| DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2016-2017 |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
| SEPTEMBER 2016 | |||||
| 8 | Liang Gao | Stony Brook University | Imaging multicellular specimens with real-time optimized tiling light sheet selective plane illumination microscopy | Nabi | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 15 | Darrel Stafford | Pryzdial | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||
| 22 | Quin Wills | Oxford (UBC) | The Nature, Nietzsche and Nurture of Cell Heterogeneity: Temporal Single-cell Sequencing and Imaging of Gene Edited Cell Models | Johnson | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 29 | Kota Mizumoto | UBC Zoology | Plexin specifies spatial distribution of synapses through Rap small GTPase. | Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| OCTOBER 2016 | |||||
| 6 | Cathy Van Raamsdonk | UBC Medical Genetics | Heterotrimeric G Protein Mutations in Melanoma. | Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 20 | Doug Fowler | University of Washington | Large-scale approaches to link genotype to phenotype | Loewen | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 27 | John Tuthill | University of Washington | Neural coding of touch and proprioception in Drosophila |
Kopp | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| NOVEMBER 2016 | |||||
| 3 | Lisa Osborne | UBC Microbiology and Immunology Department | Lisa Osborne’s Seminar | Kopp | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 10 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
| 17 | Kathleen MacLeod | UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | ROCK2: a critical node in the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy | Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| DECEMBER 2016 | |||||
| 1 | Roland Le Borgne | Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes, France | Linking temporal and mechanical regulations of epithelial cell cytokinesis to cell fate acquisition | Vanessa Auld | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 8 | Eric Betzig | Nobel Prize Winner |
“Bringing the ASCB to the LSI”
presents Dr. Eric Betzig, 2014 Nobel Prize winner for Super-Resolution Microscopy.
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I.R.Nabi | 11:15 AM / LSC 2 |
| 15 | Randy Hampton | UCSD | Metabolic regulation by quality control: misfolding, mallostery, and missing genes | Thibault Mayor | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 22 | |||||
| JANUARY 2017 | |||||
| 5 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
| 12 | Andrius Kazlauskas | Harvard Medical School | Diabetes-driven Disruption of Angiogenic Homeostasis | C. Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 19 | Sharon Gorski | Simon Fraser University | Cell stress adaptation by autophagy: molecular mechanisms and disease implications | J. Kopp | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 26 | Sarah Helberg/Steve Phinney | Diabetes Research Group & the Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition | Diabetes Research Group mini-symposium | Jonathan Little | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| FEBRUARY 2017 | |||||
| 2 | Erika Matunis | Johns Hopking university | Stem cell regeneration in the drosophila testis | Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 23 | Deborah Kurasch | University of Calgary | Developmental programs of the embryonic hypothalamus and how environmental stressors influence them | O’Connor | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| MARCH 2017 | |||||
| 2 | Stephanie Wilerth | University of Victoria | Tools for engineering personalized neural tissue | Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 9 | Intan Schrader | Department of Molecular Oncology BCCRC | Harnessing the Power of Precision Oncology for Patients and Families | Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 16 | Charles Murtaugh | Utah | Programming and reprogramming cell fate in pancreatic cancer | Kopp | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 30 | William (Bill) Wadsworth | Rutger’s University | Stochastic Model of Neuronal Outgrowth Movement: UNC-5 (UNC5) Regulates the Length and Number of Neuronal Processes in Caenorhabditis elegans | Don Moerman/Kota Mizumoto | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| APRIL 2017 | |||||
| 6 | Angela Devlin | CFRI | Developmental Determinants of Cardiometabolic Disease | Kopp | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 13 | Nancy Forde | SFU | Extracellular matrix mechanics: developing tools to probe mechanics at different length scales | Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 20 | Dan Luciani | CFRI | Non-canonical roles of apoptosis proteins in pancreatic β-cell metabolism and ROS signalling | Kopp | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 27 | Andries Barria | University of Washington | Trafficking and Function of Glutamate Receptors: A Tale of Two Receptors | Bamji | 12:30 PM/ LSC 3 |
| MAY 2017 | |||||
| 11 | Jeff Carrol | Western Washington University | Interrogating Huntington’s in vivo roles through loss of function experiments | Nelly Pante | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 18 | Symposium | Integrins & Microtubules: from Molecular Mechanosensors to Morphogenesis | Guy Tanetzapf | LSC 3 | |
| 25 | Charles Pin-Kuang Lai | Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | From Seeing to Believing: Visualization and Tracking of Extracellular Vesicles | Christian Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| JUNE 2017 | |||||
| 1 | Andrew Minchinton | BC Cancer Research Centre | Tumour hypoxia – an engine to kill cancer cells: exploiting DNA repair in oncology | Cal Roskelley | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 5 | Ursula Neumann | UBC exit seminar | The metabolic effects of leptin therapy and glucagon suppression therapy in mouse models of diabetes | Susie Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 8 | Yishi Jin | UCSD | Zoology Seminar | Kota Mizumoto | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 22 | Cathy Proenza | U of Colorado Denver | Electrical remodeling of the sinoatrial node in aging and exercise training | Eric Accili | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| 29 | Anna D’souza | UBC | Effects of Leptin and Insulin on Glucose Metabolism in Rodents | Susie Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
| JULY 2017 | |||||
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| 13 | |||||
| 20 | 12:00 PM/ LSC 3 |
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| 27 | 12:30 PM/ LSC 3 |
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| AUGUST 2017 | |||||
| 3 | |||||
| 19 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
| 17 | |||||
| 24 | |||||