[BIC-announce] FW: Special Lecture - TODAY

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975

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From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms.
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Subject: Special Lecture - TODAY

REMINDER
 
*****SPECIAL LECTURE*****
 
Today - Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Speaker:  David L. Van Vactor, Ph.D.
Dr. David Van Vactor is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard.  His research focuses on axon guidance in the developing nervous system.   He uses a combined genetic and biochemical approach in drosophila to tease apart pathways by which extracellular guidance signals affect the cytoskeleton and differential growth in growth cones.  Some of these pathways also play a role in synapse formation.

Note that Dr. Van Vactor is a candidate for a faculty position at the MNI.  It is important that we evaluate him carefully and that we give him a good impression of the MNI and McGill.  PLEASE ATTEND HIS SEMINAR.  If you care to comment on Dr. Van Vactor as a potential colleague please contact me (john.robson at mcgill.ca).
 
Title:  Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans and the LAR Receptor,
Tyrosin Phosphatase, Interact and Control Synapse Morphogenesis in Drosophila
 
Time:  1:00 pm
 
Place:  de Grandpre Communication Centre

John A. Robson, PhD
Associate Director, Scientific Affairs
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4
Tel:  514-398-5205
Fax: 514-398-8248