Event Category Archives: BMBDG Seminars

Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Julien Bergeron

Postdoctoral Seminar Series is back, due to popular demand. Featuring 8 speakers over four weeks. First presentation Friday, May 29 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. First Presenter: Dr. Julien Bergeron, Postdoctoral Fellow, Strynadka Lab “Secretion of the third kind: Architecture and assembly of the type III secretion system”

Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Madhavan Chalet

Postdoctoral Seminar Series is back, due to popular demand. Week #2, third presentation on Friday, June 5 from noon-12:30 pm in LSC 3. Dr. Madhavan Chalet, Postdoctoral Fellow in R Molday Lab, presents,  “C-terminal domain of Lipid Flippase, ATP8A2: The two-faced autoregulation of protein activity.”

Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Michael Yuchi

Postdoctoral Seminar Series Week #3, Friday, June 12 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. Dr. Michael Yuchi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Van Petegem Lab presents, “Crystal Structures of Novel RyR Domains Reveal Binding Determinant for FKBP12”

Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Patrick Hau Wing Chan

Week #4, Friday, June 19 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. Dr. Patrick Hau Wing Chan,  Postdoctoral Fellow in Thibault Mayor Lab presents, “Proteomic profiling of the [PSI+] yeast prion strain by quantitative mass spectrometry” Prions proteins can adopt a second conformation that induces the formation of amyloid fibrils that are responsible for the transmissible […]

Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Gesa Volkers

Week #4, Friday, June 19 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3 Dr. Gesa Volkers Postdoctoral Fellow, Strynadka Lab Molecular Insights into the Polysialylation of Human Cell Surfaces – Structure of ST8SiaIII Sialyltransferase Polysialylation in eukaryotes is catalyzed by sialyltransferases of the ST8Sia family that attach negatively charged sialic acid sugars onto glycoprotein and -lipid acceptors. […]

Bjorn Bean – Doctoral Exam

Thesis title, “Insights into Cargo Adaptor Function Through The Study of Novel Interactors” by Bjorn Bean. Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 9:00 am in Room 200, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road ABSTRACT In Eukaryotes, luminal and transmembrane proteins are moved to their functional locations by conserved membrane trafficking machinery. In this process, cargo adaptors […]

BMBDG Seminars – PhD Exit Seminars: Brianne Burkinshaw and Matthew Solomonson

“Structural and functional characterization of type III secretion system components,”by Brianne Burkinshaw, Doctoral Candidate in Natalie Strynadka Lab                   “Structure, proteolysis, and evolution of secreted tuberculosis virulence factors,” by Matthew Solomonson, Doctoral Candidate in Natalie Strynadka Lab       Monday, July 20, 2015, LSC 3 at […]