| DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2014-2015 |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
| SEPTEMBER 2014 | |||||
| 11 | Christian Naus & Jacqueline Firkins | Departments of CPS & Theatre and Film, UBC | Gap junctions, glial networks and models of neurological disease. | S Clee | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 18 | Parisa Asghari | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Cell & Developmental Biology, UBC |
Dynamic Distribution of Ryanodine Receptors in Cardiac Muscles.
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E Moore | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| OCTOBER 2014 | |||||
| 2 | Richard Mann | Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, NYC | Flies fly but they also walk: a genetic analysis of leg development and walking. | G Tanentzapf & D Altschuler | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 16 | Chris Maxwell | CFRI | Mitotic spindle orientation and asymmetric cell division requires the cytoskeletal protein RHAMM. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 23 | Will Lockwood | BC Cancer Agency |
Integrating Clinical, Functional and Chemical Genomics to
Understand Lung Cancer Biology
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G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 30 | Dan Coombs | Math, UBC | Simulation and modeling approaches to T cell signaling and cell cytotoxicity. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| NOVEMBER 2014 | |||||
| 13 | Louis Lefebvre | Dept of Medical Genetics, UBC | Genomic imprinting in the trophoblast lineage: from placental phenotypes to genome-wide epigenetic studies in trophoblast stem cells. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 20 | Arya Mehran | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Cell & Developmental Biology, UBC | Effects of Insulin Gene Dosage on Body Weight and Glucose Homeostasis. | J Johnson | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 27 | Joy Richman | Professor, Dept of Oral Health Sciences, UBC | Evo-Devo studies on the teeth and jaws of reptiles. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| DECEMBER 2014 | |||||
| 4 | Anne-Claude Gingras | Lunenfeld Institute, University of Toronto | Signaling interactome dynamics in health and disease. | C Yip & Filip Van Petegem | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 18 | Stefano Brigidi | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, UBC | Regulation of cadherin-based adhesion and synapse plasticity by palmitoylated δ-catenin. | S Bamji | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| JANUARY 2015 | |||||
| 8 | Monica Castellanos | Postdoctoral Fellow, Allan Lab, CPS, UBC | Dimorphic differentiation of female-specific neuronal populations and behavior in Drosophila. | D Allan | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 15 | Cal Roskelley | Professor, CPS, UBC | From Morphogenesis to Metastasis: Modified By The Mechanical Changes In The Matrix. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 29 | Tim O’Connor | Professor, CPS, UBC | Semaphorins: complicated barriers to neuronal growth and plasticity | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| FEBRUARY 2015 | |||||
| 5 | John Burke | Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Microbiology, U Vic | Defining the molecular basis of regulation of phosphoinositide kinases and their roles in disease using an integrated biophysical approach. | C Loewen & C Yip (BMB) | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 6 | Thomas Simmen (Ext examiner for Lei Li) | Associate Professor, Dept of Cell Biology, University of Alberta | The Mitochondria-Associated Membrane (MAM): A Cellular Structure where Redox and Rabs decide on Cancer and Neurodegeneration | I R Nabi | 10:00-11:00 LSC1510 |
| 12 | Lei Li | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Cell & Developmental Biology | Unraveling the role of Gp78/AMFR, an E3 ubiquitin ligase and cell surface receptor, in cancer progression. | I R Nabi | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 26 | Mike Gordon | Assistant Professor, Zoology, UBC | Dissecting taste and feeding circuits in Drosophila. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| MARCH 2015 | |||||
| 5 | Matthew Hill | Assistant Professor, Depts of Cell Biology & Anatomy/ Psychiatry, University of Calgary |
Endocannabinoids as Multi-modal Regulators of the Stress Response.
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J Weinberg | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 12 | Fergil Mills | PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, UBC | The Role of β-catenin and the Cadherin Adhesion Complex in Synaptic Plasticity, Learning and Addiction. | S Bamji | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 19 | Angela Stathopoulos | Professor of Biology, Control and Dynamical Systems (CDS), Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA | Coordinate Migration of Mesoderm Cells in the Drosophila Embryo. | McClintock Lecture – Mike Gordon & Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 26 | Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan | Professor of Cell Biology, Neurosciences and Physiology, Weill Cornell Medical College New York |
Retinal cell polarity, terminal differentiation and disease: key roles of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium.
|
I.R. Nabi | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| APRIL 2015 | |||||
| 2 | Joe Nadeau | Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (Seattle) | From Peas to Disease, Mendel 2.0: Complex traits, epistasis and epigenetics for metabolic diseases and cancers. | S Clee | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 16 | Shernaz Bamji | Associate Professor, CPS, UBC |
Making Memories Stick: Cadherin Adhesion Molecules at the Synapse.
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G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 23 | Frederic Picard | University of Laval | Molecular links between aging and energy metabolism. | S Clee | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 30 | Brenda R. Kwak | University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland | Pannexin-dependent signalling in platelet aggregation and thrombosis. | E Conway (CBR) and C Naus | 1:30-2:30LSC3 |
| MAY 2015 | |||||
| 1 | Charles Lai | Dept of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | Visualization and tracking of tumor extracellular vesicle delivery and RNA translation using multiplexed reporters. | LSI and C Naus | 3:00-4:00LSC3 |
| 7 | Ed Moore | Professor, CPS, UBC | Structure/Function Relationships in Cardiac Muscle: The Dynamic Dyad. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 14 | Hannu Larjava | Professor & Chair, Division of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene, Dentistry, UBC | Integrin avb6: important regulator of enamel formation and periodontal inflammation. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 25 | Peter Walter (The 11th D. Harold Copp Lecture) | Professor and Chair, Dept of Biochemistry/Biophysics, UCSF; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease. | I R Nabi | 4:00-5:00 LSC1 |
| 28 | Tim Jegla | Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State University, PA, USA | What can sea anemone and comb jelly ion channels tell us about the evolution of the nervous system. | E Accili | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| JUNE 2015 | |||||
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Clemens Cabernard | Professor, Asymmetric Cell Division of Neural Stem Cells, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland | The molecular cell biology and mechanics of asymmetric stem cell division. | G Tanentzapf | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 25 | UNAVAILABLE | LSI Conference | |||
| JULY 2015 | |||||
| 30 | AVAILABLE | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| AUGUST 2015 | |||||
| 6 | AVAILABLE | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 13 | AVAILABLE | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 20 | Jeff Gerst | Scientist, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel | The transcriptome in transit: RNA trafficking and control of cell physiology | I R Nabi | 12:30-1:30LSC3 |
| 27 | UNAVAILABLE | Medical Orientation Week | |||
| AVAILABLE | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12:30-1:30LSC3 | |