Guest Speakers

Invited Speakers – 2005-2006

 

Name

Date

Title

 

Dr. Vasu Appanna

[Chemistry & Biochemistry – Laurentian University]

Sept. 30/05

Tricarboxylic acid cycle and ROS homeostatis: Implications in diseases and ageing

 

Dr. T. C. Tai

[Physiology – Northern Ontario School of Medicine]

Nov. 11/05

Role of PNMT in Hypertension

 

Dr. Lori Burrows

[Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences – McMaster University]

Nov. 18/05

Pseudomonas goes fishing

 

Dr. Marina Ulanova

Division of Medical Science - Northern Ontario School of Medicine]

Nov. 25/05

Syk tyrosine is an important regulator of pro-inflammatory signaling in lung epithelium

 

Dr. Neelam Khaper

[Physiology - Northern Ontario School of MedicineLakehead University]

Jan. 13/06

Oxidative Stress in the Pathogenesis of Heart Failure

 

Dr. Tom Kovala

[Biochemistry - Northern Ontario School of Medicine]

Feb. 3/06

SU1498, an inhibitor of VEGF receptor 2 and ERK, sensitizes breast cancer cells to stress-induced apoptosis

 

Dr. Stacey Ritz

[Immunology - Northern Ontario School of Medicine]

Feb. 10/06

Particulate air pollution and the immunobiology of the respiratory tract: a case where ‘size matters’ and ‘less is more’

 

Dr. Roger Strasser

[Founding Dean - Northern Ontario School of Medicine]

March 10/06

The Chemistry of Rural Health

 

Dr. Matthew Revington

[Biochemistry – University of Western Ontario]

March 29/06

Deriving protein structure and mechanism from NMR

 

Dr. Dirk Wallschläger

[Environmental & Resource Sciences – Trent University]

March 31/06

Thioarsenates in sulfidic waters – where geochemistry and analytical chemistry collide.

 

Invited Speakers – 2006-2007

 

 

Name

Date

Title

 

 

Dr. Jeffrey Shepherd

[Chemistry and Biochemistry– Laurentian University]

Sept. 18/06

Organic modified electrodes as biochemical sensors

 

Dr. William Willmore

[Biology – Carleton University]

 

 

Sept. 21/06

Molecular Biology of Oxidative Stress

 

Dr. M’hamed Chahma

[Chemistry – University of Guelph]

Sept. 22/06

Investigating Reactive Intermediates in a Variety of Processes

 

Dr. Thomas Merritt

[Chemistry & Biochemistry – Laurentian University]

Sept. 27/06

An Integrative Study of Metabolic Control and Complexity in the Drosophila melanogaster NADP Enzymes

 

Dr. Abderrahim Khadir

[GE Water and Process Technologies - Burlington, ON]

Sept. 29/06

Branched polymers and polymer properties modifications

 

Dr. Pascal Vuillaume

[Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - University of Montreal]

Oct. 11/06

Thermal, structural and biological properties of new polyamphiphilic compounds and their complexes built from surfactants or DNA

 

Dr. Hassen Bouchékif

[Faculty of Veterinary Medicine -University of Montreal]

Oct. 25/06

New Route to Control Oxetane Polymerization

 

Dr. Carita Lannér

[Northern Ontario School of Medicine]

Nov. 10/06

A comparison of protein expression in nonmalignant and malignant cells: A novel protein with PCNA homology

 

Dr. Hugh Horton

[Chemistry - Queen’s University]

Nov. 17/06

Chemical force spectrometry: using AFM to generate more than just pretty pictures

 

Dr. Gilles Lajoie

[Biochemistry - University of Western Ontario]

Feb. 9/07

New Tools in Proteomics for the Identification of Proteins and Post-translational Modifications

 

Dr. Michael Palmer

[Chemistry - University of Waterloo]

March 2/07

Structure and Function of Bacterial Pore-forming Protein  Toxins

 

Dr. Wilfried Haerty

[Biology - McMaster University]

March 16/07

Comparison of gene expression between Drosphila melanogaster subgroup species and their hybrids

 

Invited Speakers – 2007-2008

 

Name

Date

Title

 

Dr. James Quinn

[Biology – McMaster University]

Sept. 14/07

Air pollution induced germ-line mutations following ambient exposure of mice and gulls

 

Dr. Orlando Tapia

[Chemistry - University of UppsalaSweden]

Oct. 3/07

On the Transition State

 

Dr. Ian Burgess

[Chemistry - University of Saskatchewan]

Nov. 14/07

Using electrochemical Studies on Large Electrodes to Understand the Molecular Structure of Monolayer Protected Nanoparticles

 

Dr. François Caron [Chemistry  & Biochemistry- Laurentian University]

 

Nov. 23/07

Meta land Radionuclide Speciation in Contaminated Ground Water :  new developments in the 60Co and 137Cs speciation at Chalk River, Ontario

 

Dr. Robert Friedman

[Biology -University of South Carolina]

Nov. 30/07

Computational approaches for studying genome evolution

 

Dr. Walter J. Lukiw [Neuroscience & Ophthalmology - Louisiana State University]

Dec. 17/07

Synapsin mRNA and miRNA alterations in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and in aluminum and iron-sulfate stressed human brain cells

 

Dr. Gustavo Arteca

[Chemistry & Biochemistry - Laurentian University]

Feb. 29/08

Steered stretching and relaxation dynamics in self-entangled polymers

 

Dr. Samuel Johnson [Chemistry - University of Windsor]

March 12/08

Inert Bond Activations with Nickel (I) and Nickel (0) Complexes

 

Mr. Dave Gardonio

[Magnotta Brewery, Vaughan, Ontario]

March 14/08

Some of the science behind Scottish malt whisky

 

Invited Speakers – 2008-2009

 

Name

Date

Title

 

Dr. Troels Skrydstrup [Chemistry - University of Aarhus, Denmark]

Sept. 29/08

Development of new synthetic methodology for medicinal chemistry purposes

 

Dr. Amitabh Jha [Chemistry - Acadia University]

Oct. 3/08

Synthetic adventures on 2-Tetralones/2-Naphthols

 

Dr. Christopher Reid [Institute for Biological Sciences, Ottawa]

Oct. 8/08

Carbohydrate Chemistry: from glycomics to vaccines and antimicrobials

 

Dr. Stanislav Naryzhny

[Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre]

Feb. 6/09

Cancer proteome and protein interactions: Looking for a needle in a haystack

 

Dave Gardonio

[Magnotta Brewery, Vaughan]

Feb. 27/09

Hop Biochemistry

 

Dr. Crestina Beites [Chemistry & Biochemistry - Laurentian University]

March 6/09

Molecular signals regulating proliferation of stem and progenitor cells: how to build a brain from nose and tongue cells

 

Dr. Mukund Jha

[Biology - Nippissing University]

March 13/09

Novel Chain-Breaking Antioxidants: Design, Synthesis and Kinetic Studies

 

Invited Speakers – 2009-2010

 

Name

Date

Title

 

Dr. Ali Azghani       [Biology - University of Texas at Tyler]

 

 

Sept. 18/09

Mechanism or ERK 1/2 Activation in Pseudomonal Infection

 

Dr. Amanda Moehring

[Biology - University of Western Ontario]

Oct. 23/09

Sex, flies and video tape: The genetics of species isolation in Drosophila

 

Dr. Peter J. Krell

[Biology - University of Guelph]

Nov. 20/09

Functional baculovirus genomics with a focus on viral me-53, chitinase and cathepsin

 

Dr. François Lagugné-Labarthet

[University of Western Ontario]

Dec. 4/09

Raman Imaging and the Use of Meso- and Nanostructured Metallic Platforms

 
 
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