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Shoukat Dedhar – Awarded UBC Killam Research Prize
Congratulations Dr. Shoukat Dedhar! 2019 Faculty of Medicine Award Recipient for UBC Killam Research Prize. This award is for a full-time faculty member in recognition of outstanding research and scholarly contributions.
Gairdner Symposium – Dr. Ronald Vale and Dr. Bruce Stillman
Gairdner Symposium, UBC 2019: Ronald Vale and Bruce Stillman Monday, October 21, 3:30-6:00 pm Life Sciences Centre, LSC #2 2350 Health Sciences Mall, UBC Hosted by Dr. Michael Hayden, Centre of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, UBC Dr. Ronald Vale 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award Recipient Professor, Cellular Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco; Investigator, […]
BMBDG Seminar – Douglas Fowler
“New approaches for addressing the effect of genetic variation at scale,” by Douglas M. Fowler, Associate Professor, Department of Gnome Sciences, University of Washington, School of Medicine. How does a protein’s sequence encode its fold and function? How do changes in sequence influence disease risk, prognosis and treatment? How do gene expression patterns combine with […]
Akil Hamza – Doctoral Exam
“Human-yeast cross-species complementation of chromosome instability genes”, by Akil Hamza, doctoral candidate, Hieter Lab. Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 12:30 in Room 200, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road. Abstract Humanized yeast offer a valuable resource with which to model and study human biology. Using cross-species complementation, model organisms like the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, […]
BMBDG Seminar – Carolina Tropini
“Physical Perturbations to the Gut Microbiota During Health and Disease,” by Carolina Tropini, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UBC. The consortium of microbes living in and on our bodies is intimately connected with human biology and deeply influenced by physical forces. Despite incredible gains in describing this community, […]
Seth Parker – Guest Speaker
“Differential transporter utilization facilitates nutrient crosstalk and creates a targetable metabolic niche in cancer,” by Seth Parke, Post-Doctoral Fellow, New York University School of Medicine, Alec Kimmelman Lab. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and BC Children’s Hospital presents Seth Parker, candidate for joint Faculty position in BMB and BCCHRI. Seth Parker received his B.S. […]
Amelia Palermo – Guest Speaker
“Charting metabolism in health and disease by activity metabolomics and nanostructure imaging mass spectrometry,” by Amelia Palermo, post-doctoral scientist. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and BC Children’s Hospital presents Amelia Palermo, candidate for joint Faculty position in BMB and BCCHRI. Amelia is currently a post-doctoral scientist at The Scripps Research Institute Center for Metabolomics […]
Jennifer Nagel – Defended MSc Thesis
Congratulations Jennifer! On August 1st, 2019 Jennifer Nagel successfully defended her thesis, “Exploring the role of chemotherapy induced anastasis in triple negative breast cancer.” Jennifer have been training in Shoukat Dedhar Lab at the BC Cancer Agency.
Pargol Hashemi – Doctoral Exam
“Small Molecules Effective for Disruption of HIV-1 Latency“, by Seyedeh Pargol Hashemi, PhD candidate in Sadowski Lab. Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at 9:00 am, Room 203, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road. Abstract Although antiretroviral therapies have improved the outlook of the HIV epidemic by controlling virus replication, they do not provide a cure. […]
Stephanie Cheung – Doctoral Exam
“Characterization of Interaction between Ty1 Integrase and RNA Polymerase III For Ty1 Retrotransposon Insertion Into the Yeast Genome“, by Stephanie Cheung, PhD candidate in the Measday Lab. Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 12:30 in Room 203, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road. Abstract Retrotransposons are eukaryotic mobile genetic elements that transpose by reverse transcription of […]