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Below are the seminars for the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, as well the Advances in Biomedical Research Seminar series.

Advances in Biomedical Research Seminar Series

Seminars are usually held on Fridays. Check individual seminar postings for updated times and locations.

For further information, please contact Dr. Mireille Khacho or Dr. Michele Ardolino.

Note: For more information, please contact Christina Sardella.

Other seminars of interest:

CMM Seminars
OHRI Seminars
SEPH Seminars
UOHI
CHEO events calendar

List of Seminars

Friday, November 24, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. Anthony Scimè
Associate Professor,
Stem Cell Research Group,
Molecular, Cellular and Integrative
Physiology,
Faculty of Health, York University

Seminar Title: "Metabolic control of muscle stem cell fates: The impact of altering
intrinsic and extrinsic metabolism"

Hosted by: Dr. Alexandre Blais

Friday, November 17, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. Danielle Peters
Research Associate,
National Research Council of Canada

Seminar Title: "Enzybiotics: exploiting phage-derived enzymes for targeted therapy of Acinetobacter baumannii"

Hosted by: Dr. Adam Rudner

Friday, September 22, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. Amélie Fradet-Turcotte
Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology,
Medical Biochemistry and Pathology,
Laval University

Seminar Title: "How seeking for vulnerabilities of HPV-driven cancer cells to
chemoradiation led to the discovery of a new protector of genomic
integrity"

Hosted by: Dr. Damien D’Amours

Friday, September 15, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. Benjamin J. Orlando
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Michigan State University

Seminar Title: "Structural Insights Into Membrane Protein Complexes That Defend Against Antimicrobial Peptides"

Hosted by: Dr. Jyh-Yeuan (Eric) Lee

Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RGN room 1007
~ BMI Special Seminar Series ~
Charlène Roussel PhD
University of Laval

Seminar title: ''Exploration into artificial digestive systems to decipher microbiota-E. coli pathogens and microbiota-prebiotic relationships''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

No seminars

Wednesday, July 5, 2023, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RGN room 1007
~ BMI Special Seminar Series ~
Dr. Joey Sheff
Research Officer,
Human Health Therapeutics,
National Research Council of Canada

Seminar title: ''Painting Proteins: Exploring Dynamic Antibody Interactions with Structural Mass Spectrometry''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

~9th Annual Morris Kates "Hybrid" Seminar Series ~
Monday, June 26, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. Navdeep S. Chandle
David W. Cugell Professor of Medicine,
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Seminar Title: "Mitochondria control physiology and diseases"

Hosted by: Dr. Mireille Khacho

~ Special "Online" Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Dr. Carolina Tropini
Assistant Professor,
School of Biomedical Engineering &
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology,
University of British Columbia

Seminar Title: "Industrialization and the metamorphosis of natural ecosystems"

Hosted by: Mr. Zhongzhi Sun (PhD candidate in TECHNOMISE program)

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

~ OISB Seminar Series~
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 1007
Dr. Marcus Conrad
Director of the Institute of Metabolism and Cell Death,
Helmholtz Zentrum München,
German Research Center for Environmental Health,
Munich, Germany

Seminar Title: "Ferroptosis: From Basic Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities"

Hosted by: Dr. Steffany Bennett

Advances in Biomedical Research seminar
Friday, April 28, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Eric Holland
Professor,
Human Biology Division,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
Seattle, WA

Seminar Title: "Data landscapes and mouse models of meningiomas"

Hosted by: Dr. Arezu Jahani-Asl

Advances in Biomedical Research seminar
Friday, April 21, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Christine Grienberger
Assistant Professor,
Brandeis University,
Department of Biology and Volen
National Center for Complex Systems

Seminar Title: "Dendritic computations underlying learning-related hippocampal ensemble dynamics"

Hosted by: Dr. Richard Naud

Advances in Biomedical Research seminar
Friday, April 14, 2023, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Margaret Merryl McCarthy
Professor and Director,
Department of Pharmacology,
Department of Physiology and Psychiatry,
Director, Program in Neuroscience,
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Seminar Title: "The Immune System Sculpts Social Behavior Circuits in the Developing Brain"

Hosted by: Benjamin Nguyen (Trainee)

~ Special "Online" Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Dr. Daniel Grégoire
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Carleton University

Seminar Title: "A history of eating garbage and getting gas"

Hosted by: Mr. Haonan Duan (PhD candidate in TECHNOMISE program)

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

Friday, March 24, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Jan K. Rainey
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University

Seminar Title: "Applying structure & dynamics to inform spider silk protein engineering"

Hosted by: Dr. Jyh-Yeuan (Eric) Lee

~ Special "Online" Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Associate Professor,
Department of Biology,
Johns Hopkins University

Seminar Title: "Stress Responses of Microbial Communities at the Dry Limit for Life"

Hosted by: Dr. Joeselle Serrana (Postdoctoral fellow in TECHNOMISE program)

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

~ Special "Online" Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Dr. Yang Lu
Assistant Professor,
Cheriton School of Computer Science,
University of Waterloo

Seminar Title: "Panning for gold: Interpretable and error-controlled pattern discovery from biomedical data"

Hosted by: Mr. Zhongzhi Sun, PhD candidate in Technomise program

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

Friday, March 10, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Thomas Kislinger
Professor and Director,
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre,
University of Toronto,
Department of Medical Biophysics

Seminar Title: "Clinical Proteomics: Biomarker Discovery & Therapeutic Targets"

Hosted by: Dr. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam

Friday, February 17, 2023, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RGN room 2149
~ BMI Special Cross-appointed Professor Hybrid Seminar Series ~
Dr. Marisa Azad
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Division of Infectious Diseases,
The Ottawa Hospital,
Associate Clinical Scientist,
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Seminar title: ''A Molecular Approach to Periprosthetic Joint Infection''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

Friday, February 17, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Shang-Te Danny Hsu
Deputy Director,
Institute of Biological Chemistry,
Academia Sinica,
Taiwan

Seminar Title: "Functional dynamics and glycoshields of coronavirus spike proteins"

Hosted by: Dr. Jyh-Yeuan (Eric) Lee

~ Special "Online" Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Dr. Yuanyue Li
Project Scientist,
West Coast Metabolomics Center,
UC Davis Genome Center,
University of California

Seminar Title: "Analyze MS/MS spectra with spectral entropy"

Hosted by: Mr. Haonan Duan (Ph.D. candidate in TECHNOMISE program)

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

~ Special "Online" Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Dr. Ken A. Aho
Associate Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences,
Idaho State University

Seminar Title: "The Network Environments of Microbes in Intermittent Streams"

Hosted by: Dr. Joeselle Serrana (postdoctoral fellow in TECHNOMISE program)

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

Monday, January 16, 2023, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RGN room 2149
~ BMI Special Adjunct Seminar Series ~
Dr. Harinad Maganti
Scientist
Canadian Blood Services

Seminar title: ''GAS6 promotes robust expansion of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells with high serial engraftment activity''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

~ Special Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
RGN room 1007
Kelsey E. Huus, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ley Lab,
EMBO Fellow,
Max Planck Institute for Biology,
Tübingen, Germany

Seminar Title: "From famine to fever: immunity, diet, and the microbiome"

Hosted by: Dr. Thien-Fah Mah

Friday, December 9, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Don Gammon
Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center,
University of Texas, Dallas, Texas

Seminar Title: "FACT Activates an Ancient Antiviral Response that is Countered by Cytoplasmic Viruses"

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-Simon Diallo

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Jaideep Bains
Professor,
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology,
Cumming School of Medicine,
University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta

Seminar Title: "Uncoupled internal and external representations of threat"

Hosted by: Dr. Katalin Tόth

Friday, October 28, 2022, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Aain Nepveu
Professor,
Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute, Departments,
Institute, Departments of Oncology, Biochemistry and Medicine,
McGill University,
Montreal, QC

Seminar Title: "The Function of BCL11B in Base Excision Repair Explains its Dual Role as an Oncogene and a Haplo Insufficient Tumor Suppressor Gene"

Hosted by: Dr. Kin Chan

Friday, October 21, 2022, 10:30 to 11:30 am
RGN room 2005
Dr. Alexander Hynes
Assistant Professor,
Farncombe Family Chair in Phage Biology,
Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute,
McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON

Seminar Title: "Biasing Bacteriophage Behaviours"

Hosted by: Dr. Adam Rudner

No Seminars

Friday, June 24, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Maria Aristizabal
Assistant Professor,
Biology Department,
Queen's University

Seminar title: ''Mechanisms of transcription and epigenetic regulation and their significance to human health''

Hosted by: Dr. Michael Downey

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Roger Guindon Hall, Room 2149
~ Special CI3 Seminar Series ~
Dr. Jeremie Poschmann
Center for Research in Transplantation
and Translational Immunology,
CR2TI
Nates Université, France

Seminar title: ''Functional genomics approaches to uncover molecular mechanisms of immuno-pathologies''

Hosted by: Dr. Subash Sad

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Amanda Barqueiro

Friday, June 17, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Stephanie Grainger
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology,
Van Andel Research Institute,
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Seminar title: ''Specific Wnt/Fzdrequirements in hematopoietic stem cell development''

Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
RGN room 2149
~ BMI Special Seminar Series ~
Dr. Vahab D. Soleimani
Associate Professor,
McGill University,
Department of Human Genetics,
Montreal, QC

Seminar title: ''The role of muscle stem cell niche environment in skeletal muscle development and diseases''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Amanda Barqueiro

Thursday, June 9, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Tania Watts
Professor,
Department of Immunology,
University of Toronto

Seminar title: ''Monocyte-derived antigen presenting cells and signal 4 for T cell activation''

Hosted by: Dr. Subash Sad

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 2:00 to 3:00 pm
~ Special ''online'' Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Dr. Christopher E. Lawson
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto

Seminar title: ''Retooling Microbiome Engineering for a Sustainable Future''

Hosted by: Dr. Leyuan Li, Research Associate in Figeys’ lab
Please feel free to contact technomise if you have any questions or concerns.

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

Friday, May 6, 2022, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Dr. Josef Penninger
Department of Medical Genetics,
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, B.C.

Seminar title: ''Ace2 from fly hearts to the heart of a pandemic''

Hosted by: Dr. Haley Geertsma, PhD trainee

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Friday, April 29, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Meena Madhur
Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics,
Vanderbilt University

Seminar title: ''Can we reprogram T cells to treat hypertension''

Hosted by: Dr. Baptiste Lacoste

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Friday, April 22, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
~ BMI Special ''online'' Cross-appointee Seminar Series ~
Dr. Nicolas Bordenave
University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Health Sciences,
Nutrition Sciences Program

Seminar title: ''Non-covalent interactions between polysaccharides and phenolic compounds: implications in human nutrition''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 9:00 to 10:00 am
~ Special ''online'' Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Dr. Lei Dai
Director of Center for Synthetic Microbiome,
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Seminar title: ''Quantitative ecology of host-associated microbial communities''

Hosted by: Dr. Leyuan Li, Research Associate in Figeys’ lab
Please feel free to contact technomise if you have any questions or concerns.

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

Friday, March 11, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Alessando Prigione
Associate Professor,
Department of General Pediatrics,
Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology,
Children’s Hospital,
University Clinic Düsseldorf (UKD) Heinrich Heine University (HHU),
Düsseldorf, Germany

Seminar title: ''Drug discovery of mitochondrial diseases using patient-specific iPSCs and brain organoids''

Hosted by: Dr. Mireille Khacho

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Friday February 25, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Hao Wu
Professor,
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University, Boston

Seminar title: ''Sentinels: how inflammasomes sense pathogens and other stress''

Hosted by: Haley Geertsma, PhD, student in Dr. Rousseaux Lab

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Friday February 18, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Jeanette Boudreau
Assistant Professor,
Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Microbiology of Immunology, and Pathology,
Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute,
Halifax, N.S.

Seminar title: ''Natural killer cells juggle functions to balance pathology and cancer control''

Hosted by: Dr. Michele Ardolino

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Friday, February 11, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Special ''online'' BMI New Adjunct Professor Seminar Series
Dr. Xiaojian Shao
Research Officer,
Digital Technologies, Research Centre,
National Research Council of Canada

Seminar title: ''Predicting CRISPR-Cas9 off-target effects using bidirectional LSTM with BERT''

Hosted by: Dr. Alexandre Blais

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

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