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DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS 2019-2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Host	Time/Place
August 1	Sandra Mooney	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	“Nutritional Interventions Ameliorate Cognitive Behaviour Deficits in a Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders”	Dr. Joanne Weinberg	12:30pm, LSC3
August 29	Ralf Schnabel	Technical University of Braunschweig	“Pattern formation: Cell focussing by dancing cells not only in C. elegans?”	Dr. Don Moerman	12:45pm, LSC3
September 5	Stephanie Ellis	The Rockefeller University	“Survival of the Fittest: How Cell Competition Shapes the Emergence of Form and Function in Complex Epithelia”	Dr. Guy Tanentzapf	12:45pm, LSC3
September 12	Timothy Kieffer	Cellular and Physiological Sciences, UBC	“Cell Therapy for Diabetes Using Differentiated Stem Cells – from Bench to Clinical Trials”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
September 19	Victor Ambros	UMass Medical School	“MicroRNA pathways and developmental timing in C. elegans”	Dr. Kota Mizumoto	12:45pm, LSC3
September 26	Elitza Tocheva	Microbiology & Immunology, UBC	“Studies of the bacterial cell envelope using cry electron tomography”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
October 3	Claudia Krebs	Cellular and Physiological Sciences, UBC	“Extending and augmenting the classroom experience – how emerging media can transform education”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
October 10	Mary MacDougall	Dean of Dentristy, UBC	“Molecular and genetic factors that regulate development and maintenance of tooth roots”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
October 17	Carolina Tropini	Microbiology & Immunology, UBC	“Connecting gut microbiota biogeography to function”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:30pm, LSC3
October 24	Anastassia Voronova	Medical Genetics, University of Alberta	“Brain and skull morphogenesis: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders and neuroregeneration”	Dr. Douglas Allan	12:45pm, LSC3
October 31	Cheryl Wellington	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC	“New Insights into the Role of Lipoproteins in Alzheimer’s Disease”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
November 7	Annie Vogel Ciernia	Biochemistry, UBC	“Epigenomic Signatures of Altered Neuroimmune Function in Autism”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
November 14	Stefan Taubert	Medical Genetics, UBC	“Regulation of metabolism and stress adaption by the Mediator complex in worms and mice”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
November 21	Thomas Simmen	Cell Biology, University of Alberta	“Adaption and Remodeling of Mitochondria-Associated Membranes”	Drs. Loewen/Nabi	12:45pm, LSC3
November 28	Ali Bashashati	OVCARE, BC Cancer/UBC	“AI and Computational Biology Driven Discoveries in Gynecological Cancers”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
December 2	Heiko Lickert	Helmholtz Zentrum München, IDR	“Beta cell development, heterogeneity and regeneration”	Dr. Timothy Kieffer	11:00am, LSC3
December 5	Geoff Scheibiger	Chemistry, UBC	“Towards a mathematical theory of developmental biology”	Drs. Rideout/Kopp	11:00am, LSC3
December 12	Greg Fairn	University of Toronto	“Lipid switches and signals during the life cycle of the phagosome, peptidoglycan sensing, and Crohn’s disease”	Dr. Christopher Loewen	12:45pm, LSC3
December 26	No Seminar
January 2	No Seminar
January 16	Jesse Chao	University of British Columbia	“A premalignant cell-based model for functionalization and classification of PTEN variants”	Dr. Christopher Loewen	12:45pm, LSC3
January 23	Søs Skovø	University of British Columbia	“Beta-cell specific insulin resistance promotes glucose-dependent hyperinsulinemia”
January 30	Marie Kmita	University of Montreal	“How-mediated pattering: from specificity to diversity”	Dr. Douglas Allan	12:45pm, LSC3
February 6	Alison Holloway	McMaster University	“Diabetes and Depression: Role of antidepressants?”	Dr. Elizabeth Rideout	12:45pm, LSC3
February 13	Gabe Murphy	University of Washington	“Cell types, and the specificity of synaptic connectivity and singling between them, in primary cortex”	Dr. Mark Cembrowski	12:45pm, LSC3
February 20	Anna Moroni	University of Milan	“Engineering K+ channels for long term inhibition”	Dr. Eric Accili	12:45pm, LSC3
February 27	Eric Jan	UBC		Drs. Rideout/Kopp	12:45pm, LSC3
March 5	Gary Yellen	Harvard Medical School	“Mechanisms of metabolism-induced resistance to epileptic seizures”	Drs. O’connor/Accili	12:45pm, LSC3
March 12	Sarah Cohen	UNC School of Medicine	“Organelle dynamics and lipid trafficking”	Dr. Robert Nabi	12:45pm, LSC3
March 19	Graham Diering	UNC School of Medicine	“The stuff that dreams are made of: remodeling synapses during sleep”	Dr. Tim O’Connor	12:45pm, LSC3
March 26	Alexandra Willis	University of Toronto		Dr. Kota Mizumoto	12:45pm, LSC3
April 2	David Sherwood	Duke University		Dr. Christopher Loewen	12:45pm, LSC3
April 9					12:45pm, LSC3
April 16	Karen Reue	UCLA		Dr. Elizabeth Rideout	12:45pm, LSC3
April 23	Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzales	University of Toronto		Dr. Christopher Loewen	12:45pm, LSC3
April 28	Vishva Dixit	Genentech, Inc., San Francisco	“Why so many ways to die? The non-canonical inflammasome pathway”	Dr. Robert Nabi	2:00pm, LSC1
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