Monday 28 September 2015

Oct 5 - CRISPR/Cas9 TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

Date:Monday, October 5th, 2015
Time: 9:30AM –4:00PM
Location: CancerCareManitoba, 2ndFloor, Room ON2134 Arnold Greenberg Lecture Theatre
Presentations by Lexi Ciappala, Brent Guppy, Ahmed Ali, Arzu Ozturk,  and Jennifer Blake - Technical Sales Specialist, Life Technologies

Monday 14 September 2015

Sept 24 - RIOH Annual Retreat



Thursday, September 24 
Mennonite Heritage Museum and Conference Centre
Steinbach Manitoba.

The theme is “Discovery”.  

Sign-up sheets for rides are at ON5008.  Please sign up as a driver if you have a car and will be able to drive.  For those who need a ride there, please sign up as passengers.

Sept 30 - Simon and Sarah Israels Graduate Thesis Prize


All graduate students whose supervisors hold appointments as a Senior Research Scientist or Research Affiliate Scientist at RIOH and who have successfully completed a program of studies leading to a Master or Ph.D. degree at the University of Manitoba in the year prior to the granting of the award (Sept. 2014 – Aug. 2015) are eligible for this $2000 prize.


Please email 1 pdf copy of your thesis to Chen Chen by September 30.

Sept 23 - Mutational Analysis using QIAGEN's GeneRead Panels and Sample-to-Insight NGS Solutions

Sept 23
2:00 - 3:00
CCMB Lecture Theatre
Please RSVP to NASales.Coordinator@QIAGEN.com 
Attend this seminar to learn what solutions QIAGEN scientists have developed to overcome challenges of specificity and uniformity of target enrichment approaches and how these solutions can be used to analyze mutations in FFPE, cfDNA and CTCs.

Sept 16 - BMG Seminar

“Airway cellular mechanobiology: rethinking signaling and trafficking in airway disease“
September 16, 2015
12:00 – 1:00 PM
BMSB 341

Dr Adrian West, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology
Scientist, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba


Oct 26 - SomaLogic Presentation

SomaLogic Platform New system for protein biomarker discovery and validation
Dr John Wilkins - Manitoba Centre for Proteomics & Systems Biology

2:00 – 3:00 
CCMB Lecture Theatre
SOMAscan employs Somamers (Slow Off-rate Modified aptamers) in a pool for simultaneous relative quantitation of 1310 protein analytes from a single 65μL sample. SomaLogic is useful for sequential analysis of patient derived materials including plasma, serum, cell and tissue lysates and supernatants. Potential assay applications include biomarker identification, predicting response to therapy, interrogation of basic biological processes in vitro and vivo.