Past Events

Featuring Dr. Carol Schuurmans, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI).

Featuring Dr. Laura Hug, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo. 

Dr. Michael Downey, Associate Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa is the next speaker in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminar Speaker Series. 

Topic: Genomic Tools to Investigate Bacterial Drug Efflux Pumps

Dr. Jean-Philippe Côté, assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Sherbrooke, received his BSc in Biochemistry from the Universite de Sherbrooke in 2007. He then completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Michael Mourez at the Universite de Montreal in 2014, characterizing the structure-function relationship of a family of secreted virulence factors of Gram-negative bacteria. After his PhD, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Eric Brown at McMaster University to explore genetic interaction networks in E.

Topic: Construction and Comparative Assessment of cDNA Clones of Grapevine Pinot Gris Virus and Elucidation of Function of Novel viral AlkB Domain (Advisor: Dr. Baozhong Meng)

To all graduate students planning to defend their thesis in F24: In helping you plan for a timely thesis defence and submission to the Office of Graduate Studies, please use the below dates as deadlines for guaranteed graduation by semester end. We will of course still make every effort to make your exam happen whenever requests are received.    Last guaranteed date to defend this semester:  Friday, December 13th, 2024

Topic: Investigating Tropomyosin Binding Properties and Calcium Sensitivity in the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Causing A230V α-Cardiac Actin Variant

Topic: Analysis of fermentation capabilities, trehalose metabolism, quantitative proteomics, and hybridisation of Norwegian kveik brewing yeast