Archived Biochemistry Seminars

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 4:00pm

Using Genome Sequencing to Discover New Antibiotics
Tomas Gverzdys
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Justin Nodwell
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 4:00pm

CRISPR-Cas: Small RNA-Guided Prokaryotic Immune Systems
Michael Terns, PhD
Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Microbiology, University of Georgia
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Alex Palazzo
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry George Connell Lecture
Poster available: PDF icon Terns Poster.pdf

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 2:00pm

Investigation of the Ribosome Independent mRNA Localization to the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Amy Cui PhD Seminar
Department of Biochemistry
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 2:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Alex Palazzo
MSB 2173
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Amy_.Cui_.pdf

Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 9:00am

Characterizing Structural Dynamics of the Magnesium channel, CorA: Implications for Gating
Shaoxu (Angela) Li
Department of Biochemistry
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 9:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Emil Pai
MSB 2173
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Smlr.Siz_.Ph_.D.Poster.Angela.Li_.pdf

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 4:00pm

No topic submitted
Nero Thevakumaran
Grad Student
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
No topic submitted
Noah Mancz
Grad Student
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 10:00am

Regulation of mRNA stability by the RNA-Binding Protein Pumilio during Early Drosophila Embryogenesis
Alexander Marsolais
Department of Biochemistry
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 10:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Craig Smibert
MSB 2173
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Alex_.Marsolais.pdf

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 4:00pm

Investigating Host Specificity in the Transferrin Receptors of Bacterial Pathogens
Anastassia Pogoutse
Grad Student
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Trevor Moraes, Committee members: Scott Gray-Owen, Alan Davidson
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Ubiquitin specific protease 35 regulates Parkin-mediated mitophagy
Yuqing Wang
Grad Student
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 4:00pm

Hydrophobic blocks facilitate lipid compatibility and translocon recognition of transmembrane protein sequences
Tracy Stone
Grad Student
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Charles M. Deber
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
No topic submitted
Batool Labibi
Grad Student
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 4:00pm
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 4:00pm

Characterization of an outer membrane complex involved in exopolysaccharide secretion
Lindsey Marmont
Grad Student
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. P. Lynne Howell, Committee members: Dr. John Rubinstein, Dr. Alan Davidson
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Investigating the machinery required for the polymerization of a biofilm-forming polysaccharide in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Greg Whitfield
Grad Student
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. P. Lynne Howell, Committee members: Dr. Trevor Moraes, Dr. Frank Sicheri
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 2:00pm

Identification of Proteins Involved in the Maintenance of Genome Stability
Edith Cheng
Department of Biochemistry
Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 2:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Grant Brown
CCBR Red Room
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Edith_.Cheng_.pdf

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 4:00pm

No topic submitted
Zhifen Zhang
Grad Student
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 4:00pm
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Selective Permeation of Ions in a Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel
Chris Ing
Grad Student
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 4:00pm
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 4:00pm

No topic submitted
Shawn Xiong
Grad Student
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 4:00pm

Bacteriophage HK97 Capsids as a Nanocompartment
Kris Hon
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
No topic submitted
Olesia Ivantsiv
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 4:00pm

Characterization of the CFTR mutation c.3700 A>G informs strategies for personalized CF medicine
Steven Molinski
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Christine Bear
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Investigating the effect of PKA phosphorylation on the purified full length Wt CFTR through biophysical methods
Stephanie Chin
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Christine Bear, Committee Members: Dr. Oliver Ernst and Dr. Trevor Moraes
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 4:00pm

No topic submitted
Nardin Nano
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Walid Houry
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
No topic submitted
Simon Wisnovsky
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 4:00pm

No topic submitted
April Pawluk
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
No topic submitted
Yogesh Hooda
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 4:00pm

Studies Toward the Structural Basis of Rhodopsin and Rhodopsin kinase Interaction
Wei-Lin Ou
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Oliver Ernst, Committee members: Dr. Emil Pai, Dr. Gil Privé, and Dr. Jane Mitchell
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Structural investigation of mammalian septins by super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Adriano Vissa
Grad Student
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Yip, Dr. Peter Kim, Committee: Dr. Bill Trimble, Dr. Laurence Pelletier
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Friday, March 27, 2015 - 2:00pm

A Systematic Analysis of Intertwined Homomeric Proteins
Stephen MacKinnon
Department of Biochemistry
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 2:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Shoshana Wodak and Dr. John Parkinson
MSB 2173
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Rev.Ph_.D.Poster.Stephen.MacKinnon.pdf

Friday, March 27, 2015 - 9:00am

Modification and Translocation of the Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Poly-β(1,6)-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine
Dustin Little
Department of Biochemistry
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 9:00am
Supervisor: Dr. Lynne Howell
MSB 4279
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
PhD Oral Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Ph.D.Poster.Dustin.Little.pdf

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 4:00pm

Identification of Rad5 Function in the S. Cerevisiae Replication Stress Response
David Gallo
Ph.D. Student
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Grant Brown, Committee: Drs. Alan Davidson and Dan Durocher
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Characterization of PLZF transcriptional repressor complexes during skeletal development
Andrew Zhai
Ph.D. Student
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Gil Privé, Committee members: Dr. Frank Sicheri and Dr. Brian Raught
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 4:00pm

Mechanism of TGFβ-Induced Taz Up-Regulation
Maria Miranda
M.Sc. Student
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Andras Kapus, Committee: Dr.Amira Klip, Dr. Boris Hinz, Dr. Kati Szaszi
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
No topic submitted
Nikko Torres
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Grant W. Brown Committee Members: Sachdev Sidhu, David Bazett-Jones
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 4:00pm

Investigating the role of SLC6A14 as a modifier of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in the CF lung
Michelle Di Paola
M.Sc. Student
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Christine Bear, Committee members: Dr. Igor Stagljar and Dr. Patricia Brubaker
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 4:00pm

Animal genomes large and small
Dr. T. Ryan Gregory
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Alex Palazzo
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry George Connell Lecture
Poster available: PDF icon Gregory Poster.pdf

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 4:00pm

The role of VPS33B/VPS16B in platelet biogenesis
Marko Drobac
M.Sc. Student
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Walter Kahr, Committee members: Drs. John Rubinstein and Peter Kim
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Septin-septin interaction in-vitro
Forooz Soroor
M.Sc. Student
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. William Trimble, Committee members: Dr. Julie Brill & Dr. John Rubinstein
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 4:00pm

Lowering the bar for an HIV vaccine
Jean-Philippe Julien
Scientist, Program in Molecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Assistant Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Immunology, University of Toronto
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Alex Palazzo
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry George Connell Lecture
Poster available: PDF icon Julien Poster.pdf

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 4:00pm

Moving forward with PilM in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Matthew McCallum
Grad Student
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 4:00pm
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Discovery of Inter-strain Recombination in Apicomplexans by Markov Clustering
Javi Zhang
Grad Student
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: John Parkinson, Committee: Alex Ensminger, Alex Palazzo
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 4:00pm

Characterizing the role of Sph3 in Aspergillus fumigatus biofilm formation
Natalie Bamford
M.Sc. Student
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Lynne Howell, Committee: Drs. Mark Nitz, Christine Bear
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Characterizing the clockwork of the magnesium ion channel CorA using EPR spectroscopy
Aidin Balo
M.Sc. Student
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Oliver Ernst, Committee members: Drs. Emil Pai, Scott Prosser
PG CRL Auditorium, 686 Bay St., SickKids
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 4:00pm

Characterizing role of Pβ peptide in Mitophagy
Navdeep Deol
Grad Student
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Angus McQuibban, Committee members: Dr. David Williams and Dr. William Trimble
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Understanding the regulation of PARL ß cleavage
Guang Shi
Ph.D. Student
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Angus McQuibban, Committee members: Drs. Paul Fraser, Alex Palazzo
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 4:00pm

Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate dynamics and metabolism during phagocytosis
Roni Levin
Ph.D. Student
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Sergio Grinstein, Committee members: Drs. Greg Fairn and Peter Kim
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
The inhibition of phagocytosis by 7-ketocholesterol and its potential role in atherosclerosis
Stella Lu
Graduate Student
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Sergio Grinstein, Committee members: Dr. Greg Fairn and Dr. John Brumell
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 4:00pm

Discovering novel inhibitors of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Manpreet Malhi
Graduate Student
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Jason T. Maynes, Committee members: Dr. John Coles & Dr. Roman Melnyk
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
ILK:parvin in cardiac stress and repair
Julia Plakhotnik
Graduate Student
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Jason T. Maynes, Committee members: Dr. John Coles, Dr. Julie Forman-Kay, Dr. Christine Bear
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 4:00pm

Exploring the Inter-Kingdom Target Diversity of Streptomycete Secondary Metabolites
Louis Ho
M.Sc. Student
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 4:00pm
Supervisor: Dr. Justin Nodwell, Committee Members: Drs. Brenda Andrews & Leah Cowen
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar
Topic TBA
Mostafa Zamani
Student
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 4:00pm
MSB 2172
Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student Seminar Series
Departmental Seminar

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