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The 2010-2011 Seminar Program commences on Oct 1, 2010
Our seminars are held weekly at 12:00 NOON unless otherwise indicated. Seminars will be rotating between Bannatyne Campus - A229 Chown Bldg. & St. Boniface Campus - Samuel Cohen Auditorium (video-conferencing available at alternate site). We are pleased to announce that commencing in 2010, our seminar program will be expanding to include talks hosted by the Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders at St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre as well as and the Manitoba Neuroscience Network, Winnipeg Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
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Semianr Schedule for 2009-2010
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010 - Dr. Dave McCrea
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
DAVID McCREA, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Physiology
Director, Spinal Cord Research Centre
University of ManitobaDr. Redwan Moqbel
Head - Department of Internal Medicine
Faculty of Medicine University of Manitoba
TOPIC: “Restoring Spinal Cord Function: You can’t fix it if you don’t know what it does!”
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010 - Dr. Redwan Moqbel
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Samuel Cohen Auditorium, St. Boniface Campus **
Dr. Redwan Moqbel
Head - Department of Internal Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
TOPIC: IDO, Tryptophan, immunoregulation and airway remodeling in asthma: enough fuel for excitotoxicity?".
** Video-linked to Bannatyne Campus (A229 Chown bldg - tentative)
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010 - Dr. Gordon Glazner
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Gordon Glazner
Associate Professor - Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
TOPIC: Serendipitous discovery - a beneficial role for Amyloid Beta.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Samuel Cohen Auditorium, SBRC)
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - Dr. M. Koschinsky
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. M. Koschinsky
University of Windsor
TOPIC: "Mechanisms of lipoprotein(a) pathogenicity: two sides of bad coin."
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Room R1002, SBRC)
Date: Friday, April 9, 2010 - Dr. Suresh Mishra
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Suresh Mishra
Assistant Professor - Department of Internal Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
TOPIC: O-GlcNAc Modification in Insulin Resistance.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Samuel Cohen Auditorium, SBRC)
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010 - Dr. J. Uzonna
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. J. Uzonna
Associate Professor - Immunology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
TOPIC: Targeting host and parasite molecules for vaccination and/or treatment of cutaneous Leishmaniasis.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Samuel Cohen Auditorium, SBRC)
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010 - Dr. Arkady Major
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Arkady Major
Assistant Professor - Biomedical Photonics
Departent of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba
TOPIC: Biomedical Laser Microscopy and Sensing.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Samuel Cohen Auditorium, SBRC)
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010 - Dr. Chris Anderson
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Chris Anderson
Assistant Professor - Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
University of Manitoba
Principal Investigator - Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders
St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre
TOPIC: Effects of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in cerebal ischemia.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Samuel Cohen Auditorium, SBRC)
Date: Friday, Feb 26, 2010 - E. Froese
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Ms. E. Froese
TOPIC: Safety: A Shared Responsibility.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (R1002, SBRC)
Date: Friday, Feb 12, 2010 - Dr. Daniel Sitar
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Daniel Sitar
TOPIC: Musings of a journal editor: Things that contribute to outcomes for manuscripts submitted for publication.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (R1002, SBRC)
Date: Friday, Feb 5, 2010 - Solafa Fatani
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Solafa Fatani
M.Sc. Student (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Sitar
TOPIC: Further investigation of amantadine disposition: Acetylation and secretion".
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (R1002, SBRC)
Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 - Dr. J. David Knox
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. J. David Knox
Prion Diseases Program, Public Health Agency of Canada
Candian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health
TOPIC: Mining urine for molecular Biomarkers of BSE. (mad cow disease)
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Samuel Cohen Auditorium, SBRC)
Date: Friday, January 22, 2010 - Dr. Zhi Ming
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Zhi Ming, PhD
Research Associate - Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
(supervisor: Dr. Wayne Lautt) University of Manitoba
TITLE: A novel mechanism of insulin-induced skeletal muscle vasodilation: role of hepatic insulin sensitizing substance.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (R1002, SBRC)
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010 - Dr. Bruce Verchere
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Bruce Verchere, PhD
Irving K Barber Chair in Diabetes Research
Professor, Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
TITLE: Demise and dysfunction of beta cells in type 2 diabetes and islet transplants
**Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (R1002 SBRC)
Date: Friday, January 15, 2010 - Dr. Frank LaBella
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg. **
Dr. Frank LaBella
Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Manitoba
TITLE: Protocols, pitfalls and personalities in pursuit of the prize. Some guidelines to major scientific discovery.
** Video-linked to St. Boniface campus (Samuel Cohen Auditorium, SBRC)