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
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 — 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Guest Speaker: Dr. Régis Pomès
(Associate Professor, Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto)
Title of Seminar: "Molecular Simulations of Peptides and Proteins in Biological Membranes"
All are welcome!
Please contact Dr. Pierre Nicholas-Roy if you would like to meet with Dr. Pomès on the day of his seminar.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 — 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT
Final Schedule (PDF)
Friday, March 25, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Dr. Neil P. Price
(NCAUR-ARS-USDA, Peoria, IL U.S.A)
Title of Seminar: "Biosynthesis of the tunicamycins: translocase-I inhibitors that target the synthesis of bacterial peptidoglycan and eukaryotic N-glycoproteins"
All are welcome!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 — 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Title of Proposal: "Use of fish cell lines to compare the cytotoxicity of tetrabromobisphenol A with its degradation products and with an alternative brominated flame retardant"
Supervisor: N. Bols
Committee Members: V. Dayeh; L. Lee (WLU)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 — 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Guest Speaker: Dr. John Dawson
(Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON)
Title of Seminar: "Variants of Cardiac Actin in Heart Disease"
All are welcome!
Please contact Dr. Elizabeth Meiering if you would like to meet with Dr. John Dawson on the day of his seminar.
Friday, March 18, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Dr. Susanne Kohalmi
(Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON)
Title of Seminar: "Arogenate Dehydratases: Molecular characterization of an Arabidopsis enzyme family required for the synthesis of phenylalanine"
All are welcome!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 — 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Guest Speaker: Dr. Dylan R. Pillai
(Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)
Title of Seminar: "Antimicrobial Resistance in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory"
All are welcome!
Please contact Dr. Gary Dmitrienko if you would like to meet with Dr. Pillai on the day of his seminar.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 — 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM EDT
Friday, March 11, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Title of Defence: "Characterization of the Evolution and Phylogenetic Distribution of Cryptic Species in the Red Algae (Rhodophyta) Using Novel Gene Sequence Analysis"
Supervisor: Dr. K. Müller
Friday, March 11, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
Speaker: Dr. Jinzhong Fu (Associate Professor, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON)
Title of Seminar: "Decoupling the evolutionary trajectories of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes: hybridization and dispersal"
All are welcome!
Friday, March 11, 2011 — 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST
Title of Proposal: "The thermal and spatial ecology and associated entrainment risk of burbot Lota lota, in a large hydropower reservoir in British Columbia, Canada"
Supervisor: M. Power
Committee Members: W.D. Taylor; S. Cooke
Thursday, March 10, 2011 — 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM EST
Waterloo Bowling Lanes & Heuther Hotel
Free bowling & food right after!
Please RSVP
Thursday, March 10, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Title of Proposal: "The development and use of eel cell cultures in ecotoxicology"
Supervisor(s): N. Bols; L. Lee (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Committee Members: B. Dixon; J. Heikkila
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 — 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM EST
This meeting if for faculty only.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 — 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST
Guest Speaker: Dr. Robert G. Bristow (Depts. of Radiation Oncology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto)
Title of Seminar: "Contextual Synthetic Lethality and Hypoxic Cells: New Ways to Target Cancer Cells via Defective DNA Repair"
Please contact Prof. Qing-Bin Lu if you would like to meet with Dr. Robert Bristow on the day of his seminar.
Friday, March 4, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
(Assistant Professor, Cardiac Protein Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON)
Title of Seminar: "Evolution of the regulatory control of the vertebrate heart; the role of protein phosphorylation"
All are welcome!
Thursday, March 3, 2011 — 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST
Title of Proposal: "Characterization of the distribution of benthic algae on Lake Huron"
Supervisor: D. Barton
Committee Members: R.I. Hall; W.D. Taylor; K. Müller; T. Howell
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Presented by the Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) Program
Speaker: Marcel Pinheiro (PhD Candidate)
Title of Workshop: The Socratic Scientist: A Tool for the Biology Teaching Toolbox
All are welcome!
Monday, February 21, 2011 (all day) to Friday, February 25, 2011 (all day)
No Classes scheduled
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EST
"Nanostructure-enabled electronic diagnostic devices"
Guest Speaker: Dr. Shana Kelley
(Director, Division of Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto)
Refreshments will be available. All are welcome!
Monday, February 14, 2011 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST
On Monday, February 14th, we will be having a Valentine's Day themed Coffee Hour. There will be coffee and goodies (how can you resist cinnamon hearts on Valentine's Day?).
We will also be having another Bake Off! The best cookies will win a great prize! So if you think you make the best cookies in the Biology Department, put them to the test and enter them in our Bake Off!
See you there!
The BGSA
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 — 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM EST
Come out and meet the CEDARLANE representatives and ask technical questions.
Coffee and snacks will be provided!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 — 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST
IBMB Seminar Series
Guest Speaker: Dr. Matthew Rise
(Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Marine Biotechnology, Marine Biotechnology Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Title of Seminar: "Functional Genomic Studies of Fish Stress and Immune Responses"
All are welcome!
Friday, February 4, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
Speaker: Dr. Ray Lu
(Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology Department , University of Guelph, Guelph, ON)
Title of Seminar: "Postpartum depression and misregulation of stress signaling in LRF-deficient mice"
[Host: Dr. D. Spafford]
All are welcome!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
This meeting if for faculty only.