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