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Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
Host |
Time/Place |
| SEP 7 |
James Dennis |
Sr Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Res Institute, Mount Sinai Hosp, Toronto |
Cell surface microdomains, cytokine signaling and stem cell renewal |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 14 |
Peter Merrifield |
Dept of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Univ of Western Ontario |
Stem cell therapy for regeneration of left ventricular structure and function in a canine model for myocardial infarct |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 21 |
Michael N Lehman |
Prof & Chair, Dept of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Univ of Western Ontario |
Neuroendocrine control of reproduction and seasonality in a large animal model, the Suffolk ewe |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 27 |
Ronald M Evans
(4th D Harold Copp Lecture) |
Prof & March of Dimes Chair in Molecular & Developmental Biol, Gene Expression Lab, Salk Insitute, San Diego, CA |
Nuclear receptors: metabolic engineering and the dawn of synthetic physiology |
Ken Baimbridge |
4:00-5:00
LSC2 |
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| OCT 5 |
Susan Bonner-Weir
(Merck Frosst Distinguished Speaker) |
Sr Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Centre; Assoc Prof, Harvard Medical School, Boston |
Pancreatic progenitors: lineage tracing reveals direct evidence that neogenesis occurs |
Timothy Kieffer |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 12 |
Neale Ridgway |
Prof, Pediatrics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS |
Regulation of metabolic and cell signalling by oxysterol-binding proteins |
Chris Loewen |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 25 |
John Rohde |
Pasteur Foundation Fellow, Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an excellent model to study diarrheal disease |
Chris Loewen |
2:30-3:30
LSC3 |
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| NOV 2 |
Guy Tanentzapf |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Anatomy, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research, Gurdon Institute of Cancer & Developmental Biology, Univ of Cambridge, UK |
Integrins and cell-matrix adhesion In fly development and morphogenesis |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 9 |
Lilach Gilboa |
Developmental Genetics, Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center |
Checks and balances: soma - germ line interactions and the establishment of germ line stem cells |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 14 |
Ling Qi |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Peptide Biology Laboratories, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego |
Adipocytes, obesity and diabetes |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 16 |
Daniel Kwan |
PhD Candidate, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC |
Modulation of Kv1.5 slow inactivation by external cations |
Steve Kehl |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 23 |
Bruce MacIver
(website) |
Affil Member, CPS; Prof, Island Medical Programme, Univ of Victoria; Assoc Prof of Neurophysiology, Stanford Univ School of Medicine |
Translational biomedical engineering: EEG signal analysis, from brain slices to fighter pilots |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 30 |
Susanne Clee |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Biochemistry, Univ of Wisconson, Madison |
Positional cloning of a type 2 diabetes susceptibility gene: SorCS1 |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
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| DEC 14 |
Stephanie Borgland |
NARSAD Essel Investigator, Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center, Univ of California, San Francisco |
Orexin: a new peptide input to learning and addiction |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
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| JAN 4 |
Iain Cheeseman |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Univ of California, San Diego |
Building the kinestochore-microtuble interface |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 11 |
Michael Gold |
Co-leader, Infection, Inflammation & Immunity Research Group; Prof, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, UBC |
Activation of the Rap GTPases coordinates cell morphology, migration, adhesion, and polarity in B lymphocytes and B16 melanoma cells |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC1510 |
| 18 |
Saulius Sumanas |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, Univ of California, Los Angeles |
How to make a blood vessel: insights from the zebrafish |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 25 |
Rose Goodchild |
Assoc Research Scientist, Columbia Univ Medical Center, New York |
The torsins: AAA+ proteins of the nuclear envelope and CNS disease |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC1510 |
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| FEB 1 |
Zakaria Hmama |
Asst Prof, UBC-Division of Infectious Diseases, VGH |
Tuberculosis pathogenesis: biogenesis of mycobacterial phagosome in infected macrophages |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 8 |
Dale Laird |
Prof, Canada Research Chair in Gap Junctions & Disease, Dept of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Univ of Western Ontario, London |
Closing the "gap" on understanding connexin-linked diseases |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 15 |
Defne Yarar |
Senior Research Associate, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA |
Understanding the connection between actin dynamics and membrane remodelling during endocytosis |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 15 |
Vincent Chen |
Depts of Chemistry & Physiology, Univ of Manitoba |
Functional proteomics of gap junctions |
Christian Naus |
3:00-4:00
LSC1416 |
| 22 |
Brian Christie |
Asst Prof, Dept of Psychology, UBC |
Effects of exercise on hippocampal structure and function |
Christian Naus |
12:30-1:30
LSC1510 |
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| MAR 1 |
Benjamin G Neel |
Director, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto & Prof, Dept of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston |
The Shp2/RAS/ERK pathway in health and disease |
Pauline Johnson |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 9 |
Vladimir Gelfand |
Dept of Cell & Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Univ, Chicago |
Molecular motors in live cells: regulation and coordination of cargo transport |
Shernaz Bamji |
12:30-1:30
LSC2 |
| 15 |
Paul Pavlidis |
Asst Prof, Dept of Psychiatry, UBC Bioinformatics Centre |
Large-scale mining of expression patterns in public microarray datasets |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 19 |
Martin A Schwartz
(Perceptions of the Cell Seminar Series) |
Cardiovascular Res Center, Depts of Microbiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mellon Prostate Cancer Res Inst, Univ of Virginia, Charlottesville |
Regulation of lipid raft trafficking by integrins |
I Robert Nabi |
4:00-5:00
LSC3 |
| 22 |
Paul Trainor |
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO |
Making faces: unmasking the role of neural crest cells in craniofacial development and congenital birth defects such as Treacher Collins syndrome |
Joy Richman |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 29 |
Pauline Johnson |
Prof & Co-Director of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity Research Group, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, UBC |
Regulation of CD44 mediated cell adhesion in the immune system |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
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| APR 5 |
Nabil G Seidah
(Perceptions of the Cell Seminar Series) |
Director, Laboratory of Biochemical Neuroendocrinology, IRCM, Montreal |
The proprotein convertases: cellular biology and physiology |
I Robert Nabi
Francois Jean |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 12 |
Charles Thompson |
Professor & Head, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, UBC |
Foundations of antibiotic resistance in bacterial physiology - the mycobacterial paradigm |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 19 |
Anthony LaMantia |
Dept of Cell & Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Noses, forebrains and limbs: shared mechanisms, divergent results |
Michael Underhill |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 26 |
Salvatore Carbonetto |
Dept of Biology, Center for Research in Neuroscience, McGill Univ, Montreal General Hospital Research Institute |
Dystroglycan dysfunction causes mental retardation & muscular dystrophy. But what does it do & how does it do it? |
Hakima Moukhles |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
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| MAY 3 |
Jeffrey Esko |
Prof of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of Glycobiology Research & Training Center, Univ of California, San Diego |
Proteoglycan-driven lipoprotein clearance in the liver: the long-sought clearance receptors for triglyceride rich lipoproteins? |
Michael Underhill |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 17 |
Vincenzo Pirrotta
(McClintock Lecture) |
Dept of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Rutgers Univ, Nelson Labs, Piscataway, NJ |
Polycomb silencing mechanisms and genomic programming |
Hugh Brock
(Zoology) |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 31 |
Thomas Murphy
(Dharmacon Technical Series Seminar) |
Dharmacon RNA Technologies, ThermoFisher Scientific |
miRNAs and siRNAs: understanding their shared mechanisms and application to discovery research |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
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| JUN 6 |
Angela Goodacre
Yiwei Jia |
Olympus Canada |
In vivo fluorescence molecular imaging systems |
I Robert Nabi |
10:00-3:00
LSC1510 |
| 14 |
Avraham Raz |
Prof of Pathology, Radiation & Oncology, Wayne State Univ School of Medicine, Detroit, MI |
On the role of Galectin-3 in cancer metastasis: from the bench to the clinic and back |
I Robert Nabi |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 26 |
Rakesh Kumar
(Perceptions of the Cell Seminar Series) |
John G & Marie Stella Kennedy Memorial Foundation Chair; Prof & Deputy Chair, Dept of Molecular & Cellular Oncology; Prof of Biochem & Molecular Biology; Adjunct Prof, Baylor College of Medicine; Univ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston |
Cytoskeleton signaling moves to the nucleus |
I Robert Nabi |
4:00-5:00
LSC3 |
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| JUL 11 |
Christopher Ahern |
Research Asst Prof, Dept of Physiology, Inst of Hyperexcitability, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA |
Blockade of voltage-gated sodium channels by TTX and lidocaine: exploring energetics with unnatural amino acids |
Ken Baimbridge |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
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| AUG 9 |
Saman Rezazadeh-Roudsari |
PhD Candidate, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC |
Structural and genetic modulators of Kv channel activation kinetics |
David Fedida |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
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