Personalized MATRIX Career Planning and Counseling with Dr. Harper and Dr. Bennett
January to February 2020
MATRIX Scholars met individually with Dr. Harper and Dr. Bennett for an open discussion with constructive feedback about their future plans in academia, industrial research or other career trajectories. During these one hour sessions, trainees evaluated their Career Development Plan, a self-evaluation report detailing: a vision of their future career direction; their short, medium and long-term career goals; and the skills they possess, and those required, to achieve their goals.
MATRIX Seminar - Dr. Theodore Perkins - February 10th, 2020
Bayesian Reasoning about Measurement Uncertainty in High-Throughput Data
MATRIX Lunch and Learn Seminar Series - Liquid Chromatography
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 11:30 - 1:00 PM
Dr. Katelyn Erickson, Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific
“HPLC column selection made easy”
A range of topics will be covered: key chromatographic parameters for separation, column attributes, assay parameters and sample considerations etc.
March 2020 - In response to the pandemic, MATRIX programming and communication moved online to Slack.
MATRIX Seminar - Dr. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam - April 6, 2020
Data mining of large-scale biological networks: Making sense of hairballs!
MATRIX Seahorse Research Day 2020 with lunch roundtables and the Great Seahorse Bakeoff!
MATRIX Seminar - Dr. Michael Organ - May 8th, 2020
Medicinal Chemistry: Building a Bridge over the 417 Between Science and Medicine
MATRIX Commercialization Workshop
June 2nd, 2020 | 1:30 PM -3:00 PM | Workshop Overview and Commercialization 101: Commercialization in an Academic Setting and Beyond
Speaker(s): Catherine Geci, MSc, LLB – Business Development Manager, Innovation Support Services, University of Ottawa; Sean Geddes, MSc, MBA - Business Development Manager, Innovation Support Services, University of Ottawa
June 4th, 2020 | 1:30 PM -3:00 PM | A Walk Down the Regulatory Road
Speaker(s): William Yan, PhD – Director, Bureau of Nutritional Sciences, Health Canada
June 9th, 2020 | 1:30 PM -3:00 PM | Fireside Chat with Staterra
Speaker(s): Alysen Clark, MSc | President, Staterra; Delphie Dugal-Tessier, PhD | Head of Research, Staterra
June 11th, 2020 | 1:30 PM -3:00 PM | Forge your Impact!
MATRIX Workshop - High Throughput Imaging
July 27th, 2020 1:30 - 4 pm EST
1:30 – 2:30 pm High Throughput High Content Screening and Mitochondrial Dynamics
Stephen Baird, PhD
3 – 4pm The Next Generation of Live Cell Imaging – The Incucyte Live Cell Analysis System
Andrew Skarpetas, MSc and Oleksandr Galkin, PhD
Incucyte/Essen BioScience/Sartorius Sales and Field Application Specialist
MATRIX Basecamp 2020
November 16-24th, 2020
Comprehensive exploration of lipidomic and metabolomic mass spectrometry methods for the study of metabolism from the “ground-up.” Students will learn how to extract biological samples, operate a mass spectrometer, analyze raw data, identify lipids and metabolites within these datasets, and perform univariate, multivariate, supervised and unsupervised learning analysis in R. Students will be instructed in skills relevant to research project design (e.g., selection of research models), methodology, and the rigorous interpretation of results necessary to ensure accurate lipidomic/metabolomic results. Students will be introduced to approaches for the analysis of large data sets (e.g., from lipidomics, metabolomics), with an emphasis on the skills required for quantitative lipid assessment.
MATRIX Seminar - Dr. Matthieu Ruiz - December 14th, 2020
Untargeted lipidomics in cardiometabolic disorders, from discovery to new mechanisms: role of plasmalogens
Troubleshooting Seminar Series - MitoMATRIX JC/WIP
| Jan 27, 2020 | Kimberly Reid - Mrpl54 heterozygous knock-out – a healthy-aging mouse model |
| Feb 3, 2020 | Nina Hadzimustafic - mTORC1 Directly Inhibits AMPK to Promote Cell Proliferation Under Nutrient Stress |
| Mar 2, 2020 | Xun Xun Shi - A Machine Learning Approach for Optimization of Differential Ion Mobility Parameter Values to Separate Glucosylceramide (GlcCers) and Galactosylceramide (GalCers) |
| Apr 27, 2020 | Dr. Chantal Pileggi - Sestrin prevents atrophy of disused and aging muscles by integrating anabolic and catabolic signals |
| May 4, 2020 | Fahmida Jahan - A salvage pathway maintains highly functional respiratory complex I |
| May 25, 2020 | Lucía Minarrieta Varela - A Compendium of Genetic Modifiers of Mitochondrial Dysfunction Reveals Intra-organelle Buffering |
| June 1st, 2020 | Cantin Baron - Machine learning methods to find accurate metabolomic biomarkers at the global and individual level in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Thao, Justin, Madhavee and Xun Xun - Update from the Machine Learning Workshop |
| Jun 22, 2020 | Madhavee Thumiah-Mootoo - The role of mitophagy in muscle stem cells during muscle regeneration |
| Jun 29, 2020 | Alex Green - Exploring the role of Poly-ADP-Ribosylation in Muscle Regeneration and Function: Preliminary Findings and Future Directions |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Mohd Waddah Almoufti - Methotrexate elicits pro-respiratory and anti-growth effects by promoting AMPK signalling |
| Jul 20, 2020 | Claire Fong-McMaster - Mitochondrial uncoupler BAM15 reverses diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in mice |
| Jul 20, 2020 | Angel Albarran-Ponce - Lipogenetics of Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy: From Metabolism to Treatment |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Emily Roth - A machine learning approach to decipher protein-protein interactions in human plasma |
| Sep 28, 2020 | George Cairns - Pink1/Parkin Mediated Mitophagy in Muscle Regeneration |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Michel Kanaan - α-ketobutyrate links alterations in cystine metabolism to glucose oxidation in mtDNA mutant cells |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Breana Hooks - Mitochondrial dysfunction promotes aquaporin expression that controls hydrogen peroxide permeability and ferroptosis |
| Oct 26, 2020 | Luke Kennedy - In Search of the Mitochondrial Glutathione Transporter |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Justin Chitpin - Quantification for non-targeted LC-MS screening without standard substances |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Dr. Goutham Vasam - Proteomics Characterization of Mitochondrial-Derived Vesicles Under Oxidative Stress |
| Nov 30, 2020 | Dallas Nygard - Nutriome-metabolome relationships provide insights into dietary intake and metabolism |
| Dec 7, 2020 | Le Chang - Cross-platform genetic discovery of small molecule products of metabolism and application to 2 clinical outcomes |
