Cell & Systems Biology Seminars

Friday, March 8, 2024 - 11:00am

Something's wrong in the cellular neighborhood: the biophysics of how cells respond to laser-induced wounds
Shane Hutson, PhD
A.B. Learned Professor of Living State Physics, Vanderbilt University
Friday, March 8, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Tony Harris
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 15, 2024 - 11:00am

Investigating plant responses to bacterial infection with spatial and cellular resolution
Gitta Coaker, PhD
University of California, Davis
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Tamar Av-Shalom (Student Invitation)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 22, 2024 - 11:00am

Dynamic cell surface nanoscale organization controls receptor signaling in breast cancer cells
Costin Antonescu, PhD
Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Chemistry and Biology
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Sergey Plotnikov
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 5, 2024 - 11:00am

Nuclear CCT chaperonin regulates meiotic chromosome morphogenesis through assembly of meiotic HORMAD proteins
Monique Zetka, PhD
Department of Biology, McGill University
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Arneet Saltzman
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 12, 2024 - 11:00am

Maintenance and Remodeling of Epithelial Cell-Cell Junctions in Response to Cell Shape Changes
Ann Miller, PhD
University of Michigan, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Friday, April 12, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 19, 2024 - 11:00am

Multi-scale control of structural functionality in plants
Anja Geitmann, PhD
Department of Plant Science, McGill University
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Heather McFarlane
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, April 26, 2024 - 11:00am

Understanding the remote control of gene transcription: lessons from the pluripotency gene Sox2
Thomas Sexton, PhD
Department of Functional Genomics and Cancer, IGBMC
Friday, April 26, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Jennifer Mitchell
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, September 20, 2024 - 11:00am

The neuromuscular junction and its glial cells as therapeutic target in ALS
Richard Robitaille, PhD
Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal
Friday, September 20, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Mackenzie Lorager
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, September 27, 2024 - 11:00am

Enhancers are genes
JOH N MATTICK, PHD
RNA Biology, University of New South Wales
Friday, September 27, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Sept 27, 2024 Poster.pdf

Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:00am

Ammonium Chemotaxis in Chlamydomonas: Mechanistic Insights into Ciliary Beat Pattern Modulation and Evolutionary Implications
Naohiro Kato, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Keiko Yoshioka
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, October 11, 2024 - 1:30pm

Spatial organization of organelles and lipid metabolism
Dr. Mike Henne
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 1:30pm
Host: Dr. Amra Saric
PGCRL Rm 1, 2nd Fl, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Dr. Henne - Oct 11_SK.pdf

Friday, October 18, 2024 - 11:00am

Untangling biological complexity to reveal drivers of root microbiome assembly
Sarah Lebeis, PhD
Michigan State University
Friday, October 18, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Mackenzie Lorager (Yoshioka lab)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, October 25, 2024 - 11:00am

Harnessing fundamental cell biology in Drosophila for improved treatments of cancer and neurodegenerative disease
Denise Montell, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday, October 25, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Ernest Iu (Plotnikov Lab)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, November 1, 2024 - 11:00am

Neuronal mechanisms underlying flexible locomotor behaviour development
Minoru Koyama, PhD
Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Maxwell Shafer
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, November 8, 2024 - 11:00am

Processing extracellular information: MLO signaling in plant reproduction and development
Sharon Kessler, PhD
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Daphne Goring
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Nov 8, 2024 Poster.pdf

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 10:00am

Cell state transitions during mammalian epithelial morphogenesis
Jennifer Zallen, PhD
Developmental Biology Group, Sloan Kettering Institute
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 10:00am
Host: Una McNally - Joint Cell and Systems Biology and Collaborative Specialization in Developmental Biology Invitee
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Zallen CSDB poster Nov 13 2024.pdf

Friday, November 22, 2024 - 11:00am

Of sleep and stars: defining a role for astrocytes in sleep expression and homeostasis
Ashley Ingiosi, PhD
Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State university
Friday, November 22, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Jimmy Fraigne and John Peever
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, November 29, 2024 - 11:00am

Of nutrients and toxicants: Plant root membrane transport in a time of major flux
Devrim Coskun, PhD
Département de Phytologie, Faculté des Sciences de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation (FSAA), Université Laval
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Eiji Nambara
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, January 10, 2025 - 11:00am

Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis
Daniel Kierzkowski, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montreal
Friday, January 10, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Heather Mcfarlane
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Jan 10, 2025 Poster.pdf

Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:00am

The causes and consequences of splicing variation
David Knowles, PhD
Columbia University and New York Genome Center
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Alan Moses
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Jan 17, 2025 Poster.pdf

Friday, January 24, 2025 - 11:00am

Bridging the Gap: Unveiling the ER-Chloroplast Interface in Plant Cells
Federica Brandizzi, PhD
Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Friday, January 24, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: PJ Gamueda (Provart lab)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Jan 24, 2025 Poster (1).pdf

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 11:00am

Deciphering pleiotropy: How complex genes are regulated to affect behaviour
Ina Anreiter, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Arneet Saltzman
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar
Deciphering pleiotropy: How complex genes are regulated to affect behaviour
Ina Anreiter, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Arneet Saltzman
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Jan 31, 2025 Poster.pdf

Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:00am

An atypical NLR confers bacterial wilt resistance in a wild Solanum species
Kee Hoon Sohn, PhD
Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Darrell Desveaux
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Feb 7, 2025 Poster.pdf

Friday, February 14, 2025 - 11:00am

Understanding brain function and evolution with barcodes and sequencing
Justus Kebschull, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Maxwell Shafer
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, February 21, 2025 - 11:00am

The Daily Cycle of Plants: Using Quantitative Proteomics to Understand Diel Plant Biology
Dr. R. Glen Uhrig (M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
Friday, February 21, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Maxwell Shafer
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Feb 21, 2025 Poster.pdf

Friday, March 7, 2025 - 11:00am

Regulation of cell shape and movements during Xenopus morphogenesis
Chenbei Chang, PhD
Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, March 7, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Ashley Bruce
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

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