Dec 18 - Presentation by Dr Jim Davie

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

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.

Nov 6 - Senior Scientist Lecture

Presenter: Dr. Wayne Xu
Date: Thursday, November 6th
Time: 11:00 - 12:00.
Location: CancerCare Lecture Theatre
Title : “Cancer Biomarker Discovery".

Nov 5 - Dr Stephen Robbins & CIHR

Presenter: Dr. Stephen Robbins from CIHR
Date: Wednesday, November 5th
Time: 11:00 - 12:00.
Location: CancerCare Lecture Theatre
Title: "An update from the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research: building to 2020".

Sept 18 - Visiting Speaker Dr Freda Miller

Neural Stem Cells: From Development to Repair
Visiting Speaker Dr. Freda Miller
CRC Developmental Neurobiology
University of Toronto and Sick Kids Research Institute
Time: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location:** Apotex Centre, Room 264 (Pharmacy Bldg.)

June 13 - Seminar by Dr Ryan Zarychanski

"The HALO Study - meta-analysis of hydroxyethyl starch in the ICU"
Greenberg Lecture Theatre
11:00 - 12:00

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.

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.

Feb 28th - NGS Sequencing Analysis and Target Enrichments

Feb 28th 10:45 - 12:00 CancerCare Lecture Theatre
Agilent Target Enrichment Seminar.
This presentation features a review of SureSelect and HaloPlex technology, portfolio and applications. Updates on key new products – such as the new All Exon V5 and V5+UTRs kits –as well as solutions for NGS data analysis will also be presented.
RSVP carine.lafaille@kprime.net or angelyn_regala@agilent.com

February 23 - Sharing International Perspectives on FASD Research and Interventions

The Canada Israel International Fetal Alcohol Consortium is pleased to invite you to the International FASD Collaborations Symposium - Sharing international perspectives on FASD research and interventions.
at the Apotex Centre, 750 McDermot Ave.
Registration: Free! This is an open event, no registration is required.

9:00am Presentations on FASD in France Dr. Denis Lamblin, President, SAFFrance
10:15am Presentation on FASD in Finland Dr. Ilona Autti-Ramo, Chief of Health Research, Research Professor, The Social Insurance Institution, Finland
11:00am Presentation on Canada Israel International Fetal Alcohol Consortium (CIIFAC) Dr. Ab Chudley, CIIFAC Research Lead Medical Director, Program in Genetics and Metabolism, University of Manitoba

March 5th - Illumina Technology Day

March 5 2nd Floor Lecture Theatre
9:45-11:00 Advances in Cancer and Personalized Genomics Using NGS Sequencing Technology.
Speaker: Dr Michael Smith, Sequencing Specialist, Illumina Inc.

Learn how Illumina NGS technology can help you uncover the answer to drive your research forward. A simple end-to-end sequencing workflow lets you go from sample to results faster and easier than ever before. During this event, an Illumina expert will present an overview of NGS, discussing the basic concepts and key advantages over traditional technologies.

Feb 20th - Molecules, Cerebellar Development and Autism

Feb 20th, 11:00 - 12:00 Edge of Science Seminar - "Molecules, Cerebellar Development and Autism" by Dr Dan Goldowitz, Scientific Director of NeuroDevNet and Professor in the Dept of Medical Genetics UBC
Lecture Theatre C Basic Medical Sciences Building

Jan 21 - Cell Biology Club

What is Next Generation Sequencing and how can I use it for my research?
Presentation by Debbie Tsuyuki followed by Tarek Bader - Dr Murphy's lab
Arnold Greenberg Lecture Theatre
Jan 21 @ 2:00

Nov 30th - Presentation by Dr Peter Watson on Biobanking

Dr Peter Watson, Director of Pathology at UBC and Director of the Tumour Tissue Repository at the BC Cancer Agency, will be giving a presentation "Why is there no 'Dummies Guide' to Biobanking?" at the Lecture Theatre 1:00-1:45.

Nov 14 - Bio-Rad Real-Time PCR Workshop

Selkirk Room ON5007
10am - 11am CFX Manager Software Version 3.0 Tutorial
Bio-Rad recently launched CFX Manager Software Version 3.0. We will spend about one hour reviewing the improvements and enhancements.
11am - 12 pm Advanced Data Analysis using Gene Study in CFX Manager
CFX Manager's Gene Study option allows researchers to analyze data from many plate runs. We will be using actual data files from experiments that were conducted by collaborators in Ontario.
Please feel free to bring your laptops and follow along.

November 29 - Research Seminar

Dr Nada Jabado, Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGill University will be presenting "Epigenome Rewiring in Pediatric Glioblastoma" on November 29th at 11:00 - 12:00 in the CancerCare Manitoba Lecture Theatre.

November 26 - Edge of Science Imaging Series

12:00 - 1:00 BMSB Theatre B - Dr Hari Shroff, Chief and Investigator in the Section of High Resolution Optical Imaging at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (Bethesda, MD) will be presenting "Faster and Sharper: New 3D Imaging Technologies for Cells and Embryos"

November 5 - Edge of Science Imaging Seminar Series

November 5 - Dr Kathy Gough, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, will be presenting "Spectrochemical wide-field tissue imaging at the infrared diffraction limit"
12:00 - 1:00 BMSB Theatre B.

Edge of Science IMAGING Seminar Series

October 22 12:00 - 1:00 Theatre C (BMSB) Barbara Hubner a PhD Student in the department of Anthropology and Human Genetics at the Biocenter Martinsried LMU Munich Germany will be presenting "Nuclear Architecture Studied By Electron Microscopy and Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy"

Visiting Speaker - October 4th

October 4th (11:00-12:00) - Dr Michael Hendzel will be presenting in the Arnold Greenberg Lecture Theatre on "The Polycomb-Mediated Ubiquitylation Pathway is Central to DNA Double-Strand Break Repair"