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John William Young – Doctoral Exam
“Exploring the Interactome of the Bacterial Sec Translocon, ” by John Young, doctoral candidate, Duong Lab, UBC. Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at 12:30 in LSC 1416, 2350 Health Science Mall Read More
Catherine Wang – Doctoral Exam
“Structural Insights into Calmodulin Regulation and Dysregulation of the L-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel,” by Catherine Wang, doctoral candidate, Van Petegem Lab, UBC. Friday, April 17, 2020 at 12:30, Room 200, Graduate Student Centre 6371 Crescent Road Read More
BMBDG Seminars: PhD Exit Seminars – Nicolas Coutin and John Young
“Method Development for High Throughput Biology,” by Nicolas Coutin, doctoral candidate, Corey Nislow Lab, UBC Abstract: Living things are made from thousands of individual, interacting pieces. To understand these systems, we will need to study many or all the pieces at once. To study biology this way, we will need tools that consider the whole […] Read More
BMBDG Seminar – Steven Rutherford – Cancelled
Cancelled: “New modalities for interfering with outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria,” by Steven Rutherford, Senior Scientist, Infectious Diseases, Genentech. Multi-drug resistant bacteria are a global health threat and new strategies are needed to combat them. However, the discovery of novel antibiotics to treat infections by Gram-negative bacteria has been thwarted by the outer membrane, […] Read More
BMBDG Seminars – Poul Sorensen
“Tumor cells highjack diverse cellular processes to maintain redox balance”, by Poul Sorensen, Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Distinguished Scientist, BC Cancer Research Centre Johal Chair in Childhood Cancer Research, UBC. In aggressive sarcomas such as Ewing sarcoma (EwS) and osteosarcoma (OS), the single-most powerful predictor of poor outcome is metastatic disease, […] Read More
Michael Smith Distinguished Research Lecture: Dr. Michael Rosen
Co-sponsored by Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Michael Smith Laboratories. “Regulation of Cellular Biochemistry by Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation”, by Dr. Michael Rosen, Professor, Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Monday, March 2, 2020 at 4:00 pm, LSC#2 Host Dr. Joerg Gsponer Biomolecular condensates are two- […] Read More