Friday, December 17 @ 9am PT / noon ET
Metabolic and epigenetic adaptations expose vulnerabilities in breast cancer
 | Geneviève Deblois is a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montreal, Canada since March 2020. She leads a research group that aims to better understand cancer progression by studying tumor microenvironment heterogeneity and development of drug resistance, particularly in breast cancer. Her team uses metabolomic and genomic technologies to understand the reciprocal regulation between cellular metabolism and epigenetics processes in cancer cells. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Mathieu Lupien’s lab at Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre in Toronto and did her PhD in cancer metabolism in the group of Vincent Giguère at McGill University. |
Investigating intra-tumour metabolic and epigenetic heterogeneity in triple-negative breast cancer
 | Marina Fukano is a 3rd year PhD student in Dr. Genevieve Deblois’ lab at the Université de Montréal and also in Dr. Morag Park’s lab at the Goodman Cancer Institute of McGill University. Her research focuses on elucidating the consequences of metabolic heterogeneity on the progression and drug response of triple-negative breast tumors using patient-derived xenograft models. Her project investigates the role of epigenetic regulation in tumor metabolic heterogeneity. |
A recording of Dr. Geneviève Deblois' seminar is available here.
The trainee portion of the seminar by Marina Fukano is not included in the recording due to privacy concerns.
Upcoming Seminars
Date | Speaker |
| January 28 @ 9am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Jacek Majewski - McGill University |
| February 25 @ 9am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Mathieu Lupien - Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto |
| March 25 @ 9 am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Pamela Hoodless - Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer |
| April 22 @ 9 am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Michael Taylor - The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto |
| May 27 @ 9 am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Joel Ross - University of Prince Edward Island |
| June 24 @ 9 am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Michael Witcher - McGill University |
| July 2022 | No Seminar |
| August 2022 | No Seminar |
| September 23 @ 9 am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Cynthia Hawkins - The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto |
| October 4-7 | AGM |
| November 25 @ 9 am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Claudia Kleinman - McGill University |
| December 16 @ 9 am PT / 12 noon ET | Dr. Jamie Kramer - Dalhousie University |
Past Seminars
Breast Cancer
Dr. Geneviève Deblois
December 17, 2021
Muscle Repair
Dr. F. Jeffrey Dilworth and Dr. Kiran Nakka
September 17, 2021
Epigenetic Enhancers
Dr. Michael D. Wilson and Minggao Liang
June 06, 2021
Microglial Cells
Dr. Annie Ciernia and Jennifer Kim
March 19, 2021
Chromatin
Drs. Michael Hendzel and Hilmar Strickfaden
February 2, 2021
Histone 3
Drs. Nada Jabado and Carol Chen
January 22, 2021
DNA Methylation
Drs. Matthew Lorincz and Julien Richard Albert
November 27, 2020
X-Chromosome Inactivation
Dr. Carolyn Brown and Bradley Balaton
October 23, 2020
Histone Variants in Glioblastoma
Drs. Marco Gallo and Ana Nikolic
September 25, 2020
