Our Department hosts leaders in their fields to present their research during our weekly 鈥淢olecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology鈥� seminar series. Graduate students present their research during regular work-in-progress seminars (WIPS) to the department. (Schedule will be listed below)
The MCDB Seminars are held on Mondays at 12:00 pm in Stewart Bio N2/2.
Refreshments will be served at 11:30 am.
Fall 2024
| Date/Time | Speaker | Title | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, September 30, 2024 |
Jesse Shapiro |
Rapid evolution of pathogens within patients听 | Kassen Lab |
| Monday, October 21, 2024 | Johns Hopkins |
The synaptonemal complex in Caenorhabditis elegans | Zetka Lab |
| Monday, October 28, 2024 | Amy Smith-Dijak Postdoc 麻豆AV |
TBA | Watt Lab |
| Monday, November 4, 2024 | UQTR |
DAF-18/PTEN prevents oocyte wastage in spermless C. elegans hermaphrodites by blocking spermatheca neck dilation through AKT-1/2 and RHO-1/RhoA | Hekimi Lab |
| Monday, November 11, 2024 | Stanford University |
TBA | Vogel Lab |
| Monday, November 18, 2024 | Universit茅 Laval |
Of nutrients and toxicants: Plant root membrane transport in a time of major flux | Zheng Lab |
| Monday, November 25, 2024 | University of Michigan |
Regulation of dynein in multiple dimensions ensures trafficking specificity | Brouhard Lab |
| Monday, December 2, 2024 | Concordia University |
Teaching an old dog new tricks: using endogenous tags to study cell division in human cells | Vogel Lab |
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Molecular Biology - Work in Progress Seminars (WIPS)
Our Work in Progress seminars are intended primarily for Doctoral candidates to prepare for or deliver their Ph.D. Seminar presentations. Master's students are also welcome to discuss their research and seek feedback.听The student rep for WIPs is Rana Abdelhalim (rana.abdelhalim [at] mail.mcgill.ca).
WIPS are held on Thursdays 12:00-1:00pm in Stewart Bio, N7/1.
| Date | Presenter 1 | Presenter 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, October 10, 2024 | PhD seminar: Maddy Shred (Brouhard Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, October 24, 2024 | Amirhossein Najafabadi (Zetka Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, October 31, 2024 | Arghya Das (Moon Lab) | McLean Sherrin (Roy Lab) |
| Thursday, November 7, 2024 | Bruna Soares de Souza (Watt Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, November 14, 2024 | PhD seminar: Sabih Rashid (Roy Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, November 21, 2024 | Mariam Anwar (Lasko/Abouheif Lab) | Simone Miklosi (Cristescu Lab) |
| Thursday, December 5, 2024 | Priscila Medrano (Gerhold Lab) | Silma Subah (Zetka Lab) |
| Thursday, December 12, 2024 | Mary Nicoll (Dankort Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, January 9, 2025 | Kaitlin Mac Donald (Nilson Lab) | Yifan Tai (Hekimi Lab) |
| Thursday, January 16, 2025 | Alexandra Paquette (Brouhard Lab) | Noah Lilienfeldt (Hekimi Lab) |
| Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 | Tianzi Yang (Reyes Lab) | Khalid Al-Naemi (Vogel Lab) |
| Thursday, January 30, 2025 | Alyssa Centonza-Brenie (Zetka Lab) | Ana Paulina Gutierrez Alejandre (Reyes Lab) |
| Thursday, February 6, 2025 | John Pino (Gerhold Lab) | Nada El Baba (Hayer Lab) |
| Thursday, February听13, 2025 | Eric Cheng (Gerhold Lab) | Nikolai Ho (Sch枚ck Lab) |
| Thursday, February 20, 2025 | Jos茅 Medina (Sch枚ck Lab) | Rana Abdelhalim (Watt Lab) |
| Thursday, February 27, 2025 | Ben Rogers (Watt Lab) | Elena Jurczak (Roy Lab) |
| Thursday, March 13, 2025 | PhD seminar: Baishali Mukherjee (Hayer Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, March 20, 2025 | Augusto Urena (Gerhold Lab) | Tanaka Mutsayi (Vogel Lab) |
| Thursday, March 27, 2025 | Yiran Fan (Vogel Lab) | Katherine Morelli (Vogel Lab) |
| Thursday, April 3, 2025 | Rodrigo Miguelez-Ram铆rez (Hayer Lab) | Annie Li (Moon Lab) |
| Thursday, April 10, 2025 | PhD seminar: Qiyao Lin (Hayer Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, April 17, 2025 | PhD seminar: Jose-Pablo Rascon-Perez (Reyes Lab) | N/A |
| Thursday, April 24, 2025 | PhD seminar: Megan Letourneau (Bureau Lab) | N/A |
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