DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2010-2011 |
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
SEPTEMBER 2010 | |||||
9 | May Cheng | PhD Candidate, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC | An examination of the slow inactivation and resting inactivation of Kv1.5 and ShakerIR channels | Steven Kehl | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
16 | Colby Zaph | Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, CIHR New Investigator, The Biomedical Research Centre, UBC | Immunoregulation of innate and adaptive immunity at mucosal sites | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
23 | Jiang-Fan Chen | Prof, Dept of Neurology, Boston Univ School of Medicine, Boston, MA | Opposite modulation of inflammation by the adenosine A2A receptor in peripheral tissues and brain: insights from genetic knockout models | Kenny Kwok & BRC |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
30 | Tullio Pozzan | Prof, General Pathology, Biomedical Sciences Dept, Univ of Padua, Italy | Ca2+ handling by organelles: an inside view | Ed Moore | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
OCTOBER 2010 | |||||
7 | Artur Kania | Director, Neural Circuit Development Laboratory, IRCM, Montreal | The control of spinal motor neuron myotopic organization by Reelin, Eph and Netrin signalling | Doug Allan | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
14 | Wun Chey Sin | Research Assoc, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC; CPS Dept Postdoctoral & Research Scientist Award Recipient 2009 | Connexin43 – intricate link to glioma progression | Guy Tanentzapf Susanne Clee |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
21 | Clare Waterman-Storer (Perceptions of the Cell) |
Director, Cell Biology & Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD | Integrating actin and adhesion dynamics in cell migration | I Robert Nabi | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
27 | Claude Desplan | Silver Prof, Dept of Biology, New York University, NY | Detection and processing of color information in Drosophila | Guy Tanentzapf | 3:30-4:30 LSC3 |
28 | Sarah Cohen | PhD candidate, Dept of Zoology, UBC | Novel mechanisms of viral nuclear entry | Nelly Pante | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
NOVEMBER 2010 | |||||
4 | Mark Rasenick | Distinguished UIC Prof, Dept of Physiology & Biophysics, Univ of Illinois at Chicago | G proteins and the microtubule cytoskeleton: form and function in signal transduction | I Robert Nabi & BRC |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
10 | David Bilder (Perceptions of the Cell) |
Assoc Prof, Cell & Developmental Biology, UC Berkeley, CA | Form and function in epithelial growth and morphogenesis | Guy Tanentzapf | 2:30-3:30 LSC3 |
11 | Remembrance Day – UNAVAILABLE | ||||
18 | Jan Ehses | Asst Prof, Dept of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, UBC | Mechanisms of islet inflammation in obesity and type 2 diabetes | Chris McIntosh | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
25 | Shernaz Bamji | Asst Prof, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC | The ties that bind: cadherins at the synapse | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
DECEMBER 2010 | |||||
2 | Stefan Taubert | Asst Prof, Dept of Medical Genetics, CMMT, UBC | Gene regulation by the cofactor complex mediator in C. elegans | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
9 | Valera Vasioukhin | Assoc Member, Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA | Lgl1 in the maintenance of polarity and regulation of self-renewal and differentiation of mammalian neural progenitor cells | Shernaz Bamji | 1:00-2:00 LSC3 |
16 | Giuseppe Melacini | Faculty Member, Dept of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, ON | Mapping cyclic nucleotide-dependent allosteric networks in eukaryotes by NMR | Eric Accili | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
JANUARY 2011 | |||||
6 | Harald Hutter | Prof, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC | Axon guidance in C. elegans: how to identify the missing players | Douglas Allan | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
13 | Henry Lester | Bren Prof of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA | Intracellular events during chronic exposure to nicotine | Chris Ahern; BRC & CRG |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
20 | Ninan Abraham | Assoc Prof, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Dept of Zoology (Cell Biology Group), UBC | Cytokine signaling: survival, lymphomas and screens | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
27 | Cheryl Gregory-Evans | Assoc Prof, Dept of Ophthalmology, UBC | Fadd gene expression is a critical component of the mechanism driving optic fissure closure during eye development | Douglas Allan | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
FEBRUARY 2011 | |||||
3 | Wolfram Tetzlaff | Prof, Dept of Zoology, UBC; Assoc Director, Discovery Science, ICORD | Preclinical strategies for spinal cord injury – from diets to transplantations | Shernaz Bamji | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
10 | Cecilia Moens | HHMI Investigator, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA | Polarized cell behaviours underlying the morphogeneis of the zebrafish hindbrain | Douglas Allan | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
17 | Leigh Anne Swayne | Asst Prof, IMP, Division of Medical Sciences, Univ of Victoria, BC; Affiliate Asst Prof, CPS | Are pannexins novel contributors to the bioelectric control of neurogenesis | Christan Naus | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
24 | Matthew C Lorincz | Assoc Prof, Dept of Medical Genetics, UBC | DNA methylation and H3K9 trimethylation regulate predominantly distinct sets of genes, retroelements and chimaeric transcripts in mouse ES cells | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
MARCH 2011 | |||||
3 | Francis Lynn | Asst Prof, Div of General Surgery and Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences; Scientist, Child & Family Research Institute, CMMT | Driving pancreatic beta cell genesis and proliferation: Sox4 acceleration and Npas4 braking | Susannne Clee | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
10 | Christopher Loewen | Asst Prof, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC | Lipid signaling and cell biology – in yeast! | I Robert Nabi | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
17 | Elena Oancea | Asst Prof of Medical Science, Brown Univ, Providence, Rhode Island | Ultraviolet light phototransduction in human melanocytes | Eric Accili & SFU |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
24 | Kelly McNagny | Prof, Dept of Medical Genetics, Biomedical Research Centre, UBC | The CD34 family in inflammatory disease and development | Susanne Clee | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
APRIL 2011 | |||||
1 | Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz | Chief, Section on Organelle Biology, Cell Biology & Metabolism Program, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD | Navigating the cellular landscape with new optical probes, imaging strategies and technical innovations | I Robert Nabi | 2:00-3:00 LSC3 |
7 | Filip Van Petegem | Asst Prof, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC | Leaking ion channels and disease: a structural investigation of ryanodine receptor mutations | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
11 | Paul Squires | Assoc Prof (READER) in Diabetes & Endocrinology, School of Life Sciences, Univ of Warwick, Coventry, UK | Cell-contact, coupling & communication: a role in diabetes from pancreas to kidney | Chris McIntosh | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
28 | John Challis | President & CEO, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research | Preterm birth and programming late life disease | Cal Roskelley | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
MAY 2011 | |||||
5 | Michael Bennett | Distinguished Prof, Dept of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York | Gap junctions and hemichannels: an evolving story | Kurt Haas & BRC |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
12 | Mark Metzstein | Asst Prof of Human Genetics, Molecular Biology Program, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City | Regulation of subcellular morphogenesis by the PAR-polarity complex | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
19 | David Raible | Prof, Dept of Biological Structure, Univ of Washington, Seattle | Specification of sensory neurons from neural crest | Tim O’Connor | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
26 | TBA | Affymetrix Inc | Applications for Affymetrix microarrays | T Michael Underhill | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
31 | Robert Tjian (7th D Harold Copp Lecture) |
Howard Hughes Investigator and Prof of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley, CA | Core transcription factors, embryonic stem cells and differentiation | I Robert Nabi | 4:00-5:00 LSC2 |
JUNE 2011 | |||||
9 | Gary K Yang | PhD Candidate, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC | Adenosine signalling in controlling the release of gastric and pancreatic peptides | Timothy Kieffer Kenny Kwok |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
20 | SR Wayne Chen | Prof, Dept of Physiology & Pharmacology, Univ of Calgary, AB | Novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias | Ed Moore F Van Petegem |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
JULY 2011 | |||||
14 | Brian Ruffell | Postdoctoral Scholar, Coussens Laboratory, Dept of Pathology, Univ of California at San Francisco | Macrophages as therapeutic targets in breast cancer | Pauline Johnson Cal Roskelley |
12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
21 | Ben Ovryn |
Assoc Prof, Dept of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY |
Modeling and imaging the formation of integrin adhesions | I Robert Nabi | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
28 | TBA | Illumina, Inc | What’s new about Illumina sequencing technology & Miseq a new personal desktop sequencer | T Michael Underhill | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
AUGUST 2011 | |||||
11 | Marie-Odile Parat | Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Univ of Queensland, Australia | Caveolae and tumour angiogenesis | I Robert Nabi | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |
18 | Angus McQuibban | Asst Prof, Dept of Biochemistry, Univ of Toronto, ON | Mitochondrial dynamics: mechanism and disease | Chris Loewen | 12:30-1:30 LSC3 |