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

Dec 2 - Statistical Genetics/Bioinformatics Seminar Series

Title:                Computational re-annotation of the human transcriptome with the recount project
Presenter:       Dr. Jeff Leek
                        Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Date:               December 2, 2016
Time:               11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location:          Room 341 (3th floor) - Basic Medical Sciences Building

Nov 23 - BGEN Seminar

Speaker:     Sanzida Jahan

                   PhD student with Dr. Jim Davie

Title:          Characterization of transcriptionally active avian erythrocyte chromatin

Location:    Room 341 BMSB
Time:          12:00 - 13:00 

October 19 - BGEN Seminar Series

Speaker:           Dr. Mark Nachtigal

Affiliation:          Biochemistry & Medical Genetics

Title:                 Patient-derived ovarian cancer cells: a platform for basic and translational research

Date:                Wednesday, October 19

Time:                12:00 - 13:00

Place:               Klaus Wrogemann Seminar Room

                        (341 BMSB)