INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP MEMBRANE PROTEIN DISEASE RESEARCH GROUP

SEMINAR SCHEDULE – 2016-2017 Thursdays, 9:00-10:15 am; Classroom F-2J4-02, WC Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre

Presentation Date 2016

Laboratory/Speaker Snacks

September 8 IRTG annual meeting – no seminar - September 15 Invited Speaker - Dr. Balwant Tuana

University of Ottawa (Host LF) EC

September 22 Invited Speaker - Dr. Jeff Abramson, UCLA MPDRG Student Invited talk

EC

September 29 Speaker – Darpan Malhotra, Department of Biochemistry, Dr. Joe Casey’s lab, U of A

EC

October 6 Speaker – Dr. Larry Fliegel, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Biochemistry, U of A

EC

October 13 Cancelled JC October 20 Speaker - Patrick MacDonald, Professor, Department

of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta

JC

October 27 Speaker - Dr. Ensaf Almomani EC, Department of Physiology, Dr. Emmanuelle Cordat’s lab

JC

November 3 Speakers – Robin Kim and Caroline Wang, Department of Pharmacology, Dr. Harley Kurata’s lab.

JC

November 10 Speaker – Gurnit Kaur, Department of Physiology, Dr. Elaine Leslie’s lab.

TA

November 17 Speaker – Qiao Lin Hu, Department of Physiology, Dr. Xing-Zhen Chen’s lab

TA

November 24 Cancelled – Biochem department retreat TA December 1 Invited speaker – Dr. Raymond J. Turner, Microbial

Biochemistry of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary (Host Dr. Joel Weiner)

TA

December 8 Speaker – Laine Lysyk, Department of Biochemistry, Dr. Joanne Lemieux’ lab

HY

December 15 Invited speaker - Dr. Mohan Babu, University of Regina, (Host Dr. Joanne Lemieux)

HY

2017 Laboratory/Speaker Snacks

January 5 TH HY January 12 TA HY January 19 NT NT January 26 Invited speaker - Dr. Chris Cairo

Department of Chemistry, U of A NT

February 2 JC NT February 9 LF NT February 16 Invited speaker JL

PI name abbreviations: EC - Emmanuelle Cordat; EL - Elaine Leslie; HK – Harley Kurata; HY - Howard Young; JC - Joe Casey; JL - Joanne Lemieux; JDY - Jim Young; LF - Larry Fliegel; MO – Michael Overduin; NT - Nicolas Touret; TA - Todd Alexander; TH - Tom Hobman, XZC - Xing-Zhen Chen.

February 23 Reading Week – No Seminar - March 2 MO JL March 9 EC JL March 16 HK JL March 23 XZC LF March 30 Invited speaker LF April 6 HY LF April 13 JY LF April 20 JL EL April 27 Invited speaker EL May 4 TA EL May 11 NT EL May 18 JC XZC May 25 Invited speaker XZC June 8 MO XZC June 15 XZC June 22 HK July 1- August 2 Summer Break – No Seminars August 10 (?) Summer Student Presentations MO August 17 August 24