Biography:
Dr. Vladlen (“Vlad”) Slepak studied Biology at the Moscow State University, USSR and graduated with MS in 1983; he received his PhD at the Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow in 1988. In 1990 he joined the research group of Dr. Melvin Simon at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1995, he established his lab at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami where he currently a Professor. Dr Slepak published over 80 papers on mechanisms of G protein signaling in the retina, pancreas and other physiological systems.
Title : Ectopically expressed olfactory receptors as an untapped family of drug targets and discovery of agonists and antagonists of OR51E1, an understudied G Protein-Coupled Receptor