Comparative Physiology Seminar Series: Winter 2012


Comparative Physiology Seminar Series: Winter 2012

The Comparative Physiology Group from the Department of Integrative Biology is hosting the Comparative Physiology Seminar Series. Contributions will cover various aspects of physiological, developmental and molecular research and are presented by researchers from UoG and surrounding Universities. The seminar will be held on Wednesday's at 3.30pm starting January 18th 2012 (New Science Complex Rm 1511). For general information please contact Andreas Heyland (aheyland@uoguelph.ca)


Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title/Topic

January 18th

Vivian Choh

University of Waterloo

TBA

January 25th

Peter Kim

Scientist and Assistant Professor

Program in Cell Biology

The Hospital for Sick Children

Department of Biochemistry

University of Toronto

Cell Death, ROS and Peroxisomes: Mechanisms of Peroxisome degradation and its role in cell stress and disease

February 15th

David Josephy

UoG

Pharmacogenetics of drug and toxicant metabolism: Should your doctor care about your genome?  An overview and a few specific examples

 

February 29th

Gary Burness

Trent University

Environmental stress and immune function in birds

March 7th

David Spafford

University of Waterloo

Calcium with your T?  How the T-Type channel evolved to give us rhythm.

March 14th

Coral Murrant

HHNS

Coordinating blood flow with skeletal muscle contraction

March 21st

Colin Nurse

McMaster University

Regulation of Oxygen Chemosensitivity in Rat Adrenal Chromaffin Cells

March 28th

Jordon Klaiman

UoG

How to keep beating: functional and morphological changes in the trout heart during thermal acclimation.

April 4th

Kathryn Elmer

University of Konstanz

TBA