Archived Biochemistry Seminars

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm

Nuclear Export of Proteasomes
Julianne Burçoǧlu
PhD Student
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Cordula Enenkel, Committee Members: Dr. Angus McQuibban, Dr. Walid Houry
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Self-adjuvanted nanoparticles for HIV vaccine design
Taylor Sicard
PhD Student
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Philippe Julien, Committee Members: Dr. Roman Melnyk, Dr. Jim Rini
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 4:00pm

Identifying novel substrates and adaptors of the human chaperone complex R2TP
Katie Mao
PhD Student
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Walid Houry, Committee Members: Dr. Peter Kim and Dr. Liliana Attisano
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00pm

Checkpoint kinases regulate protein subcellular location during replication stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Brandon Ho
PhD Student
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Grant Brown, Committee Members: Dr. Amy Caudy & Dr. William Trimble
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - 4:00pm

BLM Complex Interactome Profiling Reveals Novel Genome Stability Proteins
Jennifer Ho
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Grant Brown, Committee Members: Dr. Anne-Claude Gingras, Dr. Michael Ohh
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Towards understanding the regulation of complex biochemical processes within membraneless organelles
Brian Tsang
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Julie Forman-Kay, Committee Members: Dr. Avi Chakrabartty, Dr. Peter St.George-Hyslop
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 4:00pm

Examining the role of natural Apolipoprotein AI variants in cardiovascular disease
Karen Fung
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Fairn & Dr. Warren Lee, Committee Members: Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier & Dr. Tara Moriarty
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Discovery of genotype-phenotype associations through deep learning
Javi Zhang
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. John Parkinson, Committee Members: Dr. Alex Palazzo, Dr. Alex Ensminger
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 4:00pm

Siamycin-I targets lipid II at the Gram-positive cell surface
Stephanie Tan
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Justin Nodwell, Committee Members: Dr. Walid Houry, Dr. John Parkinson
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
The regulation of Taz expression by fibrogenic stimuli
Maria Zena Miranda
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr.Andras Kapus, Committee Members: Dr. Craig Simmons, Dr. Katalin Szaszi, Dr. Boris Hinz, Dr. Amira Klip
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 4:00pm

Identifying new players in the selective autophagy of peroxisomes
Nicholas Demers
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Kim, Committee Members: Dr. John Brumell, Dr. Daniela Rotin
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Investigating the Dynamic CFTR Interactome using the Mammalian Membrane Two-Hybrid (MaMTH) Platform
Sang Hyun Lim
PhD Student
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Igor Stagljar, Committee Members: Dr. Christine Bear, Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 4:00pm

Biochemistry's Connell Top Publication Winner and Retreat Poster Winners Presentations
Winners
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Monday, December 17, 2018 - 2:00pm

Characterization of CEACAM1 spatial distribution, self-association and dynamics using high-resolution microscopy techniques
Amine Driouchi
Monday, December 17, 2018 - 2:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Yip
MSB 2173
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Aminie.Driouchi.pdf

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 4:00pm

Deciphering the molecular mechanisms that regulate lineage selection and the timing of neuronal differentiation in the developing neocortex
Sisu Han
PhD Student
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Carol Schuurmans, Committee Members: Dr. David Andrews, Dr. JoAnne McLaurin
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Strategies for lineage conversion of fibroblasts to a Schwann cell-like fate
Anjali Balakrishnan
PhD Student
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Carol Schuurmans, Committee Members: Dr. David Andrews, Dr. Alain Dabdoub
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 4:00pm

Oxysterol-binding protein-related proteins and phosphatidylinositol phosphates are required for the proper growth and movement of peroxisomes
Derrick Cheng
PhD Student
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Kim, Committee Members: Dr. William Trimble, Dr. Alex Palazzo
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
A Molecular Simulation Method to Predict the Solvation, Orientation and Self-assembly of Helices in Membranes
Jingjing Huang
PhD Student
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Régis Pomès, Committee Members: Dr. Christopher Yip, Dr. Hue Sun Chan
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 1:30pm

A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein
DR. STEVEN McKNIGHT
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 1:30pm
Host: Brian Tsang
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry George Connell Lecture
Poster available: PDF icon Connell 2018_Steven McKnight.pdf

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 4:00pm

The ion transporter NKCC1 regulates the Leu transporter and mTORC1 activity
Wael Demian
PhD Student
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Daniela Rotin, Committee Members: Dr. John Brumell, Dr. Andras Kapus
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
The effect of opioids on cancer growth through metabolic modulation
Doorsa Tarazi
PhD Student
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Jason T. Maynes , Committee Members: Dr. John Rubinstein, Dr. Charles Deber, Dr. Rosanna Weksberg
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 4:00pm

Determining the Activity of Novel CRISPR-Cas Systems
Marios Mejdani
PhD Student
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Alan Davidson, Committee Members: Dr. Angus McQuibban, Dr. William Navarre
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Mechanism of nickel-activated DNA binding by the Helicobacter pylori transcription factor NikR
Karina Baksh
PhD Student
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Zamble, Committee Members: Dr. Trevor Moraes, Dr. Gil Prive
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Monday, November 19, 2018 - 2:00pm

The assembly of the autotransporter family of bacterial outer membrane proteins
Dr. Harris Bernstein, Ph.D.
Protein Biogenesis Section, Genetics and Biochemistry Branch- NIH Intramural Research Program (NIH/NIDDK) Bethesda, MD, USA
Monday, November 19, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Dr. Trevor Moraes
CCBR Red Room
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Poster_Harris Bernstein.pdf

Monday, November 19, 2018 - 9:00am

Characterization of Slam-mediated surface lipoprotein translocation across the bacterial outer membrane
Yogesh Hooda
Monday, November 19, 2018 - 9:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Trevor Moraes
MSB 2173
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Yogesh.Hooda_.pdf

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 1:00pm

Ion Permeation and Selectivity in Voltage-gated Sodium Channels
Christopher Ing
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 1:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Regis Pomes
MSB 4171
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Chris_.Ing_.pdf

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 4:00pm

Say no to discrimination: Anti-CRISPR protein that allows for specific and nonspecific DNA binding
Wang-Ting Lu
PhD Student
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Alan Davidson, Committee Members: Dr. Trevor Moraes, Dr. Karen Maxwell
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Dissecting how cortical actin is regulated by DIAPH1 and IQGAP1 during cytokinesis
Anan Chen
PhD Student
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Wilde, Committee Members: Dr. Alex Palazzo, Dr. Boris Hinz, Dr. William Trimble
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 9:00am

Engineering Diphtheria Toxin as an Intracellular Protein Delivery Platform
Minyoung Park
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 9:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Roman Melnyk
CCBR Red Room
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Minyoung.Park_.pdf

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 9:00am

Regulation of Phagocyte Function by Sterols and Endocytosis by Membrane Curvature
Stella Lu
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 9:00am
Supervisor: Gregory Fairn
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Stella.Lu_.pdf

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 4:00pm

Cellular exit of Salmonella Typhimurium by exocytosis: implications for cell-to-cell spread of infection
Glenn Walpole
MD/PhD Student
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Sergio Grinstein & Dr. John Brumell, Committee Members: Dr. Peter Kim, Dr. Mathieu Lemaire
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Integrin engagement and recycling in phagocytosis
Philip Ostrowski
PhD Student
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Sergio Grinstein, Committee Members: Dr. Gregory Fairn, Dr. Boris Hinz
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 9:00am

Integrating Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Virtual Reality into the Structural Biology Pipeline
Aidin Balo
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 9:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Oliver Ernst
MSB 3278
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Aidin_.Balo_.pdf

Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 10:00am

Investigation of the tail fibres and tail fibre assembly proteins of contractile-tailed phages
Olesia Ivantsiv
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 10:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Alan Davidson
CCBR Black Room
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Olesia.Ivantsiv.pdf

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 4:00pm

Molecular and comparative genomic studies on the Large Clostridial Toxin translocase
Kathleen Orrell
PhD Student
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Roman Melnyk, Committee Members: Dr. Trevor Moraes, Dr. Christine Bear
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Inhibition of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) by statins
Manpreet Malhi
PhD Student
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Jason T. Maynes, Committee Members: Dr. Roman Melnyk, Dr. John Coles
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 1:00pm

Investigating the functional roles of NBEAL2 in megakaryocytes and platelets
Richard Wei Chi Lo
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 1:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Walter Kahr
MSB 3278
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 4:00pm

How phage L capsid decoration protein distinguishes between nearly identical binding sites on an icosahedral virion
DR. KRISTIN PARENT
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michigan State University
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 4:00pm
Host: Annoj Thavalingam
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry George Connell Lecture
Poster available: PDF icon Connell 2018_Kristin Parent.pdf

Monday, October 22, 2018 - 9:00am

The transmembrane associations of HIV-1 Vpu and its human targets
Gregory Cole
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 9:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Simon Sharpe
MSB Room 3278
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - 4:00pm

Last Stand: Small Molecule Inhibitors Halt Apoptosis Initiation By Directly Binding Executors BAX and BAK
Justin Pogmore
PhD Student
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. David Andrews, Committee Members: Dr. Peter Kim, Dr. Sergio Grinstein
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
SPOP Oligomerization Drives the Assembly of Multivalent Cullin3-RING Ubiquitin Ligase Complexes
Darren Yong
PhD Student
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Gil Privé, Committee Members: Dr. Trevor Moraes, Dr. Frank Sicheri
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 2:00pm

Regulation of CFTR function and stability by phosphorylation and its membrane environment
Stephanie Chin
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 2:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Christine Bear
CCBR Red Room
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Stephanie.Chin_.pdf

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 4:00pm

Investigating the structure, function, and bioengineering applications of the Moraxella bovis lactoferrin-binding protein B
Nicholas Ostan
PhD Student
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Trevor Moraes, Committee Members: Dr. Jim Rini, Dr. Gil Prive
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Using high throughput FLIM-FRET to screen drugs targeting anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins in live cells
Elizabeth Osterlund
Graduate Student
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. David Andrews
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 4:00pm

Protecting the genome by homologous recombination: BRCA2 and its role in genomic integrity maintenance
DR. MARIA JASIN
Member, Developtmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 4:00pm
Host: Jennifer Jung Ho
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry George Connell Lecture
Poster available: PDF icon Connell 2018_Maria Jasin (New).pdf

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 10:00am

PHOSPHOINOSITIDE METABOLISM AND SIGNALING DURING LATE PHAGOSOME MATURATION AND PHAGOLYSOSOME RESOLUTION
Roni Levin
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 10:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Sergio Grinstein
CCBR Black Room
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Exam Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Roni_.Levin_.pdf

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 4:00pm

Propagation of hamster prions in a novel cell model
Matthew Bourkas
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Joel Watts, Committee Member: Dr. Simon Sharpe, Committee Member: Dr. Gerold Schmitt-Ulms
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Do Bone Marrow White Adipocytes Favour the Development of Tissue Invasive Ly6Chigh Monocytes?
Parastoo Boroumand
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Amira Klip; Co-supervisor: Dr. Stephen Girardin, Committee Members: Dr. Hoon-ki Sung and Dr. Khosrow Adeli
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 4:00pm

Structure and mechanism of a master regulator of cell fate determination in the human immune system: Two heads really are better than one
Gregory Petsko
Professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute , Weill Cornell Medical College and Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute , Weill Cornell Medical College
Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 4:00pm
Host: Scientific Symposium in Honor of Professor Emil F. Pai: Why Structure Matters
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry George Connell Lecture
Poster available: PDF icon Emil F Pai Symposium Schedule July 19 2018.pdf

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 1:00pm

Peptide-based studies of hydrophobicity in membrane environments
Tracy Stone
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 1:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Deber
MSB 4279
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Tracy_.Stone_.pdf

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