Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series

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The Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series are held annually by the Department of Biochemistry. Two mini-symposia and at least eight lectures will be held each year. The speakers are expected to be active, high-profile scientists and are nominated by the Department of Biochemistry research community. Invitations are sent after selection of the speakers by the Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series Committee. If you wish to nominate a potential speaker please send the name of the scientist and a brief description to Megan Davey.

Dr. Menten (1879-1960) was born in Port Lambton, Ontario and was one of the first women to graduate with a medical doctorate in Canada (1911). She is best known for the Michaelis-Menten equation that provides a mathematical means for determining the rate of an enzyme reaction. In addition, Dr. Menten has made many other contributions, publishing over 80 papers. Dr. Menten joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1918 as an instructor. She retired as full professor in 1950. Afterwards, Dr. Menten pursued research at the British Columbia Research Institute until her death in 1960. In addition to her commitment to research and teaching, Dr. Menten played clarinet, was an accomplished painter, and spoke several languages.

For more information about the seminar series, please contact Melita Hayes or Megan Davey.

Fall & Winter 2011 - 2012 Schedule

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are in MSB 384 at 10:30 am.

*Friday, December 2, 2011
Dr. Chris Adami, Professor of Applied Life Sciences, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA
Visiting Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
"Rewiring Gene Interaction Networks in Yeast"
Host: Dr. Peter Rogan

*Friday, December 9, 2011
Dr. Thomas Surrey, London Cancer Institute U.K.
"Microtubule end binding proteins: from structure to network functioning"
Host: Dr. Lars Konerman

Thursday March 8, 2012 @ 2:30 pm in MSB 148
Dr. Rosemary Redfield, Life Sciences Institute, Bacterial Adaptation and Response Networks, University of British Columbia,
'#arseniclife and open science'
Host: Dr. David Edgell

Friday, March 9, 2012
Dr. Rosemary Redfield, Life Sciences Institute, Bacterial Adaptation and Response Networks, University of British Columbia,
"Do Bacteria Have Sex"
Host: Dr. David Edgell

Friday, April 13, 2012
Dr. Susan Gottesman, National Cancer Institute
"Regulating with Small RNAs: The Hidden Circuitry of Bacteria"
Host: Dr. David Haniford

Friday, April 20, 2012
Dr. Jack Greenblatt, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto
"Protein interaction networks in bacteria, yeast, and man:implications for membrane biology and transcriptional regulation"
Host: Dr. Megan Davey

*Friday, April 27, 2012
Dr. Jean Vance, University of Alberta
"Cholesterol Transport in the Brain and Niemann-Pick C Disease"
Host: Dr. Fred Possmeyer

*Friday, May 4, 2012
Dr. Ben Blencowe, The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto
"Alternative Splicing: Decoding an Expansive Regulatory Layer"
Host: Dr. Chris Brandl

*Friday, May 18, 2012
Dr. Brian Sykes, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta
"Structural Basis of Cardiac Function: Ischemia and Drug Design"
Host: Dr. Gary Shaw

*Friday, May 25, 2012 **SPRING SYMPOSIUM**
Dr. Sergio Grinstein, Sick Kids Hospital, Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto
"Imaging phagocytosis: receptors, signal transduction and the cytoskeleton"
Host:Dr. David Litchfield

*Friday, Aug 24, 2012 **SUMMER SYMPOSIUM**
Dr. Jay Keasling, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkely
Topic to be announced.
Host:Dr. Megan Davey

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Last updated November 3, 2011 by M. Hayes