Departmental Seminars
Departmental seminar schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
| May 13, 2025 | Dr. Matthew Buechler | Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto | “Cross tissue (re)organization of the fibroblast lineage” | Dr. Michael Underhill | 2:30-3:30pm LSC3 |
| April 14, 2025 | Dr. Yanlan Mao | Group Leader and Professor of Developmental Biophysics at the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, and Deputy Director of the UCL Institute for the Physics of Living Systems | “Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue Dynamics During Development, Homeostasis, and Repair” | Dr. Guy Tanentzapf | 12-1pm LSC3 |
| March 27, 2025 | Dr. Richard Minshall | Professor Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Bioengineering College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago | “Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension and Sex-linked Protection by Endothelial Cell Caveolin-1” | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | 3-4pm LSC3 |
| March 21, 2025 | Dr. Christopher Halbrook | Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry University of California Irvine | “Targeting Crosstalk and Resistance Networks in Pancreatic Cancer” | Dr. Janel Kopp | 3-4pm LSC3 |
| March 17, 2025 | Dr. Patrick Oakes | Associate Professor, Department of Cell & Molecular Physiology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago | “Strain Signaling: How LIM domain proteins coordinate mechanotransduction at adhesions” | Dr. Guy Tanentzapf | 1-2pm LSC3 |
| March 14, 2025 | Dr. John Rohde | Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Dalhousie University | “IpaH-class effectors: lessons on virulence, and an Achilles-heel towards novel therapeutics” | Dr. Chris Loewen | 10:30-11:30am LSC3 |
| March 13,2024 | Dr. Chiara Zurzolo | Professor and Research Director, Department of Cell Biology and Infection, Pasteur Institute | “Tunneling Nanotubes Across Biological Scales: Reshaping Connectivity and Role in the Spreading of Neurodegenerative Diseases” | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | 3-4pm, LSC3 |
| February 23, 2024 | Dr. Claire Brown | Professor, Department of Physiology and a Director of the Advanced BioImaging Facility at McGill University | “Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate Normal and Cancer Cell Migration” | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | 3-4pm LSC3 |
| October 11, 2023 | Dr. Colleen Wu | Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University | “Modulating Hypoxia/HIF Signaling in the Bone Microenvironment to Prevent Pathological Bone Disorders” | Dr. Cal Roskelley | 3-4pm LSC3 |
| May 5, 2023 | The 19th Copp Lecture Dr. Pieter Cullis | Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of British Columbia | “Lipid Nanoparticle Systems for Enabling Gene Therapies” | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| April 28, 2023 | Dr. Peter Walter | Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California | “Targeting the Cell’s Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit” | Dr. Thibault Mayor | 3-4pm LSC3 |
| March 31, 2023 | Dr. John Burke | Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Victoria | “Defining the Molecular Basis of How Lipid Signaling is Dysregulated in Human Disease” | Dr. Calvin Yip | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| March 24, 2023 | Dr. Heidi Mcbride | Professor Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery McGill University | “Insights into mitochondrial vesicle formation and links to disease” | Dr. Hilla Weidberg | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| March 9, 2023 | Mitchell Braam | PhD Student | “Bioprocess and cell line engineering to improve pancreatic endocrine differentiation and increase safety of pluripotent stem cells” | Dr. Timothy Kieffer | 1-2pm LSC 3 |
| February 24, 2023 | Dr. Julia Cordero | Professor Local and Systemic Functions of the Intestine in Health and Disease The Beatson Institute Research Groups University of Glasgow | “Reciprocal gut/body signaling during intestinal heal and disease” | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| February 17, 2023 | Dr. Ruth Lehmann | Professor of Biology Director, Whitehead Institute MIT | “Translational regulation in germline condensates” | Dr. Ethan Greenblatt | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| February 03, 2023 | Dr. George Church | Professor of Genetics Professor of Health Sciences and Technology (MIT) Founding Core Faculty and Lead Synthetic Biology Harvard University | “tRNA-code: Resistance to all viruses. Tropism-Code: Delivery TF-code: Cell types” | LSI Joint Seminar Committee | TBD |
| January 27, 2023 | Dr. Geraldine Seydoux | Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery Professor Molecular Biology and Genetics John Hopkins Medicine | “Assembly and function of RNA granules in germ cells” | Kenji Sugioka | TBD |
| January 13, 2023 | Dr. Clemens Cabernard | Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Washington | “Cell and mechanobiology of asymmetric cell division” | Dr. Kenji Sugioka | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| January 06, 2023 | Dr. Christopher Overall | Professor and Canada Research Chair. Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences. Centre for Blood Research. UBC | “The Cellular coup d’etat executed by SARS-CoV2 proteases to escape autophagy and ISG innate defenses” | Dr. Jessica Rosin | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| November 25, 2022 | Dr. Zabrina Brumme | Professor Faculty of Health Sciences Simon Fraser University | Hitting a moving target: how understanding HIV reservoir dynamics can help advance HIV cure research | LSI Joint Seminar Committee | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| November 10, 2022 | Dr. Susan Shao | Associate Professor of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Harvard University | Mechanisms of membrane protein quality control | Dr. Hilla Weidberg | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| October 28, 2022 | Dr. Khanh Dao Duc | Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Associate member of the Departments of Computer Science and Zoology University of British Columbia | Investigating the heterogeneity of ribosomal dynamics and structures | Dr. Mark Cembrowski | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| October 17, 2022 | Dr. Morgan Fullerton | Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology University of Ottawa | “Immunometabolism as a regulator of atherosclerosis, parasite and diabetes” | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | 2pm LSC 3 |
| October 14, 2022 | Dr. Nadine Caron | Professor Northern Medical Program University of Northern British Columbia | “Silent Genome Project” | Dr. Lindsay Rogers, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| October 07, 2022 | Dr. Matthew McCallum | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Veesler lab Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Washington | “Using cryoEM to reveal sites of vulnerability for viral entry” | Dr. Natalie Strynadka | 3-4pm LSC 3 |
| *postponed* | Dr. Karen Mossman | Professor and Vice President Research Department of Medicine McMaster University | “Innate immunity in bats: what can we learn to combat future pandemics” | Dr. Ninan Abraham | TBD |
| September 16, 2022 | Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan | Assistant Professor Molecular and Cell Biology University of Connecticut | “Adapting an evolutionary model organism for host-microbe studies” | Dr. Carolina Tropini | Zoom Seminar (registration link to be emailed to the seminar community) |
