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Charles Hollenberg Summer Studentship Program 2010
Weekly Seminar Series
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
MaRS Centre, East Tower
101 College Street
- Attendance is compulsory for all BBDC summer students. Attendance by other students is welcome.
- Each weekly seminar should include a 40 minute presentation by the supervisor, followed by a 5 to 10 minute presentation by the summer student which outlines the project and indicates how his/her project fits into the overall goals of the lab.
- The seminar room is equipped with a projector and PC computer. Students may bring their presentation on a USB flash memory drive, CD, or laptop. Presenters who use a MAC should bring their own MAC laptop and VGA adapter cable.
- In the event of A/V difficulties, please see the Research Information Systems Workroom staff located in room 4-201 or call (416) 581-7589.
| Date |
Speakers | Title of Presentation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Monday, June 7 |
Dr. Maria Rozakis and Feng Ding |
New Players in the Prevention of Diet-Induced Insulin
Resistance and Glucose Intolerance |
4th floor, seminar room 4-204 |
|
Monday, June 14 |
Dr. Michael Wheeler and Lemieux Luu |
The Cell Biology of Pancreatic Islet Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion |
Location change: 10th Floor, Room 10-709 |
|
Monday, June 21 |
Dr. Jill Hamilton and Meghan Deforest |
Metabolic Disturbances and Ectopic Fat in Overweight
Children: From BMI to MRI |
Location change: 10th Floor, Room 10-709 |
|
Monday, June 28 |
Dr. Martin Wojtowicz and Michael Vu |
Neurogenesis, Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Dementia |
Location change: 10th Floor, Room 10-709 |
|
Monday, July 5 |
Dr. Adria Giacca and Simon Chiang |
Effect of Insulin on Restenosis |
4th floor, seminar room 4-204 |
|
Monday, July 12 |
Dr. Jim Woodgett and Prital Patel |
Regulation of Glucose Sensitivity via Glycogen Synthase
Kinase-3 |
4th floor, seminar room 4-204 |
|
Monday, July 19 |
Dr. Richard Gilbert and |
Endothelial Progenitor Cells: A Novel Therapy for Diabetic
Kidney Disease |
4th floor, seminar room 4-204 |
|
Monday, July 26 |
Dr. Jonathan Rocheleau and Elise Crocker |
Ex Vivo Pancreatic Islets Culture on a Microfluidic Device | 4th floor, seminar room 4-204 |
Mini-Conference
Monday, August 9, 2010
1:00 – 5:15 p.m.
MaRS Centre, East Tower,
101 College Street
4th Floor Seminar Room 4-204
As part of the summer studentship program, all students are required to give a presentation at the Mini-conference. Attendance by all students and their supervisors is required. EACH SUMMER STUDENT MUST SUBMIT A ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT for the Mini-conference program to the Summer Studentship Program Coordinator, Dr. Tony Lam, at tony.lam@uhnres.utoronto.ca by Thursday, July 29, 2010. The complete Mini-conference schedule of presentations will be e-mailed to all students and supervisors one week before the conference.
- Each student will be given 15 minutes. The oral presentation should be 10 to 12 minutes long leaving 2 to 3 minutes for questions.
- A projector and PC computer will be provided. Presenters who use a MAC should bring their own MAC laptop and VGA adapter cable.
- Students should bring their presentation to the conference on a USB flash memory device or CD.
- Students will be asked to arrive 20 minutes before the start of the conference
to load their presentations onto one computer.
| 1:00 – 1:25 p.m. |
Students to load presentations onto computer in seminar room. |
|
1:25 |
Introduction: Dr. Tony Lam, Program Coordinator |
|
1:30 |
Matthew Purser (Dr. Denise Belsham) The effects of CNTF on mouse hypothalamic neuropeptides |
|
1:45 |
Chester Yao (Dr. I. George Fantus) The Tyrosine Kinase Src Is A Critical Mediator Of Glucose-Induced Changes in Rodent Models of Diabetic Nephropathy |
|
2:00 |
Prital Patel (Dr. Jim Woodgett) Investigation of the role of GSK-3 in mediating glucose sensitivity in primary adipocytes |
|
2:15 |
Elise Crocker (Dr. Jonathan Rocheleau) The Mutation of Connexin36 for Application in Pancreatic Beta-Cell Research |
|
2:30 |
Michael Vu (Dr. Martin Wojtowicz) Mechanisms of vascular cognitive impairment associated with stroke and diabetes: Developing methods for quantitative measurement of dendritic complexity in adult born hippocampal granule cell populations |
|
2:45 |
David Kepecs (Dr. Richard Gilbert) Bone marrow derived endothelial progenitor cells ameliorate experimental diabetic nephropathy: therapeutic and mechanistic implications |
|
3:00 |
Laetitia Tam (Dr. Dominic Ng) The role of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a downstream product of LCAT, in adipogenesis |
|
3:15 |
Refreshment Break |
|
3:30 |
Feng Ding (Dr. Maria Rozakis Adcock) Pleckstrin homology domain-interacting protein 1 protects pancreatic β-cells against inflammatory interferon-γ induced cell apoptosis |
|
3:45 |
Lemieux Luu (Dr. Michael Wheeler) The Role of Sirt1 in Pancreatic Beta Cells |
|
4:00 |
Holly Tschirhart (Dr. Bruce Perkins) Impact of Aerobic and Resistance Exercise on 14-hour Hypoglycemia Risk in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinical Trial Sub-study |
|
4:15 |
Meghan Deforest (Dr. Jill Hamilton) Evaluation of Hepatic and Pancreatic Fat in Obese Adolescents |
|
4:30 |
Ausma Ahmed (Dr. Bruce Perkins) In-Vivo Corneal Confocal Microscopy as a Diagnostic Test for Neuropathy In Type 1 Diabetes – A Cohort Study |
|
4:45 |
Simon Chiang (Dr. Adria Giacca) Effect of insulin and a novel NO-containing complex on restenosis |
|
5:00 |
Dawei David Wang (Dr. Michelle Bendeck) Deletion of discoidin domain receptor 2 ( |