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Third-generation approaches of antibody discovery and optimisation

User Dr Pietro Sormanni, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94037796809?pwd=MHNRUk5JL0JmTlZTcnJZU3VQNllYQT09 .

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Gender equality in academia: why and how

User Prof Paul Walton Dept of Chemistry, University of York .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/99063802794?pwd=UEQ2b0Y5czZ1RENNUDQ4QjY0UENUQT09 Meeting ID: 990 6380 2794 Passcode: Fy7GsDg46x .

Friday 24 March 2023, 12:30-01:30

Dysregulation of ADAM10 Shedding activity in naked mole-rat fibroblasts is due to deficient phosphatidylserine externalisation

User Post doc: Dr Paulina Urriola Munoz (Smith Lab) Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94037796809?pwd=MHNRUk5JL0JmTlZTcnJZU3VQNllYQT09 Meeting ID: 940 3779 6809 Passcode: J70tjaPaNT .

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:30-01:00

The structural polymorphism of alpha-synuclein in conditions resembling the cellular environment

User Post doc: Dr Maria Zacharopoulou (Itzhaki Lab) Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94037796809?pwd=MHNRUk5JL0JmTlZTcnJZU3VQNllYQT09 Meeting ID: 940 3779 6809 Passcode: J70tjaPaNT .

Friday 10 March 2023, 01:00-01:30

How PROTACs work: why the ternary complex matters and how it impacts degrader design

User Prof Alessio Ciulli School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

House Online ONLY: https://zoom.us/j/93882601826?pwd=dEMzYTNUSkFGZ2ttMHVYT3dLdjZRUT09 Meeting ID: 938 8260 1826 Passcode: hLg0x6Hvu8.

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:30-01:30

ANNUAL DAVID JAMES SEMINAR DNA graffiti: Mutation patterns in human DNA and how to use them in medicine

User Prof Serena Nik-Zainal Academic Dept of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online:https://zoom.us/j/99631545539?pwd=ajBSeUp5TkJyTnZUcUNsZlpzd0NrQT09 Meeting ID: 996 3154 5539 Passcode: CZHX0w3jjX .

Friday 24 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

Endogenous and immunological mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain

User Dr Shafaq Sikander Queen Mary University of London .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/93680660312?pwd=SkN6Tm41YTVIcWJFMUVneHo4enovdz09 Meeting ID: 936 8066 0312 Passcode: LR0ytaPNbK .

Friday 17 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

The Pharmacology of Pain

User Dr Kirsty Bannister King’s College London .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/95738364476?pwd=RUpPeU9rWnlMdGFIZ2JsbXVULzRrQT09 Meeting ID: 957 3836 4476 Passcode: 77n788e51Z .

Friday 10 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

Aurora kinase A: from basic biology to PROTAC-mediated Targeted Protein Degradation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/93332623395?pwd=ejMrUUhHOG1qK2N6dzg3ZStmQXdHQT09 Meeting ID: 933 3262 3395 Passcode: v1SSfY1xB3 .

Friday 03 February 2023, 12:30-01:30

Pharmaceutical nanotechnology and the control of in vivo drug transport

User Prof Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu University College London .

House Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology or Join online: https://zoom.us/j/94645182181?pwd=ZENTaStsZ2IxVkZBSElpMjBnUUdWQT09 Meeting ID: 946 4518 2181 Passcode: 8yWtSkrEku .

Friday 27 January 2023, 12:30-01:30

Engineering insights into the strange world of cancer

User Dr Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard Medical School, US.

House https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84909272851?pwd=MWh4VTFZd3ovRjN3LzZ4eU9yOVdpUT09.

Friday 28 October 2022, 12:30-01:30

Translating Proteostasis Mechanisms to Therapeutics of Diseases of Protein Conformation and Aging

User Prof Rick Morimoto, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Northwestern University, US.

House https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81119667575?pwd=bXNQVzBXR2p3NXRDWDVVamFQa2JJdz09.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Power to the protein: analyse, signal and protect with bacterial superglues

User Professor Mark Howarth, University of Cambridge.

House https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83567507458?pwd=d3VlOGo1djBaQkRyL21YT2NSMFhQQT09.

Friday 14 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

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