Seminars


Date	Speaker	Subject
06-06-01	Walter Doerfler	On the Consequences of Foreign DNA Insertion into Mammalian Genomes
05-08-02	Nor Chejanovsky	Infection of Spodoptera littoralis with the baculovirus AcMNPV: apoptosis, transactivation and immunosuppresion
05-05-06	Kees van Frankenhuyzen	Spore-based virulence factors of Bacillus thuringiensis: do they play a role in insect pathogenicity?
05-04-22	Dayu Zhang	cDNA-based Choristoneura microarray construction and gene expression profiles during molting in Choristoneura fumiferana
05-04-15	Shannon Coppens	Genomics of the Choristoneura occidentalis granulovirus (ChocGV)
05-04-01	Guoxing Quan	Characterization of the Choristoneura fumiferana RACK1 gene: Does it participate in the ecdysone hormone controlled gene transcription?
05-03-11	KayLynn Liu	Expression of mutant spindlin with a truncated C-terminal and a modified N-glycosylation site
05-02-28	Zhihong Hu (Guest speaker)	Searching for the Origin of the SARS Corona Virus
05-02-25	Lillian Pavlik	Interactions of CfDEFNPV with other viruses and heterologous hosts
05-02-18	George Kyei-Poku	Enterotoxins and Emetic toxin - potential risks using commercial B. thuringiensis products
05-02-11	Basil Arif	Genomic interactions between insects and viruses
05-02-04	Qili Feng	Do serine proteases and serpins play a role in insect molting?
05-01-14	Pengxin Lu (Guest speaker)	Breeding eastern white pine for blister rust resistance
04-03-12	Shannon Coppens	Sequence Analysis of Choristoneura occidentalis Granulovirus
04-03-05	George Kwaku Kyei-Poku	Wolbachia Dynamics and Host Reproductive effects
04-02-27	Arthur Retnakaran	Immunity in Insects and how they recognize invading microorganisms
04-02-20	Dinakara Ampasala	Cloning and Expression of a Putative Transferrin cDNA in the Spruce Budworm
04-02-13	Yiping Zheng	Cuticle Degradation Proteins in the Molting Fluid of the Spruce Budworm
04-01-16	Anthony Pang	Choristoneura fumiferana Entomopoxvirus - a preliminary study of the biologic activity of fusolin
04-01-09	Basil Arif	Baculoviral per os Infectivity Factors
03-12-19	Qili Feng	Gene silencing by RNA interference
03-12-05	Kees van Frankenhuyzen	Progress towards establishing a clean spruce budworm colony
Oct. 18	Kees van Frankenhuzen	IRAG update: current progress towards establishing a clean budworm colony
Oct. 25	Xiaowen Chen	Quantitative Analysis of Polyhedrin Promoter Activity at Different Loci in the AcMNPV genome
Nov. 1	Rian Schwarz	Regulation of Apoptosis by Nuclear Factor Kappa B in Neonatal Cardiac Myocytes
Nov. 8	Hilary Lauzon	The Islet Transplant Program - Biotechnology in Action
Nov. 15	Qili Feng	Expressed Sequence Tags of the spruce budworm
Nov. 22	Basil Arif	Evolution and fluidity of baculovirus genomes
Nov. 29, 2002	Arthur Retnakaran	How insects shed their old exoskeleton or the Ecdysis cascade
Jan. 10	Anthony Pang	Insect Immunity - a Case Study from the Drosophila (Fruitfly) Genome Project
Jan. 17	Qili Feng	Database of "Genomics of the Spruce Budworm and Its Viral Pathogens"
Jan. 24	Yiping Zheng	Endochitinase and exochitinase in the spruce budworm
Jan. 31	Deborah Buhlers	Characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana transformed with CHT46, a cDNA encoding for a winter rye antifreeze protein with chitinase activity
Feb. 7	Dayu Zhang	Two members of DEAD box helicases in the spruce budworm
Feb. 21	Xiaojiang Dai	Insect cell ecdysone inducible expression system using Gal4 response element, baculovirus acidic activation domains and mammalian RXR
7-Mar	Cailing Liu	Characterization of CfDEFNPV Spindlin
21-Mar	Shannon Coppens	Choristoneura occidentalis Granulosis Virus: Genomic Library and Host Range Testing
11-Apr	Perera Anjali	A reporter assay for characterizing the AmEPV spheroidin promoter
2-May	Lillian Pavlik	The infection and pathogensis of the Amsacta moorei entomopoxvirus in Lymantria dispar larvae
23-May	Dinakara Ampasala	Molecular cloning of ecdysis-triggering hormone from the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana
May, 30, 2003	Zhen Li	Phylogeny of Poxvirus