LSI Seminar schedule

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Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Host	Time/Place
September 1, 2023	Dr. Zhao Zhang	Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Duke University	“Chasing the Jumping Genes: From Making Fly Eggs to Cancer Therapy”	Dr. Ethan Greenblatt	3-4PM LSC 1003
September 15, 2023	Dr. Jessica Feldman	Associate Professor Department of Biology Stanford University	“Building patterns in cells during development”	Dr. Kenji Sugioka
September 22, 2023	Dr. Nozomu Yachie	Associate Professor  School of Biomedical Engineering  University of British Columbia	“HD Video Recorder of the Cell”	Dr. Calvin Yip
October 13, 2023	Dr. Christophe Lamaze	Director of Research, INSERM Department of Cellular & Chemical Biology   Institut Curie, France	“Remote Control of Signalling through Caveolae Mechanics: A New Paradigm in Mechanotransduction”	Dr. Robert Nabi	3-4PM LSC 1003
October 20, 2023	Dr. Joy Richman	Professor Faculty of Dentistry University of British Columbia	TBD	Dr. Jessica Rosin
November 3, 2023	Dr. Andre Le Bivic	Director of Life Sciences at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)	TBD	Dr. Robert Nabi
November 10, 2023	Dr. Brenda Andrews	Professor Department of Molecular Genetics University of Toronto	TBD	Dr. Christopher Loewen	CANCELLED
January 12, 2024	Dr. James Olzmann	Associate Professor Department of Molecular & Cell Biology University of Berkley	“Cellular Mechanisms of Lipid Homeostasis: From Lipid droplets to Ferroptopsis”	Dr. Ethan Greenblatt
January 19, 2024	Dr. Alex Dunn	Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University	“Mechanotransduction of cell-cell junctions: beyond the usual suspects”	Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Postdoc Association	3-4PM LSC 1003
February 2, 2024	Dr. Kathy McCoy	Professor Department of Physiology and Pharmacology University of Calgary	“Microbiome and Regulation of Immune Function: Defining Mechanisms”	Dr. Lisa Osborne
February 9, 2024	Dr. Timothy Wai	Mitochondrial Biology Group Head CNRS Research Director Institut Pasteur and CNRS	“Mitochondrial Membrane Dysfunction and Sequelae”	Dr. Hilla Weidberg	3-4PM LSC 1003
March 15, 2024	Dr. Ardem Patapoutian	Department of Neuroscience Scripps Research Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator  Nobel laureate 2021	TBD	LSI Trainees
March 22, 2024	Dr. Jason Shepherd	Associate Professor of Neurobiology Adjunct Associate Professor of Biochemistry Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy University of Utah	TBD	LSI Trainees – Part of LSI Research Day
April 5, 2024	The 20th Copp Lecture Dr. Ramanujan Hegde	Group Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	TBD	Dr. Robert Nabi
April 12, 2024	Zoology McClintock Lecture Dr. Bob Goldstein	Professor Department of Biology University of North Carolina	TBD	Dr. Kenji Sugioka
April 19, 2024	Dr. Melody Campbell	Assistant Professor Basic Sciences Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	TBD	Dr. Guy Tanentzapf
April 26, 2024	Dr. Jared Rutter	Professor Department of Biochemistry University of Utah Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator	TBD	Dr. Hilla Weidberg