| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
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2019-2020 Academic Year September 9 |
Carolina Tropini | School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UBC | “Physical Perturbations to the Gut Microbiota During Health and Disease” | Dr. Christian Kastrup | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
| September 30 | Akil Hamza | Hieter Lab, UBC | “Human-yeast cross-species complementation of chromosome instability genes” | Dr. Phil Hieter | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
| October 7 | Douglas M. Fowler | Department of Gnome Sciences, University of Washington | “New approaches for addressing the effect of genetic variation at scale” | Dr. Christian Kastrup | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
| October 21 | Jeffrey Lee | Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | “Structural mechanisms of membrane fusion: from virus -cell to cell-cell” | BMB Graduate Students | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
| November 4 | Adrian Serohijos | Department of Biochemistry, Université de Montréal | “Integrating protein biophysics and population dynamics to predict microbial evolution” | Dr. Nobuhiko Tokuriki | 9:30AM, MSL 102 |
| November 18 | Eric Wong | Gsponer Lab, UBC | “Prediction and Characterization of Protein-Protein Interfaces That Bind Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions” | Dr. Joerg Gsponer | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
| January 20 | Ethan J. Greenblatt | Carnegie Institution for Science | “Insights into reproductive and neural disorders form developmentally quiescent oocytes” | Dr. Thibault Mayor | 9:30AM, MSL 102 |
| January 20 | Mathew Macauley | Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta | “Development of Biochemical Approaches to Study Siglec-Glycan Interactions” | Dr. Lawrence McIntosh | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
| January 27 | Lauren N. Booth | Stanford Department of Genetics | “Sexual Interactions Induce Early Death in Nematodes: Strategies and Counterstrategies” | Dr. Thibault Mayor | 9:30AM, MSL 102 |
| January 30 | Monica C. Pillon | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | “Cryo-EM reveals active site coordination within a multienzyme pre-rRNA processing complex” | Dr. Filip Van Petegem | 9:30AM, MSL 102 |
| February 3 | Chad W. Johnson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | “Evolved Molecules: Discovery and Directed Evolution of Nature’s Antibiotic Arsenal” | Dr. Nobuhiko Tokuriki | 9:30AM, MSL 102 |
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February 6 (**cancelled**) |
Bruno Di Stefano | Harvard Medical School | “Dissecting mechanisms that govern cellular plasticity” | Dr. Sheila Teves | 9:30AM, MSL 102 |
| February 10 | Alistair Boettiger | Stanford School of Medicine | “Genome folding in development” | Dr. Sheila Teves | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
| February 24 | Ana Fiszbien | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | “Dynamic determinants for co-transcriptional gene regulation” | Dr. Sheila Teves | 9:30AM, MSL 102 |
| March 2 (***Annual Michael Smith Distinguished Lecture*** | Michael Rosen | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | “Regulation of Cellular Biochemistry by Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation” | Dr. Joerg Gsponer | 4:00pm, LSC2 |
| March 9 | Poul Sorensen | BC Cancer Agency | “Tumor cells highjack diverse cellular processes to maintain redox balance” | Dr. Eric Jan | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
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March 16 (**cancelled**) |
Steven Rutherford | Genentech | New modalities for interfering with outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria | Dr. Franck Duong | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
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March 23 (PhD exit seminars) (**cancelled**) |
Nicolas Coutin & John Young | Nislow Lab / Duong Lab, UBC | Method Development for High Throughput Biology/ Exploring the interactome of the bacterial Sec translocan | Dr. Corey Nislow / Dr. Franck Duong | 2:30PM, LSC3 |
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March 30 (**cancelled**) |
Henry Colecraft | Columbia University | Dr. Filip Van Petegem | 2:30PM, LSC3 | |
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March 31* (**cancelled**) |
Joanne Lemineux | University of Alberta | Dr. Natalie Strynadka | 10:00AM, MSL102 | |
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April 6 (**cancelled**) |
Gabe Zentner | Indiana University | Dr. Sheila Teves | 2:30PM, LSC3 | |
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April 20 (exit seminar) (**cancelled**) |
Catherine Wang | Van Petegem Lab, UBC | Dr. Filip Van Petegem | 2:30PM, LSC3 | |
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April 27 (**cancelled**) |
Khanh Dao Duc | UBC, Math Department | Dr. Eric Jan | 2:30PM, LSC3 | |
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May 4 (**cancelled**) |
Reut Shalgi | Technion University (Israel) | Dr. Thibault Mayor | 2:30PM, LSC3 | |
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May 11 (**cancelled**) |
Jennifer Mitchell | University of Toronto | Dr. LeAnn Howe | 2:30PM, LSC3 | |
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May 25 (**cancelled**) |
John Burke | University of Victoria | Dr. Calvin Yip | 2:30PM, LSC3 | |
| June 15 | Nathanael Caveney & Sean Workman | Strynadka Lab, UBC | Dr. Natalie Strynadka | Zoom link to be emailed to department members | |
| June 22 | Marie-Eve Tremblay | University of Victoria | Zoom link to be emailed to department members | ||
| August 10 | Andrew Alexander & Franco Li | Strynadka Lab, UBC | Dr. Natalie Strynadka | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |