RISE Talk Series.
The RISE Talks Series offers seminars on a wide range of scientific and related topics. Speakers are encouraged to make their talks understandable to non-experts. All members of the Drew community plus local friends of the university are welcome to attend. Unless otherwise noted, RISE Talks usually take place at noon on Wednesdays throughout the semester, in the RISE Reading Room, Hall of Sciences, Room 326.
COMING UP:
The Discovery of Paxlovid for the treatment of Covid-19 patients
Dr. Dafydd Owen, Senior Scientific Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer
Monday Nov. 14th 2022, 7pm
In-person:
HS4
On Zoom:
https://drew.zoom.us/j/97177069365
Link to event flyer:
2022 RISE_The Discovery of Paxlovid for the treatment of Covid-19 patients
Please see below for past RISE Talks.
Archives
- Javier Cabrera, Ph.D., Department of Statistics & Cardiovascular Institute, Rutgers University, presents ‘” ‘Data nuggets’ tools for clustering big data”
- Alex Bajcz, Ph.D., Biology Department at Drew University, will present.
- Christopher Fazen, Ph.D., Biochemistry Research at Drew University, will present.
- Michelle Papka, Ph.D., Director of Cognitive and Research Center of New Jersey, presents, “To tell or not to tell? That’s not the question. Current thinking regarding Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and intervention”
- Tim Kowalski, Ph.D., Merck Director of Animal Health, with “Drug Development in Animal Health: Similarities and Unique Challenges Relative to Human Health Drug Development“
- Iraj Saniee, Ph.D., with the history of Mathematics research at Bell Labs, 1915-1955.
- Barry Burd., Ph.D., professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University, “Quantum Computing and Beyond“.
- Yi Lu, Ph.D., Norma Gilbert Junior Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University, with “Function and Curve Registration“
- Chris Casement, Ph.D., Norma Gilbert Junior Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University: “Prior Elicitation via a Rorschach-Style Graphical Procedure”
- James Balkovec, Ph.D., with “Natural Born Killers: Natural Products in the Design of New Antifungal Agent”
- Brianne Barker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Drew University, with “Location, location, location! Subcellular Localization Influences Inflammatory Responses to DNA”
- Randa Barsoom, RISE Alum and Neuroscience Major Class of 2014 with “Medical School- Surviving and Thriving”
- Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, who specializes in CyberSecurity in our Math and Computer Science Department at Drew, with “Uses and Misuses of Software Defined Radio Past, Present and Future“
- Dr. Melania Nynka, Research Fellow at McGill University, Montreal, with “The Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events: Using X-ray Astronomy to Study the Neutron Star Merger GW170817”
- Dr. Eric Parker, who has over 27 years in drug discovery, with “Getting to First BACE- The Development of BACE Inhibitors for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease”
- Maria Luisa Garcia, of Kanalis Consulting, LLC, and one of our ResMed lecturers, “Targeting the Inward-Rectifier Potassium Channel ROMK in Cardiovascular Disease”
- Fred Roberts, Ph.D., CCICADA, “Combined Cyber and Physical Attacks on the Maritime Transportation System”
- Drew and RISE alumnus, Louis Lombardo, Ph.D., Oncology Chemistry at Bristol-Myers Squibb, “Case Study on the Discovery and Clinical Development of SPRYCEL®”
- Linda Ness, Ph.D., DIMACS-Rutgers University, “Automated Detection of Patterns in Data at Multiple Scales”
- Douglas Eveleigh, Ph.D., Rutgers University, “The Discovery of Streptomycin”
- Jason Sello, Ph.D., Brown University, “New Therapeutic Strategies for Treatment of Tuberculosis”
- Jon Kettenring, Ph.D., Director of RISE, “Citation Data Analysis”
- Minjoon Kouh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physics, “Human vs. Artificial Intelligence”
- Marvin Bayne, Ph.D., Synergy Partners R&D Solutions “Chemoreception in the Nematode C. elegans”
- Lisa Jordan, Director, Spatial Data Center*, “Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Justice“
- Dr. Dave Binkley, Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University
- John Glendinning, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Biology, Barnard College, “The Science of Taste, Flavor, and Other Pleasures”
- Tina Garyantes, Ph.D., VP, Chromocell, “Learnings From a Novel, Selective NaV1.7 Inhibitor for the Systemic Inhibition of Pain and Itch”
- Alan Rosan, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, “The Life and Times of Silicon: Is There a Silicon Based Biochemistry?”
- Professor Seth Harris, Department of Mathematics, “Reverse Mathematics and Computability”
- Jean Lachowicz, Ph.D., Principal, Five Points Pharma Consulting, LLC. “Modifying drugs and biologics to improve CNS distribution”
- Joan W. Bennett, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University. “The Fungi That Ate My House”
- Steven Kass, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics & Computer Sciences, Drew University, “The Mathematics of Cat Scans”
- Sheo B. Singh, Ph.D., SBS Pharma Consulting LLC, Former Head of Natural Products at Merck, “Discovery and Development of Platensimycin”
- Brittany Barreto, Drew ’13, Baylor College of Medicine”Role of small RNA, gcvB, in Stress-Induced Mutagenesis”
- Wendy Cornell, Ph.D., “Homology Modeling: Building 3D Models of Proteins by Analogy to Experimentally Determined Structures of Related Proteins”
- John Eickmeyer, Ph.D., RISE Fellow, “Experimental Quantum Key Distribution”
- Adam Cassano, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, “Modeling Enzyme Catalysis via Metal-Catalyzed Phosphodiester Hydrolysis”
- Andy Evans, PhD, RISE Associate, “New(er) Automated Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques Available for Organic Structure Determination at Drew”
- Emily Hill, Assistant Professor of Computer Science – “Searching for Software Evolution”
- Graham Cousens, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology – “The smell of fear: Investigating the role of the amygdala in emotional processing”
- Neal C. Connors, Ph.D., RISE Fellow – “Feedstock Chemicals from Biomass (and the Art of French Cooking)”
- Sam Kongsamut, Ph.D. – “Innovation and entrepreneurship: from vertically integrated to distributed”
- Barry Burd, Ph.D. Professor of Math & Computer Science – “Wearable Computing”
- Jane Peppard, Ph.D., RISE Visiting Scientist – “Quantitative Cell Analysis: Application to Discovery of New Therapeutics”
- Charles Lunn, Ph.D., RISE Fellow – “Receptor Pharmacology : Biology of Cannabinoid CB2 Receptor”
- Minjoon Kouh, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Physics – “Deep Learning Algorithms”
- Ronald Doll, Ph.D., RISE Fellow, “Doing drug discovery projects in an undergraduate institution”
- Ryan Hinrichs, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, “Airborne particulates and their impact on Earth’s atmosphere and climate”
- Molly Crowther, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, “In Search of Signal. An Analytical Chemist’s Venture in the Low-Level Analysis of Elements in Ancient Pottery”
- Bjorg Larson Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics, “Confocal microscopy for cancer detection and diagnosis”
- Brianne Barker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, “Does HIV cause AIDS? Pattern recognition and viral infection”
- Bimal DasMahapatra, Ph.D., RISE Fellow, “Environment, p53 Mutation and Cancer: Challenges and opportunities in targeting mutant p53 for therapy”
- A. Michael Noll, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Communications, Annenberg School for Communication, USC, “The Beginnings of Digital Art at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1960s”
- Samuel Wright, Ph.D., Global Strategic Director, CSL Limited, “The role of Cholesterol and Inflammation in Heart Disease”
- Jessica Paxton, Ph.D., Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Laboratory, Kessler Foundation, “Reconstructing Executive Control in Healthy Aging and Traumatic Brain Injury”