Public Thesis Defences

Event Title:The effect of dual inhibition of GSKβ and ATR on MDA-MB-231 cell viability
Event Summary:Candidate: Cindy Ong
January 15, 2025
11:00 AM EST - 2:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF SILVER-STABILIZED HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ON SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM INTERACTIONS WITH ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII
Event Summary:Candidate: Stefania Conforti
December 10, 2024
12:00 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE REGULATION OF GSK3β NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION DURING MACROPINOCYTOSIS AND AUTOPHAGY INDUCTION
Event Summary:Candidate: Shafi Rahman
December 09, 2024
11:00 AM EST - 2:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Identifying actionable targets for MRCK inhibition with BDP9066 in ovarian cancer
Event Summary:Candidate: Amin Nooranikhojasteh
October 17, 2024
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF LIPOSOME-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS: BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Event Summary:Candidate: Sarah McColman
August 27, 2024
12:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Actin-myosin interactions by affinity column chromatography, ELISA, and tandem mass spectrometry
Event Summary:Candidate: Arnold Au
August 23, 2024
2:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISM OF TRANSCRIPTION IN THE PROTIST TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA
Event Summary:Candidate: Sydney Pelger
August 23, 2024
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Computational Design of Novel Organotin(IV) Monomers: A Theoretical Study of Hypercoordination and Solvent Effects
Event Summary:Candidate: Pierre Rouanet
August 20, 2024
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:LOSS OF ATR SENSITIZES PANCREATIC CANCER CELLS TO REPLICATION STRESS
Event Summary:Candidate: Essam Karam
August 08, 2024
12:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Light-Responsive Behaviour of Fluorophores in Electrospun Nanofibres
Event Summary:Candidate: Reeda Mahmood
August 08, 2024
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL OF NOVEL BORON CONTAINING COMPOUNDS
Event Summary:Candidate: Mohammed Ayan Chhipa
August 07, 2024
12:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF TYROSINE RESIDUE MODIFICATIONS ON CEST-CSRA BINDING AND DOWNSTREAM EFFECTOR EXPRESSION
Event Summary:Candidate: Jocelyne Mendez Guzman
July 18, 2024
This event spans all day
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:PHAGOSOME RESOLUTION: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Event Summary:Candidate: Aaron Fountain
June 07, 2024
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Effect of Emulsifiers on the Rheology of Molten Milk Chocolate
Event Summary:Candidate: Enea Lelaj
May 22, 2024
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:EFFECTS OF PROTEIN COMPOSITION AND HEAT TREATMENT ON YOGURT GEL MICROSTRUCTURE, RHEOLOGY AND IN-VITRO DIGESTION
Event Summary:Candidate: Delnavaz Yazdansepas
March 11, 2024
2:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:REGULATION OF AKT SIGNALING BY PHOSPHOINOSITIDE DYNAMICS WITHIN CLATHRIN COATED PITS
Event Summary:Candidate: Rebecca Cabral-Dias
January 11, 2024
1:00 PM EST - 5:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos ssabatinos@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE ROLE OF BACTERIAL FILAMENTATION IN THE PROTECTION AGAINST ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL-37
Event Summary:Candidate: Natasha Porco
December 21, 2023
9:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Electrochemical Detection of Droplets in an All-PDMS Microfluidic Device
Event Summary:Candidate: Kathy Ly
December 19, 2023
10:00 AM EST - 1:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Investigation of a regulatory mechanism between meiosis and the DNA damage checkpoint in fission yeast
Event Summary:Candidate: Sirasie Magalage
December 19, 2023
9:30 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos ssabatinos@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Do phagocytic receptor levels and signalling limit phagocytic capacity, appetite, and recovery ?
Event Summary:Candidate: Sierra Soffiaturo
December 14, 2023
2:00 PM EST - 5:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:INVESTIGATING STRESS SIGNALING ACTIVATION FOLLOWING ULTRASOUND IN COMBINATION WITH MICROBUBBLES AND CORONAVIRUS STRESS
Event Summary:Candidate: Louis Lo
October 13, 2023
1:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:1 Silyloxy Porphyrin Silanes: Tunable 3-Dimensional Photo- and Electroactive Compounds
Event Summary:Candidate: Zainab Shakeel
September 11, 2023
2:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:DISTRIBUTION OF NITROGEN SPECIES IN CANADIAN MARGINAL LAND SOILS THROUGH SORGHUM GROWING SEASON
Event Summary:Candidate: Zhongwei Shi
September 06, 2023
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Repeated Loss of Functional PmrDAB Signaling System in Shigella flexneri Due to Altered Regulation of the mxi-spa Type 3 Secretion System
Event Summary:Candidate: Reshmi Misir
August 24, 2023
9:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Characterizing the Roles of C1ORF198 in Centriole and Primary Cilium Formation and Function
Event Summary:Candidate: Karl Cruz
August 23, 2023
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Developing protein interactome for rare genetic diseases using BioID technique: Polycystic Kidney Disease and Batten Disease
Event Summary:Candidate: Dhairya Pancholi
August 16, 2023
11:00 AM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:i SYNTHESIS OF COMPOUNDS ENABLING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMO-ID – A METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROTEIN-DRUG INTERACTIONS IN VIVO
Event Summary:Candidate: Abdullah Al-Ramadhan
August 15, 2023
12:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:i Evidence of increased mercury methylation after soil disturbance by forest harvesting
Event Summary:Candidate: Moiz Syed
August 11, 2023
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title: THE ROLE OF THE LIPID ACYLTRANSFERASE LCLAT1 IN THE PI3K/Akt/PTEN SIGNALING PATHWAY
Event Summary:Candidate: Yuchen Zheng
August 09, 2023
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos ssabatinos@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Developing a high-content imaging dataset to study phenotypic heterogeneity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Event Summary:Candidate: Mahta Jan-Ahmadnejad
August 08, 2023
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos ssabatinos@torontomu.ca
Event Title:ɪɴᴠᴇꜱᴛɪɢᴀᴛɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏʟᴇ ᴏꜰ ɪɴᴛʀᴏɴꜱ ɪɴ ꜱᴀᴄᴄʜᴀʀᴏᴍʏᴄᴇꜱ ᴄᴇʀᴇᴠɪꜱɪᴀᴇ
Event Summary:Candidate: Nour-Zaynab Bazzi
August 03, 2023
11:00 AM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos ssabatinos@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF C,N- HYPERCOORDINATE STANNANES, DISTANNANES AND POLYSTANNANES
Event Summary:Candidate: Nicola Piccolo
May 09, 2023
11:00 AM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos ssabatinos@torontomu.ca
Event Title:LYSOSOME REMODELLING IN MACROPHAGES AFTER STIMULATION OF PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS
Event Summary:Candidate: Nemanja Ilic
April 26, 2023
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos (ssabatinos@torontomu.ca)
Event Title:ANALYSIS OF PERSISTENT, MOBILE, AND TOXIC PLASTIC ADDITIVES IN LEACHATES USING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH QUANTITATIVE TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY
Event Summary:Candidate: Eric Fries
April 24, 2023
9:30 AM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Sabatinos ssabatinos@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Synthesis of Bio-based Polyurethanes and Polyimines for Industrial Applications
Event Summary:Candidate: Tristan Calayan
February 21, 2023
10:00 AM EST - 1:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:CHARACTERIZATION OF MICAL1-MEDIATED OXIDATION OF CDC42
Event Summary:Candidate: Mackenzie Hurst
February 17, 2023
9:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:A COMPARISON OF DETECTION SYSTEMS FOR AN ENZYME-LINKED OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ASSAY AND THE CHEMICAL BIOTINYLATION OF NUCLEIC ACID COMPLEXES
Event Summary:Candidate: Janet Nguyen
January 30, 2023
11:00 AM EST - 2:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:CLATHRIN MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS IS REGULATED BY THE NUTRIENT SENSOR O-GlcNAc TRANSFERASE
Event Summary:Candidate: Sadia Rahmani
January 11, 2023
10:00 AM EST - 1:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF PIKFYVE IN MODULATING ER FUNCTIONS/DYNAMICS AND ERLYSOSOME CONTACT SITES
Event Summary:Candidate: Zainab Adamji
December 15, 2022
12:00 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE LIPOSOME RECONSTITUTION OF SARS-COV-2 ENVELOPE PROTEINS IN PURSUIT OF A VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLE
Event Summary:Candidate: Norbert Kovacs
December 13, 2022
1:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Towards understanding the mechanisms of gene expression in Tetrahymena thermophila
Event Summary:Candidate: Alexandra Petrova
December 05, 2022
9:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Understanding sugar-sugar interaction effects on macroscopic phenomena in oil suspensions
Event Summary:Candidate: Adrian Argudo
September 09, 2022
2:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:The Development of Ferrocene and Vinyl Pyridine Containing Triphenylamine-based dyes for Integrated Light-Harvesting Devices Involving Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Technology
Event Summary:Candidate: Tavneet Singh
September 08, 2022
12:30 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@ryerson.ca
Event Title:Electrospinning Asphaltenes With Low-Cost Polymers: Towards High-Value Carbon Materials
Event Summary:Candidate: Tristan Mananquil
September 06, 2022
2:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Loss of functional pmrA as a pathoadaptation in the Shigella spp.
Event Summary:Candidate: Arooj Qamar
August 24, 2022
9:00 AM EDT - 12:00 AM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:The Involvement of Adaptor Protein Complexes in Phagocytosis
Event Summary:Candidate: Muhammad Butt
August 23, 2022
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:MEMBRANE STRESS AND REPLICATION INSTABILITY
Event Summary:Candidate: Daniel Rappaport
August 19, 2022
9:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:PROBING THE MOLECULAR FUNCTION OF NOVEL BORON-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS
Event Summary:Candidate: Gillian Okura
August 19, 2022
12:30 AM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:GENOMIC APPROACHES TO STUDYING TRANSCRIPTION IN THE PROTOZOAN MODEL TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA
Event Summary:Candidate: Suzanne Wahab
August 18, 2022
9:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:SYNTHESIS OF DIAZASPIROCYCLES FOR MRCK INHIBITORS AS ANTI-CANCER AGENTS
Event Summary:Candidate: Vanessa Ruscetta
August 17, 2022
11:30 AM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Accessible, Direct Photochemical Route for the Amine-Free Synthesis of Azoxybenzene and Functional Azoxy Derivatives via Nitroarene Homocoupling
Event Summary:Candidate: Ali Yaghoubian
August 16, 2022
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Synthesis of Organosilanes and Investigation of their Catalytic Activity for Direct Amide Bond Formation
Event Summary:Candidate: Melissa D'Amaral
August 16, 2022
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Supramolecular Synthesis of Hybrid Metal-Organic Framework-Dye Composites as Bioimaging Probes
Event Summary:Candidate: Lavinai Trifoi
August 15, 2022
12:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Photoinduced Luminescence Enhancement of Hydrophilic ‘Caged’ Carbons Dots
Event Summary:Candidate: Aviya Akari
August 12, 2022
12:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:CAN THEY KEEP UP? FECUNDITY, POLLEN FITNESS, AND THE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS SURROUNDING REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN SUBDIOECIOUS CANNABIS SATIVA L.
Event Summary:Candidate: Sydney Wizenberg
August 11, 2022 - August 12, 2022
1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:MICAL1 IN TUMOUR CELL MOTILITY
Event Summary:Candidate: Garett Armstrong
August 11, 2022
11:00 AM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:How Can Researchers Support Cannabis sativa L. Home Growers? Investigating Homegrown C. sativa Horticulture and Defining Best Practices
Event Summary:Candidate: Michelle Dang
August 09, 2022
9:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Rethinking Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Technology For “Real-World” Conditions
Event Summary:Candidate: Tamara Al Faouri
August 08, 2022
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL TRIAZOLE BASED MRCK INHIBITORS
Event Summary:Candidate: Taj Seaton
August 05, 2022
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS OF FATTY ACID PRODUCTION? ANALYSIS OF PHYLOGENETIC SIGNALS AND OTHER KEY FACTORS
Event Summary:Candidate: Serena Sbrizzi
August 04, 2022
9:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:PIKfyve Inhibition Controls Inflammatory Gene Expression Networks and Activates TFEB via Oxidative Stress
Event Summary:Candidate: Michael Mercer
June 30, 2022
10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@ryerson.ca
Event Title:The Regulation of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling by Ack1
Event Summary:Candidate: Dafne Vural
June 06, 2022
9:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE INFLUENCE OF ULTRAVIOLET-A ON INDICATORS OF PLANT STRESS IN CANNABIS SATIVA
Event Summary:Candidate: Jillian Muir-Guarnaccia
May 25, 2022
12:09 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ACYLTRANSFERASE LYCAT ON PI3K-AKT SIGNALING AND CANCER CELL PROLIFERATION
Event Summary:Candidate: Victoria Chan
May 05, 2022
9:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEASE REGULATION AND FUNCTION IN ENTEROBACTERALES
Event Summary:Candidate: Youn Hee Cho
April 29, 2022
11:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:A COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION INTO HOW METAL NANOPARTICLES ENHANCE PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
Event Summary:Candidate: Nicholas Dogantzis
March 09, 2022
9:30 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@ryerson.ca
Event Title:The Synthesis of Molecular Probes Based on Cystic Fibrosis Drugs for Biological Research
Event Summary:Candidate: Philip Junor
February 08, 2022
3:00 PM EST - 5:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Explorations in Oxazoline Chemistry: Transition metal complexes of 2-acylmethyl-2-oxazoline ligands and novel thionated and selenated derivatives
Event Summary:Candidate: Matthew Hill
December 10, 2021
9:15 AM EST - 12:15 AM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:A string of bad luck: the role pf bacterial filamentation in response to the antimicrobial peptide LL-37
Event Summary:Candidate: Madison Tomlinson
December 08, 2021
12:00 PM EST - 2:00 PM EST
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Concentration and distribution of phosphorus species in different marginal land soils
Event Summary:Candidate: Timothy Ho
October 19, 2021
10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Signalling System Heterogeneity in E. coli and Shigella
Event Summary:Candidate: Raymond Huynh
October 08, 2021
10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Fluorescence Activation and Enhancement with Photogenerated Radicals, Pre-fluorescent Probes and Silver Nanostructures
Event Summary:Candidate: Karol Golian
September 10, 2021
12:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Novel Insights into Nuclear Localization of Proteins Crucial for Chromatin Assembly Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Event Summary:Candidate: Nora Danna
August 20, 2021
10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Metal-Free Selective Reduction of Acid Chlorides to Aldehydes using 1-Hydrosilatrane
Event Summary:Candidate: Fawwaz Azam
August 20, 2021
9:00 AM EDT - 11:00 AM EDT
Event open to:Event open to Students, Faculty, Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Public
Event Contact:Sarah Kovacs skovacs@torontomu.ca
Event Title:Exploring bodipy dyes in light-harvesting, energy transfer and bioinspired probe designs
Event Summary:Candidate: Sahana Sritharan
August 19, 2021
10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
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Event Title:The Preparation of New Polystyrenic Onium and Substituted Poly(thionylphosphazene) Antimicrobials
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August 05, 2021
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Event Title:Analysis of N-Species (NO3-, NO2-, and NH4+) in Canadian Marginal Land Soils for Growing Sorghum Biomas
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February 26, 2021
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Event Title:Understanding the Regulation of TFEB AND RAB7 and their Contributions to Lysosmal Adaptation
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January 14, 2021
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Event Title:Characterization of MRCK⍺ and its role in the Actomyosin Cytoskeleton Complex
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January 13, 2021
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Event Title:Lysosomal pH Gradient is Required for Lysosomal Tubulation in Macrophage Cells
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January 12, 2021
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Event Title:Synthesis of a Novel Symmetrical Photoprotecting Group for the Efficient Capture and Release of Cysteine Sulfenic Acids on Oxidized Proteins from Streptavidin Beads
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January 08, 2021
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Event Title:Synthesis and Properties of Hypercoordinate Stannanes and Polystannanes
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November 23, 2020
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Event Title:First Steps to Nanomedican: Assessing Interactions between Polystyrene Nanoparticles and Albumin Proteins
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June 24, 2020
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Event Title:The Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Antiretroviral Drug Exposure in Utero on Later Fertility
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May 29, 2020
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Event Title:Developing the Polycystic Kidney Disease Interactome
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May 19, 2020
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Event Title:Developing a CHIP-SEQ pipeline to Determine Function of Chromatin Remodeling and Transcription Related Complexes in a Model Organism
Event Summary:Alejandro Saettone
February 07, 2020
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Event Title:Occurrence, Mobility, Characterization, and Fate of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Genes and Plasmids Isolated from Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants
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February 03, 2020
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