Seminars and Events
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June 29th Lunch and Learn
“Machine Learning with Digital Signal Processing (ML-DSP): Raman Spectroscopy, Electrocardiograms, and Electroencephalograms”Monday, May 30 Seminar Series: Dr. Ying Wang, “Leverage phenotyping technology to understand atherosclerotic disease”
Monday, May 16 Seminar Series: Dr. Susan Logue, "The Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease"
Monday, May 9 Seminar Series: Dr. Kun Ping Lu, "Pin1-Catalyzed Conformational Regulation for Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia and Cancer"
Monday, May 2 Seminar Series: Dr. Christopher Pin, “A living biobank for personalized medicine in pancreatic cancer”
Monday, April 25 Seminar Series: Dr. Elena Verdu, "Microbes as cofactors in celiac disease development"
Monday, April 11 Seminar Series: Rachel Wilson, PhD Candidate, "Investigating the role of eukaryotic elongation factor 1A1 in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and lipid metabolism"
Monday, April 4 Seminar Series: Dr. Miguel Skirzewski, “Disentangling Striatal Neuromodulatory Circuitry Mechanisms Underlying Reward Motivated Behaviours”
Monday, March 28 Seminar Series: Dr. Caroline Menard, “Chronic stress induces vascular changes leading to depression vs resilience: opportunities for novel therapeutic approaches and biomarkers”
Monday, March 21 Seminar Series: Opening Doors to Exciting Careers!
Monday, March 7 Seminar Series: Dr. Wei Zhang: “Engineering protein-protein interactions to probe and rewire ubiquitin signalling”
Monday, February 28 Seminar Series: Dr. Fernando Lopes, "Inflammation Resolution: A Metabolic Menagerie"
Thursday, February 24 Lunch and Learn Workshop: “BioCORE: Facilities providing service and instrumentation to help meet your research goals”
Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00-1:00 p.m. Zoom Link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/91071109236?from=addonMonday, February 14 Seminar Series: Dr. Ahmed Abdelfattah, “Genetically encoded voltage indicators for optical monitoring of membrane potential”
Monday, February 7 Seminar Series: Dr. Lee-Hwa Tai, “Intravesical immunotherapy with oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus for bladder cancer”
Monday, January 31 Seminar Series: Dr. Emilie Jaune-Pons: “Activation of de novo methionine pathway supports the mesenchymal phenotype of pancreatic tumor cells and aggressiveness of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma”
Monday, January 24 Seminar Series: Dr. Janel Kopp: “Factors influencing the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma”
Monday, January 17 Seminar Series: Dr. Lisa Julian: “Harnessing human stem cell models to elucidate neurological disease pathogenesis and fundamental aspects of brain development”
Monday, January 10 Seminar Series: Nicholas Tonial, PhD Candidate: “Non-renal alterations of drug disposition in chronic kidney disease”
Monday, December 6 Seminar Series: Dr. Mark Chandy: "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Disease Modeling”
Monday, November 29 Seminar Series: Devika Jayawardena, PhD Candidate: “Regulation of metalloproteinase activity is critical for pulmonary microvascular endothelial cell barrier function”
Monday, November 22 Seminar Series: Charles Trelford, PhD Candidate: “A regulator of transforming growth factor beta signalling and pro-tumourigenic properties”
Monday, November 15 Seminar Series: Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett, "The potential of spatial imaging to identify therapeutic targets in COPD"
Monday, November 8 Seminar Series: Dr. Britt Drögemöller, "Using genomic and computational analyses to predict and prevent the occurrence of adverse drug reactions"
Tuesday, November 2 2021 Charles W. Gowdey Distinguished Lecture and Research Day: 2012 Nobel Laureate Dr. Brian Kobilka, Stanford University School of Medicine
Monday, October 25 Seminar Series: Zachary Easton, PhD Candidate: “The Impacts of Dietary Nutrients on Placental Trophoblast Metabolic Function”
Monday, October 18 Seminar Series: Dr. Karl Iremonger, "Illuminating stress circuit function"
Monday, October 4 Seminar Series: Dr. Janine Hutson, "Studying therapeutics in pregnancy: the role of ex vivo models"
Monday, September 27 Seminar Series: Dr. Joanna Wilson, "Pharmaceuticals in the environment impact fish health"
Monday, September 20 Seminar Series: Mahadeo Sukhai, PhD and Ainsley Latour, MLT "Putting inequity in STEM under the microscope: the roles of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in science and innovation”
Monday, May 31 Seminar Series: David Hawke, PhD Candidate “Extracellular microRNA as non-invasive indicators of preimplantation embryonic health”
Monday, May17 Seminar Series: Theodore Wigle, PhD Candidate “The Pharmacogenetics of Fluoropyrimidine-related Adverse Events and the Implementation of Pre-treatment Screening in Ontario”
Monday, May 10 Seminar Series: Dr. Hiroyuki Igarashi, "Understanding neuronal firing patterns for stress hormone release – development of sniffer cell sensors"
Monday, April 26 Seminar Series: Dr. Franco J. Vizeacoumar, "Targeting telomerase by synthetic dosage lethality to develop novel cancer therapeutics"
Monday, April 19 Seminar Series: Dr. Anastassia Voronova, "Neuronal chemokine fractalkine regulates neural stem cell fates in the developing and regenerating brain"
Monday, April 12 Seminar Series: Dr. Filip Van Petegem, "Ion channelopathies at high resolution: investigating cardiac arrhythmias and myopathies via cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography"
Monday, March 29 Seminar Series: Dr. Megan L. Killian, "Mechanobiology and growth of the tendon-bone interface"
Monday, March 22 Opening Doors: Graduate Student Career Session
Monday, March 8 Seminar Series: Dr. Leah Macfadyen, "Cultural differences and online learning design"
Monday, March 1 Seminar Series: Dr. David Nutt, “The new science of psychedelic drugs”
Monday, February 22 Seminar Series: Dr. Natasha Chang, “Molecular mechanisms of satellite cell function and dysfunction”
Monday, February 8 Seminar Series: Dr. Joel Boerckel, “Mechanobiology of development and regeneration: a choose-your-own-adventure zoom”
Monday, February 1 Seminar Series: Shelby Oke, PhD Candidate "The molecular mechanisms underlying hepatic mitochondrial dysfunction in low birth weight offspring"
Monday, January 25 Seminar Series: Olivia Samotus, PhD Candidate “Exploring the effects of spinal cord stimulation therapy for freezing of gait in parkinsonian patients”
Monday, January 18 Seminar Series: Alexander Peidl, PhD Candidate “CCN3: A novel anti-fibrotic therapy that targets the activation of collagen-lineage fibroblasts in a murine model of scleroderma”
Monday, January 11 Seminar Series: Dr. Stephane Bourque, "Anemia in pregnancy: causes, challenges and long-term consequences”
Monday, December 14 Seminar Series: Brandon Baer, PhD Candidate “Exogenous Surfactant as a Delivery Vehicle for Intrapulmonary Therapeutics”
Thursday, December 10 Lunch and Learn: Dr. Peter Chidiac, "Analysis of dose response data using Prism"
Monday, December 7 Seminar Series: Jaymin Jeong, PhD Candidate "Effects of neurosteroids and phosphorylation on GABAa receptor currents and the piriform cortex circuit”
Monday, December 7 Seminar Series: Jaymin Jeong, PhD Candidate “Effects of neurosteroids and phosphorylation on GABAA receptor currents and the piriform cortex circuit”
Monday, November 30 Seminar Series: Dr. Isaac Chiu, “Neuro-immune crosstalk in bacterial host defense and inflammation”
Monday, November 23 Seminar Series: Dr. Elva Zhao , “Molecular Mechanisms of Class B receptor biased agonism”
Thursday, November 19 Lunch and Learn: David Carter, “RNA and DNA sequencing services at the LRGC”
Monday, November 16 Seminar Series: Dr. Douglas Fraser, “Pathophysiological Profiling of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients: Data From The Lawson COVID-19 Study Team”
Monday, November 9 Seminar Series: Dr. Steve Reichow, “Molecular mechanisms of gap junction cell-to-cell communication visualized by CryoEM”
Tuesday, November 3 2020 JAMES A.F. STEVENSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE and RESEARCH DAY
Monday, October 26 Seminar Series: Dr. Antoine Dufour , “Playing the game of Pac-Man: Be careful when you run with molecular scissors”
Monday, October 19 Seminar Series: Dr. Kimberly Buhman, "Dietary Fat Absorption in Health and Disease"
Monday, October 5 Seminar Series: Dr.Erin Mulvihill: "Targeting hepatocyte DPP4 in liver disease progression"
Monday, October 28 Seminar Series: Dr. Robert Laprairie: "The Untapped potential of synthetic and naturally occurring cannabinoids"
Monday, September 21 Seminar Series: Dr. Reza Sharif-Naeini: “Peripheral Sensors of Pain”
Thursday, June 18 PhD Public Lecture: Matthew Veras, PhD Candidate, "Regulators of Ectopic Calcification in a Mouse Model of DISH: A Multi-Omics Perspective"
Monday, June 15 Seminar Series: Dr. Rishi Ganesan, "Timely detection of non-convulsive seizures in critically ill children"
Thursday, June 11 PhD Public Lecture: Geoffrey Kerr, PhD Candidate,"Investigating pathways associated with intervertebral disc degeneration and back pain"
Monday, May 25 CANCELLED: Seminar Series: Stephane Bourque, PhD
Monday, May 11 Seminar Series: Joshua Dierolf, PhD Candidate: "Pyruvate kinase muscle isoforms 1 and 2 evolve through mouse naïve, formative and primed pluripotency development"
Monday, May 4 POSTPONED: Seminar Series: Olivia Samotus, PhD Candidate: "Exploring the effect of spinal cord stimulation in Parkinson's disease patients with significant gait dysfunction"
Monday, April 6 CANCELLED: Seminar Series: Dr. Abdessamad Elkaoutari, "Basal-like and Classical cells coexist in pancreatic adenocarcinoma revealed by single cell analysis"
Monday, March 23 CANCELLED: Opening Doors, Graduate Student Career Session
Monday, March 16 Seminar Series: Sandra Szlapinski, PhD Candidate, "Investigating the underlying mechanisms of pancreatic beta-cell deficiency in gestational diabetes mellitus"
Thursday, March 12 Lunch and Learn: Drs. Tim Bussey, Marco Prado, Julie Dumont, Sara Memar, and Miguel Skirzewski
Monday, March 9 Seminar Series: Dr. Len Luyt, "Discovering Peptide and Small Molecule PET Probes for Imaging Cancer"
Monday, March 2 Seminar Series: Dr. Thomas Simmen: "Adaptation and Remodeling of Mitochondria-Associated Membranes"
Monday, February 24 Seminar Series: Laura Russel, "Genetic variation in hepatic bile acid transporters: transport, expression, and endogenous biomarkers"
Thursday, February 20 Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr. Lara Longobardi, "Targeting the CCR2 receptor to reduce joint degeneration and pain perception during post-traumatic osteoarthritis"
Monday, February 10 Seminar Series: Dr. Dylan Burger, “Extracellular Vesicles in Cardiovascular and Renal Disease”
Monday, February 3 Seminar Series: Pierre Thibeault, “Molecular mechanisms regulating the platelet thrombin receptor PAR4”
Monday, January 27 Seminar Series: Dr. Garcia-Bournissen, "Developing medications for pediatric neglected diseases – challenges and opportunities"
Monday, January 20 Seminar Series: Dr. Jonathan Michaels, "Combing deep learning and primate electrophysiology to understand reach and grasp control"
Thursday, January 16 Lunch and Learn: Dr. Dean Betts and Dr. Lauren Flynn
Monday, January 13 Seminar Series: Dr.Majid Mohajerani, "Mapping the spatiotemporal dynamics of hippocampal-cortical dynamics in health and Alzheimer’s disease"
Monday, February 3 Seminar Series: Pierre Thibeault, "Molecular mechanisms regulating the platelet thrombin receptor PAR4"
Monday, December 2 Seminar Series: Mark Kim, "Characterization of Mechanotransduction in Annulus Fibrosus Cells"
Thursday, November 28 Recruitment Seminar: Dr. Matthew Grol, "Gene Therapy Strategies for Treatment of Musculoskeletal Diseases"
Monday, November 25 Seminar Series: Matthew Veras, "Regulators of ectopic calcification in a mouse model of DISH: A multi-omics perspective"
Monday, November 18 CANCELLED: Seminar Series: Dr. Jane McGlade, “Regulation of CBL ubiquitin ligase function in development and disease”
Thursday, November 14 Lunch and Learn: Dr. Peter Stathopulos " PyMOL Basics for the Visualization of Molecular Structures"
Monday, November 11 Seminar Series: Dr. Samuel Asfaha, "Intestinal stem cells and colorectal cancer"
Tuesday, November 5 2019 Charles W. Gowdey Distinguished Lecture and Research Day
Monday, October 21 Seminar Series: Dr. Sourav Ghosh, "Phosphatidylserine sensing in life and death"
Thursday, October 17 Lunch and Learn Workshop: "Methods and Concepts in Microscopy"
Monday, October 7 Seminar Series: Dr. Stan Leung, “Neural activity in the hippocampus as indicators of normal and abnormal brain processing”
Monday, September 30 Seminar Series: Geoffrey Kerr, "Investigating pathways associated with intervertebral disc degeneration and back pain"
Monday, September 23 Seminar Series: Kevin Nixon, “Mushroom body-specific gene regulation by the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex”
Monday, October 21 Seminar Series: Dr. Sourav Ghos, “Phosphatidylserine sensing in life and death”
Monday, July 8 Seminar Series: Melina Bellini, "Signaling in cartilage and osteoarthritis”
Monday, June 17 Seminar Series: Dr. Jamie Joseph, "The role of anaplerotically derived metabolites in the regulation of pancreatic β-cell function"
Friday, June 14 Douglas Jones Cardiovascular Symposium
Monday, June 10 Seminar Series: Dr. Tugce Balci, "What is Left? A Proposed Canadian Framework for Unsolved Rare Genetic Diseases"
Monday, May 27 Seminar Series: "Graduate Degrees: Opening Doors To Exciting Careers!"
Monday, May 13 Seminar Series: Dr. Natasha Mhatre, "How closely are sensory and motor systems linked? From organisms to cells"
Monday, April 29 Seminar Series: Dr. John Traynor, "Opioid receptor allostery: A new approach to analgesia"
Monday, April 22 Seminar Series: Dr. Douglas Jones, "Insights & Adventures in Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research, or, Things I Learned from Mixed Farming"
Monday, April 15 Seminar Series: Dr. Ravi Menon, "Brain network plasticity supports behavioural recovery: MRI studies of concussion"
Thursday, April 11 Lunch and Learn: Generating Novel Mouse Models Using CRISPR
Monday, April 1 Seminar Series: Dr. Kerry Goralski, "Jadomycins as treatments for Multi-Drug Resistant Breast Cancer"
Monday, March 18 Seminar Series: Dr. Tamara Kelly, "Community in the classroom: collaborative testing and more"
Tuesday, March 12 Biomedical Research and Graduate Studies Outreach 2019
Come and explore research opportunities in the Department of Physiology and PharmacologyMonday, March 11 Seminar Series: Melissa Fenech, "Regulation of calcium homeostasis in the exocrine pancreas"
Monday, March 4 Seminar Series: Dr. Paul Faure, "Tuning to the rate and duration of frequency modulation in the mammalian auditory midbrain"
Monday, February 25 Seminar Series: Dr. Scott Ryan, "The role of alpha-synuclein oligomerization in the pathogenesis of PD"
Monday, February 11 Seminar Series: Dr. Andrew Advani, "Re-shaping the epigenetic landscape in kidney disease”
Thursday, February 7 Lunch and Learn: Scientific Writing for all Readers
Monday, February 4 Seminar Series: Dr. Eric Arts, "Working towards HIV Cure"
Monday, January 28 Seminar Series: Melissa Crawford, "Integrin-linked kinase modulation of melanocytic lineage cells"
Thursday, January 17 Lunch and Learn: Updates on ACVS Services and the New Biomedical Research Animal Care Facility
Monday, December 10 Seminar Series: Dr. Jeremy Hirota, "Do ABC transporters orchestrate respiratory mucosal immune responses important in chronic respiratory disease?”
Monday, December 3 Seminar Series: Dr. Steven Kerfoot, "B cell fate decisions in the Germinal Center”
Monday, November 26 Seminar Series: Dr. Jamie Melling, "Weighing the benefits and risks associated with regular exercise in Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, November 22 Lunch and Learn Workshop: Data Management and Lab Record Keeping
Monday, November 19 Seminar Series: Dr. Nelson Dusetti, "Chemo sensitivity and clinical outcome prediction"
Monday, November 12 Seminar Series: Dr. Amy Reichelt, "Food for thought - How junk foods impact learning and memory"
Tuesday, November 6 2018 James A.F. Stevenson Distinguished Lecture and Research Day
Monday, October 29 Seminar Series: Dr. Art Poon, "Blind dates in a quiet reservoir: how clocks, trees and chains teach us about HIV-1 latency"
Monday, October 22 Seminar Series: Anish Engineer, “Pregrestational Diabetes-Induced Congenital Heart Defects and Coronary Artery Malformations: Mechanisms and Preventative Therapies”
Thursday, October 18 Lunch and Learn Workshop: Dr. Greg Gloor, "Bioinformatics: Transcriptome Analysis"
Monday, October 15 Seminar Series: Stephan Sherman, “The Purification of adult progenitor cell types to promote angiogenesis.”
Wednesday, October 3 Recruitment Seminar: Taylor Schmitz, "Advancing multi-level mechanistic models of neurodegenerative disease and cognition"
Monday, October 1 Seminar Series: Dr. Scott Prosser, “Molecular and Mechanistic Underpinnings of Signal Transduction in Membranes - NMR Inspired Studies of the Conformational Landscape in Enzymes & GPCRs”
Thursday, September 6 Corn Roast 2018
Our annual departmental Corn Roast will be Thursday, September 6 from 4:30 - 9:30 pm at the Watson Porter Pavillion, Fanshawe Park.Friday, June 8 BBQ and Golf Day 2018
Join us for our annual Golf Day at Llyndinshire Golf Club followed by the BBQ at Weldon Park, Arva. No golf -- or barbecue -- experience required!Monday, April 16 Seminar Series: Dr. Bernardo Trigatti, "HDL beyond cholesterol transport: HDL signaling and protection against cardiovascular disease”
Monday, April 9 Seminar Series: Dr. Gary Lopaschuk, "Optimizing Cardiac Energy Metabolism as an Approach to Treating Heart Failure"
Monday, April 2 Seminar Series: Aze Wilson, "Drug metabolism and response in Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
Monday, March 26 Opening Doors: "Graduate Degrees: Opening Doors to Exciting Careers!"
Thursday, March 22 Lunch and Learn Workshops: Dr. Jamie Kramer and Kevin Nixon (PhD Candidate), "RNA Sequencing"
Monday, March 19 Seminar Series: Dr. Christophe Altier, "Modulation of the Mu Opioid Receptor (MOR) by the TRPV1 channel"
Monday, March 12 Seminar Series: Dr. Seema Bhatnagar, "Neural circuitry underlying adaptations to repeated stress"
Tuesday, Mar 6 Interested in Biomedical Research and Graduate Studies?
Monday, March 5 Seminar Series: Dr. Peter Rogan, "Prediction of genomic responses to chemotherapies and radiotherapy in cancer by biochemically-inspired machine learning"
Monday, February 26 Seminar Series: Nole Hiebert, "Role of the striatum in learning and decision making"
Monday, February 5 Seminar Series: Dr. Sashko Damjanovski, "The regulation of cell movement by MT1-MMP – more than just a protease"
Monday, January 29 Seminar Series: Ian Tobias, “Phenotypic and metabolic plasticity of embryonic stem cells from the domestic dog”
Monday, January 22 Seminar Series: Dr. Jayne Garland, “Emphasizing speed in the rehabilitation of ambulatory balance after stroke”
Monday, December 11 Seminar Series: Marcus Gulilat, "Apixaban, an oral anticoagulant: exploring predictors of apixaban drug exposure in patients with Atrial Fibrillation"
Monday, December 4 Seminar Series: Adrienne Borrie, “The impact of clinical and pharmacogenetic factors in the use of aromatase inhibitors in postmenopausal patients with breast cancer”
Monday, November 27 Seminar Series: Dr. Alp Sener, "A novel therapeutic strategy in organ preservation: is hydrogen sulphide therapy ready for prime time?"
Monday, November 20 Seminar Series: Dr. Koren Mann, “The diverse pathologies associated with metal toxicology: lessons from arsenic and tungsten”
Monday, November 13 Seminar Series: Dr. Michelle French, “Best practices in science education: engaging and motivating”
Tuesday, November 7 Gowdey Lecture and Annual Research Day: Dr. John D. Schuetz, "ABC transporters role in disease and therapeutic response”
Monday, November 6 Seminar Series: No Seminar This Week
Monday, October 30 Seminar Series: Dr. Walter Siqueira, “Deciphering the Clinical Relevance of Saliva for Oral and Systemic Conditions"
Monday, October 23 Seminar Series: Dr. Trevor Shephard, "Deciphering stress-induced survival mechanisms that support the spread of ovarian cancer"
Monday, October 16 Seminar Series: Dr. Anne Simon, "Genetic and environmental influences on social space: what can we learn from the fly?"
Monday, September 25 Seminar Series: Dr. Jean-Claude Labbé, “Regulation of actomyosin contractility and syncytialorganization in the C. elegans germline”
Monday, September 18 Seminar Series: Nicole Edwards, “The role of p66Shc in mouse blastocyst development"
