This message is sent on behalf of Dr. Sari Hannila, Director of Outreach,  Manitoba Neuroscience Network.

Everyone is invited!

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SPECIAL LECTURE

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 | 12:00 NOON | Theatre B Basic Medical Sciences Building, Bannatyne Campus

Dr. Oliver Ernst
Canada Excellence Research Chair
Structural Neurobiology

Topic:   Structure and Dynamics of GPCRs

Oliver P. Ernst obtained his Dr. rer. nat. (chemistry/ biochemistry) from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 1994. After research training at Rockefeller University, he joined the Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 1995, where he became a group leader and made his habilitation in biophysics in 2003. Since 2011, he has been a full professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. He holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Structural Neurobiology and is a co-director of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR) research program “Architecture of Life”. His research focuses on rhodopsin and visual signal transduction as well as other G-protein-coupled receptors.

Sari S. Hannila, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science

Associate Member, Spinal Cord Research Centre

College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science
Room 130, Basic Medical Sciences Building

745 Bannatyne Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0J9

Tel: (204) 789-3483
Fax: (204) 789-3920
Sari.Hannila@umanitoba.ca

Kelly Jorundson
MNN Networking Assistant

T:  204.235.393  F: 204.237.4092

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