| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 9 | Dorothy Majewski | Strynadka Lab, UBC | PhD Exit Seminar “Structural Characterization of the Bacterial Injectisome” |
Dr. Natalie Strynadka | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| September 28 | Dr. Natalie Strynadka | Strynadka Lab, UBC | 2020 Astell Award Presentation and BMB Research Seminar “Structure-guided Antimicrobial discovery using a hybrid atomic toolbox.” |
Dr. Natalie Strynadka | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| October 5 | Dr. Brian Caffrey | Subramanian Lab, UBC | PhD Exit Seminar “Three-Dimensional Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Molecular and Cellular Structures” |
Dr. Sriram Subramaniam | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| October 19 | Dr. Joerg Gsponer | Michael Smith Lab, UBC | “The interactive behavior of white-collar workers in biological systems” | Dr. Leonard Foster | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| November 16 | Dr. Steven Rutherford | Infectious Disease, Genentech | “New modalities for interfering with outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria” | Dr. Franck Duong | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| November 23 | Dr. Gabriel Zentner | Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington | “Making heads or tails of Mediator function, and how transcription start sites earn their STRIPEs” | Dr. Sheila Teves | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| November 30 | Dr. Reut Shalgi | Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Techology | “Differential roles for DNAJ isoforms in HTT-polyQ and mutant FUS aggregation modulation revealed by chaperone network screens” | Dr. Thibault Mayor | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| December 7 | Dr. Jennifer Mitchell | Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto | “Comparative epigenomics determines transcriptional regulatory codes in mammalian genomes” | Dr. LeAnn Howe | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| December 10 | Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia | Michael Smith Lecture | Drs. Christian Kastrup / Peter Zandstra | Zoom link to be emailed to department members | |
| December 14 | Gloria Yang | Department of Biochemistry, UBC | PhD Exit Seminar “The evolution of xenobiotic pesticide-degrading enzymes in the metallo-β-lactamase superfamily” |
Dr. Nobu Tokuriki | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| January 18 | Dr. Khanh Dao Duc | Department of Mathematics, UBC | “Unraveling translation dynamics and ribosome structural heterogeneity across scales and species” | Dr. Eric Jan | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| February 8 | Dr. Yihzou Dong | Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, The Ohio State University | “Development of nanomaterials for mRNA therapeutics, genome editing, and cell therapy” | Dr. Christian Kastrup | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| April 12 | Dr. Maria Vera Ugalde | Department of Biochemistry, McGill University | “Imaging single mRNA molecules to investigate the regulation of the stress response” | Dr. Eric Jan | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| April 19 | Kazune Tamura | Dr. Brumer Lab, University of British Columbia. | PhD Exit Seminar “Molecular mechanisms of dietary beta-glucan metabolism by prominent human gut symbionts” |
Dr. Harry Brumer | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| May 3 | Dr. Kirsten Wolthers | Department of Biochemistry/Chemistry, UBCO | “H2S Biogenesis by the Opportunistic Pathogen, Fusobacterium nucleatum” | Dr. Christian Kastrup | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |
| May 10 | Dr. Kevin Morano | Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health | “Chaperone-mediated mechanisms of cellular proteostasis” | Dr. Thibault Mayor | Zoom link to be emailed to department members |