Dec 11 - Student and Postdoc Career Development Workshop

Date: Friday Dec 11, 2015
Time: 1:30-­‐2:30PM
Location: Basic Science Theatre F
Presentation : “Atypical” routes to academia
Presenter: Dr. Meghan Azad
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Child Health and Community Health Sciences,
University of Manitoba
Learning Objects: Dr. Azad will share her unique experiences in her pathway towards Academia. Dr. Azad will dwell upon her own encounters and highlight alternative ways  to  achieve an academic position, including many enriching and enlightening opportunities  throughout her journey.

Dec 9 - BMG Deparmental Seminar

Name:                  Dr. Wayne Xu

Department:      Biochemistry & Medical Genetics

Title:                     Forming and Proofing an Innovative Idea: Two Opposing Effects (Yin and Yang) in Cancer

Date:                     Wednesday, December 9

Time:                    12:00 – 13:00

Place:                    341 Klaus Wrogemann Conference Room

Dec 18 - Presentation by Dr Jim Davie

Candidate for Director of RIOH
Date: Dec 18th
Time: 12:00 - 1:00
Location: BMSB Theatre A

Dec 4 - RIOH Directorship Presentation

Candidate: Dr Stephen Pistorius
Title: Improving Outcomes, through Research, for Manitobans with Cancer and Blood Disorders
Date: Tuesday 4 December 2015
Time: 12noon – 100pm
Location: Basic Medical Science Building - Theater B

Dec 14 - Cell Biology Club

Presenter 1: Laura Thompson (McManus Lab)
Presenter 2: Yingfeng Zheng (Murphy Lab)

Time : 2:00 - 3:00
Location: CCMB Lecture Theatre

Nov 30 - Cell Biology Club

Presenter: Ahmed Ali (Gibson/Marshall lab)
Time: 1:00 - 2:00
Location: CCMB Lecture Theatre

Nov 30 - Research Seminar by Dr David Eisenstat

Presenter: Dr David Eisenstat
Professor and Co-Director
Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta
Departments of Pediatrics, Medical Genetics and Oncology, University of Alberta

Date: Nov 30th 
Time: 2:00 - 3:00
Location: CCMB Lecture Theatre
Title: " Linking organ system development to cancer: role of the DLX homeobox genes". 

November 16 - Cell Biology Club

Presenter #1 - Sumanta Chaterjee (Raouf lab)
Presenter #2 - Pratima Basak (Mowat/Raouf labs)

Time: 2:00 - 3:00
Location: CCMB Lecture Theatre

November 12 - RIOH Director Presentation

Presenter: Dr Spencer Gibson
Title: "Building RIOH; a strategic plan to enhance research of cancer and blood disorders in Manitoba"
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Location: CCMB Lecture Theatre

Open to all CCMB and University of Manitoba staff.

Oct 26 - SOMALogic Platform 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.

November 2 - Cell Biology Club

Presenter #1 : Rebecca Dielschneider
Gibson lab

Oct 26 - Research in Progress by Dr Afshin Raouf

Immunology Seminar 
October 26th
11:00 - 12:00
Alex Sehon Seminar Room (477 Apotex Centre)
"Understanding the molecular regulation of healthy human breast epithelial progenitors provides a framework for studying breast cancer initiation and progression"

Oct 7 - BMG Departmental Seminar

Speaker: Laura Thompson (PhD student with Dr. Kirk McManus) 

Title:  A High-Content Screen to Identify Novel Chromosome Instability Genes

Date:  Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Time:  Noon to 13:00

Place: 341 BMSB

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

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.