Seminars

~ Cross-Appointee Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, June 26, 2018, RGN 1007, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Marie Claude Audet
Assistant Professor
Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Seminar Title: The microbiota-gut-brain axis and stress-related disorders
Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

Friday, June 1, 2018, RGN 1007, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Benjamin Tsang
Director
Reproductive Biology Unit, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Professor
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Seminar Title: “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Chemoresistance in Ovarian Cancer: New Grounds Following the Trail of Gelsolin”
Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

CANCELLED ~ Cross-Appointee Seminar Series ~
Wednesday, May 23, 2018, RGN 1007, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Marie Claude Audet
Assistant Professor
Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa
Seminar Title: The microbiota-gut-brain axis and stress-related disorders
Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

~ Cross-Appointee Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, May 22, 2018, RGN 1007, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Clifford Cassidy
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Ottawa
Seminar Title: “Application of specialized brain imaging methods to research in schizophrenia and PTSD”
Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

 

Friday, April 27, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Gary Wu
Professor of Medicine
Ferdinand G. Weisbrod Chair in Gastroenterology
Co-Director, PennCHOP Microbiome Program
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Seminar Title: “Co-Metabolism between the Gut Microbiome and its Host: Relevance to Health and Disease”
Hosted by: Danny Jomaa

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, RGN 3248, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Douglas Mahoney
Assistant Professor
Departments of Microbiology Immunology and Infectious Disease and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute
Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary
Seminar Title: “Seeing is believing: visualizing oncolytic virus-host interactions in vivo using intravital microscopy”
Hosted by: Dr. Jean-Simon Diallo

Friday, April 20, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Nahum Sonenberg
Gilman Cheney
Chair in Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry and Rosalind
Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Seminar Title: “Translational control of cancer and brain diseases via the mRNA cap-binding protein, eIF4E”
Hosted by: Dr. Tommy Alian

Thursday, April 19, 2018, RGN 2021, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Shashi Ashok Gujar
Assistant Professor
Departments of Pathology, Biology, and Immunology & Microbiology
Faculty of Medicine
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
Seminar Title: “MHC ligandomes of oncolytic virus-based cancer immunotherapy”
Hosted by: Dr. Jean-Simon Diallo

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, RGN 2003, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Dr. Brian Bennett
Professor
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Science
Queen’s University
Kingston ON
Seminar Title: “Smart nitrates and heavy PUFAs: improving memory in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease”
Hosted by: Dr. Duncan Stewart

Friday, April 13, 2018, RGN 1421, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Dr. Steven J. Bensinger
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Seminar Title: “Understanding the impact of lipid metabolism on inflammatory responses”
Hosted by: Danny Jomaa

Friday, April 6, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Sheila Collins
Professor
Cardiovascular Medicine
Department of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Seminar Title: “Integration of receptor signaling mechanisms for brown adipose thermogenesis and physiology”
Hosted by: Danny Jomaa

Friday, April 6, 2018, RGN 2003, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Vidu Garg
Professor
Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics
The Ohio State University
Seminar Title: “Uncovering genetic contributors to congenital heart disease.”
Hosted by: Dr. Mona Nemer

Thursday, April 5, 2018, RGN 2113, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Edward O’Brien
Professor
Department of Cardiac Sciences (Cardiology)
Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary
Seminar Title: “The Novel Relationship between Heat Shock Protein 27, Estrogens and PCSK9 in the Regulation of Atherogenesis”
Hosted by: Janice Mayne

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, RGN 2112, 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum
Professor
Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology and Cardiovascular Sciences
St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre
University of Manitoba
Seminar Title: “Molecular Regulation of Cell Death Pathways”
Hosted by: Dr. Mary Ellen Harper

Wednesday, March 28, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Amy Zarzeczny
Associate Professor
Graduate Chair
Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
University of Regina
Seminar Title: “A Murky Market - Unproven Stem Cell Interventions and Policy Options”
Hosted by: Marissa Lithopoulos

Friday, March 23, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Jacqueline Crawley
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of California Davis School of Medicine
Seminar Title: “Behavioral Phenotyping of Genetic Mouse Models of Autism.”
Hosted by: Danny Jomaa

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, ***Cancelled***
Dr. Matthew Weitzman
Professor
Department of Pathology and Microbiology
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Seminar Title: “Dynamic Interactions on Virus and Host Genomes during Virus Infections”
Hosted by: Danny Jomaa

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, RGN 2149, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Dr. Roy Duncan
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dalhousie University
Seminar Title: “Fusogenic reoviruses and their FAST proteins: modular, minimalist membrane fusion machines”
Hosted by: Dr. Jonathan Angel

Thursday, March 8, 2018, RGN 3248, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Nicolas Pineault (Adjunct Seminar Series)
Adjunct Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology
University of Ottawa
Seminar Title: “Cord Blood at CBS: R&D in banking and stem cell expansion”
Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

Friday, March 2, 2018, RGN 2005, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe
Professor
Molecular and Cellular Biology
College of Biological Science
University of Guelph
Seminar Title: “Your gut microbiome-driven, metabolic engine (and how I’m learning to be a microbiology mechanic)”
Hosted by: Austin Yan

Thursday, March 1, 2018, RGN 2003, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Dr. Stéphane Roy
Professor
University of Montreal
Faculty of Dental Medicine
Department of Stomatology
Accredited Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Seminar Title: “Pioneered by Nature –Limb regeneration in Axolotls: to TGF-β or to BMP or both?”
Hosted by: Dr. Nadine Wiper Bergeron

Friday, February 23, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Balwantray Chauhan
Mathers Professor and Research Director
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Seminar Title: “Imaging Retinal Ganglion Cells: From the Neuroretinal Rim to Dendrites”
Hosted by: Shagana Visuvanathan

Friday, February 9, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Frank Wolschendorf
Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Center for AIDS Research Associated Scientist
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Seminar Title: “Pioneered by Nature – Exploited for Medicine: Copper’s Affinity for Drugs and Bugs”
Hosted by: Dr. Jim Sun

Thursday, February 8, 2018, RGN 2005, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Manoj Lalu (Cross-Appointee)
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of Ottawa
Seminar Title: “Experimental sepsis and lung injury – from exosome therapy to multicenter preclinical studies”
Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

Friday, February 2, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Marlene Oeffinger
Director
Laboratory of RNP Biochemistry - Department of Systems Biology
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Montreal
Associate Professor
Division of Experimental Medicine
McGill University
Seminar Title: “Proteomic investigation of dynamic interactomes and variances along gene expression pathways”
Hosted by: Dr. Kristin Baetz

Thursday, January 25, 2018, RGN 1007, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Dr. Xiang-Xi Michael Xu
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
University of Miami
Seminar Title: “Ovarian cancer risk at menopause: control of epithelial progenitor cells by ovarian microenvironment”
Hosted by: Dr. Barbara Vanderhyden

Friday, January 19, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Baohua Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Physiology
University of California
San Francisco
Seminar Title: “Adaptive Control of Innate Reflexes by Visual Cortex”
Hosted by: Dr. Simon Chen

Friday, January 17, 2018, RGN 2112, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Daniel Coutu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cell Systems Dynamics (Supervisor: Timm Schroeder)
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
ETH Zürich
Seminar Title: “Skeletal and mesenchymal stem cells: a tale of two lineages”
Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

Friday, January 12, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Frederick Dick
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Oncology
Western University
London, Ontario
Seminar Title: “Non-canonical roles for the retinoblastoma protein in genome architecture and stability”
Hosted by: Dr. Ryan Russell

Friday, January 5, 2018, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Douglas Paul Millay
Assistant Professor
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
Seminar Title: “Mechanisms and translational potential of muscle stem cell fusion”
Hosted by: Jonathan Weldrick (Graduate Student)

Friday, December 15, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Peter Jones
Director of Medical Biochemistry
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
University of Nevada
Reno School of Medicine
Seminar Title: “Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: modeling an epigenetic disease in mice”
Hosted by: Jonathan Weldrick (Graduate Student)

Friday, December 8, 2017, RGN 2003, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Eric Shoubridge
Professor
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Seminar Title: “Interrogating the mitochondrial interactome using BioID”
Hosted by: Dr. Alex MacKenzie

Friday, December 8, 2017, RGN 2112, 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Dr. Francesco Marchetti
Research Scientist Health Canada
Adjunct Research Professor
Carleton University
Seminar Title: “Of (Muta)Mice and Men: insights into reproduction, development and cancer”
Hosted by: Dr. Kin Chan

Friday, December 1, 2017, RGN 2149, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Dr. Lewis Lanier
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of California San Francisco
Seminar Title: “Natural Killer Cells Remember”
Hosted by: Dr. Seung-Hwan Lee

Friday, December 1, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Jeehye Park
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
Seminar Title: “Unravelling the role of MATR3 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)”
Hosted by: Dr. Woo Jae Kim

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, RGN 2113, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Dr. John McDermott
Professor
Department of Biology
Faculty of Science
York University
Toronto, Canada
Seminar Title: “Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of MEF2 Function in Striated Muscle”

Friday, November 17, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Peter Stirling
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Genetics
University of British Columbia
Seminar Title: “Defining and exploiting mechanisms of genome instability in cancer”

Friday, November 10, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. John Brumell
Professor
Institute of Medical Science
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
Seminar Title: “Mechanisms of cell-to-cell spread by Listeria monocytogenes”

~ Faculty Candidate ~
Thursday, November 2, 2017, RGN 2003, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Daniel Coutu
Postdoctoral fellow
Cell Systems Dynamics (director Prof. Timm Schroeder)
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
ETH Zürich
Seminar Title: “3D multicolor deep-tissue imaging cytometry of skeletal stem/progenitors cells heterogeneity”

~ Cellular and Molecular Medicine Special Guest Speaker ~
Wednesday, October 25, 2017, RGN 1007, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Roger Tam
Research Associate
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
Research Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
Seminar Title: “Chemically-modified polysaccharide 3D hydrogels with tunable properties for tissue engineering applications”

Friday, October 20, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Gary Sweeney
Professor
Department of Biology
York University
Seminar Title: “Mechanisms of adiponectin’s beneficial actions in diabetes and heart failure”

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, RGN 1007, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Robert Brown
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Seminar Title: “Still lipasin’ after all these years”

Friday, October 13, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Vanessa Auld
Professor
Faculty of Science
Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia
Seminar Title: “Glia-glia communication and the wrapping of peripheral nerves”

Thursday, October 12, 2017, RGN 2149, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. David Josephy
Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Guelph
Seminar Title: “The unexpected potency of cyano-substituted nitroanilines, reduction products of azo disperse dyes: a challenge to the "structural alert" concept”

Tuesday, October 10, 2017, RGN 2005, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Bradley Olwin
Professor
Associate Chair
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado Boulder
Seminar Title: “Muscle stem cell non-autonomous self-renewal during muscle regeneration”