Weekly Seminar Schedule

Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Seminar Program 2017/18

Fridays in MSB 282 12:30pm – 1:30pm (unless otherwise noted)

Month	Day	Host	Speaker	Title
September	14		Graduate Student Council Meeting
	21	Dr. Shawn Whitehead	Dr. Elena Batrakova Research Associate Professor Eshelman School of Pharmacy University of North Carolina	“Back to Nature: Extracellular Vesicles for Drug Delivery”
	28	Dr. David Cechetto	Nadia Ivanova Ph.D. Student, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Western University	“Co-morbidity of Alzheimer's disease and metabolic syndrome”
October	5	9:30 am – 10:30 am Auditorium A, UH	Murray Barr Lecture Professor Sir Robin Murray Professor of Psychiatric Research Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College (UK)	“Cannabis-associated psychosis; clinical significance and biological mechanisms”
	12	Dr. Alison Allan	Dr. Krishna Singh Assistant Professor Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University	"Role of Endothelial Autophagy in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology”
	19	ACB Graduate Students	Dr. Stefan Everling Robarts Scientist and Associate Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology	“Marmosets as an additional nonhuman primate model for functional imaging and oculomotor physiology”
	26	Dr. Lauren Flynn	Pascal Morissette Martin Ph.D. Student, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Western University	"Cell-instructive extracellular matrix-derived scaffolds for soft connective tissue regeneration".
November	2	ACB Graduate Students	Dr. Michael Rudnicki Senior Scientist, Regenerative Medicine Program Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	“Molecular regulation of muscle stem cell function”
	9		No Seminar
	16	Dr. Dale Laird	Dr. William Trimble Senior Scientist Cell Biology Program Hospital for Sick Children	“Scaffolding function of septins controls cytokinesis and mitochondrial fission”
	23	Dr. Shawn Whitehead	Dr. Jonathan Thiessen Assistant Professor/Scientist Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University	“In vivo imaging of inflammation and its effects with PET/MRI”
	30	Dr. Kat Willmore	Dr. Lisa Tanneyhill Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences University of Maryland	“Should I stay or should I go? Cellular junctions in the neural crest”
December	7	Dr. Silvia Penuela	Dr. Nica Borradaile Associate Professor Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University	“Vitamins and Vascular Regeneration in Obesity”
	14		No Seminar
	21	Dr. Alison Allan	Dr. Jefferson Frisbee Professor and Department Chair, Medical Biophysics	“Vasculopathy with Metabolic Disease: Lessons from Multiple Scales”
January	4		No Seminar
	11		No Seminar
	18	ACB Graduate Students	Dr. Erin Azzopardi Business Development Officer, BrainsCAN	“Mitacs: Collaborative Research Opportunities”
	25	ACB Graduate Students	Deniz Edwards & Gamal Assaad Propel Entrepreneurship	“Entrepreneurship in Science”
February	1	ACB Graduate Students	Claude Lachance, PhD \| Field Application Scientist II Bio-Rad Laboratories (Canada)	“Academia is the alternative career path: Careers outside academia”
	8		No Seminar
	15	ACB Graduate Students	Alysha Croker, Ph.D. Manager, Employment and Social Development Canada	“Careers Outside of Academia – oh the places you could go!”
	22	Dr. Stephen Renaud	Karen Racicot, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Biology Michigan State University	“Sex-specific effects of prenatal stress on placental function and fetal programming”
March	1	Dr. Silvia Penuela	Dr. Rima Al-Awar Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) Toronto, Ontario	“Drugging Protein-Protein Interactions: Discovery and Optimization of a WDR5 binder”
	8	11:30 am–12:30pm Auditorium A, University Hospital	New Faculty Lecture Series
	15	Dr. Shawn Whitehead	Dr. Victor Viau Professor, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences University of British Columbia	“Adaptive Neuroendocrine and Serotonin Responses in Male and Female Rats”
	22	Dr. Marco Prado and Dr. Vania Prado	Ornela Kljakic Ph.D. Student, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Western University
	29	Dr. Silvia Penuela	Dr. James Smyth Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Virginia Tech	“Regulation of intercellular communication at the RNA level; transcription impacts translation”
April	5	Dr. Patrick Lajoie	Rebecca Shapiro Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Guelph
	12	11:30 am–12:30pm Auditorium A, University Hospital	New Faculty Lecture Series
	19		No Seminar- GOOD FRIDAY
	26	Dr. Patrick Lajoie	Sarah Chadwick Ph.D. Student, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Western University
May	3	Dr. Silvia Penuela	Dr. David Sacks Senior Investigator Department of Laboratory Medicine, NIH Clinical Center
	10	11:30 am–12:30pm Auditorium A, University Hospital	New Faculty Lecture Series
	17	Dr. Kem Rogers	Dr. Natalie Langley Senior Associate Consultant, Anatomy, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
	24	Dr. Kem Rogers	Maddie Norris Ph.D. Student, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Western University
	31	Douglas Hamilton	Georgia Nikoloudaki Ph.D. Student, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Western University