Dear all,
Our next VanBUG event of the season will be on Thursday, October 9th at 6pm. Dr. Dave Clarke will give a presentation titled: The systems biology of cell signal transduction.
Abstract:
Receptor-mediated signal transduction pathways promote cellular homeostasis by sensing local environmental conditions, integrating this information, and determining the subsequent adaptations. Mutations within these pathways lead to diseases such as cancer, such that it is of biomedical importance to understand and predict their behaviours. Predicting their behaviour is challenging because of their complexity, which stems from the number of components and their interconnections into a network. In this talk, I will describe methods used to address this complexity, emphasizing different modeling algorithms and proteomics and imaging data, which are used to investigate signaling downstream of inflammation and physiological stressors. In doing so, my talk will highlight the statistical and mechanistic modeling side of bioinformatics.
Bio:
Dave Clarke has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in kinesiology (Laurentian, Waterloo) and a Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering (University of Colorado at Boulder). He conducted postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Douglas Lauffenburger (Biological Engineering, MIT) in collaboration with scientists at the US Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine. He joined the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in September 2013 where he runs a research program devoted to the quantitative analysis of exercise stress.
Dr. Clarke’s talk will be preceded by a 10 min introductory talk by Shaun Jackman, Graduate student from Dr. Birol Lab at the Genome Sciences Centre.
The other speakers for this year are as follow (save the dates!):
November 20th (Thursday) 2014: Film Screening – The Perfect 46. In collaboration with ReelCauses, we will screen the Sci-fi Docudrama, the Perfect 46 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771506/) at the SFU Woodward’s Theatre. It is a thought provoking film on genetic engineering. The director of the film will be attending in person to talk about his film. We are also in the process organizing a discussion panel. We will be raffling off tickets to the screening to members on our mailing list. So don’t forget to invite friends and colleagues to sign up to our mailing list!
December 12th (Friday) 2014: Annual Christmas Social with Lightning Talks
February 12th (Thursday) 2015: Dr. Nick Loman, University of Birmingham University, UK
March 12th (Thursday) 2015: Dr. Titus Brown, Michigan State University
April 9th (Thursday) 2015: Dr. Martin Hirst, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia
Seminar is followed by complementary pizza, refreshments and great networking.
For updates on seminar topics and abstracts, please check out our website at http://vanbug.org.
Please note:
Trainees are invited to meet with the VanBUG speaker for open discussion
of both science and career paths. This takes place 4:30-5:30pm in either
the Boardroom or Lunchroom on the ground floor of the BCCRC
Trainees are invited to meet with the VanBUG speaker for open discussion
of both science and career paths. This takes place 4:30-5:30pm in either
the Boardroom or Lunchroom on the ground floor of the BCCRC
Location:
675 West 10th Avenue
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Family Theatre
BC Cancer Agency
Date/Time:
September 25th, 2014
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:30 PM (followed by pizza and drinks)
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:30 PM (followed by pizza and drinks)
Contact Name:
William Hsiao
dev@vanbug.org
http://vanbug.org
Regards,
William Hsiao
on behalf of VanBUG Organization Team:
- Cedric Chauve (Department of Mathematics, SFU)
- Rodrigo Goya (Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre & Centre for High-Throughput Biology, UBC)
- William Hsiao (BCCDC Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory)
- Kieran O’Neill (BC Cancer Agency)
- Raunak Shrestha (Collin’s Lab, Vancouver Prostate Centre)
- Shing Hei Zhan (Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre)
VanBUG is generously sponsored by the CIHR Bioinformatics Training Program, BCCDC Foundation, PIMS, PROOF Centre, GenomeBC, and the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops. We thank our major sponsor CIHR Bioinformatics Training Program and welcome a new major sponsor, the BCCDC Foundation.
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