| DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2011-2012 |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
| SEPTEMBER 2011 | |||||
| 15 | Don Moerman | Prof, Dept of Zoology, UBC | The million mutation project – a C. elegans resource | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 22 | Tim Kieffer | Prof, Depts of CPS and Surgery, Diabetes Research Group, UBC | Insulin Replacement by Engineered Cells to Treat Diabetes | Susanne Clee | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 29 | Karen C Cheung | Asst Prof, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Microsystems Group, UBC | Microfluidic systems for three-dimensional cell culture and high throughput drug screening | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| OCTOBER 2011 | |||||
| 6 | Fumio Takei | Distinguished Scientist, BC Cancer Agency; Prof, Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC | NK Cells: Licensed to Kill | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 13 | David Banfield | Prof, Section of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Div of Life Science, Hong Kong Univ of Science & Technology, Hong Kong | GOLPH3-mediated retention of glycosyltransferases in the Golgi | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 20 | Susan Parkhurst | Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Div of Basic Sciences, Seattle, WA | Membrane and cytoskeleton responses during single cell and multicellular wound repair in Drosophila | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 21 | Philippe Seguela | Montreal Neurological Institute, Dept of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill Univ | Regulation of fast ATP signaling by phospholipids in neurons and glia | Michel Roberge Shernaz Bamji |
1:00-2:00
LSC1510 |
| 27 | Thibault Mayor | Asst Prof, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC | From misfolding to degradation with ubiquitin: heat-shock stress reveals a novel cytosolic protein quality control pathway | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| NOVEMBER 2011 | |||||
| 3 | Paul Taghert | Prof of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington Univ School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA | Synchronization of the Drosophila circadian pacemaker network by internal and external signals | Doug Allan | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 10 | Mark Ginsberg (Perceptions of the Cell) |
Prof, Director Physician Scientist Training Pathway, Dept of Medicine, UC San Diego, CA | Dynamic regulation of cell adhesion | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 17 | Brenda Andrews | Prof and Chair, Banting & Best Dept of Medical Research, Univ of Toronto | Mapping biological pathways and networks using yeast functional genomics | Chris Loewen
Vivien Measday Phil Hieter |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 24 | Aly Karsan | Head of Clinical Diagnostic Genomics, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency; Prof, Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC | Role of microRNAs and innate immune signaling in the myelodysplastic syndromes | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 29 | Christian Peters | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Physiology, Dept of CPS, UBC | Measurement of separable conformational changes that control ion flow in voltage-gated potassium channels | Eric Accili | 2:30-3:30
LSC3 |
| DECEMBER 2011 | |||||
| 1 | Christopher Ahern | Asst Prof, Depts of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Cellular & Physiological Sciences, CRG, UBC | Applying chemical biology to ion channels | Susanne Clee | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 8 | Elizabeth Conibear | Assoc Prof, Dept of Medical Genetics, UBC; CFRI, CMMT | Large scale approaches for understanding vesicle transport | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 15 | Timothy H Murphy | Prof, Depts of Psychiatry and CPS, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, UBC | Widespread mapping of mouse brain functional connectivity using light | Shernaz Bamji | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| JANUARY 2012 | |||||
| 12 | Harley T Kurata | Asst Prof, Dept of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics; Affiliate Member, Cardiovascular Research Group, UBC | How ATP-sensitive potassium channels translate cellular metabolism into electrical signals | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 17 | Dale W Laird | Prof and Canada Research Chair in Gap Junctions & Disease, Dept of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Univ of Western Ontario | Mechanisms linking connexin gene mutations to syndromic and non-syndromic disease | Christian Naus | 2:30-3:30
LSC3 |
| 26 | Joerg Gsponer | Asst Prof, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, CHiBi, UBC | Intrinsically disordered proteins: regulation and disease | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| FEBRUARY 2012 | |||||
| 2 | Eric Jan | Assoc Prof, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC | Factorless ribosome recruitment mediated by a tRNA-like internal ribosome entry site | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 7 | Kevin Eade | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Cell & Developmental Biology, UBC | Subsets of developmental transcription networks maintain cellular subtype identity in the mature nervous system | Doug Allan | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 9 | Klaus Foerstemann | Prof of Biochemistry, Gene Center & Dept of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians Univ, Munich, Germany | Drosophila miR-277 controls TOR activity and lifespan via tuning of branched-chain amino acid metabolism | Stefan Taubert | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 10 | Seema Bhatnagar | Assoc Prof, Dept of Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Univ of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | Neural substrates underlying adaptations to repeated stress | Victor Viau | 10:30-11:30
LSC1330 |
| 16 | Anne Muesch | Assoc Prof, Dept of Developmental & Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY | Building epithelia with columnar or hepatic polarity: a role for the kinase Par1b | I Robert Nabi | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 23 | Richard Minshall | Assoc Prof, Dept of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Univ of Illinois at Chicago | Oxidative stress-induced endothelial cell reprogramming | I Robert Nabi & ANEA |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 24 | Thomas Hoeg-Jensen | Adjunct Prof, Faculty of Life Sciences, Univ of Copenhagen | Development of insulin drugs for improved treatment of diabetes | James Johnson | 10:30-11:30
LSC1410 |
| MARCH 2012 | |||||
| 8 | Christian Giaume | Director, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie (CIRB), College de France, Paris | Glial connexin expression and function in the context of Alzheimer’s disease | Christian Naus; BRC | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 15 | Calvin Yip | Asst Prof, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC | Visualizing cellular machines with single-particle electron microscopy | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 22 | Gregory Morton | Research Assoc Prof, Dept of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutriton, Univ of Washington, Seattle | Leptin, diabetes and the brain | Susanne Clee | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 23 | Katie Lee | MSc candidate, Graduate Program in Genetics, UBC | Novel wild-derived mouse models of obesity and diabetes resistance/td> | Susanne Clee | 12:30-1:30
LSC1510 |
| 29 | Laura Nilson | McGill University | Epithelial patterning through spatial regulation of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling | Guy Tanentzapf & SFU |
12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| APRIL 2012 | |||||
| 2 | Heather Jackson | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Physiology, Dept of CPS, UBC | Cardiac ion channels: evolution, function and disease | Eric Accili | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 4 | Warren Gallin | Prof, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ of Alberta<, Edmonton/td> | Comparative and molecular dynamics analyses of voltage-gated K+ channel activation | Eric Accili | 12:30-1:30
LSC1330 |
| 5 | Christian Kastrup | UBC Chibi, Michael Smith Lab | Understanding and controlling blood coagulation using models, materials and devices | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 12 | Eldon Emberly | Assoc Prof (Canada Research Chair Tier II), Dept of Physics, Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC | Role of cell geometry in driving localization within cells/td> | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 13 | Maria Fairbank | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Cell & Developmental Biology, UBC | Insight into ER quality control mechanisms: novel characterization of the E3 ubiquitin ligase GP78/AMFR and the G-alpha S subunit in the ER | I Robert Nabi | 2:00-3:00
LSC3 |
| 26 | Charles Bourque | James McGill Prof, McGill Univ Dept of Neurology; Medical Scientist, Centre for Research in Neuroscience, Montreal General Hospital | TRPV channels and osmosensing | Hakima Moukhles; BRC | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| MAY 2012 | |||||
| 3 | Stephanie Borgland | Asst Prof, Dept of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, UBC | Insulin suppresses neuronal activity and output in the reward system | Susanne Clee | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 10 | Douglas Allan | Asst Prof, Dept of CPS, UBC | Mitochondrial dynamics and quality control | I Robert Nabi | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 14 | Freda Miller
(8th D Harold Copp Lecture) |
Prof, Dept of Molecular Genetics, Univ of Toronto; Sr Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Canada Research Chair, Developmental Neurobiology | Stem cells: building and rebuilding the nervous system | I Robert Nabi | 4:00-5:00
LSC2 |
| 17 | Mark Peifer (Perceptions of the Cell) |
Distinguished Prof, Dept of Biology, Univ of North Carolina at Capital Hill | Building the body plan – the miracle of morphogenesis | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 18 | William Green | Prof, Dept of Neurobioogy, Univ of Chicago, IL | Multiple AMPA receptor recycling pathways at excitatory synapses | I Robert Nabi | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 24 | Judy Wong | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC | Disease mechanisms of x-linked dyskeratosis congenita | Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| 31 | Michael Riddell | Assoc Prof, Faculty of Health, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, York University, Toronto | The paradoxical effects of exercise and stress on diabetes development | Richard Liggins (CDRD) | 12:00-1:00
LSC3 |
| JUNE 2012 | |||||
| 25 | Frank Huynh | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Physiology, Dept of CPS, UBC | The regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism by hepatic leptin signalling | Tim Kieffer | 12:30-1:30
LSC3 |
| JULY 2012 | |||||
| 30 | Fraser Scott | Sr Scientist, Chronic Disease, Ottawa Hospital Research Inst; Prof, Depts of Medicine & Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, Univ of Ottawa | Environmental control of gut immunity and beta-cell survival in autoimmune diabetes – potential role of antimicrobial proteins | Tim Kieffer | 11:00-12:00
LSC3 |