2022
Monday, December 12 Seminar Series: Dr. Jorge Contreras, "Connexin-43 hemichannels as mediators of cardiac stress-induced arrhythmias and myocardial infarction"
Monday, December 5 Seminar Series: Dr. Saman Maleki, "Microbiome-based strategies to sensitize tumors to immunotherapy"
Monday, November 28 Seminar Series: Dr. Filip Bednar, "Tuning the pancreatic cancer immune response”
Monday, November 21 Seminar Series: Dr. Karen Echeverri, "Molecular mechanisms of regeneration: insights from axolotls"
Monday, November 14 Seminar Series: Dr. Wenbin Liang, "Regulation of Cardiac Ion Channels by Wnt Signalling"
Monday, November 7 Seminar Series: Sydney Krutz and Dr. Sukhveer Bains: “Meet the people who are here to help you: The Human Rights Office & The Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization”
November 3rd, 2022 Western Organoid Workshop
Our goal is to bring together scientists in the London area who utilize 3D organoid models in their research. We want to highlight the innovative work being done with these models and to help foster collaborations within this growing community.Tuesday, November 1 2022 James Stevenson Lecture and Research Day
Monday, October 24 Seminar Series: Hadir Alqot, PhD Candidate, “A novel transgenic mouse model expressing primate-specific nuclear choline acetyltransferase and its impact on Alzheimer’s disease pathology”
Monday, October 17 Seminar Series: Dr. David Heinrichs, "Interactions between MRSA and the host”
Monday, October 3 Seminar Series: Dr. Martin Duennwald, "Chaperoning protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases"
Monday, September 26 Seminar Series: Dr. Jan Tuckerman, "The Glucocorticoid Receptor in Bone Immunometabolism"
Monday, September 19 Seminar Series: Dr. Xiaolong Yang, "Roles of the Hippo signaling pathway in cancer biology and therapy"
June 29th Lunch and Learn
“Machine Learning with Digital Signal Processing (ML-DSP): Raman Spectroscopy, Electrocardiograms, and Electroencephalograms”Monday, May 30 Seminar Series: Dr. Ying Wang, “Leverage phenotyping technology to understand atherosclerotic disease”
Monday, May 16 Seminar Series: Dr. Susan Logue, "The Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease"
Monday, May 9 Seminar Series: Dr. Kun Ping Lu, "Pin1-Catalyzed Conformational Regulation for Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia and Cancer"
Monday, May 2 Seminar Series: Dr. Christopher Pin, “A living biobank for personalized medicine in pancreatic cancer”
Monday, April 25 Seminar Series: Dr. Elena Verdu, "Microbes as cofactors in celiac disease development"
Monday, April 11 Seminar Series: Rachel Wilson, PhD Candidate, "Investigating the role of eukaryotic elongation factor 1A1 in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and lipid metabolism"
Monday, April 4 Seminar Series: Dr. Miguel Skirzewski, “Disentangling Striatal Neuromodulatory Circuitry Mechanisms Underlying Reward Motivated Behaviours”
Monday, March 28 Seminar Series: Dr. Caroline Menard, “Chronic stress induces vascular changes leading to depression vs resilience: opportunities for novel therapeutic approaches and biomarkers”
Monday, March 21 Seminar Series: Opening Doors to Exciting Careers!
Monday, March 7 Seminar Series: Dr. Wei Zhang: “Engineering protein-protein interactions to probe and rewire ubiquitin signalling”
Monday, February 28 Seminar Series: Dr. Fernando Lopes, "Inflammation Resolution: A Metabolic Menagerie"
Thursday, February 24 Lunch and Learn Workshop: “BioCORE: Facilities providing service and instrumentation to help meet your research goals”
Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00-1:00 p.m. Zoom Link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/91071109236?from=addonMonday, February 14 Seminar Series: Dr. Ahmed Abdelfattah, “Genetically encoded voltage indicators for optical monitoring of membrane potential”
Monday, February 7 Seminar Series: Dr. Lee-Hwa Tai, “Intravesical immunotherapy with oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus for bladder cancer”
Monday, January 31 Seminar Series: Dr. Emilie Jaune-Pons: “Activation of de novo methionine pathway supports the mesenchymal phenotype of pancreatic tumor cells and aggressiveness of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma”
Monday, January 24 Seminar Series: Dr. Janel Kopp: “Factors influencing the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma”
Monday, January 17 Seminar Series: Dr. Lisa Julian: “Harnessing human stem cell models to elucidate neurological disease pathogenesis and fundamental aspects of brain development”
Monday, January 10 Seminar Series: Nicholas Tonial, PhD Candidate: “Non-renal alterations of drug disposition in chronic kidney disease”
