The Diabetes, Infectious Diseases & Immunology (DIDI) Seminar Series

 

With the Immunity in Health and Disease (IHD) research cluster, the Diabetes Research Program host a weekly Research Seminar, the Diabetes, Infectious Diseases & Immunology (DIDI seminar series). Held on Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m., DIDI features two volunteer speakers from each lab or a special guest speaker.

A weekly Journal Club is held on Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. This club meets to review recent publications of relevance to childhood diabetes research.

 

DIDI Seminar Series schedule - 2012
Wednesdays 9:00-10:00 a.m.

April, 2012
April 25th Room 2108
"Exploring novel B cell effector functions in anti-microbial responses"
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Gommerman
Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto
 
April 18th Room 2108
"Another knockout animal phenotype: insights into the role of AKAP150 in the beta cell from genetic models"
Guest Speaker: Dr. Simon Hinke
Senior Fellow, Department of Pharmacology at the University of Washington, Seattle.
 
April 11th Room 2108
"Regulatory T cell therapy in transplantation"
Guest Speaker: Dr. Qizhi Tang
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Diabetes Centre, University of California, San Francisco.
 

April 4th Room 2108
"How a common, everyday virus like Epstein-Barr virus likely induces
autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis"
Guest Speaker: Dr. Marc Horwitz
Associate Professor and Sauder Chair of Pediatric Virology in the UBC Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Co-leader of the Infection, Inflammation & Immunity Research Group
March, 2012

March 28th Room 2108
"Cross-sectional global cohort: immunological analysis of children at two years of age"
~ Kinga Smolen, Kollmann Lab

"Studying the pathways through which MyD88 maintains mucosal integrity during colitis"
~ Ganive Bhinder, Vallance Lab
 
March 21st Room 2108
"The role of NKT cell activation in MDA-LDL immunization for atherosclerosis prevention"
~ Naoki Kitano, van den Elzen Lab
 

March 14th Room K0-155
"The role of islet macrophages in type 2 diabetes: from pro-inflammation to regeneration"
~ Dominika Nackiewicz, Ehses Lab

"Characterization of Burkholderia cenocepacia-induced neutrophil death
in chronic granulomatous disease"
~ Allison McDonald, Speert Lab
 

March 7th Room K0-155
"Visualizing cellular machines with single-particle electron microscopy"
Guest Speaker
Dr. Calvin Yip, PhD
Assistant Professor,
UBC Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
 
February, 2012

February 8th Room 2108
"Islet transplantation: making Tregs CARe"
~ Paul Orban, Verchere Lab

"Studying the developing innate immune system of preterm babies"
~ Roger Jen, Lavoie Lab
 

February 15th Room 2108
"Development of a gene expression-based, high-throughput screening platform for human T regulatory cells"
~ Adele Wang, Levings Lab

"Self-assembling peptides and amino acids in nanoscale drug formulation: the Src tyrosine kinase inhibitor PP2"
~ Shan-Yu (Shane) Fung, Turvey Lab
 

February 22nd Room 2108
"Whole exome sequencing in rare disorders"
~ Dr. William Gibson

"TLR9-mediated modulation of colitis and subsequent insulitis by the enteric pathogen citrobacter rodentium"
~ Yiqun Zhang, Dutz Lab
 

February 29th Room 2108
"Developing a humanized mouse model to study immune responses to EBV"
~ Dr. Rashmi Gupta, Tan Lab

"Roles of pro-apoptotic Bax and Bak in beta-cell death in diabetes"
~ Sarah A. White, Luciani Lab
 
January, 2012
January 11th Room 2108
"Signal transduction of immune cell activation"
Special Guest Speaker, André Veillette
 
January 18th Room 2108
"Beta cell prosurvival effects of incretin hormones and dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitors: common and disparate modes of action"
Guest Speaker, Christopher McIntosh
 

January 25th Room 3113
"P13Kδ-deficient, classically activated macrophages exacerbate intestinal inflammation in mice during DSS-induced colitis"
~ Shelley Weisser, Sly Lab

"Single immunoglobulin IL-1R-related molecule (SIGIRR) promotes mucosal homeostasis during infectious colitis"
~ Ho Pan (Andy) Sham, Vallance Lab

 

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