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26th (2011) Annual Darwin Lecture

Feb 11 2011 - 4:00pm
Feb 11 2011 - 5:00pm
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Speaker: 
Dr. David Reznick (Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of California), the author of “The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species” (2010 Princeton University Press
Location: 
EDC 179
“Darwin’s book was misnamed, because it is … not a treatise on the origin of species,” said Ernst Mayr in 1942. Mayr was one of the foremost evolutionary biologists of the 20th century and a major figure in shaping our modern concept of species and speciation. This comment upset author Dr. David Reznick, who will speak at the University of Calgary on Friday, Feb. 11, about his new book "Origin" Then and Now.
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Electrophoretic and nanopore methods for biomolecule analysis

Jan 18 2011 - 12:00pm
Jan 18 2011 - 1:00pm
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Speaker: 
Andre Marziali (Director of Engineering Physics, Associate Professor, Biophysics Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia)
Location: 
BI 211
Nucleic acids are growing in importance as diagnostic molecules for a variety of disease states and responses to treatment, both as indicators of genetic predisposition, and as biomarkers of disease.
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Mechanism for Synthesis of Lysine-63 PolyUb Chains

Jan 4 2011 - 12:00pm
Jan 4 2011 - 1:00pm
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Speaker: 
Leo Spyracopoulos (Associate Professor of Biochemistry, AHFMR Senior Scholar, Department of Biochemistry School of Molecular and Systems Medicine, University of Alberta)
Location: 
BI 211

Mechanism for Synthesis of Lysine-63 PolyUb Chains and Their Recognition by the DNA Repair Protein RAP80.

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Where are the variants underlying complex traits?

Dec 7 2010 - 10:00am
Dec 7 2010 - 11:00am
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Speaker: 
Stephen Montgomery, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
Location: 
BI 211

Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have both the advantage and challenge that they are agnostic to the mechanism by which genetic variation influences the phenotype tested.

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Dissecting regulatory variation in human genomes

Dec 6 2010 - 2:00am
Dec 6 2010 - 3:00am
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Speaker: 
Stephen Montgomery (Ph.D.), Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
Location: 
BI 211

Specifically, by identifying the genetic variants which influence the expression of particular genes, it is likely we are also uncovering those variants which inform various human conditions.

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PP2C7s: An Ancient, Mitochondrial Clade of Eukaryotic Ser/Thr Protein Phosphatases

Nov 2 2010 - 12:00pm
Nov 2 2010 - 1:00pm
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Speaker: 
David Kerk (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary)
Location: 
BI 211

Reversible protein phosphorylation is foundational to the control of a wide variety of cellular processes, including metabolism, cytoskeletal dynamics, cell cycle control, and cellular differentiation.

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Breaking frames to generate new meanings

Nov 25 2010 - 12:00pm
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Speaker: 
Pasha Baranov (University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)
Location: 
BI 211

A number of gene annotations in most completed bacterial genomes contain coding sequences with disrupted open reading frames.

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Systematic exploration of genetic interactions from yeast to humans

Nov 29 2010 - 11:00am
Nov 29 2010 - 12:00pm
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Speaker: 
Franco Vizeacoumar (University of Toronto)
Location: 
BI 211

Genetic interactions provide a clear picture of how cellular buffering is achieved at molecular level, revealing functional relationship between genes.

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Reconstructing a "history" of the human race

Nov 30 2010 - 12:00pm
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Speaker: 
Adam Wilkins (University of Cambridge& Centre Recherches Interdisciplinaries, University Paris Descartes)
Location: 
Science B 142
All vertebrates have faces but the human face is unique in the extent to which it mediates social interactions with our conspecifics. How did this most special of animal faces arise in evolution?
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Applications of the effective fragment potential method

Aug 4 2010 - 1:30pm
Aug 4 2010 - 2:30pm
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Speaker: 
William R. Rocha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Location: 
BI 211

The Effective Fragment Potential (EFP) method is a powerful method to study chemical processes, se the poster.

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