Guest Speakers and Special Events
June 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012
Coordinator: Dr. Adam Rudner ext. 8737 and Dr. Lisheng Wang ext. 5624
September-May TIME: 3:30 pm (PLACE: AMPHITHEATRE "A", RGN 2005, 451 Smyth Road) |
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| Speaker | Title | Date |
| Dr. Jonathan Ewbank Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy |
TBD | Tues, April 24, 2012 |
Dr. Zhu
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“Protein Homeostasis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis” | Tues., April 10, 2012 RGN, Room Time: TBC |
| Dr. Mark Wainberg McGill University |
TBD | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
Dr. John Diffley |
TBD | Tues., March 20, 2012 |
| BMI Career Day | Thurs., March 22, 2012 | |
| Dr Jinrong Min | TBD | Tues. March 6, 2012 RGN, Room 2005 Time: 3.30 pm |
| Dr. Mary Jackson | “New drugs targeting the cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis” | Tues. Feb. 28, 2012 RGN Time: 3:30 p.m. |
BMI Seminar Day |
BMI Seminar Day | Wed. Feb. 22, 2012 |
| Julia Rintoul, BMI Student Reserch Seminar |
"A Novel Oncolytic and Immune Stimulating Parapoxvirus Therapeutic" | Tues., Feb. 14, 2012 RGN, Room 2003 Time: 3:30 p.m |
Free |
TBD | Tues., Feb. 7, 2012 RGN, Room Time: 3:30 p.m. |
| Aurelia Busca BMI Student Research Seminar |
"The role of antiapoptotic Bcl2 and IAP families in survival and function of human macrophages" |
Tues. Jan. 31, 2012 |
Dr. Khosrow Adeli |
CANCELLED | Tues. Jan. 24, 2012 |
| Dr. Peter Stirling Terry Fox Foundation University of British Columbia |
“The Complete Spectrum of Genome Integrity Pathways: Biological Networks to Molecular Mechanisms” |
Mon. Jan. 16, 2012RGN Room |
| Dr. Katey Rayner Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Langone Medical Center, New York University |
“The role of microRNAs in cardiometabolic diseases” | Thur. Jan. 12, 2012 |
Mansi Saxena |
"Molecular Mechanisms Responsible for the Development of Resistance to HIV-Mediated Apoptosis in Human Monocytic Cells" | Tues. Jan. 10, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 p.m. |
MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SYMPOSIUM (Microbiology and Immunology students must attend) |
1:15 Dr. Todd Fairhead, Department of Medicine 1:45 Dr. Seung-Hwan Lee, Department of BMI 2:15 Dr. Fraser Scott, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute 3:00 Dr. Jean-Simon Diallo, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute 3:30 Jennifer Ronholm, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Ottawa |
Wed. Dec. 14, 2011 |
Dr. Gregory Fairn |
“Membrane dynamics and organization in phagocytosis and cell polarity” |
Thur. Dec. 8, 2011 |
Pavel Milman |
“Intranuclear Rodlets: Dynamic Nuclear Bodies in Pancreatic Beta-Cells; and a Novel Variant in Mouse CNS Neurons” | Tues., Dec. 6, 2011 RGN Room 2005 Time: 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Robert Screaton |
"Functional Genomics Meets Mitochondrial Quality Control: Makin' Mo' Better Mitos" |
Tues., Nov. 29, 2011 |
| Dr. Wai Hong Connie Woo Columbia University Department of Medicine |
“The Cross talk between Toll like receptor signaling and Unfolded Protein Response.” | Mon. Nov. 28, 2011 RGN Room 2021 Time: 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Steve Henikoff |
"Histone variants, nucleosome dynamics and epigenetics" |
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 |
| Dr. Steve Girardin University of Toronto |
"Amino acid starvation: a critical arm of the host response to bacterial infection“ |
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 RGN Room 2005 Time: 3:30 p.m. |
| Dr. Dan Bolon University of Massachetts, Worcester |
"Relating gene sequence to fitness through EMPIRIC mutant analyses" | Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 |
Dr. Jonathon Pines
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"The Cold War in Mitosis: Mutual Antagonism Between the Spindle Checkpoint and the APC/C ” | Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 RGN Room 2005 Time: 3:30 p.m. |
| Dr. Jean-Claude Labbe IRIC |
"Deciphering the function of the tumor suppressor PAR-4/LKB1 in cell polarity and asymmetric cell division" |
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 RGN, Room 2005 Time: 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Kalle Gehring |
"A Tale of Three Structures" | Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 |
| Lee-Anne Ufholz Director, Health Sciences Library |
"Literature Review Strategies for Researchers" This seminar is compulsory for all new students |
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 RGN Room 2005 Time: 3:30 p.m. |
| Dr. Arshad Desai Ludwig Institute and UC, San Diego |
"Epigenetics, Mechanics & Fidelity in Chromosome Segregation" |
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Stephen Anderson |
"Regulation of class I MHC receptor expression by non-coding transcripts and probabilistic switches" | Tuesday Sept 13th, 2011 |
Dr. Jean Vance |
“Cholesterol Trafficking in the Brain and Niemann-Pick C Disease” |
Friday, July 15th, 2011 |
| BMI Poster Day *All Day Event* |
Thursday May 19th, 2011 2nd floor Atrium RGN |
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| Biochemistry Ph.D. Seminar Mireille Ouimet |
"Autophagy Regulates Cholesterol Efflux in Macrophage Foam Cells" |
Tuesday May 17th, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| Biochemistry Ph.D. Seminar Allen Teng |
TBA | Tuesday May 10th, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| The Ottawa Cardiovascular Symposium Registration and abstract submission deadline: April 1 2011 email to: Johanne.Bouchard@uottawa.ca |
May 3, 2011 Time: 8:30 am to 2:30 pm RGN Room 2005 and the Atrium |
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| Dr. André Veillette Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, IRCM |
“Cell-cell communication in immune cells” | Tuesday May 3, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| Microbiology and Immunology Ph.D. Research Seminar Felicity Stark |
“The role of CD8+ T cell phenotype and function for cancer immunotherapy” | Tuesday April 26, 2011 RGN Room 2111 Time: 10:30 pm |
| **CANCELLED** Dr. Jiarui Wu Institute for Biochemistry and Cell Biology Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences |
“systems biology of adipogenesis” | Tuesday April 26, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Symposium | Guest speakers: |
Wednesday April 20, 2011 12:45 pm - 4:15 pm RGN Room 2149 AMP E |
| Dr. Phil Hieter University of British Columbia |
"Chromosome instability and synthetic lethality in yeast and cancer" | Tuesday April 19, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| Biochemistry Ph.D. Student Research Seminar Tammy Porter |
"Mechanisms of Mogenesis in Stem Cells" | Tuesday April 12, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| Dr. Scott Gerber Dartmouth Medical School |
"Quantitative proteomics defines novel substrates and functional modules of the Aurora and Polo-like kinases in mitosis" | Tuesday April 5, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Joint BMI and OISB Seminar Dr. Albert Stolow National Research Council of Canada |
"Shining New Light on Live Cells and Tissues: CARS Microscopy" |
Tuesday March 29, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Microbiology Immunology Ph.D Seminar Kanishka Mohib |
“Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Extracts Inhibit the Differentiation and Function of Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells” |
Monday March 28, 2011 RGN room 2021 (near front of building) Time: 3:30 pm |
| Joint BMI and OISB Special Seminar Dr. Qiang Wu Distinguished Professor Institute of Systems Biomedicine Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
“Molecular Diversity and Function of Pcdh and Ugt Genes” | Friday March 25, 2011 RGN room 2021 Time: 9:30 am |
| OISB Special Seminar Dr. Tim Hunt Winner of The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Cancer Research UK |
"Switches and Latches: Surprising New Elements in the Control of Mitosis" | Friday March 25,2011 RGN Room 2005 Time: TBD |
| BMI Student invited guest speaker Dr. Cheryl Arrowsmith The Structural Genomics Consortium, Ontario Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto |
"Structural and chemical biology of the readers and writers of the histone code" |
Tuesday March 22,2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| BMI Special Seminar Dr. Corey Yanofsky Postdoctoral Fellow University of Ottawa |
“Precision guesswork: Putting statistics to work in biochemistry” |
Wednesday March 16, 2011 RGN Room 1007 Time: 3:30 pm |
| Dr. Neale Ridgway Dalhousie University |
“Regulation of Nuclear Membrane Architecture by a Phospholipid Biosynthetic Enzyme” | Tuesday March 15, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| "Special date" Dr. Marco Vignuzzi Institut Pasteur, France |
“New RNA virus fidelity variants to study the role of genetic diversity in virus infection in vitro and in vivo” | Monday March 14, 2011 RGN Room 2021 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Marcel Guimond University of Montreal |
“The adverse effect of graft-versus-host disease on dendritic cell homeostasis constrains CD4 regeneration” | Monday March 7, 2011 RGN Room 1007 Time: 4:00 pm |
| Dr. John Copeland University of Ottawa's Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Medicine |
"A role in cell polarity for INF1, a novel microtubule-binding formin." | Tuesday March 1, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Douglas Gray OHRI |
"Loss of protein homeostasis in diseases of aging" | Tuesday February 22, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Faculty of Medicine Graduate Studies Annual Open House and Recruitement Day |
All day event starting at 8:30 am in the Atrium. | Friday Feburary 18, 2011 8:30 - 5:15pm Various locations |
| Dr. Chris Mody University of Calgary |
“Death From a Synapse - Lymphocytes That Are Microbicidal” | Tuesday February 15, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| "Special date" Dr Yau-Huei Wei National Yang-Ming University Taiwan |
“The Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Insulin Insensitivity of Adipocytes – Implications in Type 2 Diabetes” |
Monday February 14, 2011 RGN Room 1007 Time: 8:00 am |
| "Special date" Microbiology and Immunology Ph.D. Research Seminar Carey Greco |
“Novel Insights into Growth and Biofilm Formation by Staphylococcus Epidermidis in a Platelet Contamination Scenario” | Thursday February 10, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Justin Nodwell McMaster University |
"Small molecule probes for cell division and secondary metabolism" | Tuesday February 8, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| BMI Student Ph.D. Research Seminar Dixie Pinke Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Lee, BMI |
“Control of morphogenesis and neoplasia by the oncogenic translation factor eEF1A2” |
Monday February 7, 2011 RGN Room 2021 Time: 3:00 pm |
Dr. Josée Dostie |
"Three-dimensional Hox gene cluster regulation" | Tuesday February 1, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Jef Boeke Director, High Throughput Biology Center John Hopkins University School of Medicine |
"Protein acetylation, metabolism and aging in S. cerevisiae" |
Tuesday January 25, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Hironori Funabiki Rockefeller University |
"Illuminating Aurora at the right place and time: |
Tuesday January 18, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| "Special date" Dr. Marc Ruel University of Ottawa Heart Institute |
"Cardiac Cell Therapy - from Phenomenon to Mechanism" | Monday January 17, 2011 RGN Room 2005 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Maxim Berezovski University of Ottawa Department of Chemistry |
“Aptamers as Novel Synthetic Probes for Biomarker Discovery and Pathogen Detection” | Tuesday January 11, 2011 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Matthew Michael University of Southern California |
"Checkpoint signaling during germ line development in C. elegans" | Tuesday December 14, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Michael Rosen University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre |
"Physical Mechanisms of Actin Regulation by WASP/WAVE Proteins" | Tuesday December 7, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Michael Rout Rout Lab website The Rockefeller University |
"The Architecture and Mechanism of the Nuclear Pore Complex" | Tuesday November 30, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Quaid Morris University of Toronto |
"Predicting the targets of mRNA-binding proteins (and a bit of GeneMANIA)" | Tuesday November 23, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Thomas Duchaîne McGill University |
''Cooperative and Synergistic Deadenylation of 3’UTRs by MicroRNA Families: implications in development and cancer'' |
Tuesday November 9, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| BMI Special Seminar Dr. Benoit Coulombe IRCM Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal |
''Mapping the human interactome identifies novel regulatory factors for the RNA polymerase II transcription machinery'' | Wednesday November 3, 2010 RGN Room 1007 Time: 2:00 pm |
| Dr. Alex Wong University of Ottawa's dept. of Biology |
"Environment-dependent costs of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" |
Tuesday November 2, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Todd Fairhead University of Ottawa Dept. of Medicine |
“The role of RIP2 in autoimmune disease” | Thursday October 28, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| BMI Student Seminar Carly St. Germain |
"The role of Activating Trancription Factor 3 (ATF3) in chemotherapeutic |
Tuesday October 26, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
Dr. Jennifer Surtees |
"How mismatch repair proteins multi-task: Multiple pathways for maintaining genome stability" | Tuesday October 19, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
Joint BMI and Ottawa Institute of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics |
CANCELLED |
Tuesday October 12, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Sébastien Carréno Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer University of Montreal IRIC |
“A Pi(4,5)P2/Moesin Interplay Regulates Cortical Stability & Microtubule Organization in Mitotic Cells” |
Tuesday October 5, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
| BMI Library Seminar Lee-Anne Hufholz University of Ottawa |
“Literature Review Strategies for Researchers" | Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 pm |
| Dr. Tyrrell Conway University of Oklahoma |
“E. coli physiology is fine-tuned for life in the intestine” | Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
BMI Special Seminar |
“Molecular dissection of cardiogenic activities of GATA4” | Monday September 20, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 1:30 |
| Dr. Chia-Ching Chang National Chiao Tung University |
“Protein folding, aggregation and their application” | Tuesday August 3, 2010 RGN Room 2111 9:00 am |
Joint BMI and Ottawa Institute of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Seminar Dr. Edward Trifonov |
“Fundamental modules of protein structure and function” | Monday June 28, 2010 |
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Thursday, May 20, 2010 In RGN Atrium, Room 2005, Time: 3:30 |
Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology Seminar Dr. Karen Reue, UCLA |
"Identification of novel obesity and lipid metabolism genes using mouse genetics" | Tuesday, June 22, 2010 RGN Room 2005, Time: 3:00
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| Dr. Alfred Aziz Health Canada |
"The Role of Dietary Resistant Starch in the Regulation of Body Weight and Glycemia" | Thursday June 17, 2010 RGN Room 2005, Time: 3:00 |
| Dr. Thomas Lagace University of Ottawa Heart Institute |
“PCSK9 and heart disease: quieting an outdated metabolic moderator” | Thursday June 10, 2010 |
| BMI Special Seminar Dr. Mohammed Sabati Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami Health System |
“Magnetic Resonance Relaxivity: A Powerful Source for Multi-Contrast Imaging” | Friday May 28 2010, RGN Room 2111 |
| PhD. Research Seminar Anita Benoit |
“Impairment of IL-7 / IL-7Ra signaling in CD8 T cells of HIV+ individuals results from IL-7Ra downregulation and IL-7Ra can be regulated by Growth Factor Independent-1 among proliferation and survival in CD8 T cells” | Thursday, May 13, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30
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Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology Seminar |
"A tissue specific atlas of the mouse phosphoproteome" | Monday, May 3, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 4:00
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| Dr. Alain Verreault, University of Montreal Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer | "Histone Acetylation: A New Twist in the Chromosome Cycle" | Thursday, April 29, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30
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| Dr. Damien D'Amours, University of Montreal Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer | "Playing polo in the field of chromosome condensation: How to establish and maintain order in mitosis with multi-site phosphorylation" | Thursday, April 22, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30
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| Microbiology and Immunology Symposia | With the following speakers: Dr. Bill Cameron, Dr. Craig Lee, Dr. David Allan, Dr. Lisheng Wang, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Andrew Makrigiannis | Wednesday, April 21 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 12:45 to 4:15 |
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"Identification of proteins that modulate IRES-mediated translation of cellular Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein (cIAP1)"
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Thursday, April 15, 2010 RGN, Room 2005, Time: 3:30 |
Special BMI Seminar |
"Blood-derived vascular progenitors and regenerative therapy in cancer patients" | Wednesday April 14, 2010 RGN,
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"Investigating the role of giant mitochondria in aging"
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Thursday, April 8, 2010 RGN, Room 2005, Time: 3:30 |
Special BMI Seminar Dr. Chris Power |
"Emerging infections in the 21st century: lessons in visibility from the brain" | Tuesday, April 6, 2010 RGN, Room 2112, Time: 12:00 pm |
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"The role of SirT1 in aging, physiology and cancer susceptibility"
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Thursday, April 1, 2010 RGN, Room 2005, Time: 3:30 |
Joint BMI, Ottawa Intitute of System's Biology and Ottawa Institute of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Seminar Dr. Ugur Sezerman |
“Computational Methods for Protein and Design Problem” | Thursday, April 1, 2010 RGN, Room 1007, Time: 1:00 pm |
| Dr. Heidi McBride, University of Ottawa Heart Institute | "Mitochondrial dynamics and quality control" | Thursday, March 25, 2010 RGN, Room 2005, Time: 3:30 |
| Dr. Monique Zetka, McGill University | "Regulation of meiotic chromosome pairing in C. elegans" | Thursday, March 18, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30
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| Dr. Gary Brouhard, McGill University | "Speeding Up Microtubule Growth" | Thursday, March 11, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30
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Special BMI SeminarDr. Seung-Hwan Lee |
“Activating receptors sustain NK cells to mediate regulatory function during persistent viral infections" |
Friday, March 5, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 10:00 am |
| Dr. Michael Jonz, University of Ottawa Dept. of Biology | "Oxygen sensing by gill chemoreceptors in zebrafish: a model for respiratory regulation in vertebrates" | Thursday, March 4, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
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"Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype by microRNAs"
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Thursday, February 25, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
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"Regulatory evolution and its implications for bacterial pathoadaptation"
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Thursday, February 18, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
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Pavillion Roger Guidon Rooms: 2003, 2005, 2012, 2021, 2022, 2113, 2149 |
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
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"Oocyte maturation: a system to study asymmetric cell division, cancers and birth defects"
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Thursday, February 11, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
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"Systems-level analysis of the signals that control of entry into mitosis "
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Thursday, February 4, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
Joint BMI/OICBB Seminar |
"Next Steps for High Performance Computer Data Centers: Medical and Life Sciences" | Wednesday February 3, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
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"Characterization of MAPL, the first mitochondrial SUMO E3 ligase "
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Thursday, January 28, 2010 RGN Room 2003 Time: 3:30 |
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Other Seminars of Interest
- BMI Student Seminars
- CMM Seminars
- OHRI Seminars
- CRBB Seminars