Listings of seminars and department events for the week of February 8 to February 12 , 2010
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Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 5 (mGluR5) Antagonists - Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry
DR. PAUL GALATSIS
Neurosciences Chemistry, Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry
Pfizer Global Research & Development

11:00 am, February 5
Room PB 850, 144 College Street, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Neurogenesis and Brain Tumor Therapy: Can we Spare Neural Progenitor Cells Without Sparing the Tumor?
Dr. Cynthia Wetmore
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota

1:30 pm, February 5
Room 1527, Hill Wing Hospital or Sick Children

Host: Dr. Annie Huang
Program in Cell Biology Seminar Series, Hospital or Sick Children

Cell Fate Decisions in the Early Arabidopsis embryo
Prof. Wolfgang Lukowitz
Dept of Plant Biology University of Georgia

2:00 pm, February 5
Ramsay Wright Building, Room 432

Host: Dr. Thomas Berleth
CSB Seminar

Transcriptional mechanisms for T ineage commitment
Dr. Ellen Rothenberg
Division of Biology California
Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA

11:10 am, February 8
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

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

A role of Rac isoforms in formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)
Michael Lim
Master Candidate, Matrix Dynamics Group
Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto

11:30 am, February 8
Room #237, Fitzgerald Building

CIHR Group in Matrix Dynamics seminar

Phospholipase D-mTOR survival signals in cancer cells
DR. DAVID A. FOSTER
Department of Biological Sciences
Hunter College of The City University of New York

4:00 pm, February 8
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Host: Dr. Michael Ohh
Monday Seminars in Molecular Pathobiology

The modulation of microRNA activity
Dr. Christopher Hammell
UMass Medical School
(Candidate for tenure-stream faculty position)

4:00 pm, February 8
Medical Sciences Building Room 4171

Host: Dr. H. Lipshitz
Department of Molecular Genetics Guest Speaker Seminar

Role of CF testing in the investigation of male infertility in 2010
Dr. Keith Jarvi
Department of Urology Mount Sinai Hospital

5:00 pm, February 8
Room 7704, Atrium (Sickkids)

Cystic Fibrosis Seminar

The roles of epigenetic regulators in early hematopoiesis
Toshimi Yoshida, PhD
CBRC, Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA
(Candidate for a Faculty Position in Immunology)

12:00 pm, February 9
Medical Sciences Building Room 4279

Host: Dr. Michael Ratcliffe
Department of Immunology Special Seminar

A Clinical Translation Vision for Regenerative Medicine: Current Realties and Future Probabilities
Dr. Francois Auger, MD,
Director, LOEX Laboratory For Experimental Organogenesis
Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University

1:00 pm, February 9
The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue Room 1248/50, Black Wing

Host: Dr. Darius Bagli
Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology

Understanding the significance of Irx3/5 transcription factors in mammalian cardiovascular development
Jieun Kim
Graduate Student

3:00 pm, February 9
#B250, Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building

Supervisor: Dr. C.C. Hui
Department of Molecular Genetics

Investigating the role of Hippo signaling in trophectoderm/inner cell mass specification
Katherine Cockburn
Graduate Student

3:30 pm, February 9
#B250, Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building

Supervisor: Dr. J. Rossant
Department of Molecular Genetics

DNA Replication: Start Right, Proceed with Caution
Dr. Mirit I. Aladjem
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD

2:00 pm, February 10
Red Seminar Room, Donnelly CCBR

Host: Dr. Christopher Pearson
Department of Molecular Genetics Guest Speaker Seminar

Beyond the Double Helix: Reading and Writing the Histone Code
Dr. David Allis
Joy and Jack Fishman Professor, and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology,
The Rockefeller University

4:00 pm, February 10
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Host: Biochemistry Graduate Student Union
George Connell Lecture Series Department of Biochemistry

Trafficking defects in red cell and kidney anion exchanger membrane glycoproteins linked to disease
Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier
Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

12:00 pm, February 11
Medical Sciences Building Room 4171

CIHR Training Grant in Protein Folding Seminar Series

DNA replication and disease-associated repeat instability in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1
John Cleary
PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Genetics

1:30 pm, February 11
#103, Fitzgerald Building

Supervisor: Dr. C. Pearson
PhD Oral Seminar Department of Molecular Genetics

Context-dependent regulation of Wnt Signalling
Dr. Hassina Benchabane
Dartmouth Medical School
(Candidate for tenure-stream faculty position)

3:00 pm, February 11
Medical Sciences Building Room 4171

Host: Dr. H. Lipshitz
Department of Molecular Genetics Guest Speaker Seminar

Understanding and Manipulating Protein-Protein Interactions in G Protein Signaling
Dr. Alan V. Smrcka
Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology,
Oncology and of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of Rochester

11:00 am, February 12
Room PB 850, 144 College Street,
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Dr. James Wells
Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Imaging the Distribution and Dynamics of Molecules in Cells Using PhotoActivated Localization Microscopy (PALM)
Dr. George Patterson
Biophotonics Section National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health

1:30 pm, February 12
Room 1527, Hill Wing Hospital or Sick Children

Host: Dr. Peter K. Kim
Program in Cell Biology Seminar Series, Hospital or Sick Children