Department of Biology
ESC 350
200 University Ave. W
Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 32569
Fax: (519) 746-0614
Affiliations
Friday, September 30, 2011 — 1:00 PM to 3:40 PM EDT
Title of proposal: "The Statistical Derivation of Environmental Quality Guidelines"
Supervisor: D.G. Dixon
Committee members: M. Servos; B. Hale; A. Takar
Thursday, September 29, 2011 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
Title of presentation: "Kinetics and molecular mechanisms of the mitochondrial calcium transport"
Coffee/Refreshments will be available
All are welcome!
Please contact the Host, Dr. Zoya Leonenko, if anyone would like to meet with Dr. Pavlov during his visit.
Monday, September 26, 2011 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Title of defence: "The Interaction of Ultraviolet Radiation, Dissolved Organic Carbon and Primary Production by Laurentian Great Lake Phytoplankton Communities"
Supervisor: Dr. W.D. Taylor
Friday, September 23, 2011 — 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM EDT
Title of proposal: "Studying cell death and cellular senescence in fish cell lines with p53 inhibitors, pifithrin-á and -ì"
Supervisor: N. Bols
Committee members: B. Duncker; B. Reed; J. Sherry
Thursday, September 22, 2011 — 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
Sponsored by the Biology Graduate Students Association (BGSA)
Invitation is open to all members of the Biology Department (graduate students, faculty, staff and their families are welcome!)
Thursday, September 22, 2011 — 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
Title of thesis: "Utilization of cellulosic materials by Thermotoga petrophila"
Supervisor: K. Ma
Committee members: B. Greenberg; O. Ward
Chair: N. Bols
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo
Title of Presentation: "RDroplet-based Microfluidic Platforms ? Enabling Technology for High Throughput Screening and Combinatorial Testing"
Coffee/Refreshments will be available
All are welcome!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
Dr. Jennifer Tedman-Jones, Director, Business Development, MITACS
Dr. Tedman-Jones will provide information and answer questions about the MITACS funding programs.
Mitacs is a national not-for-profit research organization that partners with academia, companies, and government.
The presentation will be an overview of the organization, including key features of Mitacs core research and training programs:
Accelerate: Internship program for MSc, PhD, or Post-Doc based on a Collaboration between Faculty and Industry
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Title of defence: "The Use of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria to Enhance Phytoremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Impacted Soils"
Supervisor: Dr. Bruce M. Greenberg
Monday, September 19, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Title of thesis: "Continuous assay systems for the determination of transketolase and transladolase activities in hyperthermophilic bacteria and archaea"
Supervisor: K. Ma
Committee members: B.R. Glick; B. Butler
Chair: B. Duncker
Thursday, September 15, 2011 — 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
Title of thesis: "Temperatures Experienced by Emerald Ash and Other Wood-boring Beetles in the Under-bark Microclimate"
Supervisor: K. Cuddington
Committee members: W.D. Taylor; Y. Gel (Statistics & Actuarial Science)
Chair: B. Reed
Friday, September 9, 2011 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Title of thesis: "Detection of Anammox Bacteria in Ammonium-Contaminated Groundwater"
Supervisor: J. Neufeld
Committee members: B. Butler; S. Schiff (Earth Sciences)
Chair: H. Engelhardt
Thursday, September 8, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Title of Thesis: "The City and the Stream: Impacts of Municipal Wastewater Effluent on the Riffle Food Web in the Speed River, Ontario" Supervisor: M. Servos
Committee Members: D. Barton; M. McMaster
Chair: B. McConkey
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 — 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Title of Thesis: "Examination of sodium arsenite and cadmium chloride-induced HSP accumulation and inhibition of proteasome activity in Xenopus laevis A6 kidney epithelial cells"
Supervisor: J. Heikkila
Committee Members: B. Glick; M. Marsden
Chair: J. Witt
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 — 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
Title of Proposal: "Development of walleye cell lines to study VHSV"
Supervisor: N. Bols
Committee Members: L. Lee (Wilfred Laurier University); B. McConkey; J. Lumsden (University of Guelph)