Honours research project FINAL Anat432

2013-2014

Day 1: Tuesday April 15, 2014 Morning schedule

Room M1 Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building

3640 University Street

9:00-9:30 Santina Lin Comparison of Two Particle Selection Methods for the 3D Reconstruction of Anthrax Toxin by Single Particle Cryo-EM

Supervisor: Dr Isabelle Rouiller; Co-supervisor: Dr Nathalie Lamarche-Vane

9:30-10:00 Thomas

Schamhart Examining Whether Rip11 Facilitates Direct Endosome-Mitochondria Contacts

Supervisor: Dr Heidi McBride; Co-supervisor: Dr Craig Mandato

10:00-10:30 Eliza (Jia Yi) Li Characterizing Patient-Derived Xenograft Models of Pancreatic Cancer

Supervisor: Dr. George Zogopoulos; Co-supervisor: Dr. Isabelle Rouiller

10:30-11:00 Crystal Chen The Role of Respiratory Epithelium Toll-like Receptor 2 Signaling in Lung Cancer Metastasis

Supervisor: Dr. Lorenzo Ferri; Co-supervisor: Dr. Carlos Morales; Mentor: Dr. Stephen Gowing

11:00-11:30 Charissa Poon Glial cell response to β-amyloid is amplified with the loss of SPARC

Supervisors: Dr. Keith Murai and Dr. Craig Mandato

Honours research project FINAL Anat432

2013-2014

Day 1: Tuesday April 15, 2014 Afternoon schedule

Room M1 Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building

3640 University Street

1:00-1:30 Yi (Daniel) Zhou Suicide completers show decreased expression of opioid-related peptide pro-nociceptin in the caudal anterior cingulate cortex.

Supervisors: Dr. Gustavo Turecki, Dr. Pierre-Eric Lutz, Co-supervisor: Dr. Claire-Dominique Walker

1:30-2:00 Sara Mirali Conditioned pain hypersensitivity unique to male mice: a novel model for pain memory

Supervisor: Dr. Jeffrey Mogil; Co-supervisor: Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

2:00-2:30 Victoria Sullivan Investigating a role for the motor protein KIF5B in mitochondrial transport to the cytokinetic cleavage furrow

Supervisor: Dr. Craig Mandato; Mentor: Beth Lawrence

2:30-3:00 Sanjeeva Rajapakse

Mitochondrial Anchored Protein Ligase is Required for Anti-Viral Response

Supervisor: Dr. Heidi McBride; Cco-supervisor: Dr. Peter McPherson.

3:00-3:30 Ahn Lee A Role for CdGAP in the Mesenchymal-to-Amoeboid

Transition: A Mode of Cell Migration in Human Breast Cancer Cells

Supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Lamarche-Vane; Mentor: Dr. Yi He.

3:30-4:00 Nancy (Lan-Chih) Lee

Netrin-1 induces the accumulation of PSD95 and Shank1 in the postsynaptic compartment

Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Kennedy

Honours research project

FINAL Anat432 2013-2014

Day 2: Wednesday April 16, 2014 Morning schedule

Room M1 Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building

3640 University Street

9:00-9:30 Nika Maani Evidence of Myelinopathy in Sacsin knock-out Mouse

Model of Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay

Supervisor: Dr. Bernard Brais; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Stefano Stifani

9:30-10:00 Caitlin Loo Mapping vh25, the mutation of a potential enhancer of the Ras/MAPK pathway, in C.elegans

Supervisor: Christian Rocheleau

10:00-10:30 Kara Khatija-Imaan

Quantification of inhibitory appositions onto lamina I spino-parabrachial neurons in a rat model of neuropathic pain

Supervisor: Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva; Mentors: Robert Nahas and Dr. Sophie Pawlowski

10:30-11:00 Adrianna Tsang Multivesicular bodies: A link between parkin-dependent

mitochondria derived vesicles and α-synuclein propagation

Supervisor: Dr. Edward Fon; Co-supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Lamarche-Vane

11:00-11:30 Jamie Koenekoop

Characterizing the immunolocalization of CdGAP within various mouse organs

Supervisors: Dr. Hermo and Dr. Lamarche

11:30-12:00 Vijitha Rajkumar

Reactive Oxygen Species Induce Oligomerization of the Neurotrophin Receptor p75 via the Transmembrane Cysteine Residue

Supervisor: Dr. Barker

Honours research project FINAL Anat432

2013-2014

Day 2: Wednesday April 16, 2014 Afternoon schedule

Room M1, Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building

3640 University Street

1:00-1:30 Alexandra Cerulli-Kanellopous

Understanding the role of ferritin in regulating programmed cell death

Supervisor: Dr. Craig Mandato; co-supervisor: Dr. Michael Greenwood; Mentor: Jason F. Lapointe

1:30-2:00 Sherry Esfandnia Delivery of Exogenous β-Defensin to the Endo/lysosomal Compartments

Supervisor: Dr. Carlos R. Morales; Mentor: Dr. Flavia Lorena Carvelli

2:00-2:30 Laura Kim TRAK1 and its role in mitochondrial transport during cell division

Supervisor: Dr Craig Mandato; Mentor: Beth Lawrence

2:30-3:00 Timote Gelinas Delisle

A novel working memory assessment tool using the Unity Game Engine

Supervisor: Julio Martinez; Co-Supervisor: Craig Mandato

3:00-3:30 Carson Marcoux Cloning and characterization of microtubule-associated proteins of the MAP2/Tau family in Aplysia californica

Supervisor: Professor Wayne Sossin; Mentor: Dr. Carole Abi Farah

3:30-4:00 Raja Talla

The Localization of CdGAP in the Adult Mouse Brain

Supervisors: Dr. Louis Hermo and Dr. Nathalie Lamarche

4:00-4:30 Edwin Cheung Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in Ashkenazi Jewish patients with pancreatic cancer

Supervisor: Dr. George Zogopoulos; Co-supervisor: Dr. Peter Siegel