• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Integrative structural biology using mass spectrometry: the push towards structural proteomics,” by David Schriemer, University of Calgary. Monday, March 13th, 2017 at 3:00 pm, LSC#3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Constraining Evolution – And Avoiding Drug Resistance: Lessons from Viruses”, by Celia Schiffer, Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Monday, March 27th, 2017 at 3:00 pm, LSC# 3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall,

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Viral strategies to hijack and alter host cell functions during picornavirus replication”, by Bert Semler, Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine. Monday, April 3, 2017, 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, UBC.

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Reverse Chemical Genetics: Comprehensive Fitness Profiling Reveals Drug Target Interactions”, Corey Nislow, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC. Monday, April 10, 2017, @3:00 pm LSC #2, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Organelle Dynamics and Fatty Acid Trafficking” by Sarah Cohen, PhD, Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. Monday, May 1, 2017, LSC#3, 10:00 am, hosted by Dr. Leonard Foster.

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Transcriptional memory through the cell cycle.” by Sheila Teves, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkley. Epigenetic maintenance of cell-type specific transcription programs is a key component of cell identity. However, this maintenance is challenged during mitosis in at least three ways. First, the transcription machinery is inactivated, leading to global transcription inhibition. Second, chromatin compacts into highly […]

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Control of gene expression by novel RNA modifications and cytoplasmic sequestration,” by Robert Walters, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado. Hosted by Dr. Leonard Foster Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:00 am, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, UBC

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Beyond DNA & RNA Synthetic Genetic Polymers,” by Alexander I Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University, UK. Two of the hallmarks of life, heredity and evolution, can be recapitulated in the test tube using a series of synthetic alternatives to DNA composed of non-natural building blocks, ‘xeno nucleic acids’ (XNA). We have recently […]

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Molecular mechanisms of NMDA receptor function and regulation,” by Nami Tajima, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) belong to a class of ionotropic glutamate receptors that are crucially involved in brain development and function, and NMDAR dysfunction is implicated in various neurological diseases. Although NMDAR structures representing inhibited states are available, […]

• Venue: LSC #3, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Categories: BMBDG Seminars

“Host and Viral Determinants of Viral RNA Accumulation: from Hepatitis C Virus to Zika Virus”, Selena Sagan, Assistant Professor, McGill University. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) represent a significant threat to global health. As positive-sense RNA viruses, their viral genome itself must serve as a template for viral translation, replication, and packaging. […]