
10/31/2019
TMM2019: Go have a look at the MRM Trainees
Next week, 25 MRM Trainees will present their work at the 2019 Till & McCulloch Meetings that will take place in Montreal, November 4-6, 2019.
Visit the MRM trainees at their poster or oral presentation
Poster session 1, Monday November 4, 2019:
- Poster #42 – Julia Manalil, MASc, Dr. Corinne Hoesli’s Lab – A reporter cell line for tracking endothelial cell differentiation
- Poster #43 – Mohamed Elkhodiry, B.Sc., Dr. Corinne Hoesli’s Lab – Recruitment of human circulating endothelial progenitor cells using a bio-mimetic surface functionalization strategy
- Poster #56 – Ryo Fujita, Ph.D., Dr. Colin Crist’s Lab – The adhesion G-protein coupled receptor GPR116 is required for muscle stem cell quiescence and self-renewal
- Poster #59 – Sin Young Kwon, B.Sc., Dr. William Pastor’s Lab – Hypoxia promotes human trophoblast stem cell self renewal
- Poster #61 – Colleen Russett, B.Sc., Dr. William Pastor’s Lab – Implementation of CRISPR interference in human trophoblast stem cells
- Poster #62 – Darren Blackburn, M.Sc., Dr., Vahab Soleimani’s Lab – Myf6/MRF4 is a myogenic niche factor required for the maintenance of the muscle stem cell pool
- Poster #65 – Solene Jamet, M.Sc., Dr. Colin Crist’s Lab – Expansion of skeletal muscle stem cells in the presence of novel chemical analogs of Sal003 – an inhibitor of eIF2a dephosphorylation
- Poster #68 – Osama ElKashty, M.D., Dr. Simon Tran’s Lab – Sulforaphane increases drug-mediated cytotoxicity toward head & neck cancer stem cells
- Poster #76 – Scott Bell, B.Sc., Dr. Carl Ernst’s Lab – Purine salvage deficiency drives energy deficits and impairs dopaminergic cell development in humans
- Poster #87 – Rose Psaroudis, B.Sc., Dr. Inés Colmegna’s Lab – Reduced frequency of senescent human adipose tissue-derived multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) in pediatric versus adult donors following in vitro expansion
- Poster #102 – Kyla Bourque, B.Sc., Prof. Terry Hébert’s Lab – Probing GPCR signalling in iPSC-derived cardiovascular cell types
- Poster #106 – Ishtiaque Hossain, B.Sc., Dr. William Pastor’s Lab – Identification of factors involved in regulating DNMT3B expression in pluripotent cells
Under the Microscope Talks, Tuesday November 5, 2019:
Congratulations to Ahmad Sharanek, Ph.D., from Dr. Arezu Jahani-Asl’s Lab, whose abstract was selected for a Under the Microscope Talk. Go see him presents his work: Regulation of glioma stem cell self-renewal and tumorigenesis by carbohydrate binding proteins during the Session 1!
Poster session 2, Tuesday November 5, 2019:
- Poster #156 – Omar Bashth, M.Sc., Dr. Corinne Hoesli’s Lab – Recruitment of Endothelial Progenitor Cells on Functionalized Surfaces for Cardiovascular Disease Treatments
- Poster #170 – Felicia Lazure, B.Sc., Dr. Vahab Soleimani’s Lab – A genetic model to determine the effect of the niche microenvironment on the transcriptome of muscle stem cells at single cell resolution during aging
- Poster #175 – Xinyun Su, Dr. Simon Tran’s Lab – Human labial gland-derived stem cells, conditioned medium, and cell extract restore the function of irradiated salivary glands
- Poster #177 – Korin Sahinyan, M.Sc. , Dr. Vahab Soleimani’s Lab – Regulation of facultative heterochromatin by the REST/NRSF complex regulates skeletal muscle stem cell self-renewal
- Poster #186 – Audrey Burban, Ph.D., Dr. Arezu Jahani-Asl’s Lab – The function of mitochondrial OSMR in glioma stem cell respiration and resistance to therapy
- Poster #213 – Raymond Tran, MASc., Dr. Corinne Hoesli’s Lab – Developmental-mimicking geometries promote pancreatic differentiation and morphogenesis with pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreatic progenitors
- Poster #214 – Malvin Jefri, M.Sc., Dr. Carl Ernst’s Lab – EHMT1 haploinsufficiency impairs neuronal cell fate determination in Kleefstra syndrome
- Poster #217 – Chu-Han Feng, M.Sc., Dr. Michel L. Tremblay’s Lab – Unraveling the role of protein tyrosinephosphatasein regulating natural killer cell cytotoxicity
- Poster #223 – Jessica Cinkornpumin, M.Sc., Dr. Wiliam Pastor’s Lab – Naïve pluripotent stem cells can be readily converted to a trophoblast-like state
- Poster #224 – Alexandre Poirier, B.Sc., Dr. Michel L. Tremblay’s Lab – Increasing tumor specific antigens (TSAs) immunogenicity with phosphatases inhibitors for the potential treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- Poster #233 – Jacky Tung, M.Sc., Dr. Anastasia Nijnik’s Lab – Novel regulators of stress response and radioresistance in hematopoietic stem cells
- Poster #234 – Yun Hsiao Lin, B.Sc., Dr. Anastasia Nijnik’s Lab – Loss of MYSM1 protects against the oncogenic activity of c-MYC in B-cell lymphoma