2018

8:00 am

Registration/Coffee - B Wing Ground Floor Foyer (Room GB03) Health Sciences Building

8:50 am

Patrick Odnokon, CEO, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
Welcoming Remarks

8:55 am

Dr. David Cooper, Assistant Dean Graduate Studies, College of Medicine,
University of Saskatchewan
Welcoming Remarks

9:00 am

Dr. Peter Greer, Queen's Cancer Research Institute, Kingston, Ontario
Arpin: A novel regulator of actin branching and a potential anti-metastasis therapeutic target

10:00 am

Dr. Scott Widenmaier, Department of Physiology, University of Saskatchewan
Guarding Cholesterol Homeostasis to Prevent Liver Cancer

10:30 am

Coffee Break - B Wing Ground Floor Foyer

11:00 am

Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan
Antibody-targeted radiation therapy of cancer

11:30 am

Dr. Keith Bonham, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors: Looking for partners

12:00 noon

Dr. Linda Chelico, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan
Roles of APOBEC3 DNA Deaminases in Cancer Evolution and Heterogeneity

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Lunch - Special Events Room 1B21

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Poster Presentations - D Wing, 2nd Floor

2:00 pm

Dr. Francisco Cayabyab, Department of Physiology, University of Saskatchewan
Taking it to Heart: the connection between Breast cancers and Cardiac HERG channels

2:30 pm

Dr. Silvana Papagerakis, Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan
Circardian disruption and its clinical relevance

3:00 pm

Dr. Idiko Badea, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan
Lipid-based delivery systems for drug delivery in melanoma

3:30 - 4 pm

Coffee Break - B Wing Ground Floor Foyer

4:00 pm

Dr. Ravi Shankar Singh, Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan
Characterization of DDX41 mutations associated with MDS/AML and its role in innate immunity

4:30 pm

Mr. Fahmid Islam, Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan
Systematic profiling of circularRNAs.

5:00 pm

Dr. Jon Tonita / Keith Bonham, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency
Poster Presentation Awards and Closing Remarks