Thursday, July 23, 2015 Dr. Jonathan Lytton, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, will present "K-dependent-Na/Ca exchangers: the thin edge of the wedge" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC Thursday, June 25, 2015 Dr. Paul Schnetkamp, Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Calgary, will present: "The SCL24 Gene Family of Na/Ca-K Exchangers: from Sight and Smell to Memory Consolidation, Skin Pigmentation and Bad Teeth" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Leslie Lab Thursday, June 18, 2015 Laura Hofmann, Visiting PhD Student from Saarland University (Xing-Zhen Chen's Lab will present: "TRPC1: Identification of upstream translation initiation and functional analysis of the extended protein" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Leslie Lab Thursday, June 11, 2015 Dr. John Baenziger, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Ottawa, will present "Structure and function of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in its membrane environment" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Leslie Lab Thursday, May 28, 2015 Mayukh B,anerjee, Postdoctoral Fellow ( Elaine Leslie's Lab) will present "Role of Selected MRP4 Variants in Arsenic Transport, Toxicity and Susceptibility" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Cheeseman Lab. Thursday, May 21, 2015 Cameron Smithers, Graduate Student (Joanne Lemieux's lab) will present: "Making the cut - Cleavage of PINK by PARL" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Cheeseman Lab. Thursday, May 14, 2015 Dr. Carlo Montemagno Director of alberta Ingenuity Lab AITF Strategic Chair of Nanobiotechnology and Biomimetic Systems Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Nanosystems Program Lead of Biomaterials at National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) will present "Giving Life to Man-Made Materials with the Engines of Creation" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Weiner Lab. Thursday 7 May 2015 Zanfel Zhang Graduate Student (Joel Weiner's Lab) will present: "Characterization, Structure and Mechaniosm of Sulfide: quinoneoxidoreductase (SQR) from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Weiner Lab. Thursday 30 April 2015 Ray Amith, Postdoctoral Fellow (Larry Fliegel's Lab) will present: "Modulating NHE1 in Breast Cancer: A (C-Terminal) Tail of Complex Regulation" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Weiner Lab. Thursday 23 April 2015 Anil Kumar, Postdoctoral Fellow (Tom Hobman's Lab) will present: "Identification of novel peroxisomal proteins involved in flaviviral replication" at 9:00 am in Room F 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Weiner Lab. Thursday 16 April 2015 Dr. Holger Wille, Department of Biochemistry and Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, will present: "The structure of the infectious prion protein: Mad Cow Disease and other calamities" at 9:00 am in Room F - 2J2.02 WMC. Snacks: Fliegel Lab. Thursday 26 March 2015 Pavan Kondapi, Graduate Student - (Chris Cheeseman's Lab) will present: "Development of high affinity ligands for the D-fructose transporter Glut5 and their evaluation as potential tracers for breast cancer imaging" at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Fliegel Lab. Thursday 19 March 2015 Cody Wu, Graduate Student -. (Jim Young's Lab) will present: “Inhibition Studies: Structural and Therapeutic Insights into Glutamate and Nucleoside Transporters" at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Fliegel Lab. Thursday 12 March 2015 Rashmi Panigrahi, Ph.D. (Joanne Lemieux's Lab) will present: “The role of CFTR in Airway Epithelial Function" at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Lemieux Lab. Thursday 5 March 2015 Dr. John Hanrahan, McGill University will present: “Inherited Mutations in SLC9A1, Encoding Na+/H+ Exchanger Isoform 1, Cause Human Disease" at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Lemieux Lab. Thursday 26 February 2015 Dr. Larry Fliegel will present: “Inherited Mutations in SLC9A1, Encoding Na+/H+ Exchanger Isoform 1, Cause Human Disease" at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Lemieux Lab. Thursday 12 February 2015 Muhammad Bashir Khan, PhD (Howard Young's Lab) will present: “Structure (?) and function of Novel P- type ATPase” at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Lemieux Lab. Thursday 5 February 2015 Dr. Randall Weselake, Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, will present: “Membrane Enzymes Involved in Glycerolipid Biosynthesis in Plants - New Opportunities for Probing Structure/Function” at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Touret Lab. Thursday 22 January 2015 Brayden Whitlock, Graduate Student (Elaine Leslie's Lab) will present: "Differences in Arsenic Transport by Human, Rat, and Mouse Multidrug Resistance Protein 4 (MRP4/ABCC4)"at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Howard Young's Lab Thursday 15 January 2015 Robert Mercer, PhD Student (Department of Medicine) will present: "Probing the prion protein interactome: the nature and consequences of an interaction with DPP6"”at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Howard Young's Lab Thursday 08 January 2015 Nada Alshumaimeri, PhD Student (Joe Casey''s Lab) will present: "Identification of protein interactors of the corneal dystrophy-causing protein, SLC4a11”at 9:00 am in Room F-2J4.02 WMHSC. Snacks: Howard Young's Lab