Laura Sheard Graduate Lecture
In 2012, The University of Washington Pharmacology Department established an annual lecture series in memory of Laura Sheard, an exceptionally talented and highly accomplished graduate student who lost her life in a tragic car accident in Seattle in 2011. To recognize her achievements, the Department of Pharmacology launched the Laura Sheard Graduate Lecture as an annual seminar series.
The Laura Sheard Graduate Lecture
Annual List of Lectures
| 2012 | Take a Deep Breath: Signaling in Plant Epidermal Patterning Dr. Keiko Torii, Professor, University of Washington |
| 2013 | Evolutionary Synthetic Biology: How evolution helps us engineer better drugs (and stuff). Dr. Eric Gaucher, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech University |
| 2014 | Pharmacoperones: A New Therapeutic Approach Unfolding Dr. P. Michael Conn, Professor, Texas Tech University |
| 2015 | Allostery and the Clock: Engineering photoreceptors to tune circadian clock function and develop novel optogenetic tools Dr. Brian Zoltowski, Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University |
| 2016 | Apoptosis-induced Compensatory Proliferation in Drosophila Dr. Andreas Bergmann, Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| 2017 | Neurovascular Interactions: mechanisms, imaging, therapeutics Dr. Katerina Akassoglou, Professor, University of California, San Francisco |
