# Date Speaker Title
1 April 30, 2020 Blake Gilks "Lab Medicine During a Pandemic: How Academics Informs our Response"
2   Muhammad Morshed "COVID-19 serological test: What we Know & What we Don’t Know"
3 May 7, 2020 Sam Aparicio "Clonal Evolution and Drug Resistance Mechanisms from Single Cell Genomics"
4 May 14, 2020 Ali Bashashati "AI in Pathology at UBC: Progress and Outlook”
5   Ramon Klein Geltink  "Altering T Cell Metabolism to Condition a Tumor Killing Army"
6 May 21, 2020 Poul Sorensen "Getting granular about RNA: how stress granules are cytoprotective in tumor cells"
7 May 28, 2020 Dana Devine “Reimagining Graduate Education for the 21st Century”
8 June 4, 2020 Titus Wong "Pathology and Laboratory Medicine's response to COVID-19: Beyond Diagnostics"
9 June 11, 2020 Susan Porter “Reimagining Graduate Education for the 21st Century”
10 June 18, 2020 Veronica Hirsch-Reinshagen “The Basics of Alzheimer’s Disease”
11   Dragos Vasilsco “Comprehensive Multi-Resolution Investigation of IPF Pathology"
12 June 25, 2020 David Hunstman “Pathology Research at the Heart of Ovarian Cancer Control”
13 BREAK FOR SUMMER    
14 September 10, 2020 Bruce Verchere "Amyloid Plaques and Islet Macs: Processing Islet Dysfunction in Diabetes"
15 September 17, 2020 N/A N/A
16 September 24, 2020 Helene Cote "HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy: Understanding their Effects on Cellular Aging"
17 October 1, 2020 Glen Tibbits "Understanding the Mechanisms of Inherited Cardiomyopathies and Arrhythmias Using hiPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes"
18 October 8, 2020 Christian Steidl "The Tumor Microenvironment of B Cell Lymphomas"
19 October 15, 2020 Poul Sorensen "TRKing the path to precision oncology; the NTRK story"
20 October 22, 2020 Cheryl Wellington "New insights into the pathophysiology of COVID-19 in critically ill patients”
21 October 29, 2020 Craig Ivany “The Changing Dynamics of the Lab Medicine Environment.”
22 November 5, 2020 SKIPPED  
23 November 12, 2020 Lien Hoang "Cancers of the Vulva: The Forgotten Women’s Cancer"
24   Yongjin Park "Scalable and accurate single-cell data analysis of millions of cells: Lessons and Insights from Collaborators"
25 November 19, 2020 James Lan "Toward Precision Medicine in Kidney Transplantation"
26   Andrew Roth "Cancer Heterogeneity: From Populations to Cells"
27 November 26, 2020 Linda Hoang "COVID-19 Pandemic Response in BC: How Laboratory Surveillance Informs Practice"
28 December 3, 2020 Torsten Nielsen "Translating Gene Expression into Clinical Care"
29 December 10, 2020 SKIPPED  
30 December 17, 2020 Sally Otto "Limits of contact tracing”
31   Dan Coombs “Mathematical Modelling Challenges Related to Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment”
32 December 24, 2020 Christmas Eve - No Presentation  
32 December 31, 2020 New Years Eve - No Presentation  
33 January 7, 2021 SKIPPED  
34 January 14, 2021 SKIPPED  
35 January 21, 2021 Josef Penninger “Rankl–bones, Pregnancy, and Breast Cancer”
36 January 28, 2021 Ian Mackenzie “C9orf72 Mutation in Neurodegenerative Disease”
37 February 4, 2021 Mari DeMarco “TBD”
38 February 11, 2021 SKIPPED
39 February 18, 2021 Gregg Morin "Milestones in Human Telomerase Research"
40 February 25, 2021 Peter Lansdorp “Telomeres, Aging and Cancer”
41 March 4, 2021 Andrew Churg "The Separation of Benign from Malignant Mesothelial Proliferations--Lessons from Morphology and Molecular Biology"
42 April 8, 2021 Will Lockwood "Hyperactivating Oncogenic Signaling for Cancer Treatment"
42 April 15, 2021 Pieter Cullis “Development of the Lipid Nanoparticles That Enable the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine”