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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Seminar

Schedule- Spring 2026

All seminars are at noon. Please see schedule below for location details.

Date Presenter Institution Location:
1/16/26 Rakhi Chowdhury and Ashish Das (PIs: Drs. Yuri Lyubchenko and Svetlana
Romanova)
UNMC

WSH 1.0.009

1/23/26 Moustafa Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska
at Omaha (Host: Dr. Corey Hopkins)
UNMC 

WSH 1.0.009

1/30/26 Eleanor Ransdell-Green and Sohel Daria (PIs: Drs. Dong Wang and Yazen Alnouti) UNMC PDD 1002
2/6/26 Craig L. Semerad, PhD, SCYM(ASCP)CM, Director, Flow Cytometry Research
Facility
UNMC WSH 1.0.009
2/13/26 Siwei Zhao, Associate Professor and Research Scientist, Mary and Dick Holland
Regenerative Medicine Program, Department of Surgery
UNMC PDD 1002
2/20/26 Keith Hornberger, PhD, Vice President, Discovery Chemistry (Host: Dr. Corey Hopkins) Arvinas Inc. Zoom
2/27/26 Guangshun Wang, Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and
Immunology
UNMC PDD 1002
3/6/26 Jennifer C. Lee, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Protein Conformation and
Dynamics, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (Host: Dr. Yuri Lyubchenko)
National Institutes of Health PDD 1002
3/13/26 James Moon, J. G. Searle Professor, Interim Chair, Dept. of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
Biointerfaces Institute (Host: Dr. Jingjing Sun)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PDD 1002
3/20/26 No Seminar, Spring Break    
3/27/26 Anwesha Sarkar, Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Nanovaccine Institute (Host: Dr. Yuri
Lyubchenko)
Iowa State University WSH 1.0.009
4/3/26 Gaurav Sahay, CRS Fellow, Professor and Director-Center for Innovative Drug
Delivery and Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Host: Dr. Jingjing Sun)
OSU/OHSU College
of Pharmacy
PDD 1002
4/10/26 Tanvi Patil and Braeden Pinkerton (PIs: Drs. Ram Mahato and David Oupicky) UNMC PDD 1002
4/17/26 Qian Chen, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Host: Dr. Dong Wang)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  PDD 1002
4/24/26 Mike Banco, Research Scientist (Host: Dr. Don Ronning) New England Biolabs

PDD 1002

5/1/26 Jennifer Heemstra, Chair and Charles Allen Thomas Professor, Department of
Chemistry (Host: Dr. Martin Conda Sheridan)

Washington University in St. Louis

PDD 1002

Schedule- Spring 2026