FoM Departmental Seminars - November 2015

Department of LMP - Monday Seminar Series:

November 2, 4pm.
Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of pluripotency
Dr. Jennifer Mitchell

November 9, 2015, 4pm.
Maternal diet-induced programming of cardiac disease in early embryogenesis
Dr. Paul Delgado-Olguin

November 16, 2015, 4pm.
Preparedness and response to outbreaks of high consequence pathogens such as Ebola virus
Dr. Gary Kobinger

November 30, 2015, 4pm.
Towards fulfilling the promise of Precision Medicine and Theranostics in kidney cancer
Dr. George Yousef
 

Department of Molecular Genetics - Seminars:

November 2, 2015, 4pm.
Aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast
Dr. Maitreya Dunham

November 9, 2015, 4pm.
Sexual reproduction and the evolution of eukaryotic microbial pathogens
Dr. Joseph Heitman

November 16, 2015, 4pm.
Connecting DNA damage with splicing decisions
Dr. Benoit Chabot

November 23, 2015, 4pm.
Epigenetic mechanisms and leukemia stem cell development
Dr. Scott Armstrong
 

Student Seminars - Tuesdays, 2pm.

Neural crest cells are the major source of iPSCs
Ahmed Fahmy, Supervisor: Dr. D. van der Kooy

Proteome signatures in non-small cell lung cancer
Wen Zhang, Supervisor: Dr. M. Moran

Identification of biologically relevant binding partners of SH3 domains using compendatory mutations and BioID
Yun Zhu, Supervisor: Dr. A. Davidson

Metal chelation as a powerful strategy to probe cellular circuitry governing Candida albicans drug resistance and morphogenesis
Elizabeth Polvi, Supervisor: Dr. L. Cowen

Overconnectivity in stem cell-derived neurons of an autistic child
Kirill Zaslavsky, Supervisor: Dr. J. Ellis

A global arms race between Legionella CRISPR-Cas and a genetic eement identifies a recurrent challenge to the pathogen
Chitong Rao, Supervisor: Dr. A. Ensminger

Modeling Rhoc overexperession in vivo to define cooperating mutations leading to an IBC-like phenotype
Nandini Raghuram, Supervisor: Dr. S. Egan

An atlas of functional amino acid changes in human SUMO and SUMO conjugase
Jochen Weile, Supervisor: Dr. F. Roth
 

Charles H. Tator - Barbara Turnbull Lectureship Series in Spinal Cord Injury

November 13, 2015.
Keynote Speaker: Jan Schwab
 

Developmental & Stem Cell Biology - Seminars:

November 18, 2015, 3pm.
Somatic mutations in single neurons
Dr. Peter Park
 

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

November 4, 2015, 12pm. 
In vivo studies of nascent chromatin
Dr. Hugh Brock
 

UofT Spine Program

November, 20, 2015, 7:30am.
A predictive model of progression for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis based on 3D spine parameters at the initial vist
Dr. Stefan Parent