Seminar Series, Fall 2007
Raymond 4-047 Friday 11:30 am
Macdonald Campus of McGill University
Date | Speaker | Title |
Sept 7 | Jaime Sanchez-Dardon, Core Director Flow Cytometry Core Facility | “Flow cytometry for each and everyone: Presentation of a variety of quantitative and qualitative applications in engineering and biological sciences" |
Sept 14 | Vijay Rao Amira Taman | Haemonchus contortus putative ligand-gated chloride channel: Life stages expression and possible role in macrocyclic lactone resistance Properties of neurotransmitters in Schistosoma mansoni |
Sept 21 | Dr Robin Beech, Institute of Parasitology | "Annotating channels in Haemonchus contortus: Cherry Picking in a Construction Zone" |
Sept 26 | Dr Jeff Williams, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, HaloSource | New water treatment technologies: making water safer for salmon, swimmers, and slum dwellers |
Sept 28 | Dr. Ana Rodriguez, NYU School of Medicine, Medical Parasitology | Plasmodium infection and immune response: from the liver to the blood |
Oct 5 | Dr. David Waltner-Toews Department of Population Medicine University of Guelph | "Between Parasites and Planets: Science in the Muddled Middle" |
Oct 12 | Dr. Manami Nishi, Institute of Parasitology | Mechanisms of antigen presentation and host cell subversion during acute and chronic infection by Toxoplasma gondii |
Oct 19 | Dr Gary Ward, Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Vermont | A small molecule approach to studying host cell invasion by Toxoplasma gondii |
Oct 26 | Dr.Stephen Michnick. Canada Research Chair in Integrative Genomics Département de Biochimie Université de Montreal | The dynamics of protein interaction networks in living cells |
Oct 26 | Dr Marco Albonico | Development of BZ reistance in soil-transmitted nematodes: the threat to humans |
Nov 2 | Dr. Denis Gaucher Dép. de microbiologie et immunologie, U, de Montréal | Correlates of protection: the immune response to yellow fever vaccination |
Nov 9 | Dr Lea Berrang Ford, Dept. Geography, McGill | Spatial and temporal analysis of infectious disease: a case study of sleeping sickness in Uganda |
Nov 16 | Carli Halpenny Marie-Pierre Lardeau | Using an ecosystem approach to assess the impact of Panamanian conditional transfer programs on gastrointestinal parasite infections ....................-TBA-...................... |
Nov 23 | Dr. Rebecca Guy, Laboratory for Food Zoonosis Public Health Agency of Canada | Molecular characterization of parasitic protozoa in aquatic environments |
Nov 30 | Dr. Michael Reed Research Institute - McGill University Health Centre, McGill | "Mycobacterium tuberculosis – does pathogenic diversity exist?" |
Dec 7 | Assatou Diawara | Development of DNA assays, for human soil-transmitted nematodes, for the detection of SNPs associated with benzimidazole resistance |
Seminar Series, Winter 2008
Raymond 4-047 Friday 11:30 am
Macdonald Campus of McGill University
Date | Speaker |
Jan 11 | Janelle Wright, Institute of Parasitology TBA |
Jan 18 | Amira Taman, Institute of Parasitology Properties of neurotransmitters in Schistosoma mansoni Fouad El Shehabi, Institute of Parasitology Characterization of SmGPCR in Schistosoma mansoni |
Jan 25 | Nick Patocka, Institute of Parasitology Serotonin in Schistosomes: The Players Involved |
Feb 1 | Smriti Kala, Institute of Parasitology Identification and characterization of RNA binding and protein interaction domains of the key editosome protein KREPA4 Alireza Darissi, Institute of Parasitology The Long-range Electrostatic Potential Energies of Kinetoplastid RNA Editing Ligases |
Feb 8 | Normand Cyr, Institute of Parasitology Modeling protein-protein interactions between the Leishmania glycosomal proteins LdPEX5 and LdPex14 Maurice Odiere, Institute of Parasitology Metabolic costs and morphological effects of Heligmosomoides bakeri (Nematoda) infection and pregnancy in CD-1 mice |
Feb 15 | Aissatou Diawara, Institute of Parasitology Development of DNA assays, for human soil- transmitted nematodes, for the detection of SNPs associated with benzimidazole resistance |
Feb 22 | Louis-Philippe Leroux, Institute of Parasitology Identification of Toxoplasma gondii genes involved in the inhibition of antigen presenting cell maturation by forward and reverse genetics Hamed Shateri Najafabadi, Institute of Parasitology Computational Methods of Predicting Protein- Protein Interactions and Their Applicability in Parasites |
Feb 29 | Study break |
Mar 7 | Pablo Godoy, Institute of Parasitology Functional analysis of Haemonchus contortus ABC transporters in mammalian cells and interaction with macrocyclic lactones Andrea Rauba, Institute of Parasitology Macrocyclic lactone selection on ABC-transporter genes in Onchocerca volvulus |
Mar 14 | Marie-Claire Rioux, Institute of Parasitology Markers of F. hepatica infection in sheep and cattle: insights into fasciolosis host-parasite interactions Yovany Moreno, Institute of Parasitology Assessing the secretome of a filarial parasitic nematode |
Mar 21 | Easter Break |
Mar 28 | No Seminar |
Apr 4 | Stéphanie Goyette, Institute of Parasitology New insights into Toxoplasma gondii reactivation through biomarker and immunobiological studies Rona Strasser, Institute of Parasitology Characterization of the structure of the Leishmania donovani peroxin 14 (LdPEX14) protein translocation complex |
Apr 11 | To Be Announced |
Apr 18 | Celia Caballero-Franco, Institute of Parasitology Studies of the interactions between gastrointestinal bacteria and epithelial cells |
Apr 25 | Houtan Moshiri, Institute of Parasitology Identification & characterization of editosome inhibitors by highthrougput screening (HTS) |
May 2 | Dr Ana Sanchez, Brock University The Epidemiology of Taenia solium in Honduras |
May 9 | |
May 16 | Rémi Laberge, Institute of Parasitology Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Collateral Sensitivity of MDR Tumor Cells Expressing ABC Proteins |
May 23 | Ana Pilar , Institute of Parasitology Molecular characterization of the PTS2 import receptor protein PEX7 in Leishmania donovani |
June 6 | Mike Osei-Atweneboana, Institute of Parasitology Responses of Onchocerca volvulus to repeated rounds of ivermectin treatment: a longitudinal study |
June 13 | Dr Silvina Fernandez University of Guelph To Be Announced |
June 20 | Dr Marc-Jan Gubbels Boston College To Be Announced |
* These seminars are supported through a FQRNT Centre Grant
the Office of Vice-Principal (Research)
and by the Institute of Parasitology