Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dalhousie University

2024

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Robert Beiko
Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Untangling the Who, What, and Where of Lateral Gene Transfer

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Rui Huang
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph

Exploring Structure and Conformational Dynamics of the p97 Molecular Machine Using Solution NMR Spectroscopy

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, December 2, 2024 at 09:30 a.m.

M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Karim Abdelgabar

BSc(H) Biochem & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, May 2022

Effects of neuron-specific depletion of cholesterol biosynthesis on dendritic spines

Location

Room C-206 CRC and Room 266 DMNB
Friday, November 29, 2024 at 09:30 a.m.

M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Berna Lalin Macin

BSc(H) Chemistry, Dalhousie University, May 2023

Testing for Protein Composition-Dependent Variation of Recombinant Pyriform Silk Fibre Mechanics

Location

Room 1205, Dentistry Building and Room 266, DMNB
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Logan Slade
Patrick Prize Recipient, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Regulation of Replication Origin Licensing in Cell Proliferation and Quiescence

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Alyssa Huynh
Honours Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Exploring Glutamate Dehydrogenase Inactivation by Auto-palmitoylation

&

Aryan Vesuna
Honours Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Investigating Glutamine-dependent CTP Formation Catalyzed by CTP Synthases

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Katie Wilson
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

From Molecules to Medicine: Insights from Computational Biochemistry

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 1:30 p.m.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Sarah van der Ende
Ph.D. Candidate, 
BSc (Biology), The King’s University, 2018

Investigating Candidate Genes and Disease Mechanism for the Childhood Blinding Disease Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy

Location

Microsoft Teams and room 3107 of the Mona Campbell Building
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Anupama Ghimire
Hogue Award Recipient, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Engineering and Functionalizing Recombinant Chimeric Strong and Stretchy Spider Silks

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Paul Dutchak
Assistant Professor, Département de psychiatrie et de neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval.

Intracellular Amino Acid-Signaling Causing Epilepsy: Ancient Genetic Pathways Reveal Future Therapeutic Avenues

Location

MS Teams
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Alberto Rascón
Associate Professor, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University

Developing a CUREs for the Capstone Biochemistry Lab: Incorporating Aedes aegypti Mosquito Protease Work

Location

MS Teams
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Jonathan Krupski
MSc Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Analyzing the Protein Interactome of Lysine Methyltransferase G9a in Drosophila melanogaster

&

Berna Macin
MSc Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Testing for protein composition-dependent variation of recombinant pyriform silk fibre mechanics

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Noor Youssef
Postdoctoral Fellow, Debora Marks Lab, Harvard Medical School

Future-proofing vaccines with generative AI models

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Trilok Neupane
PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Characterizing Rhodoquinone Biosynthesis Enzyme: A Methyltransferase Catalyzing an Atypical Amino Transfer Reaction

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Julie Brill
Professor, Institute of Medical Science and the Collaborative Developmental Biology, University of Toronto. 

Regulation of membrane trafficking and lipid transport by PI 4-kinases and PI4P

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 09:30 a.m.

M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Nikolaj Brask

BSc (H), Dalhousie University, May 2022

Multi-omics Visualization of Nuclear Architecture in the Early Branching Dinoflagellate, Oxyrrhis marina

Location

Room 3H, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building and Room 218 DMNB
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 09:30 a.m.

M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Joshua David Avery

BSc(H) Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2021

CIRCADIAN NEURONS COMMUNICATE ACROSS DISTINCT REGIONS OF THE DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER BRAIN TO INSTRUCT ASPECTS OF BEHAVOUR

 

Location

Room G-36, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building and Room 218 DMNB
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 09:00 a.m.

M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Toni-Anne Dixon

B.Sc. (H), May 2022, Mount Allison University

mTORC1 ACTIVATION BY ENDOLYSOSOMAL-DERIVED NUTRIENTS

 

Location

Room C-206, Sir Charles Tupper Building Link and Room 266, DMNB
Friday, August 9, 2024 at 2:30 pm

Dr. Valerie Booth

Professor in Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Molecular crowding effects on proteins: finding the right happy medium between top-down and bottom-up approaches

 

Location

Room 3H, Tupper building and room 221 DMNB
Friday, August 9, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Tam Pham

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

From Intrinsically Disordered Peptides And Proteins To Globular Proteins To Supramolecular Complexes: Development Of New 19F-NMR Methodologies For Increased Versatility In Characterization Of Polypeptide Biophysics, Membrane Binding, And Intermolecular Interactions

 

Location

Room 3107 of the Mona Campbell Building
Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 09:30 a.m.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Morgan Colp

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Studies on the genome biology and evolution of Acanthamoeba

 

Location

Room 3107 of the Mona Campbell Building
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Dr. Elizabeth Meiering
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo

Unravelling and rational design of protein solubility and inclusion bodies

 

Location

Room 3H, Tupper building and room 221 DMNB
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 12:30 p.m.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Kathleen Vergunst

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Characterizing the structure and assembly features of class IB hydrophobins

 

Location

Room 3107 of the Mona Campbell Building
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 10:00 am

Cancelled: Dr. Scot Stone

Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan

Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase-2 (DGAT2): Localization, Regulation and Some Imagination

 

Location

Theatre C, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, June 24, 2024 at 2:30 pm

Dr. Andrew Inkpen

Assistant Professor, in the Department of Philosophy, Mount Allison University 

The healthy human microbiome: What could we mean?

 

Location

Room 3H, Tupper Bldg and Room 218 DMNB
Monday, June 17, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Alexander Foo

Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry, St. Francis Xavier University. Profile

Understanding (and exploiting) Allergens at the Molecular Level

Location

Room 3H, Tupper Bldg and Room 218 DMNB
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Kareem Abdelgabar
MSc Student, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Investigating The Role of Neurnal Cholesterol Biosynthesis In Hippocampal Neurons

&

Joshua Avery
MSc Student, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Circadian Neurons Communicate across Distinct Regions of the Brain to instruct aspects of Behavior

 

Location

Room 3H, Tupper Bldg and Room 218 DMNB
Monday, June 3, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

RAYMOND HE
MSc Student, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Characterizing and Applying Self-Assembly Features of Hydrophobins

&

NIK BRASK
MSc Student, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Multi-omics visualization of nuclear architecture in early branching dinoflagellate, Oxyrrhis marina

 

Location

Room 3H, Tupper Building and DMNB 218 
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 

Macpherson Seminar Series

Invited Speakers: 

 

Allyson F. O'Donnell
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Oh, the places you’ll go! Defining mechanisms of selective protein trafficking and targeting

and

Dr. Martin St. Maurice
Professor of Biological Sciences, Marquette University

A swing and a miss: allostery and carrier domain dynamics in pyruvate carboxylase

Location

Room 3H, Tupper Building
Monday, May 13, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Toni-Anne Dixon
MSc Student, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Understanding mTORC1 activation by endolysosomal-derived nutrients

&

Meghan Hamilton
MSc Student, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Exploring the Transition State Stabilization by Dihydrodaidzein Racemase (DDRC)

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 9:30 a.m.

Dr. David Smith
Associate Professor, Biology Department, University of Western Ontario

A no-nonsense talk about science communication

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 12:30 p.m.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Shelby Williams

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

“INVESTIGATING A NOVEL CLADE OF ANAEROBIC MICROBIAL EUKARYOTES”

 

Location

In-Person attendance:  room 3107 of the Mona Campbell Building

Virtual attendance: Microsoft Teams

Meeting Link: Click here to join the meeting
Monday, April 29, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Alexander Baker

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University

Sticky Opportunities for Non-canonical Amino Acids in Proteins

 

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, April 22, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Harry Brumer

Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia. Profile

Dissecting the molecular basis of dietary fibre metabolism by the human gut microbiota

 

Location

MS Teams
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.

PhD. Thesis Defence  - Ronie Haro

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Investigating the genomic composition of Oxyrrhis marina, an early diverging dinoflagellate

 

Location

 

In-Person attendance:  room 3107 of the Mona Campbell Building

Map Link: http://www.dal.ca/campus-maps/building-directory/studley-campus/mona-campbell-building.html

Virtual attendance: Microsoft Teams

Meeting Link: Join the meeting now

Please note: Audience members should arrive no later than 10 minutes prior to the start time.
Monday, April 1, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Emily Chase

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee, USA

Bloom associated viruses: Studies of the HAB Aureococcus anophagefferens

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, March 25, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Locke Davenport Huyer

Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Applied Oral Sciences, Dalhousie University

Macrophage metabolism in pathological fibrosis: from novel phenotyping tools to biomaterial-based therapeutics

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Friday, March 22, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Honours Presentations

 

Location

Room 3H1, Tupper Building
Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.

M.Sc. Thesis Defence  - Lara Virgilio

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

INVESTIGATING THE DUAL ROLE OF A MARINE ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN, WINTER FLOUNDER AFP6

 

Location

C-206 CRC and Room 266 DMNB
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Honours Presentations

 

Location

Room 3H1, Tupper Building
Monday, March 18, 2024 at 1:30 p.m.

Graduate Student Symposium

 

Location

Room 3H1, Tupper Building
Monday, March 11, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Todd Holyoak

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo. Profile

Exploring the role of structure and dynamics in enzyme function: a study of the PEPCK family of metabolic kinases

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, March 4, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Jyh-Yeuan (Eric) Lee 

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa. Profile

Allostery and substrate selectivity on ABC sterol transporters

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, February 26, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Carlie Charron

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dalhousie University. Profile

Building on Nature's Potential: Improving Natural Peptides for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, January 29, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Julie Brill

Senior Scientist, Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. Profile

Regulation of membrane trafficking and lipid transport by PI 4-kinases and PI4P

Location

Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Bldg and Room 102 DMNB
Monday, January 22, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Lisa Willis

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences, University of Alberta. Profile

Equity in biomedical science research and practice - sex differences and beyond

Location

MS Teams