2025-2026 Seminar Series

2025

  • Susruta Majumdar, Ph.D.

    September 30, 2025

    4:00 PM 1220 MRB III

    Susruta Majumdar, Ph.D.

    Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicinal Chemistry

    Washington University School of Medicine

    Targeting Cryptic Pockets and Allosteric Sites in GPCRs to Develop Novel Analgesics

  • ChiHye Chung, Ph.D.

    October 7, 2025

    4:00 PM 202 Light Hall

    ChiHye Chung, Ph.D.

    Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

    Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

    Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Disrupted Sociability and Motivation Upon Stress

  • Yan Zhang, Ph.D.

    October 15, 2025

    12:15 PM 1220 MRB III

    Yan Zhang, Ph.D.

    Qiushi Distinguished Professor of
    Pharmacology and Biophysics
    Zhejiang University

    Co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology

    GPCR Exoframe Modulators: From De Novo Design to Applications

  • Richard Huganir, Ph.D.

    October 28, 2025

    4:00 PM 1220 MRB III

    Richard Huganir, Ph.D.

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience
    and Psychological and Brain Sciences
    Director, Department of Neuroscience
    Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute

    Regulation of Neurotransmitter Receptors During Synaptic Plasticity in Health and Disease

    Sponsor: Allan D. Bass Endowed Lectureship

  • GPCR Ava Carter, Ph.D.

    November 11, 2025

    3:00 PM 1220 MRB III

    GPCR Ava Carter, Ph.D.

    HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow
    Michael E. Greenberg Lab
    Harvard Medical School

    Evolving Responses to the Environment: Human-Specific Gene Regulation in the Brain

  • Sarah Kucenas, Ph.D.

    November 18, 2025

    4:00 PM 202 Light Hall

    Sarah Kucenas, Ph.D.

    Owen R. Cheatham Professor of the Sciences
    & Professor of Biology
    UVA School of Medicine

    Why Don't Oligodendrocytes Myelinate Neuronal Soma?

    Sponsor: Elaine Sanders-Bush Lectureship

  • István Katona, Ph.D.

    December 2, 2025

    4:00 PM 202 Light Hall

    István Katona, Ph.D.

    Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
    Naus Family Chair in Addiction Sciences
    Indiana University, Bloomington

    Super-resolution imaging of cannabinoid and dopamine signaling

    Sponsor: Allan D. Bass Endowed Lectureship

  • GPCR Adeline Yong, Ph.D.

    December 9, 2025

    4:00 PM 1220 MRB III

    GPCR Adeline Yong, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Juh-Nung Jan, Ph.D. Lab
    University of California,
    San Francisco

    New Players in Synaptic Signaling Revealed by Calcium-Dependent Proximity Labeling

    Sponsor: Elaine Sanders-Bush Lectureship