Seminars

Friday, September 29, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Naguib Mechawar
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Department of Psychiatry
McGill University
Seminar title: “New cellular players in depression and suicide: not the usual suspects”

Friday, September 22, 2017, RGN 3248, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Emanuel Rosonina
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
York University
Seminar Title: “SUMO on promoters: Keeping transcription factors under control”

Tuesday, August 22, 2017, RGN 2021, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Robert P. Jankov
Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
The Ottawa Hospital
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Ottawa
Senior Scientist, CHEO Research Institute
Seminar title: "Chronic pulmonary hypertension in neonates: New insights, new targets"

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, RGN 2149, 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Dr. Michael Kobor
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics
Sunny Hill BC Leadership Chair in Child Development
University of British Columbia
Seminar title: "Epigenetic Embedding of Early Life Experiences How Environments Get Under the Skin"

Monday, July 31, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Zhen Liu
Professor of Chemistry
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Nanjing University
Nanjing, China
Seminar title: "Molecularly imprinted polymers for affinity separation, proteomics, single-cell analysis, disease diagnostics and therapies"

Wednesday, July 26, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Scott Dixon
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Stanford University
Seminar title: "Investigating Cell Death Using Small Molecule Probes and High-Throughput Kinetic Imaging"

Thursday, July 20, 2017, RGN 2003, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Dr. Yong-Kyu Kim
Research Scientist
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia
Seminar title: "A Drosophila Model for Aggressive Behavior*"

Wednesday, July 19, 2017, RGN 2149, 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Dr. Neale Ridgway
Division Head Atlantic Research Centre
Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dalhousie University
Seminar title: "Cholesterol transport in the endo-lysosomal pathway"

Tuesday, July 18, 2017, RGN 2149, 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Dr. Silvia Penuela
Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Western Ontario
London, ON
Seminar title: "Pannexin channels regulate cellular differentiation and malignant transformation"

Thursday, June 29, 2017, RGN 2113, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Dr. Phyllis Paterson
Professor
College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
University of Saskatchewan
Seminar title: "Nutritional Status and Body Composition: A Systems Approach to Enhance Recovery after Stroke"

Friday, June 23, 2017, RGN 1007, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Dr. Sanjiv Dhingra
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology
College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba
Seminar title: "Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy and Host Immune Response"

Friday, June 23, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Tomoko Ohyama (Oyama)
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
McGill University
Seminar title: "Circuit mechanisms underlying action selection"

Friday, June 16, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Peter Savage
Associate Professor
University of Chicago
Seminar title: "Going rogue: Aire and the enforcement of immune tolerance"

Friday, June 16, 2017, RGN 2003, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Yong-Kyu Kim
Research Assistant
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia
Seminar title: "Aggressive encounters generate a long-lasting internal state in Drosophila melanogaster males"

Thursday, June 8, 2017, RGN 2021, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Kerstin Ure, PhD (Faculty Candidate)
Postdoctoral Associates
Labboratory of Huda Zoghbi
Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Seminar title: "Finding the Balance: The complicated role of inhibitory neurons in Rett syndrome"

Friday, May 19, 2017, RGN 2112, 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Dr. Deborah Muoio
Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nutrition & Metabolism
Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Sarah. W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Seminar title: "Proteomics meets respiratory fluxomics for deciphering the mitochondrial acyl-proteome"

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, RGN 2003, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Eftekhar Eftekharpour
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator
Regen. Med. Group & Spinal Cord Res. Centre
Department of Physiology and Physiopathology
University of Manitoba
Seminar title: "Regulatory role of Thioredoxin system in neural cells: Lessons from molecular biology for molecular medicine"

Friday, April 28, 2017, RGN 3248, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Nam-Sung Moon
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
McGill University, Montreal QC
Seminar title: "Drosophila RB/E2F, not that simple after all"

Friday, April 28, 2017, RGN 1421, 9:30 am to 10:30 am
~ In collaboration with the Neuroscience Program ~
Dr. Theresa Jones
Professor of Psychology
University of Austin Texas
Seminar title: "Behaviorally-driven competition in post-stroke brain remodeling"

Friday, April 21, 2017, RGN 3248, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Svend Petersen-Mahrt
Head of the DNA Editing in Immunity and Epigenetics Unit at the IFOM
Milan, Italy
Seminar title: "AID induced DNA damage – Altering the Choices for Epigenetic Reprogramming and Oncogenic Mutation Induction "

Tuesday, April 18, 2017, RGN 2003, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Hilla Knobler, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Seminar title: "Four Decades of Research on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Is There a New Horizon?"

Tuesday, April 18, 2017, RGN 1007, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Michael Czubryt
Professor of Medicine
Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology
Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba
Seminar title: "Scleraxis: a new approach for treating cardiac fibrosis."

Friday, April 7, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Douglas Allan
Associate Professor
Department of Cellular and Physiology Sciences
University of British Columbia
Seminar title: "Identifying the genomic regulatory landscape of BMP-dependent synaptic plasticity of Drosophila motoneurons."

Monday, March 27, 2017, RGN 2021, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Denise Hemmings
Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Alberta
Seminar title: "Cytomegalovirus, bioactive lipids and vascular function in pregnancy"

Friday, March 17, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Xiaolong Yang
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Queens University, Kingston, ON
Seminar title: "Roles of the Hippo pathway in cancer progression, drug resistance and therapy."

Friday, March 10, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Guy Tanentzapf
Associate Professor
Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
University of British Columbia
Seminar title: "Biomechanical Regulation of Morphogenesis and Tissue Homeostasis by Cell-Matrix Adhesion"

Thursday, March 9, 2017, RGN 3248, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Anthony Imbalzano
Vice Chair - Research
Department of Cell Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Seminar title: "Chromatin remodeling enzymes promote differentiation and tumorigenesis"

Friday, March 3, 2017, RGN 2003, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Dao Nguyen
Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Cystic Fibrosis Canada Researcher
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
McGill University
Seminar title: "Pseudomonas aeruginosa modulates airway epithelial responses and inflammation"

Friday, February 24, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Jun Ding
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford Institute for Neurosciences (SNI)
Stanford University School of Medicine
Seminar title: "Dopamine modulation of synaptic plasticity - Balance between co-released neurotransmitters"

Friday, February 17, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Marie-Eve Tremblay, PhD
Axe Neurosciences
CRCHU Québec
University of Laval
Seminar title: "Dark microglia: a new phenotype predominantly associated with pathological states"

Friday, February 10, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Robert Redmond
Associate Professor
Wellness Center for Photomedicine
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Seminar title: "Development of New Platform Photochemical Technologies in Medicine."

Monday, February 6, 2017, RGN 2113, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Thilo Womelsdorf
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
York University
Toronto, Ontario
Seminar title: "Circuit Motifs Implementing Attention in Primate Anterior Cingulate and Prefrontal Cortex"

Friday, February 3, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Craig Jenne
Director, Snyder Translational Lab
In Critical Care Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary, Albert
Seminar title: " "Watching" the host immune response to viral infection"

Tuesday, January 31, 2017, RGN 1007, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Zdenko Herceg
Section Head
Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
IARC, Lyon, France
Seminar title: "Epigenetic origins of cancer"

Friday, January 27, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Mahmood Hussain
Director, Diabetes and Obesity Research Center
Winthrop University Hospital
Mineola, NY
Seminar title: "Circadian regulation of plasma lipids and atherosclerosis"

Friday, January 20, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Michael Gordon
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology
Faculty of Science
University of British Columbia
Seminar title: "Neural circuit mechanisms underlying taste and hunger integration in Drosophila"

Friday, January 13, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Craig Smibert
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
Seminar title: "Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in the early Drosophila embryo"

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, RGN 2149, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Dr. Purna A. Joshi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Toronto
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Seminar title: "The stem cell niche during mammopoiesis and breast cancer"

Friday, November 25, 2016, RGN 2003, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Scott McComb
Research Officer
Cancer Immunology
Human Health Therapeutics
National Research Council of Canada
Seminar title: "Decompiling Death: Understanding Why Death Goes Wrong in Drug-Resistant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"

Friday, November 18, 2016, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Adrianna Di Polo
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of Montréal
Seminar title: "The molecular basis of retinal ganglion cell dysfunction and death in glaucoma: new insights"

Friday, November 11, 2016, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Minsoo Kim
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Seminar title: "Visualizing and manipulating immunity with light"

Friday, November 4, 2016, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Tae-Hee Kim
Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program
The Hospital for Sick Children
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
Seminar title: "The role of SOX family transcription factors in gastric development and cancer"

Thursday, November 3, 2016, RGN 1421, 11:45 am to 12:45 pm
Dr. Julia von Maltzahn
Junior Group Leader Fritz-Lipmann Institute
Leibniz Institute for Age Research
Jena, Germany
Seminar title: "Muscle stem cells in Age and Disease"

Thursday, November 3, 2016, RGN 2005, 10:45 am to 11:30 am
Dr. Éric Boilard
Associate Professor of Medicine
Laval University
Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity
CHU de Québec Research Center
Seminar title: "Flow cytometry for the distinction of various subtypes of platelet microparticles in inflammatory conditions"