GLC-ASPET
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Great Lakes Chapter of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Since 1988, annual meetings have been held to foster the goals of ASPET to promote scientific communication among researchers in #pharmacology.
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GLC-ASPET
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· Nov 15
Welcome to all our followers from the other place, and to new connections here! Follow us for news about our annual summer meeting for pharmacologists in the Great Lakes region, including Chicagoland, Wisconsin, and beyond.
As we all know, scientific funding has been especially challenging this year. Many early-career researchers are being especially impacted. This is why ASPET has created the Support Our Scientists (SOS) Fund to advocate for funds and support expanded travel grant access for ASPET meetings. 1/2
Supporting Our Scientists
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December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As we all know, scientific funding has been especially challenging this year. Many early-career researchers are being especially impacted. This is why ASPET has created the Support Our Scientists (SOS) Fund to advocate for funds and support expanded travel grant access for ASPET meetings. 1/2
Check out the article from The Pharmacologist describing our 2025 GLC-ASPET Meeting!
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2025 Great Lakes Chapter Meeting in Review - The Pharmacologist
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET-GLC) was held at Northwestern University in Chicago on June 13, 2025. O...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Check out the article from The Pharmacologist describing our 2025 GLC-ASPET Meeting!
thepharmacologist.org/aspet-glc-no...
thepharmacologist.org/aspet-glc-no...
ASPET-GLC would like to thank all of our sponsors and vendors for their support of our annual meeting!
July 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
ASPET-GLC would like to thank all of our sponsors and vendors for their support of our annual meeting!
Vendor fair at ASPET-GLC annual meeting.
July 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Vendor fair at ASPET-GLC annual meeting.
ASPET-GLC would like to thank the following outgoing members of the Council for their service!
· James O'Donnell MS PhD, President
· Adriana Caballero PhD, Treasurer
· Mohd Shahid PhD, Councilor
· James O'Donnell MS PhD, President
· Adriana Caballero PhD, Treasurer
· Mohd Shahid PhD, Councilor
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ASPET-GLC would like to thank the following outgoing members of the Council for their service!
· James O'Donnell MS PhD, President
· Adriana Caballero PhD, Treasurer
· Mohd Shahid PhD, Councilor
· James O'Donnell MS PhD, President
· Adriana Caballero PhD, Treasurer
· Mohd Shahid PhD, Councilor
Thank you to ASPET Executive Officer David Jackson, CAE, MBA for sharing the benefits of membership in ASPET with our attendees.
If you would like to join our national organization, please go to the following link:
www.aspet.org/aspet/member...
If you would like to join our national organization, please go to the following link:
www.aspet.org/aspet/member...
July 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thank you to ASPET Executive Officer David Jackson, CAE, MBA for sharing the benefits of membership in ASPET with our attendees.
If you would like to join our national organization, please go to the following link:
www.aspet.org/aspet/member...
If you would like to join our national organization, please go to the following link:
www.aspet.org/aspet/member...
Minal Mohammed of Lake Forest College won 2nd place in the undergraduate category of the poster competition. Minal is a summer research student at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
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July 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Minal Mohammed of Lake Forest College won 2nd place in the undergraduate category of the poster competition. Minal is a summer research student at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
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Martin Ettlin Cuitiño of Lake Forest College won 1st place in the undergraduate category of the poster competition. His poster was entitled, "Glial-specific function of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Protein Complex (EMC): distinct roles of individual subunits." Congrats, Martin!
July 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Martin Ettlin Cuitiño of Lake Forest College won 1st place in the undergraduate category of the poster competition. His poster was entitled, "Glial-specific function of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Protein Complex (EMC): distinct roles of individual subunits." Congrats, Martin!
Cydney Martell of Northwestern University won 3rd place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her work was entitled, "Determinants of aggregation in small protein domains." Congrats, Cydney!
July 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Cydney Martell of Northwestern University won 3rd place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her work was entitled, "Determinants of aggregation in small protein domains." Congrats, Cydney!
Demetria Neal of UIC won 2nd place in the graduate category. Her work was entitled, "Dysregulation of MD thalamic-evoked prefrontal GluN2A and GABA-mediated local field potential responses following early life adversity exposure at a discrete developmental period." Congrats, Demetria!
July 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Demetria Neal of UIC won 2nd place in the graduate category. Her work was entitled, "Dysregulation of MD thalamic-evoked prefrontal GluN2A and GABA-mediated local field potential responses following early life adversity exposure at a discrete developmental period." Congrats, Demetria!
Giokdjen Ilktach of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her poster was entitled, "Involvement of calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II beta in chronic pain." Congrats, Giokdjen!
July 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Giokdjen Ilktach of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her poster was entitled, "Involvement of calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II beta in chronic pain." Congrats, Giokdjen!
Inés Pulido PhD of University of Illinois-Chicago won 2nd place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. Her poster was entitled, "Integrative analysis of acquired drug resistance to KRAS(G12D) inhibitors." Congrats, Dr. Pulido!
July 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Inés Pulido PhD of University of Illinois-Chicago won 2nd place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. Her poster was entitled, "Integrative analysis of acquired drug resistance to KRAS(G12D) inhibitors." Congrats, Dr. Pulido!
Zekun Shen of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. His poster was entitled, "Engineered Notch agonist mitigates doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity." Congrats, Dr. Shen!
July 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Zekun Shen of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. His poster was entitled, "Engineered Notch agonist mitigates doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity." Congrats, Dr. Shen!
Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 2/2
July 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 2/2
Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 1/2
July 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 1/2
Angela Lynch MSPH PhD DABT (toxicologist; nonclinical drug discovery/development consultant, TOXPLUS), Namhee Kim PhD (biostatistician, Rosalind Franklin Univ. of Medicine and Science), and Marsha Pierce PhD (science policy and advocacy expert, neuropharmacologist; Midwestern Univ.)
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July 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Angela Lynch MSPH PhD DABT (toxicologist; nonclinical drug discovery/development consultant, TOXPLUS), Namhee Kim PhD (biostatistician, Rosalind Franklin Univ. of Medicine and Science), and Marsha Pierce PhD (science policy and advocacy expert, neuropharmacologist; Midwestern Univ.)
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Career Development mentors included Anik Tuladhar PhD (industry postdoc fellow, AbbVie), Shana Augustin PhD (neuropharmacologist, Northwestern University), Andy Vo PhD (computational toxicologist, AbbVie), Natasha Ferguson PhD, MS, MAT (medical writer, Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
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July 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Career Development mentors included Anik Tuladhar PhD (industry postdoc fellow, AbbVie), Shana Augustin PhD (neuropharmacologist, Northwestern University), Andy Vo PhD (computational toxicologist, AbbVie), Natasha Ferguson PhD, MS, MAT (medical writer, Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
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The Lunch and Learn events at ASPET-GLC offer great opportunities for professional development!
This year we had a Career Development Workshop for trainees and a Pharmacology Educator Event for those who teach pharmacology to discuss best practices.
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This year we had a Career Development Workshop for trainees and a Pharmacology Educator Event for those who teach pharmacology to discuss best practices.
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July 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The Lunch and Learn events at ASPET-GLC offer great opportunities for professional development!
This year we had a Career Development Workshop for trainees and a Pharmacology Educator Event for those who teach pharmacology to discuss best practices.
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This year we had a Career Development Workshop for trainees and a Pharmacology Educator Event for those who teach pharmacology to discuss best practices.
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Audience members ask questions during the Q&A period of the symposia.
July 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Audience members ask questions during the Q&A period of the symposia.
Shilpa Sharma PhD presents in the Young Investigator Symposium. Her talk was entitled, “Mapping the Free Energy Landscape of AF9-BCOR: Unraveling Intrinsically Disordered Protein Interactions in Leukemia.” Dr. Sharma is a Post-doctoral Associate in the Saha Lab at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
July 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Shilpa Sharma PhD presents in the Young Investigator Symposium. Her talk was entitled, “Mapping the Free Energy Landscape of AF9-BCOR: Unraveling Intrinsically Disordered Protein Interactions in Leukemia.” Dr. Sharma is a Post-doctoral Associate in the Saha Lab at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Sudarshan Babu PhD presents his talk in the Young Investigator Symposium, which was entitled “Novel Molecular Representations for AI-Driven Discovery.” Dr. Babu is an AI Fellow in the Khan Lab at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago.
July 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Sudarshan Babu PhD presents his talk in the Young Investigator Symposium, which was entitled “Novel Molecular Representations for AI-Driven Discovery.” Dr. Babu is an AI Fellow in the Khan Lab at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago.
Wei Liang PhD, Senior Scientist at AbbVie, presents her talk in the Young Investigator Symposium at the GLC ASPET Annual Meeting. Her talk was entitled, “Vision-Based AI for Analyzing Primate Behavior.”
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Wei Liang PhD, Senior Scientist at AbbVie, presents her talk in the Young Investigator Symposium at the GLC ASPET Annual Meeting. Her talk was entitled, “Vision-Based AI for Analyzing Primate Behavior.”
We also featured a Young Investigator Symposium.
The goal of the symposium was to give a platform to promising early-career scientists from the Midwest to share their research on applications of AI and other computational approaches to drug discovery and pharmacology.
The goal of the symposium was to give a platform to promising early-career scientists from the Midwest to share their research on applications of AI and other computational approaches to drug discovery and pharmacology.
July 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We also featured a Young Investigator Symposium.
The goal of the symposium was to give a platform to promising early-career scientists from the Midwest to share their research on applications of AI and other computational approaches to drug discovery and pharmacology.
The goal of the symposium was to give a platform to promising early-career scientists from the Midwest to share their research on applications of AI and other computational approaches to drug discovery and pharmacology.
Dr. Gabriel Rocklin presents his talk in the Main Symposium, entitled “Large-scale discovery, analysis, and design of protein energy landscapes”. Dr. Rocklin is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.
July 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Dr. Gabriel Rocklin presents his talk in the Main Symposium, entitled “Large-scale discovery, analysis, and design of protein energy landscapes”. Dr. Rocklin is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.
Dr. John Karanicolas presents his talk in the Main Symposium, entitled “Emerging strategies for AI/ML-driven drug design”. Dr. Karanicolas is Head of Computational Drug Discovery at AbbVie.
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Dr. John Karanicolas presents his talk in the Main Symposium, entitled “Emerging strategies for AI/ML-driven drug design”. Dr. Karanicolas is Head of Computational Drug Discovery at AbbVie.