Our third seminar in the George Mackie Retirement Series, will be Dr. George Chaconas presenting, “From Molecules to Mice: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Lyme Disease Spirochete”. Dr. Chaconas is from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Calgary. Monday, April 7th @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Leslie Williams – Thesis title,“Structural Studies of Alpha-Amylase Inhibitions” Huan Bao – Thesis title,“The regulatory mechanisms of the maltose transporter” Monday, April14 in LSC #3 at 3:00 pm, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
“Making a molecular grease ball: Early events in the formation of chylomicrons & VLDL” by James McKnight, Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine. Monday, April 28 @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.
“Cellular Regulation of Cytokine and Nitric Oxide Signaling,” by Jonathan Choy, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University. Monday, May 5, 2014 @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.
Wendy Bernhard – Thesis title, “The effect of YY1 and small molecules on HIV-1 expression.”Nancy Fang- Thesis title, “Good riddance to bad proteins: Identification of novel protein quality control pathways targeting cytosolic misfolded proteins for degradation.”Monday, May 12th @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Our last seminar in the George Mackie Retirement Series, will be “Fascination with (mRNA) decay: a few vignettes” by Dr. Mackie, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC. Tuesday, May 20th @ 4:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.
“Making a mouse blastocyst,” by Janest Rossant, Senior Scientist and Chief of Research, Hospital for Sick Children. Monday, May 26, 2014 @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.
“The Role of Proteasome-specific Chaperones and Quality Control in Assembly of the 26S Proteasome” by Jeroen Roelofs, Division of Biology, Kansas State University. Monday, June 2, 2014 @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.
“Designing synthetic regulatory RNAs: new tools for temporal and spatial control in biological systems”, by Christina Smolke, Associate Professor, University of Stanford. Friday, June 6, 2014 @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.
“Investigation of Free U6 snRNA Structure and Function”, by Elizabeth Dunn. Monday, June 23rd @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall