Seminar Archives 2020-2022

SPEAKER: Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink; Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute; University of British Columbia

TITLE: Metabolic conditioning of CD8 T cells; a little stress goes a long way 

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Sonya MacParland, Scientist, CRC Tier 2 in Liver Immunobiology
Toronto General Research Institute; Associate Professor, Depts of Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology; University of Toronto

TITLE: Behind the mask: Mapping the human liver microenvironment in health and disease

HOST: Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor (Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology)

Dr. MacParland is the external examiner for Connie Le, PhD candidate in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology who defends her thesis May 18, 2022

SPEAKER: Dr. Marianna Kulka, Senior Researcher, Team Lead of Biomedical Nanotechnologies
National Research Council – Nanotechnology Research Centre; Adjunct Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology; University of Alberta

TITLE: Mast cell activation through G protein-coupled receptors and the high affinity IgE receptor 

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Stephanie Yanow, Professor in Global Health, School of Public Health; University of Alberta

TITLE: A heterologous vaccine strategy against malaria in pregnancy 

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Carlos Fernandez-Patron; Professor; Department of Biochemistry; University of Alberta

TITLE: MMPs activity potential and possible contribution to cardiac-hepatic inflammation 

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Joel Dacks, Professor, Division of Infectious Disease; Department of Medicine, University of Alberta

TITLE: Understanding membrane-trafficking systems of parasites through an evolutionary lens

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Johnathan Canton, Assistant Professor (Immunology); Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine; Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Calgary

TITLE: Endosomal integrity in dendritic cells: When antigen makes a break for it 

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Virology and Oncotherapy
Associate Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology; University of Alberta

TITLE: Assembly of capsids of dsRNA viruses: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

HOST: Dr. Amit Bhavsar

Seminar Chair: Dr. Kristi Baker

SPEAKER: Dr. Spencer Freeman, Canada Research Chair Tier II in Immune Surveillance
Assistance Professor, Department of Biochemistry; University of Toronto

TITLE: Immune surveillance and fluid handling by tissue resident macrophages =

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Etienne Caron, Assistant Professor and Deputy Head, Research Axis, Immune Diseases & Cancer; Director, Mass-Spectrometry Resource Facility; Montreal, Quebec

TITLE: Mapping the Immunopeptidomic landscape of mammalian cells: Applications in pediatric cancer and infectious diseases 

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Chris Le, Distinguished University Professor; Director, Analytical and Environmental Toxicology Division; Dept of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology; Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society for Canada

TITLE: CRISPR and isothermal amplification for sensitive detection of nucleic acids including SARS-CoV-2 RNA 

HOSTS: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Noni E. MacDonald, Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases); IWK Health Centre; Dalhousie University 

TITLE: Vaccine acceptance in 2022: What we've learned in 2021 and what we need to do differently 

HOSTS:
Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor, Dept of MMI
Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Wael Elhenawy, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

TITLE: Investigating the role of Type IV secretion system in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease-associated Escherichia coli 

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Stephen D. Barr; Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology; Western University

TITLE: Evolution of a 500 million year old antiviral warrior 

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Megan K. Levings; Professor, Canada Research Chair in Engineered Immune Tolerance; Medicine, Surgery and School of Biomedical Engineering; University of British Columbia, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

ZOOM: Engineering regulatory T cells for tolerance

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology; Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry; University of Alberta

TITLE: T cell tolerance - lessons from beyond the grave 

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Nathan Peters, Co-Director, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases; Cumming School of Medicine
Dept of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
University of Calgary

ZOOM: Protective CD4+ T helper memory: Truth or fiction?

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Lisa Cunningham, Scientific Director, NIDCD; Senior Investigator, Chief, Laboratory of Hearing Biology and Therapeutics; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

TITLE: Ototoxic drug-induced hearing loss: basic and clinical studies 

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

SPEAKER: Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe, Professor, Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, in Human Gut Microbiome Function and Host Interactions; Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Science; University of Guelph

ZOOM: Human gut-derived microbial ecosystems: from bench to bedside and beyond

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Dec 2

SPEAKER: Dr. Yossef Av-gay, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases; University of British Columbia

TITLE: Targeting the macrophages' signalling; New approach in the combat against Tuberuculosis 

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Nov 25

SPEAKER: Dr. Hartland W. Jackson; Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Systems Pathology; Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

TITLE: High dimenson imaging: from single cell phenotypes to cellular networks 

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Oct 21

SPEAKER: Dr. Aaron Marshall, Professor, Dept of Immunology, Dept of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics; Head, Department of Immunology; University of Manitoba

TITLE: Targeting B cell signaling pathways in autoimmunity and hematologic malignancy

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Oct 14

SPEAKER: Dr. Elitza Tocheva, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Science, Life Sciences Institute; University of British Columbia

TITLE: Applying advanced imaging approaches to study microbial ultrastructure 

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Oct 7

SPEAKER: Dr. Yoontae Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences, POSTECH
Seoul National University

TITLE: Role of Capicua in lymphocyte development and differentiation

HOSTS: Dr. Qiumin Tan, Department of Cell Biology & Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Sept 3

SPEAKER: Dr. Zeinab Hosseinidoust, MSc, PhD, PEng, Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering; School of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Infectious Disease Research; The Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute; Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research; McMaster University

2021 May 20

SPEAKER: Dr. Ben Willing; Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Microbiology of Nutrigenomics; Associate Chair, Graduate Programs, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta

TITLE: How disrupting microbial colonization succession in the first weeks of life can contribute to long term immune and metabolic health

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 May 13

SPEAKER: Dr. Gregory A. Dekaban, Chair and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Scientist, Biotherapeutics Research Laboratory, Robarts Research Institute
University of Western Ontario

TITLE: Tracking therapeutics cells in vivo by cellular magnetic resonance and magnetic particle imaging

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 May 6

SPEAKER: Dr. Jeanette Boudreau
Assistant Professor, Departments of Microbiology of Immunology and Pathology; Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Dalhousie University

TITLE: Natural killer cells as agents of precision immunotherapy

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Apr 1

SPEAKER: Dr. Irah King
Canada Research Chair in Barrier Immunity, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; Department of Medicine, McGill University

TITLE: Intestinal helminths vs type 2 immunity: tales from the crypt

HOST: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2021 Apr 8

Speaker: Dr. Craig Jenne Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, Immunity and Infectious Diseases; Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary

TITLE: Imaging Infection-Induced Thrombosis

Host Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

 2020 Dec 3

Speaker: Dr. Christophe Peyrefitte, Scientific Director, Pasteur Institute of Dakar, Senegal, Associate Professor of Vale-De Grace, Lyon France

Title: Institut Pasteur de Dakar a research institute involved public health issues in Senegal and West Africa

Host: Dr. David Marchant, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Speaker: Dr. Casey Fowler, University of Alberta

Title: Salmonella enterica offers a window into the remarkable evolution of bacterial exotoxins

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Elodie Ghedin, Senior Investigator and Chief of Systems Genomics Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID/NIH

Title: Defective (interfering) virus genomes in the control of severe influenza

Host: Dr. Lara Mahal, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Speaker: Dr. Paige Lacy, Professor, University of Alberta

Title: Eosinophil Degranulation and Cytokine Production in Allergic Asthma

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Irene Salinas, Associate Professor, Associate Chair in Biology, University of New Mexico

Title: What it takes to live outside the water: the extraordinary adaptations of the lungfish immune system

Host: Dr. Brad Magor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta

Speaker: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Department of Surgery, Division Director Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Alberta Diabetes & Transplant Institutes, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: True donor specific tolerance: How close are we?

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Denise Hemmings, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentstry, University of Alberta

Title: Chronic Cytomegalovirus Infection and its Impact on Breast Cancer Metastasis and Survival

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Alyson Kelvin, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University

Title: Male sex and age biases viral burden and shedding during SARS-CoV-2 infection in ferrets' Where: ZOOM When: 10:00 am

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Pepper, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & Dentisty, University of Alberta

Title: Beta Cell Engraftment: A Battle Against Attrition

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. John Lewis, Sojonky Chair Prostate Can. Res. Oncology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: Rapid Prototyping and Development of a SARS-CoV-2 Fusogenix DNA Vaccine

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Matthias Götte, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Remdesivir: From Mechanisms and Antiviral Effects to Clinical Approval for Treatment of COVID-19

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Joanne Lemieux, Professor, Director, Membrane Protein Disease Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Structural insights into the feline coronavirus drug GC376, which inhibits the main protease of SARS-CoV-1 and blocks virus replication

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Lara K. Mahal, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Title: The Glycomics of Host Response to Pathogens

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Philip F. Halloran, MD, PhD, FRCP (C), OC, FRSC, Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, Professor of Medicine & Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The Molecular Microscope system: combining microarray assessment with machine learning

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Craig McCormick, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University

Title: Stress Responses and herpesviruses

Host: Dr. Kathy Magor, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Speaker: Dr. Lars Nitschke

Title: The role of sialic acids and Siglecs for lymphocyte survival and leukemia formation

Host: Dr. Matthew Macauley, Dept of Chemistry

Sponsor: ImmuNet

Speaker: Dr. Jason Plemel, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of Alberta

Title: Heterogeneous microglia response limits macrophage dispersion

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Pratip Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Applied Immunology Core, Perlmutter Cancer Centre, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY

Title: Precision Immunology Through Deeper, Single Cell Profiling

Host: Dr. Aja Reiger, Flow Cytomerty Core Manager, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: ImmuNet Seminar Series Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

Speaker: Dr. Howard S. Young, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: New Regulators of Cellular Calcium Homeostasis & an Introduction to Cryo-EM (Why all the hype?)

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Judith N. Mandl, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Title: Unexpected hazards of immune cell migration: crowding, shattering and nuclear rupture

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet Seminar Series Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

Speaker: Professor Michael F. Good, AO FYSE FAHMS NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus

Title: Exploiting cryptic epitopes in group A streptococcus for developing vaccines and immunotherapies

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

Speaker: Dr. Matthew Croxen, Program Lead, Public Health Genomics and Bioinformatics, Public Health Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta

Title: Exploring microbial diversity in public health microbiology

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair