SEMINARS

Anatomy and Cell Biology Seminars are held on
Fridays at 12:30p.m. in MSB 148
*(unless otherwise noted)

Friday September 17, 2010	Dr. Noelle Granger Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine	Interactive Human Anatomy: The Serendipitous Life of an Online Teaching Program
Friday September 24, 2010	Dr. Donald A. Wilson Research Scientist, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine	Cortical plasticity and odor perception
Friday October 1, 2010	Dr. Stefan Everling Associate Professor, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Psychology, The University of Western Ontario	Top-down control investigated with the anti-saccade task
Friday October 8, 2010	Rwanda Group Speakers include: Dr. David Cechetto, Dr. Jim Silcox, Dr. Carole Orchard, Dr. Peter Haase and Dr. Cynthia F. Kenyon, The University of Western Ontario	Capacity Building in the Health Professions in Rwanda
Friday October 22, 2010	Dr. Marion Wittmann Research Fellow, Department of Neuroscience, Merck, West Point, PA	M1 Muscarinic Receptor Allosteric Potentiation: A New Strategy for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Thursday October 28, 2010 *Auditorium A, University Hospital, LHSC, 9:30 a.m.	Murray Barr Lecture Dr. Derek van der Kooy Professor, Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Biophysics, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto	Where Brains Come From
Friday November 5, 2010	Dr. Michael Strong Dean, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, Distinguished University Professor and Arthur J. Hudson Chair in ALS Research	The frontotemporal syndromes of ALS – clinical, pathological and biological characterization
Friday November 12, 2010	Meghan Reale Ph.D. Student, Lehman Lab	Boneheads Can Keep Time: Runx2 in the Central Circadian Pacemaker
Friday November 19, 2010	Dr. Geoffrey Guttmann Professor of Anatomy and Director of Anatomical Services, Department of Basic Sciences, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, PA	Transforming the anatomy of learning anatomy
Friday November 26, 2010	Dr. Patrick Lee Professor and Cameron Chair in Basic Cancer Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University	Molecular mechanisms of reovirus killing of cancer cells
Friday December 3, 2010	Dr. Robert Edwards Professor of Neurology and Physiology, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco	Glutamate Corelease by Dopamine Neurons
Friday December10, 2010 DSB 2016	Dr. Mark Terrell Program Director, Master of Science in Medical Education Program, Director of Educational Research, Associate Professor of Anatomy, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine – Erie Campus	Impact of collaborative testing on student performance and satisfaction in an anatomy course
Friday January 14, 2011	Dr. Steffany Bennett Director, CIHR Training Program in Neurodegenerative Lipidomics, Neural Regeneration Laboratory, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Ottawa	Manipulating the injured brain: Connexin-mediated control of neurodegeration and neuroregeneration
Tuesday January 18, 2011 Note: Special date and location - MSB 282*	Dr. Marc Pizzimenti Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa	Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of the Dissection Experience in Gross Anatomy
Monday January 24, 2011, 4:30 pm Note: Special date time and location - MSB 38*4	Dr. Charles Graham Professor and Chair, Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Dept. of Urology, Queen’s University	A Mechanism of Hypoxia-Induced Immune Escape in Cancer
Tuesday February 8, 2011 Note: Special date and location - MSB 282*	Dr. German Ramirez Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Dental Science, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Manitoba	Mandibular growth: From the bench to the clinic
Friday February 11, 2011	Dr. Paul Lampe Member and Associate Program Head, Molecular Diagnostics Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Professor (Research), Global Health Department, University of Washington School of Public Health	The consequences of gap junction protein phosphorylation
Friday February 18, 2011	Dr. Elena Choleris Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph	Neuroendocrinology of social information processing in mice
*Wednesday March 2, 2011, 4:30 pm MSB 384 Note: Special date, time and location	Dr. Dale Laird Professor and Canada Research Chair in Gap Junctions and Disease, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario Candidate for ACB Chair	Connexins and Pannexins in Health and Disease
Friday March 4, 2011	Dr. Salah El Mestikawy Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Researcher, Douglas Institut, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), Researcher, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris	Regulation of cholinergic and serotoninergic transmission by a vesicular glutamate transporter (VGLUT3)
*Thursday March 10, 2011, 4:30 pm DSB 3008 Note: Special date, time and location	Dr. Derrick Rancourt Professor, Departments of Oncology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Medical Genetics, Director, ESTM Facility, Coordinator, MBT Program, The University of Calgary Candidate for ACB Chair	Bioreactor Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: A New Angle on iPSC Safety
Friday March 11, 2011	Dr. John Condeelis Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Judith & Burton P. Resnick Chair in Translational Research, Co-Director, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Scientific Director, Analytical Imaging Facility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University	Breast tumor metastasis: Mechanisms, Pathways and Markers
Friday March 25, 2011	Dr. Jim Petrik Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph	Tumor Vasculature: Friend or Foe? Development of an Antiangiogenic Treatment for Ovarian Cancer
Friday April 8, 2011	Dr. Barbara Vanderhyden Corinne Boyer Chair in Ovarian Cancer Research, Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Senior Scientist, Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	Exploring how normal cells become cancer in the ovary
Friday April 15, 2011	Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research	Cell polarity morphogenesis and cancer
Friday April 22, 2011 Good Friday	University Closed
Friday April 29, 2011	Rick Baltazar Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario	Circadian Regulation of Reward
Friday May 6, 2011	Alysha Croker Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario	The role of ALDHhiCD44+ cells in breast cancer metastasis and therapy resistance
*Friday May 13, 2011 UH, Auditorium A, 2:00 p.m. Note: Special time and location	4th Annual Suzanne Bernier Memorial Lecture Dr. Bjorn R. Olson Hersey Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Dean for Research & Professor of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine	From Ectopic Bone Formation to Hemangioma Tumor Regression – Remarkable Consequences of Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Friday May 20, 2011	Dr. Adam Anderson Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Canada Research Chair in Affective Neuroscience, University of Toronto	Do vivid perceptions make for vivid emotional memories?
Friday May 27, 2011	Dr. Ike Shibley Associate Professor of Chemistry, Science Program Coordinator, Penn State University	Scholarship Still Being Reconsidered: Finding Value in Pedagogical Work
Friday June 3, 2011	Andrea Di Sebastiano Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario	Sex, Stress and Depression
Friday June 10, 2011	Matthew Grol Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario	The P2X7 Nucleotide Receptor in Osteoblasts: Novel Roles in Dose-to-Duration Encoding and Wnt/β-catenin Signaling
Friday June 17, 2011	Nicole Lauzon Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario	Dopamine Modulation of Emotional Learning in the Prefrontal Cortex
Friday June 24, 2011	Dr. Gail Kopp Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Graduate Division of Educational Research, Educational Technology Specialization, University of Calgary	Virtual Worlds: New Dimensions of Challenge
Friday July 22, 2011	Caroline Albion Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario	Fetal Growth Restriction: Molecular Mechanisms and Long Term Outcomes

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