Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Faculty of Medicine

Seminars Archive 2007

Dr. Maurille Fournier: Monday, January 29, 2007; "The modified nucleotides in rRNA: they affect ribosome synthesis and activity and may do more..."
Dr. Tom Schmidt: Thursday, January 25, 2007; "Bacterial niches and greenhouse gases: Tradeoffs between power and efficiency"

Dr. Peter Tonge: Thursday, March 15, 2007; Mycolic Acid and Menaquinone Biosynthesis: Mining the Magic Mountain for Novel Tuberculosis Drugs

Dr. Jens Coorssen: Thursday, April 05, 2007; Cholesterol, curvature, rafts, and regulated membrane fusion: getting at mechanism

Dr. Greg Fairn-Patrick Prize Recipient: Friday, May 18, 2007; Award Presenation

Dr. Brian Sykes: Thursday, September 27, 2007; Structure and Dynamics of Calcium Regulatory Proteins: From Solution to Intact Muscle Fibers
Dr. Laurent Kreplak: Thursday, September 20, 2007; "What mechanical role for desmin within muscle fibers? An in vitro study"
Dr. Chris Lane: Thursday, September 13, 2007; "Comparative genomics gives us a second look at secondary endosymbiosis."
Dr. André Marette: Wednesday, September 05, 2007; Fish nutrients for the treatment of insulin resistance in obesity.

Dr. Chérif F. Matta: Thursday, October 25, 2007; "Where Do Things Happen in Biological Molecules? Insight from the Analysis of Molecular Electron Density Distributions"
Kristin Bowden - M.Sc. Thesis Defence: Tuesday, October 23, 2007; "Regulation of ABCA1 Protein Turnover and Cholesterol Efflux by Oxysterol Binding Protien (OSBP)"
Dr. Mo-Quen Klinkert: Thursday, October 11, 2007; "Small Clonally Variant Proteins of the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum"
George A. M. Cross: Thursday, October 04, 2007; "Genetic and Molecular Basis of Antigenic Variation in African Trypanosomes"

Dr. David Waisman: Thursday, November 29, 2007; "Regulation of Cancer Cell Plasmin Generation by S100A10 "
MSc Thesis Defense - Alex Berezkin: Tuesday, November 27, 2007; "Checkpoint protein kinase 2 (Chk2) as a mediator of anoikis of the non-malignant intestinal epithelial cells."
Christine Sharp / Dr. Andrew Roger: Thursday, November 22, 2007; 3:45 p.m. CHRISTINE SHARP Honours Co-op Student Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Microbiology & Immunology "Discovery of an integron in the phylum Actinobacteria a potential agent of xenobiotic degradation?" 4:00 p.m. DR. ANDREW ROGER Associate Professor N.S.E.R.C. E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship Recipient "Statistical models of protein sequence evolution: Let's get real!"
Dr. Richard Singer: Thursday, November 15, 2007; "Gene tranmscription in a repressive chromatin environment: issues of FACT"

Dr. Eric Milot: Thursday, December 20, 2007; "Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in normal and malignant hematopoiesis"
Dr. Graham Dellaire: Thursday, December 13, 2007; "Subnuclear domains and kinases: work in progress"
Dr. Philip Bourne: Thursday, December 06, 2007; "Evolutionary Insights from Protein Structure"
MSc Thesis Defence - Melissa A. MacKinnon: Monday, December 03, 2007; "The Role of Nuclear Protein Import on Phosphatidylcholine Synthesis"