Medical Biophysics

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Oct 15, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Using 10x Genomics Whole Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatic Tools to Investigate Somatic Mutations in Mismatch Repair Deficient Cells 2) Focusing Ultrasound to the Vertebral Canal

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Jacalyn Kelly

Using 10x Genomics Whole Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatic Tools to Investigate Somatic Mutations in Mismatch Repair Deficient Cells

  Uri Tabori

Rui Xu

 Focusing Ultrasound to the Vertebral Canal

  Meaghan O'Reilly

 

Oct 16, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) Cerebellar Structural and Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2) Characterizing the role of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma invasion

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Felipe Morgado

Cerebellar Structural and Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Jason Lerch

Stephanie Poon

 Characterizing the role of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma invasion

Laurie Ailles

 

Oct 22, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Array-Based Dual-Frequency Ultrasound for Acoustic Angiography, 2) Focused Ultrasound induced Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier Opening: Methods for Clinical Scale Delivery and Treatment Control

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Jing Yang

 Array-Based Dual-Frequency Ultrasound for Acoustic Angiography

Christine Demore

Stecia Fletcher

 Focused Ultrasound induced Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier Opening: Methods for Clinical Scale Delivery and Treatment Control

Meaghan O'Reilly
Oct 23, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1)Identifying signalling pathways that regulate alternative splicing of Numb, 2) Integration of the human papilloma virus into the host genome promotes tumourigenesis...

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Kamal Othman

 Identifying signalling pathways that regulate alternative splicing of Numb

Jane McGlade

Mehran Karimzadeh Reghbati

Integration of the human papilloma virus into the host genome promotes tumourigenesis by modifying the local epigenome and transcriptome

Michael Hoffman
Oct 29, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Evaluating the Biosynthesis Pathway of Serotonin... 2) Development and clinical translation of a new handheld imaging device for 5-ALA-induced fluorescence guided breast conserving surgery

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Ryan Oglesby

 Evaluating the Biosynthesis Pathway of Serotonin using Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MRI

Greg Stanisz

Christopher Gibson

 Development and clinical translation of a new handheld imaging device for 5-ALA-induced fluorescence guided breast conserving surgery

Ralph DaCosta
Oct 30, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) In vivo effects of stereotactic body radiation therapy on the pancreatic tumor..., 2) Recapitulating the development of distinct mesoderm populations for the generation of left and right ventricular cardiomyocytes from hPSCs

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Timothy Samuel

 In vivo effects of stereotactic body radiation therapy on the pancreatic tumor microenvironment

Ralph DaCosta

Donghe Yang

 Recapitulating the development of distinct mesoderm populations for the generation of left and right ventricular cardiomyocytes from hPSCs

Gordon Keller
Nov 5, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) The role of cortical inhibition in separating speech from noise... 2) An optical and acoustic investigation of microbubble cavitation in small channels under conditions relevant to vascular disruption therapy

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Simon Dobri

 The role of cortical inhibition in separating speech from noise

Bernhard Ross

Xiaoxiao Zhao

An optical and acoustic investigation of microbubble cavitation in small channels under conditions relevant to vascular disruption therapy

David Goertz
Nov 6, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) Targeting Epigenetic Regulation in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Reveals PRMT1 as a Novel Target, 2) Functional genomic screening with lung cancer patient derived xenograft models

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Joseph Walton

 Targeting Epigenetic Regulation in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Reveals PRMT1 as a Novel Target

Laurie Ailles

Peiran Su

 Functional genomic screening with lung cancer patient derived xenograft models

MIng-Sound Tsao
Nov 12, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Cardiac comorbidities and their effect in Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2) Mapping Brain Physiology using Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Stephania Assimopoulos

Cardiac comorbidities and their effect in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Jason Lerch

Mahdi Khajehim

 Mapping Brain Physiology using Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting

Jean Chen
Nov 13, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) Stratifying cancer patients using radiogenomics and unsupervised learning, 2) Investigating the acute response to chemotherapy in triple negative breast cancer

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Jianan Chen

 Stratifying cancer patients using radiogenomics and unsupervised learning

Anne Martel

Jocelyn Chen

 Investigating the acute response to chemotherapy in triple negative breast cancer

Mathieu Lupien
Nov 19, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Tumor bed detection by cellularity analysis vs. low resolution segmentation networks, 2) Spatiotemporal mapping of early volume loss in the brain following cranial irradiation in a mouse model

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Ozan Ciga

 Tumor bed detection by cellularity analysis vs. low resolution segmentation networks

Anne Martel

Ramy Ayoub

Spatiotemporal mapping of early volume loss in the brain following cranial irradiation in a mouse model

Brian Nieman
Nov 20, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) A Proteomic characterization of PTEN loss, 2) Elucidating the mechanism of the acoustic conversion of microbubbles to nanostructures for EPR-adaptive delivery to tumors

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Edward Cruise

 A Proteomic characterization of PTEN loss

Vuk Stambolic

Alexander Dhaliwal

 Elucidating the mechanism of the acoustic conversion of microbubbles to nanostructures for EPR-adaptive delivery to tumors

Gang Zheng
Nov 26, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Early Prediction of Prostate Cancer Treatment Response Using Saturation Transfer, 2) MRI Response Monitoring for Cardiac Cell-Based Therapies

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Ziyu Tan

 Early Prediction of Prostate Cancer Treatment Response Using Saturation Transfer

Greg Stanisz

Moses Cook

 MRI Response Monitoring for Cardiac Cell-Based Therapies

Nilesh Ghugre
Nov 27, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) Picosecond InfraRed Laser-Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Detection of Melanoma and Melanoma Mimicking Lesions, 2) Proteomics-Based Investigation of Spatial Heterogeneity in High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Lauren Katz

Picosecond InfraRed Laser-Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Detection of Melanoma and Melanoma Mimicking Lesions.

Arash Zarrine-Afsar

Lydia Yiyang Liu

Proteomics-Based Investigation of Spatial Heterogeneity in High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer

Thomas Kislinger
Dec 3, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Investigating oligodendrocyte density in the brain using MRI, 2) MR Characterization of Maternal Vascular Malperfusion- The Developmental Effects on Maternal and Fetal Circulation 

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Megan Dagys

 Investigating oligodendrocyte density in the brain using MRI

Brian Nieman

Sarah Debebe

 MR Characterization of Maternal Vascular Malperfusion- The Developmental Effects on Maternal and Fetal Circulation

John Sled
Dec 4, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) Patterning of hematopoietic development using human pluripotent stem cells, 2) Sex bias in the molecular landscape of ependymal tumours

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Quynh Nguyen

 Patterning of hematopoietic development using human pluripotent stem cells

Gordon Keller

Alexandra Rasnitsyn

 Sex bias in the molecular landscape of ependymal tumours

Michael D. Taylor
Dec 10, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Using quantitative diffusion MRI with longer diffusion times to elucidate changes in cellular parameters during cell death, 2) Validation of Hyperpolarized 129Xe Gas Exchange MRI in a Rodent Model of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Daniel Djayakarsana

 Using quantitative diffusion MRI with longer diffusion times to elucidate changes in cellular parameters during cell death

Colleen Bailey

Jordan Fliss

 Validation of Hyperpolarized 129Xe Gas Exchange MRI in a Rodent Model of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Giles Santyr
Dec 11, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) Transcriptional characterization of WNT Medulloblastoma, 2) Structural insights of an ER calcium channel, the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Evan Yifan Wang

 Transcriptional characterization of WNT Medulloblastoma

Michael D. Taylor

Geoffrey Woollard

 Structural insights of an ER calcium channel, the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor

Mohammad Mazhab-Jafari
Dec 17, 2019
3:00pm–4:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Uptown Student Seminars - 1) Peripheral artery and vein enhanced segmentation, 2) Functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography of neuropsychological tests

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Rui Huang

 Peripheral artery and vein enhanced segmentation

Graham Wright

Jaykumar Patel

 Real-time Respiratory Heart Motion Correction for MRI-Guided Cardiac Interventions

Graham Wright
Dec 18, 2019
4:00pm–5:00pm
MBP 1015Y Student Seminars

Downtown Student Seminars - 1) Investigating mechanical activation of GEF-H1 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, 2) Exploration of Epigenetic Profiles in ctDNA to Identify Predictive Cancer Biomarkers

STUDENT NAME SEMINAR TITLE SUPERVISOR

Justin Cowen

 Investigating mechanical activation of GEF-H1 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Robert Rottapel

Steven De Michino

 Exploration of Epigenetic Profiles in ctDNA to Identify Predictive Cancer Biomarkers

Scott Bratman