| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
| May 5, 2023 |
The 19th Copp Lecture Dr. Pieter Cullis |
Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of British Columbia |
Dr. Ivan Robert Nabi |
3-4pm/LSC 3 |
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| April 28, 2023 | Dr. Peter Walter |
Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
| March 31, 2023 | Dr. John Burke |
Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Victoria |
TBD |
Dr. Calvin Yip |
3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| March 24, 2023 | Dr. Heidi Mcbride |
Professor Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery McGill University |
“Insights into mitochondrial vesicle formation and links to disease” |
Dr. Hilla Weidberg |
3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| March 9, 2023 | Mitchell Braam |
PhD Student |
Dr. Timothy Kieffer |
1-2pm/LSC 3 |
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| February 24, 2023 | Dr. Julia Cordero |
Professor Local and Systemic Functions of the Intestine in Health and Disease The Beatson Institute Research Groups University of Glasgow |
“Reciprocal gut/body signaling during intestinal heal and disease” |
Dr. Elizabeth Rideout |
3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| February 17, 2023 | Dr. Ruth Lehmann |
Professor of Biology Director, Whitehead Institute MIT |
Dr. Ethan Greenblatt |
3-4pm/LSC 3
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| February 03, 2023 | Dr. George Church |
Professor of Genetics Professor of Health Sciences and Technology (MIT) Founding Core Faculty and Lead Synthetic Biology Harvard University
|
“tRNA-code: Resistance to all viruses. Tropism-Code: Delivery TF-code: Cell types”
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LSI Joint Seminar Committee |
TBD |
| January 27, 2023 | Dr. Geraldine Seydoux |
Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery Professor Molecular Biology and Genetics John Hopkins Medicine |
Kenji Sugioka |
TBD
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| January 13, 2023 | Dr. Clemens Cabernard |
Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Washington |
“Cell and mechanobiology of asymmetric cell division” | Dr. Kenji Sugioka |
3-4pm/LSC 3
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| January 06, 2023 | Dr. Christopher Overall |
Professor and Canada Research Chair. Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences. Centre for Blood Research. UBC |
“The Cellular coup d’etat executed by SARS-CoV2 proteases to escape autophagy and ISG innate defenses” | Dr. Jessica Rosin | 3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| November 25, 2022 | Dr. Zabrina Brumme |
Professor Faculty of Health Sciences Simon Fraser University |
Hitting a moving target: how understanding HIV reservoir dynamics can help advance HIV cure research | LSI Joint Seminar Committee | 3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| November 10, 2022 | Dr. Susan Shao |
Associate Professor of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Harvard University |
Mechanisms of membrane protein quality control | Dr. Hilla Weidberg | 3-4pm/LSC 2 |
| October 28, 2022 | Dr. Khanh Dao Duc |
Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia |
Investigating the heterogeneity of ribosomal dynamics and structures | Dr. Mark Cembrowski | 3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| October 17, 2022 | Dr. Morgan Fullerton |
Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
University of Ottawa |
“Immunometabolism as a regulator of atherosclerosis, parasite and diabetes” | Dr. Elizabeth Rideout | 2pm/LSC 3 |
| October 14, 2022 | Dr. Nadine Caron |
Professor Northern Medical Program University of Northern British Columbia |
“Silent Genome Project” |
Dr. Lindsay Rogers, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| October 07, 2022 | Dr. Matthew McCallum |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Veesler lab Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Washington |
“Using cryoEM to reveal sites of vulnerability for viral entry” | Dr. Natalie Strynadka | 3-4pm/LSC 3 |
| *postponed* | Dr. Karen Mossman |
Professor and Vice President Research Department of Medicine McMaster University |
“Innate immunity in bats: what can we learn to combat future pandemics” | Dr. Ninan Abraham | TBD |
| September 16, 2022 | Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan |
Assistant Professor Molecular and Cell Biology University of Connecticut |
“Adapting an evolutionary model organism for host-microbe studies” | Dr. Carolina Tropini |
Zoom Seminar (registration link to be emailed to the seminar community) |