The MSTP hosts a variety of academic events throughout the year to which the UIC faculty and student community is cordially invited. These events include various seminar series every year: a bi-weekly Lunch Seminar, a monthly Dinner Seminar (reservations required), a series of student Grand Rounds at various times throughout the year, and student Thesis Defense seminars.
In early spring, to chase away the blahs of too much winter, the students organize a gala charity social event called the Soiree. Held in a swank venue with good food and drink, the Soiree raises funds through "admission" donations from students and faculty and a silent auction for the students' favorite charity, the Student Run Free Clinic at Community Health Center. It is a fun evening, as evidenced in the photo above.
In August, the student body travels to an off-site resort for a 2-day Retreat filled with intellectual stimulation provided by a distinguished keynote speaker and interactive break-out sessions, as well as recreation and relaxation. In February, the MSTP student participate in the annual all-COM Student Research Form to which they append their own Research Symposium featuring talks by several of the advanced students. The calendar below will be updated as new events become scheduled.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 10:00 am, Room 303 CSN- GRAND ROUNDS: Yalda Afshar, Vanessa Reese, Marisa Young " Endometriosis "
Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 12:30 pm, Room 303 CSN - GRAND ROUNDS: Evan Small, Ren VandeVrede, " Both Salts and Spice new flavors of old street drugs: toxicological and public health considerations"
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 2:00 pm, SPH-PI, Auditorium 109- Thesis Defense: Sachin Moonat, BA, MS, Graduate Program in Neuroscience " The Role of Amygdaloid Chromatin and Synaptic Remodeling in Anxiety and Alcoholism."
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:30 pm, Room 303 CSN-Lunch Seminar: Marcello Bonini, PhD, Assistant Professor, Section of Cardiology, Dept. of Medicine "Mitochondrial superoxide dismutase upregulation in cancer sustains the metabolic shift via AMP-activated kinase activation"
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 12:30 pm, Room 303 CSN- Lunch Seminar: Lijun Rong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology &Immunology "High throughput Screening and Antivirals: From Basic to Translational Research"
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 12:30 pm, Room 303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: David Eddington, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering " Microfluids for Medicine and Biology"
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 12:30 pm -303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: John Christman, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine " Regulation of macrophage function in ARDS and severe sepsis "
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 5:30 pm- 303 CSN- Dinner Seminar : Edwin H. Cook, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Austin and Genetics, Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry " Genetics of Autism: Implications for Developmental Neurobiology and Clinical Pharmacology"
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 12:30 pm - 5175 COMRB- GRAND ROUNDS: CCTS Seminar Series: Benjamin Avner and Joseph L. Zapater " P. Aeruginosa & Its Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance"
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:30 pm - 303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: Richard Minshall, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, "Role of Oxidative Stress-induced Endothelial Cell Reprogramming in IPAH"
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 12:30 pm - 303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: Zain Paroo, PhD, Asst. Professor of Pharmacology, " Regulatory RNA Pathways"
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 5: 30 pm - 303 CSN - Dinner Seminar: Xavier Llor, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, "Colorectal cancer: of genes and more"
Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 12:30 pm - Room 303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: Heather Moss, MD, PhD, Asst. Professor of Opthalmology, "Nuero-opthalmic markers in amyotrophic lateral scelorosis"
Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 12:30 pm - Room 303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: Maarten Bosland, DVSc, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Pathology, " Prostate Cancer Chemoprevention: Challenges going from bench to "bedside"
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 12:30 pm - Room 303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: Amy Kenter, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, " Immunologlobin isotype switching and the strange case of IgE"
Tuesday, August 25, 2011, 5:30 pm - 300 CSN - Dinner Seminar: Daniel Corcos, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Kinesiology and Nutrition; Co-Director, Program in Neuroscience, "Comparison of the Effects of Progressive Resistance Exercise and Flexibility Training on Parkinson's Disease"
Tuesday, April 23, 2011, 12:00 pm - Room 5175 COMRB - GRAND ROUNDS: CCTS Seminar Series: Christina Floreani and Sachin Moonat
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 12:00 pm - 303 CSN - Lunch Seminar: Alexander Mankin, PhD, Professor, Assoc. Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology " What we did not know for all these years about the mechanism of erythromycin action"
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 5:30 pm - 300 CSN - Dinner Seminar: Saul J. Weiner, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, " What is the Best Thing for This Patient at This Time?: The Challenge of Individualizing Care"
Thursday, February 13, 2011, Noon, Neurology Seminar Room, 7th floor, NPI-North - GRAND ROUNDS - Neurology Seminar Series Ananda Fine and Thomas Wuben " A Case of Agressive Multiple Sclerosis"
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 5:30 pm - 300 CSN - Dinner Seminar :Saul J. Weiner, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, " What is the Best Thing for This Patient at This Time? The Challenge of Individualizing Care"