| DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2018-2019 |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 6 | No Seminar | ||||
| September 13 | No Seminar | ||||
| September 20 | Dean Dermot Kelleher | Dean of Medicine, UBC |
Lymphocytes Impact on Cellular Programming in Immunity and Cancer |
Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| September 27 | Janel Kopp | CPS, UBC | Cellular origin affects the phenotype of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells |
Dr. Rideout | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| October 4 | No Seminar | ||||
| October 11 | No Seminar | ||||
| October 18 | Joy Richman | Department of Oral Health Sciences, UBC | Working at the interface of biology and mathematical modeling to understand cell behaviour in the face | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| October 25 | Shernaz Bamji | CPS | Regulation of synapse formation and plasticity by palmitoylating enzymes | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| November 1 | Fabio Rossi | UBC-BRC | Stromal progenitors homeostasis, inflammation and regeneration | Dr. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| November 8 | Sheila Teves | UBC-Biochemistry | Transcriptional memory through the cell cycle | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| November 15 | Elizabeth M Simpson | BC-CMMT | Two Gene Therapy Stories – MiniPromoters for rAAV and CRISPR for Blindness | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| November 22 | Bruce Verchere | BC-CHRI | Biomarkers and triggers of beta cell dysfunction in diabetes | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| November 29 | Benjamin Freedman | University of Washington | Modeling Physiology and Disease with Multi- Dimensional Kidney Organoids | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| December 6 | Hakima Moukhles | CPS | Understanding the Mechanisms Regulating Aquaporin 4 Function in Health and Disease | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| December 13 | Amy Walker | UMass Med School | Methylation: a modification linking metabolism, gene regulation and metabolic health | Dr. Stefan Taubert | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| December 17 | Madeline Hayes | Harvard Medical School | Using Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity (Wnt/PCP) to define tumor stem cells in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma | Dr. Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| December 20 | No Seminar | ||||
| December 27 | No Seminar | ||||
| January 3 | No Seminar | ||||
| January 7 | Ghazaleh Ashrafi | Weill-Cornell Medical College | Powering the Synapse on Demand | Dr. Eric Accili | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| January 9 | Leonardo Almeida-Souza | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | How to build an Actin Network at Clathrin-Coated Pits | Dr. Robert Nabi | 2:30 pm, LSC3 |
| January 10 | Alvin Powers | Vanderbilt University | Pancreatic Islet Biology, Function, and Dysfunction: Surprises and Lessons for Diabetes | Diabetes Research Group | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| January 14 | Hyun Cheol Roh | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Adipocyte cellular plasticity in physiology and disease | Dr. Timothy Kieffer | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| January 17 | Pete Jones | University of Otago, New Zealand | Regulation of intracellular Ca2+ release in the heart” | Dr. Edwin Moore | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| January 24 | No Seminar | ||||
| January 31 | Yojiro Yamanaka | McGill University | Modeling ovarian cancer in mice | Drs. Roskelley/Huntsman | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| February 7 | Andrea Wills | University of Washington | Remodeling chromatin and transcription during vertebrate regeneration | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| February 14 | Shane Duggan | UBC/Medical Genetics | Inflammation and an intestine-like differentiation programme underlie the cellular origins of esophageal adenocarcinoma | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| February 21 | Amina Zoubeidi | UBC/Prostate Center | Cellular plasticity in treatment resistant prostate cancer | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| February 28 | Brian Oliver | NIH/NIDDK | Genomics of the single chromosome | Drs. Rideout/Tanentzapf | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| March 7 | Anthony Gramolini | University of Toronto | Analysis of mouse and human cardiovascular tissues using global and phosphoproteomic approaches | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| March 14 | Sarah Kucenas | University of Virginia | Unwrapping Glial Diversity in the Vertebrate Nervous System | Dr. Vanessa Auld | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| March 21 | Karla Williams | University of British Columbia | Extracellular vesicles and invadopodia: Providing insight into disease progression and targets for therapeutic development | Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| March 28 | Whisstock | Monash University | Structural Studies of Macrophage Immune Effectors Using Cryo-EM | Dr. Calvin Yip/CBR | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| April 4 | Carolyn Brown | UBC/Medical Genetics | X-chromosome inactivation: Epigenetics and eXeptions | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| April 11 | Sevan Hopyan | Sick Kids | Approaches to studying morphogenesis in the mammalian embryo | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| April 16 | Gökhan S. Hotamişligil | Harvard University | THE 15TH D. HAROLD COPP LECTURE SPEAKER – “Metabolic Biology of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Health and Disease” | Dr. Robert Nabi | 4:00 pm, LSC2 |
| April 18 | Lucy O’Brien | Stanford University | Collective cell dynamics during organ renewal | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| April 25 | Laura Alonso | UMASS med | “The beta cell ER stress tipping point: from proliferation to failure” | Diabetes Research Group | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| May 2 | CELL RETREAT-No Seminar | ||||
| May 9 | Larry Zipursky | University of California Los Angeles |
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Dr. Kota Mizumoto | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| May 16 | Shalina Ousman | University of Calgary | AlphaB-crystallin and the injured peripheral nervous system | Dr. Hakima Moukhles | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| May 23 | Honglin Luo | UBC/Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Enterovirus-induced proteotoxicity: connection between heart and neuronal disease | Drs. Rideout/Kopp | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |
| May 30 | Subhojit Roy | University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research | “Manipulation of Intracellular Trafficking as Therapeutic Avenues in Neurodegenerative Diseases” | Dr. Shernaz Bamji | 12:30 pm, LSC3 |