BMBDG Seminars - PhD Exit Seminars: Leslie Williams and Huan Bao

BMBDG Seminars – PhD Exit Seminars: Leslie Williams and Huan Bao

bao.huan&williams.leslieLeslie 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

BMBDG Seminars: George Mackie Retirement Seminar Series – George Chaconas

george.chaconas.2Our 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

BMBDG Seminar: Herbert Waite

herbert.waite.2“Translating mussel adhesion: Much more than DOPA!” by Herbert Waite, Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara.  Monday, March 31st @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

BMBDG Seminar: Scott D Emr, on March 27

scott.emr“Protein quality control at the plasma membrane – Role for the ESCRT machinery and a ubiquitin-ligase adaptor network”, by Scott D Emr, Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University.  Thursday March, 27, 2014, @ 11:00 a.m. Michael Smith Labs, Room102.

Hosted by: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Cellular & Physiological Sciences

Neng Nancy Fang – Doctoral Exam, March 27

feng.nancy.2Thesis title, “Good Riddance to Bad Proteins:  Identification of Novel Protein Quality Control Pathways Targeting Cytosolic Misfolded Proteins for Degradation”.  Thursday, March 27, 2014 @12:30 pm, Room 337, Michael Smith Labs, 2185 East Mall.

BMBDG Seminar – PhD Exit Seminars: Alina Chan and Lynn Kimlicka

alina.and.lynn.2Alina Chan – Thesis title: “DNA:RNA Hybrid Genome-Wide Profiling and Links to Genomic Instability”.

Lynn Kimlicka – Thesis title: “Structural and biochemical characterizations of the skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor N-terminal disease-associated mutants”.

Monday, March 17 in LSC #3 at 3:00 pm, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

BMBDG Seminar: Chuan He

chuan.he.2“Reversible DNA and RNA methylation in biological regulation”, by Chuan He, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Director of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago. Thursday, March 20th @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

Lynn Kimlicka – Doctoral Exam

kimlicka.lynn.2Thesis title: “Structural and biochemical characterizations of the skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor N-terminal disease-associated mutants”, by Lynn Kimlicka. Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 4:00 pm, Room 203, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road.

BMBDG Seminar: Lucie Parent

lucie.parent.2“Unravelling the web of interactions between the Proteins forming the L-type calcium channel”, Lucie Parent, Professor , Department of Physiology, Université de Montréal.  Wednesday, March 26, @3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

BMBDG Seminars: George Mackie Retirement Seminar Series – Stanley Dunn

stanley.dunnOur second seminar in the George Mackie Retirement Series, will be Dr. Stanley Dunn presenting, “The Right-handed Coiled Coil of the ATP Synthase Stator Stalk”. Dr. Dunn is from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario. Monday, March 10th @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall