Thursday, 21 March 2013

April 11 - Research Seminar Dr M Azad

Dr Meghan Azad, Former MICB PhD student now Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta, will be presenting "Discoveries from Dirty Diapers: Environmental Exposures and the Infant Gut Microbiome"
11:00 - 12:00 CCMB Lecture Theatre

April 18 - Annual Arnold Greenberg Lecture

Dr Benjamin Neel, Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute and internationally recognized expert in cancer biology and cellular signal transduction, will be presenting "Shp2 and its Binding Proteins in Health and Disease".
Lecture Theatre, 11:00 - 12:00 Lunch reception to follow.
Students can schedule meetings with Dr Neel after 1pm in the Executive Boardroom.

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

March 19 - Guest Lecture on CLL

12:00 - 1:00 Arnold Greenberg Lecture Theatre
Dr Timothy Call, consultant hematologist at the Mayo Clinic
"Management of CLL and it's Complications - 2013"

Thursday, 14 March 2013

March 22 - Bioinformatics and Data Analysis

March 22 - BMG Lecture Theatre
Dr Wayne Xu, Bioinformatician, will explain the steps involved in data analysis from the NGS platform for ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq and chromatin fractionation. He will demonstrate how raw sequence data is processed into manuscript quality figures and how to access the ENCODE (epigenetics) data.

Registration required - email Cecile Verrier by March 19th.

Monday, 4 March 2013

March 21 - CIHR Town Hall

Arnold Greenberg Lecture Theatre - tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of
University of Manitoba will be hosting a visit by Dr. Alain Beaudet, CIHR President, on March 21st to discuss the CIHR reforms. As part of this visit, there will be a town hall meeting with researchers. Please visit http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/46371.html for more information.