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DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2018-2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Host	Time/Place
September 6	No Seminar
September 13	No Seminar
September 20	Dean Dermot Kelleher	Dean of Medicine, UBC	Lymphocytes Impact on Cellular Programming in Immunity and Cancer	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
September 27	Janel Kopp	CPS, UBC	Cellular origin affects the phenotype of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells	Dr. Rideout	12:30 pm, LSC3
October 4	No Seminar
October 11	No Seminar
October 18	Joy Richman	Department of Oral Health Sciences, UBC	Working at the interface of biology and mathematical modeling to understand cell behaviour in the face	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
October 25	Shernaz Bamji	CPS	Regulation of synapse formation and plasticity by palmitoylating enzymes	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
November 1	Fabio Rossi	UBC-BRC	Stromal progenitors homeostasis, inflammation and regeneration	Dr. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
November 8	Sheila Teves	UBC-Biochemistry	Transcriptional memory through the cell cycle	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
November 15	Elizabeth M Simpson	BC-CMMT	Two Gene Therapy Stories – MiniPromoters for rAAV and CRISPR for Blindness	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
November 22	Bruce Verchere	BC-CHRI	Biomarkers and triggers of beta cell dysfunction in diabetes	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
November 29	Benjamin Freedman	University of Washington	Modeling Physiology and Disease with Multi- Dimensional Kidney Organoids	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
December 6	Hakima Moukhles	CPS	Understanding the Mechanisms Regulating Aquaporin 4 Function in Health and Disease	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
December 13	Amy Walker	UMass Med School	Methylation: a modification linking metabolism, gene regulation and metabolic health	Dr. Stefan Taubert	12:30 pm, LSC3
December 17	Madeline Hayes	Harvard Medical School	Using Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity (Wnt/PCP) to define tumor stem cells in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma	Dr. Guy Tanentzapf	12:30 pm, LSC3
December 20	No Seminar
December 27	No Seminar
January 3	No Seminar
January 7	Ghazaleh Ashrafi	Weill-Cornell Medical College	Powering the Synapse on Demand	Dr. Eric Accili	12:30 pm, LSC3
January 9	Leonardo Almeida-Souza	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	How to build an Actin Network at Clathrin-Coated Pits	Dr. Robert Nabi	2:30 pm, LSC3
January 10	Alvin Powers	Vanderbilt University	Pancreatic Islet Biology, Function, and Dysfunction: Surprises and Lessons for Diabetes	Diabetes Research Group	12:30 pm, LSC3
January 14	Hyun Cheol Roh	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Adipocyte cellular plasticity in physiology and disease	Dr. Timothy Kieffer	12:30 pm, LSC3
January 17	Pete Jones	University of Otago, New Zealand	Regulation of intracellular Ca2+ release in the heart”	Dr. Edwin Moore	12:30 pm, LSC3
January 24	No Seminar
January 31	Yojiro Yamanaka	McGill University	Modeling ovarian cancer in mice	Drs. Roskelley/Huntsman	12:30 pm, LSC3
February 7	Andrea Wills	University of Washington	Remodeling chromatin and transcription during vertebrate regeneration	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
February 14	Shane Duggan	UBC/Medical Genetics	Inflammation and an intestine-like differentiation programme underlie the cellular origins of esophageal adenocarcinoma	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
February 21	Amina Zoubeidi	UBC/Prostate Center	Cellular plasticity in treatment resistant prostate cancer	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
February 28	Brian Oliver	NIH/NIDDK	Genomics of the single chromosome	Drs. Rideout/Tanentzapf	12:30 pm, LSC3
March 7	Anthony Gramolini	University of Toronto	Analysis of mouse and human cardiovascular tissues using global and phosphoproteomic approaches	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
March 14	Sarah Kucenas	University of Virginia	Unwrapping Glial Diversity in the Vertebrate Nervous System	Dr. Vanessa Auld	12:30 pm, LSC3
March 21	Karla Williams	University of British Columbia	Extracellular vesicles and invadopodia: Providing insight into disease progression and targets for therapeutic development	Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
March 28	Whisstock	Monash University	Structural Studies of Macrophage Immune Effectors Using Cryo-EM	Dr. Calvin Yip/CBR	12:30 pm, LSC3
April 4	Carolyn Brown	UBC/Medical Genetics	X-chromosome inactivation: Epigenetics and eXeptions	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
April 11	Sevan Hopyan	Sick Kids	Approaches to studying morphogenesis in the mammalian embryo	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
April 16	Gökhan S. Hotamişligil	Harvard University	THE 15TH D. HAROLD COPP LECTURE SPEAKER – “Metabolic Biology of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Health and Disease”	Dr. Robert Nabi	4:00 pm, LSC2
April 18	Lucy O’Brien	Stanford University	Collective cell dynamics during organ renewal	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
April 25	Laura Alonso	UMASS med	“The beta cell ER stress tipping point: from proliferation to failure”	Diabetes Research Group	12:30 pm, LSC3
May 2	CELL RETREAT-No Seminar
May 9	Larry Zipursky	University of California Los Angeles	Zoology McClintock seminar	Dr. Kota Mizumoto	12:30 pm, LSC3
May 16	Shalina Ousman	University of Calgary	AlphaB-crystallin and the injured peripheral nervous system	Dr. Hakima Moukhles	12:30 pm, LSC3
May 23	Honglin Luo	UBC/Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	Enterovirus-induced proteotoxicity: connection between heart and neuronal disease	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30 pm, LSC3
May 30	Subhojit Roy	University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research	“Manipulation of Intracellular Trafficking as Therapeutic Avenues in Neurodegenerative Diseases”	Dr. Shernaz Bamji	12:30 pm, LSC3