DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2017-2018 |
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
SEPTEMBER 2017 | |||||
7 |
Gen-ichi Tasaka |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
TRAPing maternal plasticity in the mouse auditory cortex |
Dr. Guy Tanentzapf |
12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
14 | Knut Woltjen, Ph.D. | Kyoto University, Japan | Endogenous DNA repair pathways for gene editing in human induced pluripotent stem cells | Dr. Timothy J. Kieffer | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
21 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
26 | *Special Seminar* Tomoyuki Yamaguchi, Ph.D. | University of Tokyo, Japan | Generation of whole organ by interspecies organogenesis | Dr. Timothy J. Kieffer | 2:00 PM / LSC 3 |
28 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
OCTOBER 2017 | |||||
3 | *Special Seminar* Elizabeth Kovacs, Ph.D. | University of Colorado, Anshutz Medical Campus | Alcohol intoxication and the pulmonary inflammatory response after injury: Role of the gut-liver axis | Dr. Joanne Weinberg | 3:00 PM / LSC 3 |
5 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
12 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
19 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
26 | Hongbin Li, Ph.D. | UBC Chemistry |
Protein-based Biomaterials: from single molecule features to macroscopic traits and biological applications |
Dr. Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
NOVEMBER 2017 | |||||
2 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
9 | Silvia Penuela, Ph.D. | Western University | Pannexin channel functions in normal development and malignant transformation | Dr. Christian Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
16 | Sayon Roy, Ph.D. | Boston University | Cell-cell communication in diabetic retinopathy | Dr. Christian Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
23 | Corey Nislow, Ph.D. | UBC- Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium | Genomic Insights: Research at the Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
30 | Christian Naus, Ph.D. | UBC Cellular and Physiological Sciences | An update on gap junctions in neurological disorders: a stroke of luck? | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
DECEMBER 2017 | |||||
7 | Trevor Dummer, Ph.D. | BC Generations project (BC Cancer) | The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP): Canada’s largest health cohort | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
14 | Ivan Robert Nabi, Ph.D. | UBC Cellular and Physiological Sciences |
Cancer Cell Biology: Below the Diffraction Limit
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Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
21 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
28 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
JANUARY 2018 | |||||
4 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
11 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
18 | Lukas Neukomm, Ph.D.-Candidate for a Faculty position in the Dept. of Zoology | University of Massachusetts | Degeneration of an axon | Dr. Michael Gordon | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
25 | Sarah Abdul-Wajid, Ph.D.-Candidate for a Faculty position in the Dept. of Zoology | University of Utah | Uncovering developmental and adult functions of the cardiac neural crest cells | Dr. Michelle Tseng | 2:00 PM / LSC 3 |
FEBRUARY 2018 | |||||
1 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
8 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
13 | *Special Seminar* Gisella Vetere, Ph.D.-Candidate for a Faculty position in Dept. of CPS & CBH |
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto | Decoding memory acquisition and consolidation in mice |
Dr. Timothy Murphy | 11:30 AM / CBH Lecture Theatre, Room 101 |
15 | James Johnson, Ph.D. | Novo Nordisk & UBC CPS | Building a hybrid academic-industrial institute with a long term vision for the treatment of obesity, diabetes and associated condition | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
22 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
27 | *Special Seminar* Mark Cembrowski, Ph.D.-Candidate for a Faculty position in Dept. of CPS & CBH |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | A cell-type- and stage-specific deconstruction of a spatial working memory | Dr. Kurt Haas | 12:30 PM / CBH Conference Room 3402 A/B/C |
MARCH 2018 | |||||
1 | Geoffrey Hammond, Ph.D. | UBC Cellular and Physiological Sciences | Corticosteroid-binding globulin: a SERPIN modulator of steroid-action | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
6 | *Special Seminar* Emily Sylwestrak, Ph.D.-Candidate for a Faculty position in Dept. of CPS & CBH |
Stanford University | From RNA to reward: dissecting habenular circuit activity during motivated behavior | Dr. Douglas Allan | 11:00 AM / CBH Lecture Theatre, Room 101 |
8 | Sid Vora, Ph.D. | UBC Dentistry | From the Cranial Base to the Midface: Utilizing Mouse Models for the Study of Craniofacial Growth Anomalies | Dr. Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
15 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
20 | *Special Seminar* Kevin Beier, Ph.D.-Candidate for a Faculty position in Dept. of CPS & CBH |
Stanford University | Viral-Genetic Dissection of the Midbrain Dopamine System | Dr. Yu Tian Wang | 11:00 AM / CBH Lecture Theatre, Room 101 |
22 | Maria-Grazia DE SIMONI, Ph.D. |
Head of the Laboratory of Inflammation and Nervous System Diseases
IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri
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The lectin complement pathway in ischemic stroke | Dr. Christian Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
23 | *Special Seminar* Christopher West, Ph.D.-A tenure-stream candidate in the Chronic Disease Prevention Program (CDPP) at UBCO with CPS being the home department |
Michael Smith Foundation; Heart and Stroke Foundation; Rick Hansen Institute Scholar | Cardiac function after spinal cord injury: Mechanisms, implications, and opportunities |
Dr. Edwin Moore | 2:00 PM / LSC 3 |
27 | *Special Seminar* Naoya Takahashi, Ph.D.-Candidate for a Faculty position in Dept. of CPS & CBH |
NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany | Cellular mechanisms for sensory perception | Dr. Ann Marie Craig | 11:00 AM / CBH Lecture Theatre, Room 101 |
29 | Karla Kaun, Ph.D. | Brown University | To drink or Not(ch) to drink: Neuromolecular mechanisms underlying alcohol seeking | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
APRIL 2018 | |||||
5 | Elizabeth Rideout, Ph.D. | UBC Cellular and Physiological Sciences | Sex differences in Drosophila development and physiology | Dr. Janel Kopp | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
12 | Michael Underhill, Ph.D. | UBC Cellular and Physiological Sciences | Mesenchymal Progenitors and Cancer | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
19 | Chris Brett, Ph.D. | Concorida University in Montreal | The ILF pathway: An alternative mechanism for surface receptor and transporter protein degradation | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
26 | Francis Lynn, Ph.D. | BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute | Regulation of ß-cell differentiation | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
MAY 2018 | |||||
3 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
10 | Christian Giaume, Ph.D.
French Scholars Lecture Series;
Consulat Général de France à Vancouver,
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies,
Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health,
Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
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College de France, Paris | The neuroglial partnership: an alternative therapeutic strategy to target Alzheimer’s disease | Dr. Christian Naus | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
17 | Kelly McNagny, Ph.D. | Medical Genetics, The Biomedical Research Centre, UBC | The Role of RORa and Innate Lymphoid Cells in Mucosal Inflammatory Disease | Dr. Susanne Clee | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |
24 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
31 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
JUNE 2018 | |||||
7 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
13 | **COPP LECTURE** Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D. | Gilman Cheney Chair in Biochemistry, Goodman Cancer Research Center, McGill University |
Translational control of cancer and brain diseases via the mRNA cap-binding protein, eIF4E |
Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | 4:00 PM / LSC 2 |
14 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
21 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
28 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
JULY 2018 | |||||
5 |
Hernán Lopez-Schier, Ph.D. |
Munich Centre for Neuroscience, Neuherberg | The Cellular Basis of Directional Mechanosensation | Dr. Guy Tanentzapf | 12:30 PM / LSC 1510 |
11 |
*Special Seminar* Cheryl McCormick, Ph.D. |
Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience, Brock University | Gonadal Hormones and the Differential Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Responses to Stressors in Adolescent and Adult Rats | Dr. Joanne Weinberg | 12:30 PM / CBH 3402 |
12 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
19 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
26 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
AUGUST 2018 | |||||
2 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
9 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
16 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
23 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 | ||||
30 | 12:30 PM / LSC 3 |