Seminar Series, Winter 2021
Zoom Link, Friday 11:30 am
Macdonald Campus, McGill University
| January 15 | James Collins University of Texas Sex, Drugs, and Worms: Understanding schistosome biology to advance therapeutic development |
| January 22 | Guy Palmer Washington State University One Health: Moving from Concept to Global Impact |
| January 29 | Daniel Moses Institute of Parasitology Structure and function of Trypanosoma brucei RNA ligation enzymes KREL1 and KREPA2 Cody Handy-Hart Institute of Parasitology Tuning in on a New (Ion) Channel: Exploring the evolution of ion channels in nematodes |
| February 5 | Sarah Reiling McGill Genome Centre SARS‐CoV‐2 Sequencing at the McGill Genome Centre |
| February 12 | Ryan Chan Institute of Parasitology Elucidating the Role of Cholesterol in the Male- Female Interplay of Schistosoma mansoni Gaby Madrigal Institute of Parasitology Helminth Derived Molecules as a novel therapeutic approach to rheumatoid arthritis |
| February 19 | de'Broski Herbert Penn State University How Can IL-33 Serve Critical Roles in Both Resistance and Susceptibility to Helminths? |
| February 26 | Tosin Opadokun Institute of Parasitology Extracellular Vesicles in Falciparum Malaria Zhiqiang Institute of Parasitology Optimized Metabolomics Analysis Pipeline and Global Meta-analysis on COVID-19 pathogenesis from Metabolomics |
| March 5 | No Seminar Institute of Parasitology Spring Break |
| March 12 | Elizabeth Sicilliani Institute of Parasitology Analysis and characterization of the excreted/secreted products of parasitic helminths as immunomodulators of inflammatory bowel disease |
| March 19 | Poorya Mirzavand Institute of Parasitology Three amino acids determine accessory protein requirement in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors Jennifer Noonan Institute of Parasitology Computational functional annotation of trypanosomatid pathogens |
| March 26 | Moti Sabat Institute of Parasitology Decoding and targeting gene regulation in trypanosomatids |
| April 9 | Tony Isebe Institute of Parasitology The telomeric expression site complex (TESC) control of VSG gene expression in T. brucei Venkata Bellem Institute of Parasitology Mapping the human ABCB1 protein-protein interactions |
| April 16 | Guangyan Zhou Institute of Parasitology Understanding biology from ‐omics data using advanced statistics and visual analytics |
| April 23 | Orçun Hacariz Institute of Parasitology Elucidation of host-microbiome interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans using omics approaches |
| April 30 | Vivian Liu Institute of Parasitology Single-Molecule Virus-Host Interactions In Virus Life Cycle |
| May 7 | Katrina di Bacco Institute of Parasitology TBA |
