Past Seminars
March 10, 2006 - Special Seminar - Dr. Jim Xiang, Senior Research Scientist, Saskatoon
Cancer Center, University of Saskatchewan
“A new dynamic model of sequential two cell interactions for CD8+ T cell responses by
T-APC”
May 11, 2006 - Dr. Conny Toelg
“The extracellular matrix component, hyaluronan, in wound repair and tumour
progression”
May 18, 2006- Jason Townson
“Apoptosis regulators and metastasis”
June 8, 2006 - Dr. Michael Golding, Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s Health Research Institute
“RNA Interference: Biology to Technology – The New Mammalian Genetics”
September 21, 2006 - Dr. George Chen, Director, Surgical Research Laboratories and
Professor, Dept of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Tobacco-specific carcinogen NNK promotes lung epithelial cell growth via activation of
extracellular signal-regulated kinase and nuclear factor kappaB”
October 19, 2006 - Translational Seminar
October 26, 2006 - Translational Seminar
November 2, 2006 - Hina Naeem, MSc candidate, Physiology & Pharmacology
“The role of arginine methylation in hormonal signaling”
November 9, 2006 - Peter Cheung, MSc candidate, Pathology
“The roles of Osteopontin and alpha9-beta1 Integrin in breast cancer metastasis”
November 16, 2006 - Translational Seminar
November 23, 2006 - Jennifer Johnston, MSc candidate, Biochemistry
“Uncovering a role for STCs in early bone growth and development using murine
models”
November 30, 2006 - Sarah Francis, PhD candidate, Biochemistry
“Investigation of chromatin regulation in the TGF beta and pRB tumour suppressive
pathways”
December 2006 - Christmas Break
January 17, 2007 - Translational Seminar
January 25, 2007 - Jai Ablack, PhD candidate, Microbiology & Immunology
“Transcriptional activation by adenovirus early region 1A conserved region three”
February 1, 2007 - Kris Marshall, MSc candidate, Microbiology & Immunology
“A genetic system for detection and analysis of protein nuclear import signals using
adenovirus E1A”
February 8, 2007 - Dr. Conny Toelg, Research Associate, Pamela Greenaway-Kohlmeier
Translational Breast Cancer Research Unit
“The extracellular matrix component hyaluronan in wound repair and tumour
progression”
February 15, 2007 - Translational Seminar
February 22, 2007 - Jason Townson
“The effect of CDDO-Im on experimental liver metastasis”
March 1, 2007 - Reading Week
March 8, 2007 - Dr. Michael Golding, CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s Health
Research Institute
“Evade and Escape: A viral system for stable delivery of RNAi into embryonic and
placental stem cells”
March 15, 2007 - Translational Seminar
April 5, 2007 - Ahmed Yousef, PhD candidate, Microbiology & Immunology
“Viral SUMO wrestlers: the interaction between Adenovirus E1A and the SUMO-1
conjugase UBC9”
May 3, 2007 - Translational Seminar
May 10, 2007 - Jen Hickey, PhD candidate, Chemistry
“The synthesis of turn mimetics for use as integrated radiopharmaceuticals”
May 17, 2007 - Translational Seminar
May 24, 2007 - Jenn MacLean, PhD candidate, Medical Biophysics
“Pre-clinical assessment of the effect of aprotinin in experimental metastasis”
Past Seminars – Fall 2008 – Summer 2009
September 18, 2008
Translational Seminar
September 25, 2008
Sarah Francis
October 2, 2008
Jenn MacLean
October 9, 2008
Ahmed Yousef
October 16, 2008
Translational Seminar
October 23, 2008
Leslie Souter
October 30, 2008
Dr. Peter Pelka
November 6, 2008
Srikanth Talluri
November 13, 2008
Dr. Bala Iyengar
November 20, 2008
Break (Christmas craft sale has use of the seminar
room)
November 27, 2008
Translational Seminar
December 4, 2008
Dr. Giulio Amadei
December 11, 2008
Jai Ablack
December 18, 2008
Dr. Patricia McGowan
January 8, 2009
Gobi Thillainadesan
January 15, 2009
Translational Seminar
January 22, 2009
Courtney Coschi
January 29, 2009
Mike Lizardo
February 5, 2009
Jen Hickey
February 12, 2009
Jenna Pilon
February 19, 2009
Translational Seminar - Cancelled
February 26, 2009
Alysha Croker
March 5, 2009
Matt Cecchini
March 12, 2009
Lesley Souter
March 19, 2009
Translational Seminar
March 26, 2009
Cancelled due to Margaret Moffat Research Day
April 2, 2009
Dr. Shauna Lee
April 9, 2009
Jen Mutrie
April 16, 2009
Translational Seminar
April 23, 2009
Alison Stanczak
April 30, 2009
Dr. Julio Masabanda
May 7, 2009
Wei Tang
May 14, 2009
Niamh Coughlin
May 21, 2009
Translational Seminar
May 28, 2009
Choi-Fong Cho
June 4, 2009
Greg Fonseca
June 11, 2009
Katie Calonego
June 18, 2009
Kathy Hung
June 25, 2009
Michel Beausoleil