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Listings of seminars and department events for the week of May 14 to May 18, 2012
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    Friday, May 11 (from previous week)


Imaging iNKT cell function in different organs during various inflammatory conditions
Dr. Paul Kubes
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary

1:30 pm, May 11
Room 1527, Hill Wing, Hospital for Sick Children

Host: Dr. Nicola Jones
Program in Cell Biology Seminar Series, Hospital for Sick Children

    Monday, May 14


Pathogens as tools for the immunologist: Transnuclear Mice
Hidde Ploegh, PhD
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, MA

11:10 am, May 14
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Host: Immunology Graduate Students
Department of Immunology Easton Seminar Series


Human Glycosylation Disorders: When you get to the fork in the road, take it
Dr. Hudson Freeze
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, CA

1:00 pm, May 14
Room 1250 Black Wing, The Hospital for Sick Children

Host: Dr. Harry Schachter
Molecular Structure and Function Seminar Series


Functions and regulations of the primitive cell marker CD133
Anthony Mak
PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Genetics

1:00 pm, May 14
Medical Sciences Building Room 4171

Supervisor: Dr. J. Moffat
Department of Molecular Genetics


Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase signaling is necessary for developmental and pathologic neovascularization
Dr. Nicholas Duesbery
Associate Professor Director of Center for Cancer & Cell Biology
Van Andel Research Institute
Grand Rapids, MI

4:00 pm, May 14
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Host: Dr. Jeremy Mogridge
Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology Seminar Series


CF Gender Gap
Dr. Neil Sweezey
Respiratory Research, The Hospital for Sick Children

5:00 pm, May 14
Room 7704, Atrium (Sickkids)

Cystic Fibrosis Seminar

    Tuesday, May 15


No seminars scheduled

    Wednesday, May 16


Human coronavirus spike glycoproteins and their cellular receptors
Alan Wong
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program

4:00 pm, May 16
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Supervisor: Dr. James Rini, Committee: Drs. Frank Sicheri and Scott Gray-Owen
Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series


Structure and function of protein O-fucosyltransferase 2
Kristina Han
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program

4:00 pm, May 16
Medical Sciences Building Room 2172

Supervisor: Dr. James Rini, Committee: Dr. Julie Forman-Kay, Dr. James Dennis
Department of Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series


Delta Opioid Receptors (DORs) are Regulated as Part of Signalling Complexes: Implications for the Development of Analgesic Tolerance
Graciela Piñeyro, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry
University of Montreal

4:00 pm, May 16
Room 4279, Medical Sciences Building

Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology seminar

    Thursday, May 17
AID induces genome-wide DNA breaks and functions after cytosine deamination during Ig class switching
Dr. Janet Stavnezer
Dept of Microbiology and Physiological Systems
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA

11:00 am, May 17
Medical Sciences Building Room 3171

Host: Dr. Alberto Martin
Department of Immunology Seminar


The Decision to Fold or Degrade: Mechanisms of the Hsp90 and Hsp70 Molecular Chaperone Machinery
Daniel R. Southworth, PhD
Assistant Professor Life Sciences Institute University of Michigan

12:00 pm, May 17
MSB 4279

Host: Dr. Walid Houry
CIHR Training Grant in Protein Folding & Interaction Dynamics Seminar Series


Imaging Water at the Nanoscale and Protein in Water by TEM
Dr. Paul Matsudaira
National University of Singapore

2:00 pm, May 17
Mechanical Engineering Building-MC 102
5 King’s College Rd

Ontario-on-a-Chip/MATCH Symposium


Analysis of Molecular Networks
Mark Gerstein
Yale University

4:00 pm, May 17
Friesen/Yip Red Seminar Room

Host: Philip Kim
CCBR Seminar

    Friday, May 18


Worming our way through the endosomal system, C. elegans as a model for membrane traffic
Dr. Barth D. Grant
Department Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Rutgers University

1:30 pm, May 18
Room 1527, Hill Wing Hospital for Sick Children

Host: Dr. Julie Brill
Program in Cell Biology Seminar Series, Hospital for Sick Children


Protein 3D structures computed from evolutionary sequence information
Debora Marks, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Chris Sander,
Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2:00 pm, May 18
Red Seminar Room, Donnelly CCBR

Hosted by: Drs. Cheryl Arrowsmith & Matthieu Schapira
SGC Seminar


High-throughput analysis of protein::protein and drug::target interactions with a quantitative LUMIER assay
Mikko Taipale
Lindquist lab, Whitehead Institute

4:00 pm, May 18
Friesen/Yip Red Seminar Room

Host: Igor Stagljar
CCBR Seminar


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