Monday, 20 October 2014

Oct 22 - BMG departmental seminar

Presenter: Laura Thompson - Ph.D. student with Dr. Kirk McManus
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location: Theatre A “Mezzanine” (2nd floor BMSB, across from the elevator and on your right)
Seminar Title: A High-Content Screen to Identify Novel Chromosome Instability Genes

Learning Objectives:
· Define chromosome instability (CIN) and discuss the importance of CIN gene identification
· Describe the assays developed in this study
· Explain how CIN assays are utilized for high-content screening and why gene validation is required

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Nov 3 - Cell Biology Club

CCMB Lecture Theatre
2:00 - 3:00
Rebecca Dielschneider - "Targeting susceptible signaling pathways in CLL"
Chrissie Bruce - "mTOR/ERd interaction in breast cancer cells"


October 23- Laurence Pelletier

Terry Fox Research Institute presents Dr Laurence Pelletier
"Centrosome Biogenesis and the function in human cells"
CCMB Lecture Theatre
10:30 - 11:30

October 24 - Mary Marko's retirement party

We bid a fond farewell and wish Mary a relaxing (and well earned) retirement.
2:30 - 4:00
Thompson Room

Thursday, 25 September 2014

Oct 6 - Cell Biology Club

Presenter: Iris Gehrke, postdoctoral fellow in Dr Versha Banerji's lab
Title: FK866 in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Location: 2nd floor lecture theatre
Time: 2:00 - 2:30

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Sept 26 - 28, MICB Annual Retreat

Guest speakers
Dr. Ann Chambers,
Oncology Distinguished Scientist, Canada Research Chair in Oncology, London Regional Cancer Program, LHSC
Title: "Tumor metastasis and dormancy: lessons from experimental studies and implications for cancer patients"

Dr. Sean Egan,
Senior Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, SickKids
Title: "Using mice to model metastasic breast cancer in humans"

Presentations also by
Sumanta Chatterjee, Vasudeva Bhat, Yongqiang Chen, Iris Gerhke, Dilshad Khan, Brent Guppy, Pratima Basak, Rebecca Dielschneider, Julius Awe

Sept 24 - Departmental Seminar

Presenter: Brent Guppy, PhD student with Dr. Kirk McManus
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Time: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location: Theatre A 'Mezzanine' (2nd floor BMSB, across from the elevator and on your right)
Seminar Title: Mitotic Increases in Di-methylated Lysine 79 of Histone H3 are Required for Genome Stability in Human Cells and Occur Independently of Mono-Ubiquitinated Histone H2B