DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2021-2022
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
| June 10, 2022 | Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz | Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | “Emerging imaging technologies to study cell architecture, dynamics and function” | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | |
| March 24, 2022 | Dr. Yvette Fisher | Molecular & Cell Biology Department & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley | “Flexibility of visual input to the Drosophilia compass network” | Dr. Mark Cembrowski | 1:00pm-2:00pm, LSC3 & Zoom |
| March 17, 2022 | Dr. Howard Crawford | Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Center | “Cellular Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer” | Dr. Janel Kopp | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| March 10, 2022 | Dr. Haig Alexander Eskandarian | Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California, San Franciso | “Revealing Fundamental Bacterial Cell Physiology Using Long-Term Time-Lapse Atomic Force Microscopy” | Dr. Mark Cembrowski | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| March 3, 2022 | Dr. Matthew Piper | Nutritional Physiology and Ageing Group, Monash University | “The role of nutrient balance in lifespan extension by dietary restriction in Drosophila” | CPS Graduate Student Society | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| February 24, 2022 | Dr. Lianna Wat | Svensson Lab, Stanford University | “Sex-specific regulation of fat metabolism in Drosophila” | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| February 17, 2022 | Dr. Lori O’Brien | Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, UNC Kidney Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | “Keeping kidney development in line: signals mediating organization and patterning” | Drs. Tanentzapf and Weidberg | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| February 10, 2022 | Dr. Gunnar Poplawski | Duke-NUS Medical School | “Regenerative and diagnostic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases” | Dr. Tim O’Connor | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| February 3, 2022 | Dr. Peggy Assinck | University of Cambridge | “The Cell Biology of Myelin Regeneration” | Dr. Cheryl Wellington | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| January 24, 2022 | Dr. Brett J. Hilton | German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) | “Cellular and molecular mechanisms of axon regeneration following spinal cord injury” | Dr. Shernaz Bamji | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| January 13, 2022 | Dr. Faith H. Brennan | Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University | “Microglia coordinate intercellular interactions during spinal cord repair” | Dr. Chris West | 1:00pm-2:00pm, via Zoom |
| January 7, 2022 | Dr. Vishva M. Dixit | Genentech, Inc., San Francisco | “Why so many ways to die? The non-canonical inflammasome pathway“ | Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi | 11:00am via Zoom |
| January 06, 2022 | Dr. Jeff Dong | Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Calgary | “Uncovering new mediators of neurodegeneration and aging in the central nervous system” | Dr. Matthew Ramer | 1:00pm-2:00pm via Zoom |
| December 9, 2021 | Dr. Dena Shahriari | Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia | “Technological developments for optogenetic stimulation and axonal guidance after spinal cord injury” | Drs. Cembrowski and Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| December 2, 2021 | Dr. Marina Pasca di Magliano | Department of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School | “Cellular Crosstalk in Pancreatic Cancer” | Drs. Cembrowski and Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| November 25, 2021 | Dr. Thomas Hurd | Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto | “Divide and conquer: how deleterious mitochondrial DNA is eliminated in the germline” | Drs. Cembrowski & Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| November 18, 2021 | Dr. Samantha Payne | Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph | “Targeting bioelectric signaling to treat metastatic breast cancer” | Drs. Cembrowski & Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| October 28, 2021 | Dr. Nasser M. Rusan | National Institutes of Health | “Building Tissue Specific Centrosomes“ | Drs. Cembrowski & Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| October 21, 2021 | Dr. Mike Henne | Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center | “How nutrient starvation re-organizes metabolism and creates liquid-crystalline lipid droplets“ | Drs. Cembrowski & Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| October 14, 2021 | Dr. Katrin J. Svensson | Department of Pathology, Standford University School of Medicine | “Hormonal control of systematic energy homeostasis“ | Drs. Cembrowski & Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| October 7, 2021 | Dr. Samantha C. Lewis | Cell & Developmental Biology Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley | “Regulation of mtDNA synthesis in animal cells“ | Drs. Cembrowski & Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |
| September 30, 2021 | Dr. Howard C. Crawford | Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Center | “The Many Identity Crises that Drive Pancreatic Cancer Progression“ | Drs. Cembrowski & Weidberg | 12:45pm-1:45pm, via Zoom |