Previous Seminars

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:00pm

Molecular Probes for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Sensing and Imaging
Xiao-an Zhang
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:00pm
Host: Rasangi Tennakoon
McLennan Physical Laboratories, Room MP606
BiophysTO Lunchtime Talks
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Xiaoan Zhang_March272025.pdf
"Advances in Pulmonary MRI using Hyperpolarized 129Xe gas in Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis"
Faiyza Alam, PhD Student
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:00pm
PGCRL Rm 3a, 3rd Fl, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Cystic Fibrosis Seminar

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 4:00pm

Sequence-to-Activity Models
Katie Pollard, PhD
L.K. Whittier Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology; Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Michael Hoffman
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice_Katie Pollard_March 27, 2025.pdf

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 5:00pm

Novel insights into the membrane topology and cell-surface interactome of extra-cellular Vimentin
Masoud Norouzi
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 5:00pm
Host: Andrew Wilde
661 University Ave, MaRS West 1522
Cytoskeleton Support Group
Special Seminar

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 5:30pm

Reactive oxygen species suppress phagocyte surveillance by oxidizing cytoskeletal regulators
Guillermo de Paz Linares
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 5:30pm
Host: Andrew Wilde
661 University Ave, MaRS West 1522
Cytoskeleton Support Group
Special Seminar

Friday, March 28, 2025 - 11:00am

How do neurons distinguish self from non-self? From genome architecture to brain architecture
Daniele Canzio, PhD
UCSF, Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Friday, March 28, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Student invitee; Ernest Lang (Calarco Lab), Linda Li (Saltzman Lab)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 11:00am

Multiscale patterning outside the cell: the C. elegans model extracellular matrix
Andrew Chisholm, PhD
Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Student invitee; Sharanja Premachandran (Calarco Lab)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar
Multiscale patterning outside the cell: the C. elegans model extracellular matrix
Andrew Chisholm, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Student invitee; Sharanja Premachandran (Calarco Lab)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 1:00pm

Investigating the formation and resolution of the intercellular bridge in animal cytokinesis
Thomas Panagiotou
Dept Molecular Genetics
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 1:00pm
Host: A. Wilde
661 University Ave, MaRS West 1622
Department of Molecular Genetics
PhD Exam Seminar

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:00pm

A TRPV4-dependent calcium signaling axis governs lamellipodial actin architecture to promote cell migration
Sergey Plotnikov
Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:00pm
Host: Rasangi Tennakoon
McLennan Physical Laboratories, Room MP606
BiophysTO Lunchtime Talks
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Sergey Plotnikov_April102025.pdf

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 4:00pm

Technology Disruptions in Radiation Oncology
Thomas R. Mackie, PhD
Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Catherine Coolens
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 7th Floor, Rm 7-605
OCI Seminar Series

Friday, April 11, 2025 - 11:00am

Flexible organ development for a changing world
Dominique Bergmann, PhD
Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr. Professor of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Student invitee: Karan Ishii (Plotnikov Lab)
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Monday, April 14, 2025 - 1:00pm

Molecular Medicine Seminar Series: How might we use AI to find new antibiotics?
Dr. Jon Stokes
McMaster University
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 1:00pm
Host: Dr. Michal Koziarski
PGCRL Rm 3a, 3rd Fl, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Molecular Medicine Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon MM Seminar_ Jon Stokes April 14.pdf

Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 4:00pm

The leukemia driving microenvironment in pathogenesis and treatment
Stavroula Kousteni, PHD
Professor, Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Anastasia Tikhonova
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice_Stavroula Kousteni.docx_.pdf

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 4:00pm

Innovative Non-Genotoxic Cell and Gene Therapies Through the Lens of Fanconi Anemia Disease
Agnieszka Czechowicz
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine; Stanford University School of Medicine
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Anastasia Tikhonova
MaRS- TMDT R# 4-204, 4th floor
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Special seminar_Agnieszka Czechowicz.pdf

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 1:30pm

Metabolic vulnerabilities in acute myeloid leukaemia
Professor Stuart Rushworth, PhD
Professor, Norwich Medical School, Director, Metabolic Health Research Department, University of East Anglia, UK
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 1:30pm
Host: Aaron Schimmer
Margaret Cancer Research Tower (PMCRT) 4th Fl , rm 204
Princess Margaret Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 12:00pm

TBA
Dr. Amy Wong
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 12:00pm
Hospital for Sick Children Patient Support Centre, PSC 03-14-012A Excellence Room, 175 Elizabeth St
Cystic Fibrosis Seminar

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 5:00pm

Plasma membrane topography changes linked with generation and regulation of myosin-based cortical tension in the one-cell Drosophila embryo
Rowan Naidoo
CSB
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 5:00pm
Host: Andrew Wilde Supervisor: T. Harris
661 University Ave, MaRS West 1522
Cytoskeleton Support Group
Research Group Seminar

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 5:35pm

Mechanisms of collective cell migration during Drosophila cardiogenesis
Negar Balaghi
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 5:35pm
Host: Andrew Wilde Supervisor: R. Fernandez-Gonzalez
661 University Ave, MaRS West 1522
Cytoskeleton Support Group
Research Group Seminar

Friday, April 25, 2025 - 11:00am

Post-transcriptional control of cell plasticity in tissue development, regeneration, and disease
Auinash Kalsotra, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry, Investigator | CZ Biohub Chicago
Friday, April 25, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Invited Speaker Seminar
Post-transcriptional control of cell plasticity in tissue development, regeneration, and disease
Auinash Kalsotra, Ph.D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Friday, April 25, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 1:00pm

Kar9 multivalency tunes +TIP body fluid properties that position the spindle
Dr. Jackie Vogel
McGill University
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 1:00pm
Host: Dr. Hyun Lee
MaRS Discovery District West Tower, Room 1522
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Jackie Vogel seminar poster.pdf

Friday, May 2, 2025 - 9:30am

Radiomics for Immunotherapy and radio-immunotherapy combinations: towards ultraprecision medicine?
Dr. Roger Sun, MD. PhD
Radiation Oncologist and Assistant Professor, Gustave Roussy and Paris-Saclay University, Villejuif Cedex, France
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 9:30am
Host: Benjamin Haibe-Kains, PhD
Margaret Cancer Research Tower (PMCRT) 4th Fl , rm 204
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Special Seminar Notice_ Dr. Roger Sun, May 2, 2025.pdf

Friday, May 2, 2025 - 11:00am

Organelle Biogenesis and Function in Plants
Liwen Jiang, PhD
School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Heather Mcfarlane
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, May 2, 2025 - 2:00pm

Mechanisms of stress-induced biomolecular condensate disassembly and ALS-associated protein aggregation
Giovanni Mastromarco
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 2:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Hyun (Kate) Lee; Supervisory committee members: Dr. Alex Palazzo and Dr. Peter Kim
MaRS, Room 1522
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
PhD Exam Seminar

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 12:00pm

TBA
Dr. Daniela Rotin
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 12:00pm
PGCRL Rm 3a, 3rd Fl, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Cystic Fibrosis Seminar

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 4:00pm

Single cell genotype-to-phenotype mapping in clonal hematopoiesis and myeloproliferative neoplasms
Dr. Franco Izzo
Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Federico Gatti
Margaret Cancer Research Tower (PMCRT) 4th Fl , rm 204
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, May 9, 2025 - 2:00pm

Mechanisms of Exopolysaccharide Modification and Export by Synthase-Dependent Systems
Adithya Shankara Subramanian
Friday, May 9, 2025 - 2:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. P. Lynne Howell; Supervisory Committee Members: Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier & Dr. Mark Nitz
Hospital for Sick Children Patient Support Centre, PSC 03-14-012A Excellence Room
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Exam Seminar

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 10:00am

The Regulation of DNA Replication by Arginine Methylation
Michael Ferguson
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 10:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Grant Brown; Supervisory committee member: Dr. Haley Wyatt
MSB 2173
PhD Exam Seminar

Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:00pm

TBA
Dr. Valerie Waters
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:00pm
PGCRL Rm 3.9320, 3rd Fl. Multi-Media Room, 686 Bay St., Sickkids
Cystic Fibrosis Seminar

Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 4:00pm

Harnessing targeted protein degradation to overcome the limitations of inhibition
Dr. Guangrong Zheng
Professor, University of Florida
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Robert Kridel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

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