Monday, 14 September 2015

Sept 16 - BMG Seminar

“Airway cellular mechanobiology: rethinking signaling and trafficking in airway disease“
September 16, 2015
12:00 – 1:00 PM
BMSB 341

Dr Adrian West, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology
Scientist, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba


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.

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

August 13 - Summer Student Symposium

Who: MICB Summer students and their labs
What: 10 minute presentation summarizing their work this summer
Where: 2nd floor lecture theatre
When: 11:00 - 3:00

Thursday, 11 June 2015

11th Annual Canadian CLL Meeting - Call for Abstracts!



Deadline: August 15, 2015.   
All abstracts from all levels of trainees, technicians, and research associates.

This year we will be having a poster competition for trainees only. 
 
Please email your abstracts to Eilean McKenzie-Matwiy

Thursday, 4 June 2015

June 9 - Terry Fox Research Institute Prairie Node Symposium

Inn at The Forks

8:30 Dr. Jim Davie, Prairie Node Leader, TFRI
8:35 Dr. Victor Ling, President and Scientific Director, TFRI
8:50 Dr. Sean Egan, Hospital for Sick Children Title: Animal Models for Metastatic Breast Cancer.
9:40 Dr. Hao Ding, U of M
10:30 Dr. Kirk McManus, MICB
10:50 Dr. Anuraag Shrivastav, U of M
11:10 Dr. Wayne Xu, MICB
11:30 Dr. Terra Arnason, U of S
1:00 Dr. Deborah Anderson, SCA
1:20 Dr. Behzad Toozi, U of S
1:40 Landon Wark, MICB
2:30 Dr. Sachin Katyal, MICB
2:50 Dr. Troy Harkness, U of S
3:10 Rebecca Dielschneider, MICB
3:30 Dr. Aaron Marshall, Uof M

June 22 - TFRI Rising Star application deadline

Nomination deadline for the MICB Terry Fox Rising Star Entrance Scholarship
New graduate students supervised by an MICB Senior Scientist are invited to apply for this 1 year
studentship & travel award. Email Eilean McKenzie-Matwiy with a copy of your undergraduate
transcript, proof of enrollment in Graduate Studies, CV and a letter of support from your MICB supervisor.
Your supervisor’s letter should also contain information about which TFRI-sponsored lab
you will receiving training from

June 18 - State of the Institute



Dr Gibson will be presenting his annual and final MICB State of the Institute – “The Past, The Present, and The Last: 46 year of MICB” 
Thursday, June 18th 
11:00 
Lecture Theatre