Biochemistry Visiting Speaker Seminar Series
Fall 2011 - 2012
Seminar Archives
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are in MSB 384 at 10:30 am.
- Friday, September 30, 2011
Dr. George Mackie, University of British Columbia
"The 5'-end dependent pathway of mRNA turnover: mechanisms and consequences"
Host: Dr. Chris Brandl - Friday, October 7, 2011
Dr. Ray Trievel, University of Michigan
"Structure and Function of Protein Methyltransferases and Demethylases"
Hosts: Dr. Stan Dunn and Dr. Hong Ling - Friday, October 14, 2011
Dr. Ze-Chun Yuan, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
"Dissecting bacterium-plant signaling networks in the rhizosphere"
Host: Dr. David Litchfield - Friday, November 4, 2011
Dr. Bob Mercer, Computer Science at UWO
"Extracting Information from Scholarly Biomedical Writing"
Host: Dr. Peter Rogan - Friday, November 25, 2011
Dr. Ross Feldman, Depts. of Medicine and of Physiology & Pharmacology, UWO
"Unraveling the mechanisms underlying the rapid effects of steroids: sorting out the receptors and the pathways"
Host: Dr. David Litchfield - *Friday, December 2, 2011
Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
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. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
Dr. Thomas Surrey, London Cancer Institute U.K.
"Microtubule end binding proteins: from structure to network functioning"
Host: Dr. Lars Konerman - Friday, December 16, 2011
Dr. Voula Kanelis, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, University of Toronto
"Biophysical studies of the first nucleotide binding domain from SUR2A"
Host: Dr. Brian Shilton - Friday, January 6, 2012
Dr. Anthony Nichols, Department of Otolaryngology, UWO
"Personalizing care for patients with head and neck cancer"
Host: Dr. David Litchfield - Friday, January 13, 2012
Dr. Amanda Moehring, Department of Biology, Western (formerly UWO)
"Sex, flies and video tape: The genetics of species isolation"
Host: Dr. Bonnie Deroo - Friday, January 20, 2012 - 1:30 PM Kingsmill Room Huron University College
Harold B. Stewart Memorial Lecture & Research Showcase
Dr. Michael Surette, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, and Department of Medicine, McMaster University
"Rethinking Respiratory Infections: Pathogens, Synergens and the Airway Microbiome"
Host: Dr. David Litchfield - Friday, February 3, 2012
***CANCELLED*** Dr. Adam Bogdanove, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
"The DNA targeting structure of TAL effector proteins"
Host: Dr. David Edgell - Friday, February 10, 2012
Dr. John Allingham, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queens University
"On the Road with a Dead Head: A Look Under the Hood of Kinesins that Pair with Non-Catalytic Motors"
Host: Dr. Brian Shilton - Friday, February 24, 2012
Dr. Kerri Kobryn, College of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Saskatchewan
"Making the Hairpin Telomeres of Borrelia"
Host: Dr. David Haniford - Thursday March 8, 2012 @ 2:30 pm in MSB 148
Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
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. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
Dr. Rosemary Redfield, Life Sciences Institute, Bacterial Adaptation and Response Networks, University of British Columbia,
"Do Bacteria Have Sex"
Host: Dr. David Edgell - Friday, March 23, 2012
Dr. Allan Weissman, Center for Cancer Research, Laboratory of Protein Dynamics and Signaling, NCI
"Insights from Studying the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in Degradation from the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Mitochondria"
Host: Dr. Gary Shaw - Friday, March 30, 2012
Dr. Adam Bogdanove, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
"The DNA targeting structure of TAL effector proteins"
Host: Dr. David Edgell - Friday, April 13, 2012
Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
Dr. Susan Gottesman, National Cancer Institute
"Regulating with Small RNAs: The Hidden Circuitry of Bacteria"
Host: Dr. David Haniford - Tuesday April 17, 2012
@10:30 am in MSB 384 Dr. Gerold Schmitt-Ulms ,Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto
"The new ZIP on the block: significance of evolutionary descent of prion genes from a zinc metal ion transporter"
Host: Dr. Lars Konermann - Friday, April 20, 2012
Dr. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
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. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
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. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
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. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
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. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
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. Maud L. Menten Memorial Lecture Series (see schedule here)
Dr. Jay Keasling, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkely
Topic to be announced.
Host:Dr. Megan Davey
Last updated by J. Penchuk, May 10, 2012
