Listings of seminars and department events for the week of November 23 to November 27, 2009
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Regulation of blood-brain barrier transporters: from brain protection to CNS therapy
Dr. Bjorn Bauer
Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota

11:00 am, November 20
Room PB 850, 144 College Street, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Host: Dr. Sandy Pang
Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Targeting Neuronal and Glial Signalling in Pain Neuroplasticity
Dr. Michael Salter
Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health
The Hospital For Sick Children

1:30 pm, November 20
Room 1527, Hill Wing
Hospital or Sick Children

Host: Dr. William Trimble
Program in Cell Biology Seminar Series, Hospital or Sick Children

Assembly of the Drosophila Heart by Regulators of Cell Adhesion
Prof. Roger Jacobs
McMaster University Department of Biology

2:00 pm, November 20
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432

Host: Ulrich Tepass
CSB Seminar

E-protein mediated checkpoints in lymphocyte development
Dr. Yuan Zhuang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

11:10 am, November 23
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Host: Dr. Michele Anderson
Department of Immunology Easton Seminar Series

Deciphering the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type IV pilus assembly complex
Dr. Lynne Howell
Head & Senior Scientist, Molecular Structure and Function
The Hospital for Sick Children

1:00 pm, November 23
Room 1250 Elm Wing, The Hospital for Sick Children

Host: Dr. Michelle Letarte
Molecular Structure and Function Seminar Series

Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: A new cause for human cancer
Dr. Yuan Chang, M.D.
Professor, American Cancer Society
Research Professor
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

4:00 pm, November 23
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Host: Dr. Richard Hegele
Monday Seminars in Molecular Pathobiology

Life and death decisions in the C. elegans germline
Dr. Brent Derry
University of Toronto

4:00 pm, November 23
Medical Sciences Building Room 4171

Department of Molecular Genetics Guest Speaker Seminar

The extensive and condition-dependent nature of epistasis among whole-genome duplicates in yeast
Gabe Musso
Graduate Student, CGPGBB

12:00 pm, November 24
160 College Street, CCBR, Red Room

Collaborative Graduate Program in Genome Biology and Bioinformatics
Work-in-Progress student seminar

Functions of Epstein-Barr EBNA1 protein in Gastric carcinoma
Nirojini Sivachandran
Graduate Student

3:00 pm, November 24
#3154, Medical Sciences Building

Supervisor: Dr. L. Frappier
Department of Molecular Genetics

Regulation of Vertebrate Nervous System Development and Alternative Splicing by a Novel SR-related Protein
John Calarco
Graduate Student

3:30 pm, November 24
#3154, Medical Sciences Building

Supervisor: Dr. B. Blencowe, Dr. M. Zhen
Department of Molecular Genetics

Generation of functional hepatic cells from human pluripotent stem cells
Dr. Hongkui Deng
Professor of Cell Biology
College of Life Sciences
Peking University

3:00 pm, November 25
Sick Kids Auditorium, Black Wing 1246

Host: Dr. Chi-chung Hui
Distinguished Lecturer Series, Hospital for Sick Children

Determining DNA Sequence in the Neighbourhood of Nuclear Compartments
David Anchel
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program

4:00 pm, November 25
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Supervisor: Dr. David Bazett-Jones
Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series

Topic TBA
Michael Puhacz
Graduate Student

4:00 pm, November 25
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series

Investigation of atypical binding behaviours of the SH3 domain of the yeast protein Fuslp
JungMin Kim
PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Genetics

1:00 pm, November 26
#2173, Medical Sciences Building

Supervisor: Dr. A. Davidson
Department of Molecular Genetics

Mitotic regulation of septins, the fourth cytoskeleton, is required for the completion of cytokinesis
Bill Trimble

5:00 pm, November 26
Medical Sciences Building Room 3171

Cytoskeleton Support Group

The BCL6 BTB domain as a target for transcriptional therapy in B-cell lymphoma
Dr. Gil Prive�L
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute
Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics and Biochemistry,
University of Toronto

11:00 am, November 27
Room PB 850, 144 College Street, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Host: Dr. Heiko Heerklotz
Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Protein Synthesis and Strategies for Surviving Anoxia Exhibited by Crucian Carp
Dr. Richard Smith
McMaster University
Department of Biology

2:00 pm, November 27
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432

Host: Leslie Buck
CSB Seminar