[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Seminar Today: Making up your mind: The assignment of cell fate in the developing brain

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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KILLAM SEMINAR TODAY

Speaker:  Gordon Fishell, Ph.D., Professor Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center

Title:  Making up Your Mind:  The Assignment of Cell Fate in the Developing Brain

Place:  de Grandpre Communication Centre

Time:  4:00 pm

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Our Killam Speaker tomorrow will be Dr. Gord Fishell, from the Skirball Institute at the NYU Medical Center. Dr. Fishellıs research interests are aimed at understanding the mechanisms that regulate neural progenitor maintenance, proliferation, and differentiation in the mammalian brain. In particular, his lab has focused on the role of both extrinsic and intrinsic cues in controlling the specification of radial glia identity (radial glial cells have emerged as the Œneural stem cellsı in the developing telencephalon), as well as the generation of specific cortical neuronal subtypes. His excellent studies have been published most recently in journals like Science, Neuron, and Development. I hope that you will be able to attend his seminar and hear about his exciting results.

Stefano Stifani
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Stefano Stifani, PhD
William Dawson Scholar
Associate Professor, Depts. of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Anatomy & Cell Biology Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University
3801 rue University
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2B4 Canada
Tel., (514) 398-3946
Fax, (514) 398-1319