Program

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Friday October 16, 2009
Opening Reception at 89 Chestnut Street

6.00 p.m - 11.00 p.m

Opening Reception

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Saturday October 17, 2009
Research Symposium (Symposium Chair: Howard Lipshitz) at 89 Chestnut Street

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome
(Howard Lipshitz, Chair, Molecular Genetics; Cathy Whiteside, Dean, Faculty of Medicine

9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Lou Siminovitch
Professor Emeritus, Molecular Genetics
(Chair of the Department from 1969 to 1979)
“Founding the Department & its first decade"

9:30 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.

Pamela Stanley
Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
(Siminovitch, PDF, 1972-77)
"Somatic Cell Genetics and glycan functions in Notch Signalling"

9:55 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

Gill Wu
Professor, York University, Toronto
(Murialdo, Ph.D., 1984)
“On the Role of Med Gen in Becoming B Cells : G.O.D. is in the Details"

10:20 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Ivan Sadowski
Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
(Pawson, Ph.D., 1987)
"Protein kinases regulating yeast differentiation

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Coffee break

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Jim Friesen
Professor Emeritus, Banting & Best Department of Medical Research
(Chair of the Department from 1981 to 1987)
“The Department’s second decade”

11:15 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Stephen Michnick
Professor, University of Montreal
(Carver, Ph.D., 1989)
"The Dark Matter of Cell Molecular Networks"

11:40 a.m. - 12:05 a.m.

Jacques Archambault
Professor, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal
(Friesen, Ph.D., 1992)
"Viral and host factors mediating papillomavirus DNA replication"

12:05 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Cecilia Moens
Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
(Rossant, Ph.D., 1993)
"Morphogenesis and cell migration in the zebrafish dissecting complex cell behaviours in a simple vertebrate brain."

12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Lunch

1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Paul Sadowski
Professor Emeritus, Molecular Genetics
(Chair of the Department from 1988 to 1998)
“The Department’s third decade"

2:00 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.

Zhigang He
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston
(Ingles, Ph.D., 1996)
“Mechanisms of axon regeneration”

2:25 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

Ian Chin-Sang
Associate Professor, Queens University, Kingston
(Spence, Ph.D., 1998)
"Secrets from a tiny worm"

2:50 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Jennifer Surtees
Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo
(Funnell, Ph.D., 2001)
"A needle in a haystack: How mismatch repair proteins find and bind their DNA substrates"

3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Coffee break

3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.

Brenda Andrews
Professor, Molecular Genetics; Chair, Banting & Best Department of Medical Research; Director, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
(Chair of the Department from 1999 to 2004)
“The Department’s fourth decade”

3:55 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

Liz Patton
Group Leader, University of Edinburgh, UK
(Tyers, Ph.D., 2001)
“Chemical and genetic control of melanocyte and melanoma development in zebrafish”

4:20 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Nevan Krogan
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco, USA
(Greenblatt, Ph.D., 2006)
“Unbiased Biology: Functional Insights from Interaction Networks or How to Get From Saskatchewan to California”

4:45 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.

Tomas Babak
Senior Research Scientist, Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, USA
(Hughes/Blencowe, Ph.D., 2007)
“Novel insights from allele-specific genomics”

5:10 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

Closing remarks (Howard Lipshitz)

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Saturday 2009-October-17
Banquet & Entertainment at 89 Chestnut Street

6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Cocktails

7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Banquet

9:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

Entertainment

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Sunday 2009-October-18
Informal gatherings and brunches of individual labs or interest groups at various locations

(TBA)

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