Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology University of Kansas School of Pharmacy

Our final two Graduate Student Seminars will occur next Wednesday!

We will have two Graduate Student Seminars next week!

Tuesday, April 29th at 4PM in Malott Hall (Rm 5052)

🎓 Graduate Student Seminar 🎓

Please note the date for this seminar will be Tuesday instead of Wednesday!

🎓 Graduate Student Seminar 🎓

Join us for a Pharmacology & Toxicology Graduate Student Seminar featuring Asma Albeladi, who will present:
“Synaptic Remodeling as an Adaptive Response to Neuronal Hyperactivity in Alzheimer's Disease”

Wednesday, April 8, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Malott Hall, Room 5052
Advisor: Dr. Jai Subramanian

🎓 Graduate Student Seminar 🎓

Join us for a Pharmacology & Toxicology Graduate Student Seminar featuring Nicholas Pritchett, who will present:

“Neural correlates of natural forgetting of a visual recognition memory”

📅 Wednesday, April 1, 2026
⏰ 4:00 p.m.
📍 Malott Hall, Room 5052
👩‍🏫 Advisor: Dr. Jai Subramanian

🎓 Graduate Student Seminar

Join us for an upcoming Pharmacology & Toxicology Graduate Student Seminar featuring Camryn Lowe.

🧠 Talk Title:
Identifying a Corticolimbic Circuit Regulating Partner-Seeking After the Loss of a Pair-Bonded Partner

📅 Wednesday, March 25, 2026
🕓 4:00 p.m.
📍 Malott Hall, Room 5052

Camryn Lowe will present research exploring neural circuits involved in partner-seeking behavior following the loss of a pair-bonded partner. All graduate students and members of the academic community are encouraged to attend.

🎉 Please join us in welcoming Dr. Yuxiang Liu to the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology!

Dr. Yuxiang Liu earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Hainan Normal University before completing his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he was promoted to Instructor, and later relocated his laboratory to UCLA.

Dr. Liu’s research focuses on the genetic and circadian regulation of neocortical development, with the goal of advancing therapeutic strategies for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, intellectual disability, and ADHD through multidisciplinary approaches that integrate single-cell sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, bioinformatics, confocal imaging, immunostaining, in situ hybridization, and behavioral analyses in both transgenic mouse and human iPSC models.

Dr. Liu will begin his work at KU on March 16, 2026.

Curious about emerging Alzheimer’s research?

Don’t miss Pharmacology & Toxicology graduate student Diksha Chugh’s seminar on rhApoE2 and neuroprotection in FAD mouse models.

📅 Wednesday, March 11, 2026
⏰ 4 p.m.
📍 Malott Hall, Room 5052

Join us for the next Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology Seminar featuring Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo.

Dr. Li will present “TAAR1 agonists against drug addiction: preclinical evidence”, an important conversation exploring emerging science and potential therapeutic pathways in addiction research

🗓 March 12, 2026
⏰ 10 a.m.
📍 School of Pharmacy, Room 1020

If you’re interested in pharmacology, neuroscience, or the future of addiction treatment, this is one you won’t want to miss. See you there!

📚 KU Pharmacology & Toxicology Graduate Student Seminar

Presented by Yan Luo:

“Intravenous Introduction of rhApoE2 Sex-Specifically Remodels the Peripheral Lipidome in Humanized ApoE4 Knock-In Mice”

📅 Wednesday, February 4
⏰ 4:00 PM
📍 Malott Hall, Room 5052

Advisor: Dr. Liqin Zhao
All are welcome.