Cell & Systems Biology Seminars

Friday, November 3, 2017 - 12:00pm

Ribosome Heterogeneity in Translating the Genetic Code
Professor Maria Barna, **** Please Note Time and Location Change ****
Stanford University
Friday, November 3, 2017 - 12:00pm
Host: CSB Grad Students / Junior West
MSB 2172
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon CSDB Disting Lect Poster draft_Maria Barna.pdf

Friday, November 10, 2017 - 2:00pm

Parallel dopaminergic pathways controlling locomotion in the mouse
Professor Patrick Whelan
University of Calgary
Friday, November 10, 2017 - 2:00pm
Host: John Peever
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, December 1, 2017 - 2:00pm

Good contractions: Actomyosin regulation in the C. elegans gonad
Professor Ronen Zaidel-Bar
Tel Aviv University
Friday, December 1, 2017 - 2:00pm
Host: Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, December 8, 2017 - 2:00pm

Collision of expanding actin caps with actomyosin borders for cortical bending and mitotic rounding in a syncytium.
Yixie Zhang
Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Friday, December 8, 2017 - 2:00pm
Host: Tony Harris
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, December 15, 2017 - 2:00pm

Making 3D models that matter: Engineering skeletal muscle tissue in a dish
Professor Penney Gilbert
Department of Biochemistry, Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto
Friday, December 15, 2017 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Maurice Ringuette
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 11:00am

Epithelial Cell Reintegration: The Ins and Outs
Professor Dan Bergstralh
University of Rochester
Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Ulli Tepass
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, January 12, 2018 - 2:00pm

Epigenetic stability and dynamics during plant development
Professor Mary Gehring
Whitehead Institute
Friday, January 12, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, January 19, 2018 - 2:00pm

The assembly and function of motion selective circuits in the retina
Professor Arjun Krishnaswamy
McGill University
Friday, January 19, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, January 26, 2018 - 2:00pm

It’s the singer, not the song; how to give a more effective large group presentation
Doctor Jay Keystone
University Health Network
Friday, January 26, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Sherwin Desser and Professor Maurice Ringuette
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, February 2, 2018 - 2:00pm

Epithelial cell extrusion and its misregulation in disease
Professor Jody Rosenblatt
University of Utah
Friday, February 2, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Uli Tepass
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, February 9, 2018 - 2:00pm

The Macrophage-myofibroblast connection in fIbrosis
Professor Boris Hinz
Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto
Friday, February 9, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Maurice Ringuette
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, February 16, 2018 - 2:00pm

Riding the Curve: Matrix curvature controls cell polarity and migration
Professor Bob Fischer
NIH
Friday, February 16, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Ashley Bruce and Professor Sergey Plotnikov
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, February 23, 2018 - 2:00pm

Using stable isotopes to study flux in primary and secondary plant metabolic pathways
Professor Michael Phillips
Department of Biology, University of Toronto - Mississauga
Friday, February 23, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Eiji Nambara
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 2, 2018 - 2:00pm

New pathways in stem cell regulation and impact on crop yields
Professor David Jackson
Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Friday, March 2, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Shelley Lumba
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 2:00pm

Novel compounds, novel mechanisms from in vivo zebrafish screens
Professor Randall Peterson
"L. S. Skaggs Presidential Endowed Professor Dean, College of Pharmacy University of Utah "L. S. Skaggs Presidential Endowed Professor Dean, College of Pharmacy University of Utah "L. S. Skaggs Presidential Endowed Professor Dean, College of Pharmacy University of Utah L. S. Skaggs Presidential Endowed Professor Dean, College of Pharmacy University of Utah
Friday, March 9, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Peter McCourt
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 16, 2018 - 2:00pm

Microtubule-based transport in neurons
Professor Jill Wildonger
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Friday, March 16, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 23, 2018 - 2:00pm

Diversification and Evolution of Membrane Trafficking Pathways in Plants - How did plants acquire new organelles?
Professor Takashi Ueda
National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
Friday, March 23, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Keiko Yoshioka
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 11:00am

Cell wall signaling: mechanisms that regulate plant cell wall synthesis and secretion
Dr. Heather E. McFarlane
ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 11:00am
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Dr. Heather McFarlane Seminar Poster.pdf

Monday, April 2, 2018 - 11:00am

Multitasking: coordination of stress responses and seed maturation by abscisic acid transcription factor networks
Dr. Liang Song
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Monday, April 2, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Cell and Systems Biology
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Dr. Liang Song Seminar Poster.pdf

Monday, April 9, 2018 - 11:00am

Decoding cell surface receptor interaction networks by system genetics approaches
Dr. Youssef Belkhadir
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 11:00am
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Search Candidate
Poster available: PDF icon Dr. Youssef Belkhadir seminar poster.pdf

Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 11:00am

Why does Populus trichocarpa need cuticular waxes? Looking for the answer in natural accessions
Dr. Eliana Gonzales-Vigil
Department of Wood Science University of British Columbia Department of Wood Science University of British Columbia Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 11:00am
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Search Candidate

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 2:00pm

How does the mitochondrial tail-anchored protein AtTTM1 mediate programmed cell death in plants?
Purva Karia, Graduate Student
Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Friday, April 13, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Keiko Yoshioka
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, April 27, 2018 - 2:00pm

Trachea-esophageal Development and Birth Defects: from animal models to human organoids
Professor Aaron Zorn
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics
Friday, April 27, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Maurice Ringuette
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, May 11, 2018 - 2:00pm

GABAergic Inhibition: A case for dynamic thinking
Professor Shiva Tyagarajan
University of Zurich
Friday, May 11, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Melanie Woodin
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Invited Speaker Seminar

Friday, May 18, 2018 - 12:00pm

Growth coordination mechanisms during Drosophila development
Pierre Leopold
Institut Valrose Biologie, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit
Friday, May 18, 2018 - 12:00pm
Host: Marla Sokolowski
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology

Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 2:00pm

Misshapen coordinates protrusion restriction and actomyosin contractility during collective cell migration
Greg Emery
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
PhD Exam Seminar

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 2:00pm

Regulatory Mechanisms of Pathogen- Mediated Cellular Stress Signaling in Arabidopsis
Professor Karolina Mukhtar, Department of Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Darrell Desveaux
Earth Sciences Building, Room 3087
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Special Seminar

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 2:45pm

Network Biology and Predictive Modeling to Link Genome to Phenome
Professor Shahid Mukhtar, Dept. of Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 2:45pm
Host: Professor Darrell Desveaux
Earth Sciences Building, Room 3087
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Special Seminar

Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 2:00pm

Construction of Gene Regulatory Networks
Professor Wen-Hsiung Li
Academia Sinica, Taiwan and University of Chicago, USA Academia Sinica, Taiwan and University of Chicago, USA
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 2:00pm
Host: Professor Nicholas Provart
ESB 3087
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Special Seminar

Friday, September 7, 2018 - 11:00am

Genomic approaches to studying the balance between growth versus stress defense in eukaryotic cells
Professor Audrey Gasch
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Friday, September 7, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Alan Moses
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 11:00am

The biochemical and cellular dynamics of polarity proteins during asymmetric cell division
Ken Prehoda
University of Oregon
Friday, September 14, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Tony Harris
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 11:00am

Network Effects on Cell Surface Receptor Function
Professor Adam Mott
UTSC
Friday, September 21, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Darrell Desveaux
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, September 28, 2018 - 11:00am

Nature and Nurture of Tissue Resident Macrophages
Christopher Glass
UCSD
Friday, September 28, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Jennifer Mitchell
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, October 5, 2018 - 11:00am

Analysis of non-canonical auxin signaling in Arabidopis roots
Steffen Vanneste, Project Leader
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Keiko Yoshioka
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 11:00am

Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Defense
Professor Cris Argueso
Colorado State University
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Shelley Lumba
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 11:00am

Making organs from stem cells using decellularized matrices
Professor Ian Rogers
Mount Sinai Hospital
Friday, October 19, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Maurice Ringuette
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, October 26, 2018 - 11:00am

Phase separation drives nucleolar assembly and size control
Professor Stephanie Weber
McGill University
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Jennifer Mitchell
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, November 2, 2018 - 11:00am

Cell Cycle Dependent Mechanisms Governing Tissue Morphogenesis
Professor Heidi Hehnly
Syracuse University
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Ashley Bruce
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 11:00am

Molecular recognition strategies for wiring neurons into circuits
Assistant Professor Julie Lefebvre
Department of Molecular Genetics, UofT and SickKids Hospital
Friday, November 9, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 11:00am

Academic publishing at Nature Research: tips, tricks and careers
Kevin Da Silva
Chief Editor, Nature Neuroscience
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor John Peever
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, November 23, 2018 - 11:00am

Modeling Cerebral Innate Immunity with Human iPS cells
Professor Julien Muffat
University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics and SickKids Hospital
Friday, November 23, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, November 30, 2018 - 11:00am

NMR: Why Bother?
Professor Lewis E. Kay
MNR, Departments of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry
Friday, November 30, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Peter McCourt
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, December 7, 2018 - 11:00am

Deconstruction and reconstruction of cell polarity networks
Professor Fumio Motegi
National University of Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, Temasek Life-sciences Laboratory
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Tony Harris
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, January 11, 2019 - 11:00am

Epithelial Cell Reintegration: The Ins and Outs
Professor Dan Bergstralh
University of Rochester
Friday, January 11, 2019 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Ulli Tepass
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, January 18, 2019 - 11:00am

Protecting Canada’s crops using next generation molecular fungicides
Professor Mark Belmonte
University of Manitoba
Friday, January 18, 2019 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Keiko Yoshioka
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 12:00pm

Non-coding RNAs and Traumatic memories
Professor Hermona Soreq
The Edmond and Lily Safra Center of brain Science and the Life Sciences Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 12:00pm
Host: University Professor Marla Sokolowski
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Joint EEB/CSB Seminar
Departmental Seminar

Friday, January 25, 2019 - 11:00am

New Paradigms in HIV-1 Control and Pathogenesis: Interactions Between Soluble and Cell-Derived Molecules with the HIV-1 Envelope
Professor Christina Guzzo
University of Toronto Scarborough
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 11:00am
Host: Professor John Calarco
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, February 1, 2019 - 11:00am

How Cells Control Protein Aggregation under Stress
Professor Hyun Kate Lee
University of Toronto, Department of Biochemistry
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Shelley Lumba
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, February 8, 2019 - 11:00am

Plant immunity: from inter-leaf communication to suppression of bacterial biofilm-like aggregate formation
Professor Robin Cameron
McMaster University
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Daphne Goring
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

Friday, February 15, 2019 - 11:00am

Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs
Professor Carolyn Phillips
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 11:00am
Host: Professor Arneet Saltzman
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432
Dept of Cell and Systems Biology
Departmental Seminar

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