This symposium celebrates the retirement and scientific careers of Professor Donald Moerman at the Department of Zoology, and features prominent scientists who interacted with Don personally and scientifically. Speakers include members of the Royal Society of London as well as Gairdner, Lasker and Nobel prize winners. Topics will span early embryonic development, brain development, touch and thermal sensation, RNAi and micro RNA regulation of gene expression, and genomic approaches to outstanding issues in contemporary biology.
Venue: Life Sciences Institute, LSC1
Link to livestreaming (updated May 20, 2022 at 9:20am): https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cea6dc51-dcc5-4785-bee8-ae9b010c0945
| Session chair | 09:10 | Vanessa Auld | Opening Remarks |
| Linda Matsuuchi | 09:25 | Jonathan Hodgkin | GALS just want to have fun |
| 10:00 | Coffee | ||
| Kota Mizumoto | 10:25 | Ralf Schnabel | The blastomere cleavages creating the 12-cell stage of the C. elegans embryo ground states & codes |
| 11:00 | Martin Chalfie | Following Don’s Lead | |
| 11:35 | Mei Zhen | Understanding the structural and functional wiring logics of the C. elegans nervous system | |
| 12:10 | Lunch (RSVP required) | ||
| Kenji Sugioka | 01:45 | Gary Ruvkun | Protein sequence editing by N-deglycosylation controls proteasome capacity and is required in particular cancer cell lines and perhaps in viruses |
| 02:20 | Ann Rougvie | Give me Moer, man | |
| 02:55 | Andrew Fire | Where would we be without a functional genome? | |
| 03:30 | Coffee | ||
| Mark Edgley | 04:00 | Ikue Mori | Interdisciplinary approach to dissect animal behavior |
| 04:35 | Robert Waterston | Transcriptome profiling with single cell resolution in Caenorhabditis | |
| 05:10 | Donald Moerman | ||
| 05:30 | Kota Mizumoto | Closing Remarks |
The Moerman Symposium - a retirement symposium and celebration honoring the career of Professor Donald Moerman
Dr. Donald G. Moerman Retirement, Dec 12, 2019