Ontario Cancer Institute Seminars

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 10:00am

Eric Snyder, Ph.D.
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 10:00am
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Special Seminar

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 4:00pm

Michelle Mendoza, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School Department of Cell Biology
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Special Seminar

Friday, April 26, 2013 - 11:30am

Walter J. Chazin, PhD
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 11:30am
Host: Dr. Gil Privé
MaRS- TMDT R# 4-204, 4th floor
OCI Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Walter Chazin .pdf

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 10:00am

Dr. Rizwan Haq
Attending Physician, Center for Melanoma, Massachusetts General Hospital / Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 10:00am
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Special Seminar OCI for posting Dr. Haq.pdf

Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 4:00pm

Prof. Alfonso Valencia, PhD
Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Igor Jurisica, PhD
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Valencia - Seminar Notice.pdf

Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 4:00pm

Dr. Peter Laird
Professor and Director of the USC Epigenome Center, University of Southern California
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Daniel DeCarvalho
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Final Seminar Notice for Posting.pdf

Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 3:00pm

Dr. W. Lee Kraus
Director, Green Center for Reproductive Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 3:00pm
Host: Dr. Mathieu Lupien
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Final Seminar Notice _LeeKraus.pdf

Monday, June 10, 2013 - 3:00pm

Dr. Douglas A. Lauffenburger
Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biology Head, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Monday, June 10, 2013 - 3:00pm
Host: Dr. Igor Jurisica
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Lauffenburger - Seminar Notice.pdf

Monday, June 17, 2013 - 1:30pm

Dr. Christina Leslie
Associate Member and Lab Head, Computational Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 1:30pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar
Dr. Christina Leslie
Associate Member and Lab Head, Computational Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 1:30pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 4:00pm

Salvador Aznar-Benitah, PhD
Affiliation ICREA Research Professor, Head of Epithelial Homeostasis and Cancer Lab, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Catherine O'Brien
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Seminar Series

Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 3:00pm

Dr. Michael Hoffman
Senior Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 3:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Special Seminar OCI for posting Dr Michael Hoffman.pdf

Friday, July 26, 2013 - 11:00am

Dr. Madhu Kumar
Research Fellow, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, United Kingdom
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 11:00am
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
Princess Margaret Conference Room 7-605
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Friday, July 26, 2013 - 3:00pm

Dr. Richard Marais
Director, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, the University of Manchester, Manchester UK
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 3:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Friday, August 9, 2013 - 11:00am

Anjen Chenn, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Pathology, University of Illinois Hospital; Associate Director, Microbiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 11:00am
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Friday, August 9, 2013 - 12:00pm

Weibo Cai, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 12:00pm
Host: Dr. Gang Zheng
Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University-7th Floor-Room 7-605
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Friday, August 9, 2013 - 2:00pm

Dorothy Sipkins, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 2:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 4:00pm

Dr. Rodger Tiedemann, MB, ChB, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA
Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute; Hematologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medical Biophysics and Dept. of Medicine, University of Toronto
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Special Seminar

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 1:30pm

Dr. ZhiBo Gao
Director of Cancer Research, BGI Tech, Shenzhen, China; BGI Americas, Boston MA
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 1:30pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar

Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 4:00pm

Dr. Andrea Califano
Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology Chair, Columbia Department of Systems Biology New York, NY
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Ben Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 11:00am

Francisco X. Real, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Group Leader, CNIO-Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Madrid, Spain and Visiting Scientist, OICR
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 11:00am
Host: Dr. Catherine O'Brien, Scientist
MaRS- TMDT R# 4-204, 4th floor
OCI Special Seminar

Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 4:00pm

Dr. Kevin Janes
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice for Posting.pdf

Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 1:30pm

Dr. Florian Markowetz
Junior Groupleader in Computational Biology, University of Cambridge, CRUK Cambridge Institute
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 1:30pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar

Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 4:00pm

Dr. Alea Mills
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice for Posting.pdf

Friday, November 1, 2013 - 11:00am

Professor Andrew V. Biankin
Regius Professor of Surgery, Director, Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, University of Glasgow Garscube Estate
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 11:00am
Host: Dr. Malcolm Moore
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar

Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 4:00pm

Giulio Superti-Furga, Ph.D.
Professor, Scientific Director, CeMM Research Centre for Molecular Medicine, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Thomas Kislinger, PhD
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice - Giulio Superti-Furga.pdf

Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 4:00pm

Sam Aparicio, BM, BCh, PhD, FRCPath
Nan & Lorraine Robertson Chair in Breast Cancer Research Distinguished Scientist and Head, Department of Breast & Molecular Oncology, BCCA Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Mathieu Lupien
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar_Posting_Aparicio.pdf

Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 4:00pm

Dr. Savraj Grewal
Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, and Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Vuk Stambolic, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Medical Biophysics, and Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Co-sponsor: Ontario Cancer Institute Poster available: PDF icon OCI Seminar Talk_November 28 2013.pdf

Monday, December 2, 2013 - 12:00pm

Dr. Krishna P.L. Bhat
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 12:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
MaRS- TMDT R# 4-204, 4th floor
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Friday, December 13, 2013 - 8:30am

Dr. Hani Gabra
Professor Medical Oncology and Deputy Head of the Division of Cancer (Clinical), Imperial College London
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 8:30am
Host: Dr. Amit Oza
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar

Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. Heide Ford
Associate Professor - Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 2:00pm

Dr. Hans Clevers
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands Professor of Molecular Genetics, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 2:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. Wolfgang Peti
Associate Professor of Medical Science and Chemistry Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology Brown University, Providence, RI
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Monday, February 3, 2014 - 11:00am

Dr. Jared Toettcher
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 11:00am
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar

Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. Jeff Wrana
Senior Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology and Cancer Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series

Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:00pm

Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD
Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Scientific Director, Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science
Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Ming Tsao
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice for Posting.pdf

Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. David W. Andrews
Senior Scientist, Biological Sciences, Odette Cancer Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series

Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. KUN-LIANG GUAN
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Robert Rottapel , Light refreshments will be provided!
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice_Dr. Kun-Liang Guan.pdf

Friday, March 21, 2014 - 1:00pm

Wolfgang Jahnke PhD
Novartis Leading Scientist, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 1:00pm
Host: Dr. Mitsu Ikura
MaRS- TMDT R# 4-204, 4th floor
OCI Special Seminar
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice_Jahnke.pdf

Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. Chi Dang
Director, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Linda Penn, Light refreshments will be provided
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Special Seminar
Dr. Chi Dang
Director, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Linda Penn, Light refreshments will be provided
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Special Seminar

Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. Douglas T. Fearon
Emeritus Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology University of Cambridge
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series

Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 4:00pm

Matthew Lorincz Ph.D
Associate Professor, Molecular Epigenetics Group Head, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Daniel De Carvalho
MaRS- TMDT R# 4-204, 4th floor
OCI Seminar Series
Poster available: PDF icon Lorincz_Seminar Posting.pdf

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 5:00pm

Bevan Gang
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 5:00pm
Supervisor: Tak Mak
MaRS/TMDT, 101 College Street, Room 4-204
OCI/PM Cancer Centre PDF Seminar Series
Research Group Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon PDF Seminar Series poster.pdf
Richard Marcotte
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 5:00pm
Supervisor: Benjamin Neel
MaRS- TMDT R# 4-204, 4th floor
OCI/PM Cancer Centre PDF Seminar Series
Research Group Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon PDF Seminar Series poster.pdf

Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. Michael R. Bishop, MD, Professor of Medicine
Director, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Program, University of Chicago
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Jeffrey Medin, Light refreshments will be provided, Everyone Welcome!, Don't miss it!
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Monday, June 9, 2014 - 10:00am

Marcin Imielinski, M.D, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Fellow, Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Monday, June 9, 2014 - 10:00am
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Special Seminar Notice for Posting.pdf

Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 4:00pm

Dr. Howard Crawford
Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series

Monday, June 16, 2014 - 2:30pm

Tan A. Ince, M.D, PhD
Director, Tumor Stem Cell Division, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute and Associate Professor of Pathology University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 2:30pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 7th Floor, Rm 7-605
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Special Seminar Notice for Posting - Dr. Tan Ince - June 16, 2014.pdf

Monday, July 7, 2014 - 2:00pm

Brian Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 2:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Neel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Special Seminar Notice for Posting.pdf

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