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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

~ Special Seminar Series on Centre for Infection, Immunity and Inflammation ~
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Dr. Julian J. Lum
Distinguished Scientist and Professor,
Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer,
University of Victoria

Seminar Title: "Immunoregulation of CAR-T cells Revealed Through 13C-tracing in Human Ovarian Cancer"

~ Neuroscience Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 1421
Dr. Yun Li
Assistant Professor,
University of Toronto,
Department of Molecular Genetics

Seminar title: "Investigating human brain development and autism spectrum disorders in pluripotent stem cells derived neurons and brain organoids"

Hosted by: Dr. Jing Wang

Friday, April 12, 2024, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
RGN room 2005
Dr. Nicolas Bertrand
Associate professor,
Faculty of Pharmacy,
Laval University

Seminar Title: "Is there an immunological link between baby shampoo, ice cream and mRNA vaccines"

Hosted by: Dr. Suresh Gadde

~ Neuroscience Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 1421
Dr. Craig Brown
Professor,
University of Victoria in British Columbia

Seminar title: "Cortical Capillaries: from Construction to Cognition"

Hosted by: Dr. Greg Silasi

~ OISB Seminar Series~
Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RGN room 2149
Dr. Geneviève Deblois
Principal Investigator,
Institut de recherche en immunologie et en cancérologie (IRIC)
Assistant Professor,
University of Montreal – Faculty of Pharmacy

Seminar Title: "Epigenetic adaptations to metabolic and microenvironment stresses in breast cancer"

Hosted by: Dr. Mary-Ellen Harper & Dr. Michael Downey

~ Neuroscience Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 1421
Dr. Shawn Ferguson
Associate Professor,
Cell Biology and of Neuroscience,
Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University

Seminar title: "Intersection between Lysosome damage and Parkinson's disease risk"

Hosted by: Dr. Michael Schlossmacher

~ Neuroscience Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 1421
Dr. Majid Mohajerani
Associate Professor,
Douglas Research Centre
and McGill University

Seminar title: "Default-Mode Network, spontaneous activity, and Memory replay"

Hosted by: Dr. Greg Silasi

~ Neuroscience Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 1421
David Park uOBMRI Colloquium Series
Drs. Jennifer Phillips, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa,
& Argel Aguilar-Valles, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Carleton University

Seminar title: "Ketamine for Depression: from Mole Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical use"

Monday, March 18, 2024, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
RGN room 1007
~ BMI Special Hybrid Seminar Series ~
Dr. Arsalan S. Haqqani
Senior Research Officer,
National Research Council of Canada

Seminar title: ''Mass spectrometry-based methods to study CNS drug delivery and biomarkers''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

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

~ Neuroscience Seminar Series ~
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Marc Ekker
Professor,
Department of Biology,
Vice-Dean Research,
Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa

Seminar title: "Death and Regeneration of Dopaminergic Neurons in Zebrafish"

Hosted by: Dr. Paul Albert

Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
RGN room 3248
Dr. Simon Maroori
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Pharmacy,
University of Montreal

Seminar Title: "Repurposing drug delivery systems for diagnostics"

Hosted by: Dr. Emilio Alarcon

Friday, March 1, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. John Stavrinides
Professor and Department Head,
Department of Biology,
University of Regina

Seminar Title: "Uncovering the diversity of antimicrobial natural products produced by the bacteria genus, Pantoeant”

Hosted by: Dr. Vanessa D'Costa

Friday, February 23, 2024, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
RGN room 1007
Dr. Thomas Drysdale
Associate Professor,
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology,
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry,
Western University

Seminar Title: "The Changing Roles for Animal Models in Understanding Heart and Kidney Development”

Hosted by: Dr. Balwant Tuana

Friday, February 16, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 3248
Dr. Aurélie De Rus Jacquet
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences,
Faculty of Medicine,
Laval University

Seminar Title: "The neurovascular unit: a target to prevent dissemination and progression of Parkinson’s disease”

Hosted by: Dr. Baptiste Lacoste

~ Special "Online" Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RGN room 1007
Dr. Xu Zhang
Research Scientist,
Health Canada

Seminar Title: "Microbiota-directed therapeutics: considerations for drug quality assessment"

Hosted by: Dr. Galen Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow in the TECHNOMISE Program

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

Friday, January 19, 2024, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister
Associate Professor
Molecular and Cellular Biology Department
University of Guelph

Seminar Title: "Proteomics of Fungal Disease in One Health”

Hosted by: Dr. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam

Friday, December 15, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2005
Dr. Ulf Tölch
Project team leader Education, Training & Quality in
Research,
Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité

Seminar Title: "Improving translational success through the Responsible PrecliniX consulting framework”

Hosted by: Dr. Manoj Lalu

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Joanne McLaurin
Professor,
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology,
University of Toronto

Seminar Title: "Obesity Paradox: what does it mean for Alzheimer's disease”

Hosted by: Dr. Steffany Bennett

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

Advances in Biomedical Research Seminar Series

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