Jan 28- Feb 5

28-Jan-10

McGill Neurology Conference

Dr. Michael Shevell

Professor, Dept of Pediatrics
McGill University

Cerebral Palsy: Insights on an Old Disease from a New Registry

Friday, January 29, 2010

8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Montreal Neurological Institute

***ROOM WB 201***

A light breakfast will be served.

MCH academic activities announcement for this week.

Date: Friday the 29th of January, 2010.
Place: MCH, C-417

Please note that you are also all invited to a special presentation on NMR from Bruker BioSpin Corp. which will take place in room C-431 at 1:30pm.

8:00 – 9:00 Fetal Diagnosis & Treatment Group: Fetal outcomes

9:00 – 10:00 Departmental Rounds: Dr. Micheline Ste-Marie, Assoc. Dir. of Professional Services- MCH
Gestion des risques et sécurité des soins / Risk management and security of care.

10:00 – 10:30 Journal Club: Sébastien Lévesque
“Microdroplet-based PCR enrichment for large-scale targeted sequencing.”
Tewhey R et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2009 Nov;27(11):1025-31. Epub 2009 Nov 1.

10:30 – 11:00 Ad hoc Clinical Presentations

11:00 – 12:00 Resident Teaching – Sébastien Levesque & Isabelle De Bie
Management of an hyperammoniemia episode in the context of a urea cycle defect.

1:30 – 4:00 Special presentation on Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR): Application in Metabolic Profiling Analysis
Dr Joshua M. Hicks, Ph.D., from Bruker BioSpin Corp
MCH – Room C-431

Jan 29: HGSS PUB NIGHT

Come celebrate the New Year with your fellow Human Genetics students!

Jan 29, 5:30pm

Brutopia (1215 Rue Crescent)

Friday, Feb 5, 9:00am: MCH, C-417

Dr. David Dankort

“BRaf(V600E) cooperates with Pten loss to induce metastatic melanoma: A new model for pre-clinical cancer research”

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