News & Events
Journal Clubs and Seminar Schedule 2009-2010
Time & Location - 11:00 am, 204-A EEB
| Sep 3 | New school year development and perspective of Prion Centre - Dr. David Westaway, et al |
| Sep 10 | Wild-type Shadoo proteins convert to amyloid-like forms under native condition - Dr. Nathalie Daude |
| Sep 17 | Intellectual Property at U of Alberta - Joanna Preston, Manager, Tech Transfer (Health Sciences) |
| Sep 24 | Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain - Dr. Satyabrata Kar |
| Oct 1 | Functionally relevant domains of the prion protein identified in vivo - Dr. Sacha Genovesi |
| Oct 6 | Meeting update from Prion 2009, Chalkidiki, Greece - Dr. David Westaway |
| Oct 15 | Overview of the VLS: A Human Research Platform for Testing Genetic and Epigenetic Associations with Healthy Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and sporadic Alzheimer's Disease - Dr. Roger A. Dixon & Dr. Stuart W.S. MacDonald |
| Oct 22 | Multiscale modeling of misfolding and aggregation of amyloidogenic proteins - Dr. Andriy Kovalenko (Video Conference) |
| Oct 29 | Walking around Shadoo biology: behaviour in prion infection, cleavage sites and neuroprotection - Dr. Sacha Genovesi |
| Nov 5 | Journal Club: Alzheimer's disease-like pathological features in transgenic mice expressing the APP intracellular domain - Presenter: Mahua Maulik |
| Nov 12 | Could the species-barrier of TSEs be explained by species-specific plasma co-factors involved in misfolding and/or propagation of misfolded prion proteins? - Dr. Norman Neumann (Video Conference) |
| Nov 19 | Journal Club: S-Nitrosylation of Drp1 Mediates β-Amyloid–Related Mitochondrial Fission and Neuronal Injury - Cho DH et al, Science, 2009 – Presenter: Dr. SangGyun Kang |
| Nov 26 | Genetic and metabolic triggers of Alzheimer's disease neuropathogenesis - Dr. David Vergote |
| Dec 3 | Developing Novel Zebrafish Models to Investigate Neurological Diseases - Dr. Ed Burton, University of Pittsburgh |
| Dec 10 | Special seminar: Building Operations in CPPFD - Ned Chisholm |
| Dec 17 | The long and short of it: Telomeres, nutrition and Alzheimer's disease - Dr. Nathan O'Callaghan |
| Jan 14 | The Molecular Response to Prion Infection – Laura Moody, University of Wisconsin |
| Jan 21 | Journal Club: Darwinian Evolution of Prions in Cell Culture Li J et al, Science, 2009 – Presenter: Dr. Valerie Fleish |
| Jan 28 | Regulation of PrPSc Propagation by the Plasmin(ogen) System - Charles Mays, University of Kentucky |
| Feb 4 | Journal Club: A Novel, Drug-based, Cellular Assay for the Activity of Neurotoxic Mutants of the Prion Protein Massignan T et al, J Biol Chem, 2009 – Presenter: Dr. Nathalie Daude |
| Feb 11 | Journal Club: Neuroprotective Function of Cellular Prion Protein in a Mouse Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Steinacker P et al, Am j Pathol, 2010 – Presenter: Agnes Lau |
| Feb 18 | Journal Club: Axonal Prion Protein is Required for Peripheral Myelin Maintenance - Bremer J et al, Nat Neurosci, 2010 - Presenter: Dr. Allen Herbst |
| Feb 25 | Beta-Amyloid (Abeta) Activation of Mouse Basal Forebrain Neurons is Mediated by Prion Proteins – Dr. Kwai Alier |
| Mar 4 | Journal Club: Reduced IGF-1 Signaling Delays Age-Associated Proteotoxicity in Mice - Cohen E et al, Cell, 2009 – Presenter: Dr. David Vergote |
| Mar 11 | Journal Club: Alcadein cleavages by APP a-and g-secretases generate small peptides p3-Alcs indicating Alzheimer disease-related g-secretase dysfunction – Hata S et al, J Biol Chem, 2009 – Presenter: Dr. Laura Edwards-Ingram |
| Mar 18 | Social Science Cafe: Discussing Implications of Live Testing (Video Conference) |
| Mar 25 | Meeting update from PrP Canada |
| Apr 1 | Prion/AD Research Seminars – Olivier Julien/Mahua Maulik |
| Apr 8 | Prion Seminar – Dr. Vinicius Gadotti, University of Calgary (Videoconference) |
| Apr 15 | AD/Prion Research Seminars – Darcy Kaiser/Rory Shott |
| Apr 22 | Processing and functional roles of the major isoforms of the Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein – Dr. Tim Revett |
| Apr 29 | Prion Seminar – Dr. Stephanie Booth – Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg (Video Conference) |
| May 6 | Prion/AD Research Seminar – Agnes Lau/Amany Mohamed |
| May 13 | Research Seminar – Dr. Joe Casey |
| May 20 | Prion Research Seminar – Dr. SangGyun Kang |
Archive 2008-2009
