| DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2015-2016 |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
| SEPTEMBER 2015 | |||||
| 17 | J. Johnson | Professor, CPS, UBC | Control of cellular proliferation and plasticity by protein synthesis load | S.Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC3 |
| OCTOBER 2015 | |||||
| 8 | Neil Cashman | Prof, Brain Research Ctr Scientific Director, Prionet, UBC |
Origami gone awry: Protein misfolding in disease | S.Bamji | 12:30 PM / LSC3 |
| 15 | Nicole Templeman | PhD Candidate Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology, Johnson Lab UBC |
Effects of insulin gene dosage on murine obesity and lifespan | J.Johnson | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 22 | Chris Smendziuk | PhD Candidate Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology, Tanentzapf Lab UBC |
Bi-directional, gap junction-mediated soma-germline communication during spermatogenesis | G.Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 29 | Liisa Galea | Distinguished University Scholar and Professor Department of Psychology UBC |
Of Mice and Men and Women: Estrogens, androgen and healthy brain aging | S.Bamji | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| NOVEMBER 2015 | |||||
| 12 | Erika Bach | Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology NYU School of Medicine |
How social interactions control stem cell self-renewal and differentiation | G.Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 19 | Cheryl Wellington | Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine UBC |
Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer’s Disease: Progress and Perspectives | S.Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 26 | Peter Lansdorp | Scientific Director
European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing University of Groningen The Netherlands |
Guanine quadruplex structures, stem cells and genome stability | C.Roskelley | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| DECEMBER 2015 | |||||
| 10 | Leonard Foster | Professor Department of Biochemistry Centre for High-Throughput Biology UBC |
Exploring rearrangements in the interactome following apoptosis – segregation of caspase activity and complex disassembly | C.Loewen | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| JANUARY 2016 | |||||
| 7 | Rick Horowitz | Executive Director Allen Institute |
The Allen Institute for Cell Science: Integrated and multi-scale, spatial-temporal cell biology | G.Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 14 | Ed Conway | MD, PhD, MBA | Director, Centre for Blood Research (CBR) Professor, Faculty of Medicine |Division of Hematology |UBC | Canada Research Chair in Endothelial Cell Biology | Rediscovering clinically relevant ancient links between coagulation and complement | S.Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 21 | David Granville | PhD, FAHA Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC Director, GEM Facility, St. Paul’s Hospital, UBC |
Granzyme Serine Proteases in Wound Healing and Chronic Disease | S.Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| FEBRUARY 2016 | |||||
| 4 | Julian Guttman | Associate Professor at SFU Cellular Microbiology CIHR New Investigator Award |
Using bacterial pathogens to uncover novel functions of host proteins | G.Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 18 | Michael Roberge | Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty of Medicine UBC |
Chemical suppressors of nonsense mutations for treatment of genetic disorders and cancer | G.Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| MARCH 2016 | |||||
| 3 | Guy Tanentzapf | Associate Professor Cellular and Physiological Sciences Faculty of Medicine UBC |
Gaps and barriers: how cell junctions shape stem cell-niche communication | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | |
| 10 | Anthony Brandt | PhD Candidate Dr. Allan Lab Cellular and Physiological Sciences Faculty of Medicine UBC |
Extreme specificity: How to turn on a gene in only six brain cells. | D. Allan | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 17 | Georgia Perona Wright | Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty of Medicine UBC |
Activation of immune cell networks in intestinal infections | G.Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 24 | Wayne Vogl | Professor Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences Faculty of Medicine UBC |
A subcellular machine involved with sperm release and turnover of the blood-testis barrier in the mammalian testis | G.Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| APRIL 2016 | |||||
| 7 | Gerardo Morfini |
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Illinois-Chicago
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Mechanisms and molecular components mediating axonal pathology in Huntington’s disease | S. Bamji | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 14 | Marco A.M. Prado | Professor Robarts Research Institute Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology |
Novel mechanisms of neuronal and cognitive failure in Alzheimer’s disease | C. Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
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| 28 | Thomas White | Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics School of Medicine Stony Brook University |
Connexin hemichannels in congenital skin disorders | C. Naus | 12:30 PM/ LSC 3 |
| MAY 2016 | |||||
| 4 | Michael Koval |
Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology
Emory University School of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Department of Cell Biology
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Regulation of intercellular junctions in lung disease – the disruptive effects of bad actors | C. Naus | 2:00 PM/ LSC 3 |
| 12 | Leo Ng | PhD exit seminar | Molecular mechanism of cyclic nucleotide action on HCN pacemaker channels | E. Accili | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| JUNE 2016 | |||||
| 15 | Orion Weiner | Professor, CVRI & Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF | Signal Integration During Immune Cell Migration | M. Gold | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 21 | Nancy Adreasen | Copp Lecture | The Creative Brain | 4:00 PM/ LSC 1 |
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| JULY 2016 | |||||
| 20 | Jim Woodgett | Professor and Director of Research of the-Tanenbaum Research Institute Mount Sinai Hospital | Dissecting signaling specificity: why promiscuity is not what it seems | P. Johnson | 12:00 PM/ LSC 3 |
| 25 | Philip Battherham | Professor, BioSciences, University of Melbourne | Systems Biology of Insecticide Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster | E. Rideout | 12:30 PM/ LSC 3 |
| AUGUST 2016 | |||||
| 11 | Richard Minshall | Professor, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago | Caveolin-1 Tyr14 Phosphorylation as a Molecular Switch Controlling Swelling and Release of Caveolae and eNOS/Src Signaling | I. R. Nabi | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |