The Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology hosts two seminar programs to share the work being done by our students, postdocs, and faculty and to provide opportunities to learn from others in the field, both within and outside Duke.
PCB Seminar Series, Regulatory Networks in Health and Disease is our weekly departmental seminar series held each Wednesday at 12:00 noon. This seminar series features (mostly) invited speakers from outside the Duke community. The 2025-2026 series will be announced in the summer.
Works in Progress (WIP) is our signature departmental event which takes place at 12:00 noon on Fridays. The aim of this event is to increase cohesiveness and collaboration throughout our department, while also providing trainees with a valuable forum for feedback. The 2025-2026 series will be announced in the summer.
PCB Works in Progress
Jude Raj (Wood Lab) & Ajinkya Kawale, PhD (Zou Lab)
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RNHD | Rajagopal: Spatiotemporal Organization of G protein-coupled receptor signaling
Sudarshan Rajagopal, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
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RNHD | Dessauer: Spatial Landscape of Adenylyl Cyclase Signaling
Carmen W. Dessauer, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX
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PCB Works in Progress
Joshua Silva (Fox Lab) & Margaret Weber Barbier (Oliver Lab)
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RNHD | Stockwell: Ferroptosis and metabolism—mechanisms and therapeutic implications
Brent R. Stockwell, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences; Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University; and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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The 2026 Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Distinguished Lecture "Emerging indications, molecules and mechanisms for GLP-1 medicines"
Daniel Drucker, MD Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto
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PCB Works in Progress
Derek Zachman, MD, PhD (Hirschey Lab) & Paige Burrell, PhD (Kastan Lab)
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