From September 4, 2012 to April 30, 2013
Tuesdays 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Room 3248
Health Sciences Building
Roger Guindon Hall (RGN) 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa
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Winter 2013 |
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Speaker |
Title |
Date |
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May |
Special Seminar Speaker
Jesse Bertinato, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Nutrition Research Division, Health Canada
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"Roles of Copper Transporters and Chaperones in Maintaining Copper Balance" |
Please note
Special date and time
Friday, May 31, 2013 Room: 1007- RGN
Time:11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Cheryl Wellington, Ph.D
Scientist Level 2, CFRI
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of British Columb |
"From concussion to dementia: A key role for apolipoprotein E in the central nervous system" |
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
RGN -
Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Special Seminar Speaker
Dr. Rebecca Ann C. Auer
FRCSC, FACS
Oncology and Colorectal Surgery
Ottawa Hospital-General Campus |
"Innovative cancer therapeutics targeting the perioperative period to reduce postoperative cancer recurrence: A translational research program" |
Please note
Special date and time
Friday, May 17, 2013
Room: 2149 /Amp - RGN
Time:14:00 p.m. to 15:00 p.m. |
Special Seminar Speaker
Élaine Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Research Associate,
Département de Biologie,
Faculté des Sciences,
Université de Sherbrooke |
"Metaboloepigenetics: chromatin remodeling via metabolite sensing" |
Please note
Special date and time
Friday, May 17, 2013
Room: 2022 RGN
Time:9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. |
Special Seminar Speaker
Benoit Leclerc, Ph.D.
Part-time professor
Faculty of Science and Interdisciplinary
School of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa |
"Perspectives in Molecular Imaging Using Staging Biomarkers and Immunotherapies in Alzheimer’s disease" |
Please note
Special date and time Monday May 13, 2013
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Room 2021, RGN |
CANCELLED
Dr. Rebecca Ann C. Auer
FRCSC, FACS
Oncology and Colorectal Surgery
Ottawa Hospital-General Campus |
"Innovative cancer therapeutics targeting the perioperative period to reduce postoperative cancer recurrence: A translational research program" |
CANCELLED
Monday, May 13, 2013 RGN
Room: 2003
Time:10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
Special Seminar Speaker
Caroline Petit-Turcotte, Ph.D.
Part-time professor La Cité Collégiale, Ottawa, Collège Nouvelles Frontières, Gatineau, and in the Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa |
"An application of glucose metabolism in Pathology: Is Alzheimer’s disease a new form of Diabetes?" |
Please note
Special date and time
Thursday, May 9, 2013 RGN Room: 2021
Time:11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Special Seminar Speaker
Dr. Morgan Fullerton Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton. |
"Obesity-induced metabolic dysfunction: Convergence and consequence of inflammation and lipid metabolism" |
Please note
Special date and time
Thursday May 2, 2013 RGN Room: 2003
Time: 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
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April |
POSTPONED
until further notice.
Adam Rudner, Ph. D
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochesmistry, Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty of Medicine, U. Ottawa |
"Phosphoregulation of anaphase onset" |
Postponed until further notice.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Special Seminar Speaker
John Pezacki, Ph.D.
Senior Research Officer,
Life Sciences Division, NRC, Ottawa
Adjunct Professor in Dept of BMI, UOttawa |
"Chemical and systems biology approaches track down host-virus interactions " |
Please note
Special date and time
Monday, April 21, 2013 RGN Room 2003
Time: 2:30p.m. to 3h30p.m. |
John Baenziger, Ph. D.
Professor,
Department of Biochesmistry, Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty of Medicine, U Ottawa |
"Lipid dependent modulation of ligand-gated ion channel function: underlying mechanisms and potential roles in synaptic communication" |
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Daniel Kadouri, M.Sc, Ph.D
Department of Oral Biology
University of Medicine and
Dentistry
of New Jersey
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“Controlling Drug Resistant Bacteria- The Answer is Out There” |
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
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12:45: Dr. Subash Sad, Professor
“Location, Location, Location”
1:30 : Dr. Earl Brown, Professor
“Experimental Viral Evolution”
2:30 :Jennifer Black, PhD Candidate
"The Role of Anti-Neurofascin Antibodies in Gamma-Delta T-Cell Mediated Neuro-Axonal Damage: A Potential Mechanism in the Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis”
3:15: Walid Mottawea, PhD Candidate
“Molecular Characterization of Gut Microbiota in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases"
4:00: Tracey Doyle, PhD Candidate
“A Broadly Protective Antibody Targeting a Unique, Highly Conserved Region in the Influenza Neuraminidase Protein" |
Thursday, April 4, 2013
12:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Room 2022 (near Atrium) |
Dennis Bulman, Ph. D.
Affiliate Investigator, Regenerative Medicine,
OHRI
Associate Professor,
Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology
Cross-Appointments: Dept of BMI, U. Ottawa
Research Institute of the CHEO
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CANCELLED
"New Approaches to Finding Genes for Myoclonus Dystonia" |
Tuesday April 2, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m.
CANCELLED |
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March |
Graduate Career Day
Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
This year again, we will have a full day of talks by exceptional presenters. Also note that, due to limited staff at the CASS, it will not be possible to hold our CV clinic. Miss Claire Cayen will however give all the relevant information about CV evaluation services available all year long downtown. You can also consult:
http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/carrieres/ressources/cv/
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 The event will take place in amphitheate RGN 2005
from 9H30 to 15H30 |
Special Seminar Speaker
Céline Aguer, Ph. D.
Scientist/ Principal Investigator
Montfort Hospital
Research Institute,
Nutrition and Metabolism Research Unit, Ottawa, |
"Skeletal muscle lipid metabolism: mechanisms affecting insulin resistance" |
Please note
Special date and time
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
RGN Room: 2113 - Hallway towards CHEO
Time:3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Katrina Gee, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
Queen's University |
“IL-27 and inflammatory responses” |
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Scott Kachlany, Ph D.
Associate Professor,
Department of Oral Biology
University of Medicine and
Dentistry
of New Jersey |
“A bacterial protein for the treatment of white blood cell diseases” |
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
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Various presentations |
Monday, March 11, 2013
RGN Atrim, 2nd Floor
Time: 9:00 a.m. all day |
Michael Kobor, Ph D.
Scientist, CMMT, CFRI, UBC
Associate Professor,
Department of Medical Genetics,
University of British Colombia |
"Chromatin Regulation of Genome Function" |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
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February |
Albert Berghuis, Ph. D.
Professor
Canadian Research Chair in Structural Biology
Department of Biochemistry
McGill University |
"Structural Biological
Studies of Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms" |
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Michael Rosy-Myles, Ph. D.
Stem Cell Research Laboratory,
Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate,
Health Canada |
"Novel Biomarkers for the Identification and Quantification of Mesenchymal Stem Cells " |
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m.
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Henry N. Ginsberg, M.D.
Irving Professor of Medicine Director,
Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Columbia University, NYC |
"Molecular and cellular regulation of hypertriglyceridemia" |
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Special Seminar Speaker
Dr. Juan Parra-Robles Ph.D
Unit of Academic Radiology University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire HospitalSheffield,
United Kingdom |
"Quantitative imaging of lung anatomy and physiology using hyperpolarized gas MRI" |
Please note
Special date and time Monday, Feb 11, 2013 RGN Room 2022
Time: 2:00p.m. to 3h00p.m.
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Murray W. Huff, Ph.D.
Director and Scientist
Vascular Biology Research Group
Robarts Research Institute
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
The University of Western Ontario, London ON |
"Prevention of diet-induced dyslipidemia, insulin resistance and atherosclerosis in Ldlr-/-mice through the activation of PPAR delta" |
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
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January |
Special Seminar Speaker -
Nicolas Pineault, Ph. D.
Scientist at
Canadian Blood Services
Ottawa, |
"Production of platelets ex vivo and prevention of thrombocytopenia through a stem
cell-based therapy" |
Please note
Special date and timeThursday, Jan 31,2013
Time: 2:00p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
RGN Room: 2022 |
Emma Allen-Vercoe, Ph.D.
Assistant professor,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Science Complex
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
"Microbial Ecosystem Therapeutics - a new paradigm in medicine" |
Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
CANCELLED
Special Seminar Speaker
Michael Rosy-Myles, Ph. D.
Stem Cell Research Laboratory,
Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate,
Health Canada, Ottawa ON |
"Novel Biomarkers for the Identification and Quantification of Mesenchymal Stem Cells " |
CANCELLED
Friday, Jan 25, 2013
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12: p.m
RGN Room: 2113 |
Special Seminar Speaker
Loren J. Field, Ph.D.
Professor of medicine, of physiology and biophysics and of pediatrics
Krannert Institute of Cardiology
Indiana University Department of Medicine |
"Mechanism of cardiac myocyte renewal" |
Please note
Special date and time
Thursday, Jan 24, 2013
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12: p.m. RGN Room: 2012 |
Student invited seminar speaker William L. Stanford, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research,
Regenerative Medicine Program,
OHRI
Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, U Ottawa |
"Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs): from models of disease to systems genetics" |
Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013
RGN Room: 3248 Time:3:30 p.m. |
Dr. David Brindley
Professor of Biochemistry,
Director of Signal Transduction Research Group,
Department of Biochemistry,
School of Translational Medicine,
University of Alberta, Edmonton |
"Regulation of cancer metastasis and chemoresistance by lipid phosphates and their phosphatases" |
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013
Special time and room:
Time: 11:30 a.m.
RGN Room: 1007 |
Special Seminar Speaker - Cancelled
Nicolas Pineault, Ph. D.
Scientist at
Canadian Blood Services
Ottawa, |
"Production of platelets ex vivo and prevention of thrombocytopenia through a stem
cell-based therapy" |
CANCELLED
Monday, January 14
Time: 2:00 pm |
Student invited seminar speaker
Robert Dirksen, Ph. D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Rochester, NY |
“The Role and Regulation of Mitochondrial Superoxide Flash Activity in Muscle : A Journey of Discovery” |
Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 pm |
Fall 2012 |
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Speaker |
Title |
Date |
Éric Milot, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research,
Montreal, QC
Research Axis: Immunology-Oncology
Research Unit : Malignant Hematopoiesis
and Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression |
“Ikaros new function in gene regulation and hematopoietic cell homeostasis.” |
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 pm |
David W. Litchfield, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Western University,
London, ON |
"Convergence of protein kinase and caspase signaling: a mechanism for pathological rewiring of signaling pathways to promote cancer cell survival?" |
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
NO SEMINAR |
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Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 |
Amine Nourani, Ph. D.
Professeur-Agrégé
Laval University Cancer Research Center
Hotel-Dieu de Quebec (CHUQ)
Quebec
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"Regulation of Spt6/Spn1chromatin refolding pathway by Casein Kinase II " |
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Special Seminar - Speaker
Craig McCormick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia |
“Stress management: How Influenza
Viruses Undermine
Host Antiviral Stress Responses” |
Wednesday Nov 21th, 2012
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
RGN Room 2003 (Amph B)
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Tom Kunkel, Ph. D.
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Structural Biology and
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
National Institutes of Environmental Health Science |
"Balancing eukaryotic replication asymmetry with replication fidelity" |
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Roberto Chica, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Ottawa |
"Improving the properties of red fluorescent proteins through rational design"
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Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Jamshid Tanha. P.h D.
Senior Research Officer
Institute for Biological Sciences,
National Research Council, Ottawa |
"Site-Directed Mutagenesis for Improving Biophysical Properties of Antibody VH Domains" |
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012
RGN Room: 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Special Seminar - Speaker
Lev Becker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Pritzker School of Medicine
The University of Chicago |
“Systems approaches for interrogating the function and phenotype of macrophages” |
Special date and time
Monday, Nov. 5 2012 RGN Room 2005
Time:2:30 p.m. |
Jacques Drouin, D.Sc., MRSC
Research unit Director
Molecular Genetics research unit
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal |
"Epigenetic cell fate programming through chromatin re-modeling by the pioneer transcription factor Pax7" |
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time:3:30 p.m. |
Special Seminar - Speaker
Igor Jurisica, Ph.D.
Professor in Departments of Computer Science and Medical Biophysics
at the U. of Toronto,
Senior Scientist in Ontario Cancer Institute
and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Integrative Cancer Informatics. |
" Integrative cancer informatics. From biomarkers to new drugs and improved survival" |
Special date and time
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012
RGN Room 2005
Time:11:00 a.m. |
Woong-Kyung SUH, Ph.D.
Research Unit Director
Immune Regulation Laboratory
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM) |
"T cell costimulation in immunity and cancer" |
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m. |
Michael G. Brown, Ph.D.
Professor Department of Medicine,
Division of Nephrology Beirne Carter
Center for Immunology Research University of Virginia |
"Genetic analysis of NK cell-mediated viral immunity " |
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m. |
John C. Bell, PhD
Senior Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics,
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, Depts. of Medicine and BMI U Ottawa |
"Oncolytic Viruses as Cancer Therapeutics" |
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m. |
Jean-Simon Diallo, Ph. D.
Associate Scientist
Centre for Innovative Cancer Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |
"Small Molecule Viral Sensitizers: Oncolytic Viruses and Beyond" |
Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m |
Dr. Duncan J. Stewart
CEO & Scientific Director and Senior Scientist in the
Regenerative Medicine Program and Evelyne and Rowell Laishley Chair,
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |
"Progenitor Cell Transplantation for Pulmonary Hypertension" |
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m |
Dr. Robert Roberts,
FRCPC, MACC, FAHA |
"The Genetics of Heart Disease" |
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m. |
| Mrs. Lindsey Sikora Health Sciences Research Liaison Librarian |
"Navigating the Literature for Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology" This seminar is compulsory for all new students |
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m. |
Mr. Peter Stuart Swain, Ph.D.
Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom |
"Ultrasensitivity and cellular decision-making" |
Tuesday, Sept. 04, 2012
RGN Room 3248
Time: 3:30 p.m. |
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