November Graduation

November Graduation

graduation.2014.2Congratulations Biochem graduates!! UBC will be conferring Biochemistry degrees on Friday, November 25th at 9:00 a.m. in the Chan Centre.

BMBDG Seminar – Sergey Smirnov

smirnov-sergey“Villin Proteins in Vertebrates and Plants: Function, Structure and Dynamic in Cytoskeleton Regulation”, by Sergey Smirnov, Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Western Washington University.

Monday, November 28, 2016 @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.

Hilda Au – Doctoral Exam

au-hilda-3“Elucidating the mechanism of reading frame selection by viral internal ribosome entry site, ” by Hilda Hiu Tung Au, PhD Candidate, Jan Lab, UBC.

Friday, December 9, 2016 at 12:30 pm in Room 200 of the Graduate Student Center, 6371 Crescent Road.

BMBDG Seminar – Jian Payandeh

payandeh-jian-1“Painful projects: Targeting the voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.7 and other membrane proteins for drug discovery”, by Jian Payandeh, Senior Scientist, Department of Structural Biology, Genentech.

Monday, November 21, 2016 at 3:00 pm, LSC#3, 2350 Health Science Mall.

BMBDG Seminar: PhD Exit Seminar – Sam Chen

chen-sam“Lipid Nanoparticles for Delivery of Nucleic acid Therapeutics, ” by  Sam Chen, Cullis Lab, UBC

Monday, November 14, 2016 at 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Science Mall

Dheva Setiaputra -Doctoral Exam

setiaputra-dheva-300“Determining the molecular architecture of yeast histone acetyltransferase complexes,” by Dheva Setiaputra, PhD Candidate, Yip Lab, UBC

Monday, December 12, 2016 at 9:00 am in Room 203, Graduate Student Centre , 6371 Crescent Road.

BMBDG Seminar – Filip Van Petegem

vanpetegem-filip“Channelopathies at high resolution. Sodium-and Calcium- selective channels in normal and diseased states,” by Filip van Petegem, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.

Monday, November 7, 2016 at 3:00 pm. LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall.

BMBDG Seminar – Christian Kastrup

kastrup.dec2012.2.jpg“Materials and mechanisms for understanding and controlling hemorrhage,” by Christian Kastrup, Assistant Professor, Michael Smith Labs and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.

Monday, October 31, 2016 at 3:00 pm. LSC #3, 2350 Health Science Mall.

Lauren Dalton – Doctoral Exam

dalton-lauren-2“Using Large-Scale Screens to Uncover Novel Regulators of Endosomal Sorting in Yeast,” by Lauren Dalton, PhD Candidate, Conibear Lab, CMMT.

Monday, December 12, 2016 at 12:30 pm. Room 203, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road.

BMBDG Seminar – Nobu Tokuriki

tokuriki-nobu“Connecting Dots: Evolutionary connectivity and constraints on evolution of new enzyme functions,” by Nobu Tokuriki, Assistant Professor, Michael Smith Labs, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Monday, October 17, 2016 at 3:00 pm. LSC#3, 2350 Health Science Mall.