March 13 - Cell Biology Club

Time:     2pm
Location:    CCMB lecture theatre. 
Speaker #1: Aaron Chanas-LaRue (Gibson lab) 
Speaker #2: Lucile Jeusset (McManus lab) 

March 31 - CCMB Research Day Deadline

2017 CancerCare Manitoba Research Day is on May 9, 2017

The 19^th annual CCMB Research Day from 8:30am - 4:00pm in the BMSB.

All Manitoba students, residents, BSc Meds, graduate students and post-docs working on research related to cancer and blood disorders are welcome to submit their abstracts. An applicant can submit a maximum of one (1) oral or one (1) poster application and must be available for the poster judging session. 

All abstracts must be submitted via email in PDF format to CCMBCCMFCompetition@cancercare.mb.ca on or before the deadline. 

March 15 - Cafe Scientifique

The Battle Against Brain Tumours: Developing New Treatments Through Innovative Research

Wednesday, March 15
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
McNally Robinson Booksellers
1120 Grant Avenue

Moderator:Dr. Thomas Klonisch

Panelists:
Dr. Sachin Katyal
Dr. Marshall Pitz
Dr. Tamra Werbowetski-Ogilvie

March 1 - Singal Travel Award deadline

Funding is available from CancerCare Manitoba Foundation to a RIOH trainee to cover costs for attending a national and/or international scientific meeting in 2017.
Application Evaluation Criteria:

•  Trainee must be a full-time Graduate Student, Medical Student, Clinical Fellow or Post Doctoral Fellow supervised by a RIOH Scientist
•  Graduate student’s GPA, fellow’s or medical student’s research track record
•  Type of presentation (oral vs poster)
•  Type of conference (regional, national, international)

Nov 30 - BGEN Seminar

Speaker:     Laura Thompson

                   PhD student with Dr. Kirk McManus

Title:          Multiplexed Imaged-based Screening Identifies Human Chromosome Instability Genes

Date:          Wednesday, November 30

Time:           12:00 - 13:00

Place:          341 BMSB

 

Nov 28 - Cell Biology Club

Presenter 1:               Vicky Wang (Mai Lab)
Presenter 2:               Dr Leigh Murphy, RIOH Senior Scientist
Title:                         "Novel interactions of Estrogen Receptor alpha (ERa) and mechanistic Target of
                                 Rapamycin (mTOR) in Human Breast Cancer: Is mTOR a coregulator of ERa?"
Time:                         2:00 - 3:00
Location                    CCMB Lecture Theatre

Dec 2 - Visiting Speaker

Presenter:        Dr Mousumi Majumder
                       Assistant Professor of Biology, Brandon University
Title:                "COX-2 Induces Breast Cancer Stem Cells viaEP4/PI3K/AKT/NOTCH/WNT Axis"
Date:              December 2
Time:              10:30 - 11:30
Location:      CCMB Lecture Theatre