March 2 - BMG Seminar

Name:   Yasamin Asbaghi

Advisor:  Dr. Kirk McManus

Title:     Establishing KIF11 as a Chromosome Instability (CIN) Gene

Learning Objectives:      

·         Define Chromosome Instability (CIN), and discuss its role in cancer

·         Describe KIF11 and its function during mitosis

·         Discuss evidences supporting KIF11 as a CIN gene, and assays used to detect KIF11 as a CIN gene in cell based models

Date:  Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Time:  12:30 – 13:00

Place:  341 Klaus Wrogemann Seminar Room 

March 2 - BMG Departmental Seminar

Name: Miriam Derksen

Advisor: Dr. Spencer Gibson                    

Title: Effects of Oxidative Stress on the Expression, Localization and Function of Cell Death Regulatory Protein BNIP3 

Learning Objectives:     

•       Be able to describe the structure and function of BNIP3, define oxidative stress

•       Recall which transcription factors may be responsible for upregulation of BNIP3 under oxidative stress conditions.

Date:                                     Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Time:                                     12:00 – 12:30

Place:                                    341 Klaus Wrogemann Seminar Room

Feb 24th - BMG Departmental Seminar

Name:                                 Berardino Petrelli

Program & Advisor:        M.Sc. with Dr. Geoff Hicks

Date:                                     Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Time:                                     12:30 – 13:00

Place:                                    341 Klaus Wrogemann Seminar Room

Feb 24th - BMG Departmental Seminar

Name:  Erin McAndrew

Program & Advisor:        M.Sc. student with Dr. Kirk McManus                    

Title:     RAD54B-deficient Colorectal Cancer Cells are Sensitive to PARP1 Targeting

Date:    Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Time:     12:00 – 12:30

Place:    341 Klaus Wrogemann Seminar Room