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cool rainy day couldn't dampen spirits as Anthoula Vlahakis and Lynnette
Anderson
arrive early to register attendees Sian Patterson and Daniela Rotin
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Loading up with delicious coffee, pastries and fruit before the talks
begin
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Dustin Little and David Davidson enjoy some relaxed time
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 Alex
Marsolais and Avinash Persaud sample the
pastries
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 Arriving
early to check out the abstracts
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 John
Rubinstein shows our newest faculty member Oliver Ernst the finer points
of the breakfast buffet line
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 Andy
Wilde and Jim Rini catch up before the sessions
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 What?
You want to judge ALL the posters?
Chair Reinhart Reithmeier appears skeptical
while chatting with Stephane Angers
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Theo
Hofmann and Lynne Howell enjoy a moment |
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others down coffee, Abdalla Akef gets a helping hand setting up his poster
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Early bird Kristina Han has her poster setup well in hand
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enough coffee - time for some science!
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 Chair
Reinhart Reithmeier welcomes everyone to Research Day
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Grad Coordinator
Liliana Attisano introduces the grad students who were selected to give
oral presentations from the Abstracts
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Student
oral
presentations...
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Our lead-off student presentation came from Jessica Vaisica (Brown lab)
who described her intriguing work on how Mms proteins stabilize the replisome
when replication forks stall
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Next up was Wes Eriington (Privé Lab) who gave a polished presentation
on self assembly of the SPOP-Cul3 E3 ubiquitin ligase
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Vikram Mulligan (Chakrabartty lab) followed up with
a terrific presentation on the mechanisms of mutant superoxide dismutase
unfolding and its potential relationship to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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The session ended with an elegant talk by Wilson Lau (Rubinstein lab)
who was awarded the Beckman-Coulter
"Best Student Publication of 2010".
Wilson presented his research entitled" "Structure
of intact Thermus thermophilus V-ATPase by cryo-EM reveals organization
of the membrane-bound V(O) motor."
Lau, WC and Rubinstein JL PNAS (2010) 107:1367
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Time for a stretch, some chat
and, of course,....more caffeine
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Myrna Cohen-Doyle and
Lori Rutkevich enjoy the break
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Research Day is a great
opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues
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Taking a breather before round 2....
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The morning was rounded out by our
Annual Theo Hofmann Lecture
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This year's Theo Hofmann lecturer was Dr. Kalle Gehring, McGill University,
who presented an eclectic selection of research vignettes entitled "Tales
from the Dewar"
(all similarities to Tales from the Crypt were purely intentional)
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Kalle Gehring with Theo Hofmann
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Given the dodgy weather we decided
to take our annual Departmental portrait indoors
(some claimed to have heard the staircase groaning)
A bonanza*
of biochemists turned out to celebrate the research activities of the
Department**
Click
here to download a hi-res version suitable for printing (3.9Mb file).
*(1
bonanza = 200)
**(Can you find Waldo?)
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Another sumptuous buffet lunch was prepared by the Old Mill
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So many delicious choices!
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Lunch was perfect opportunity to enjoy some conversation and build up
some stamina for the afternoon poster sessions
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RNAs go where??? Lil Attisano, Peter Kim, Craig Smibert and Alex Palazzo
discuss some research findings at lunch
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Members of the Howell lab enjoy
lunch together |
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Tina Sing and Nikko Torres practice their poster-presenter smiles on Jooho
Lee and Neroshan Thevakumaran
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Andy Wilde, Jacqueline Segall and David Isenman relax after lunch
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The Pai lab enjoys each other's company in and out of the lab
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Members of the Palazzo
lab look serious but are really just
planning their next visit to the fruit table
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Mailis Bietenhader, Mod Rujiviphat and Sarah Rausher
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Mahboubeh
Ghoryshi and Jess DiCiccio find out how it feels from
newly-minted PhDs, Matt Estey and Sian Patterson
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Karly Uhl, Soyoung
Lee, Derek Ng and Fiona Cunningham seem to really be enjoying lunch
(what was in those red drinks?)
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Deber labmates Vince Nadeau,
David Tulumello, Brad Poulsen and Corey Mulvihill
were overheard planning their Golf Day strategy a month in advance
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Last minute poster setup -
Ronnie Lum checks it out from all angles
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Nikko Torres gets lots of help
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Posters...posters.....POSTERS!!
Over 70 posters were presented by our grad students and postdocs this year
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Making a pitch to poster judges Peter Lewis and Oliver Ernst
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Avais Daulat discusses his work with Stephane Angers and Alex Palazzo
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Alan Wong describes the finer points of aminopeptidase N structure
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Lori Rutkevich explains her multi-step siRNA knockdown approach to Eliana
Chan
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Which comes out first from mutant SOD - copper or zinc? Phil Ip describes
unfolding pathways to Regina Puts
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Nardin Nando points out a Rvb hexamer to Rediet Taddese
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Whew, all those posters!
Angela Yu, Yuka Okawa and Elisa Leung take a welcome break!
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Philbert Ip makes his pitch to judges David Williams and Kalle Gehring
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John Glover gives Stan Pasyk's poster some close scrutiny!
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Judges Angus McQuibban and Peter Kim pay close attention as Yuka Okawa
describes her systematic mutagenesis of Trp residues in anion exchanger
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Alex Thomson takes Boris Steipe on a tour of adhesion molecules in Dictyostelium
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Judges Kalle Gehring and David Williams learn about the role of Mgm1 in
yeast mitochondrial dynamics from Mod Rujiviphat
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Did you really ask me that? Hannah Zhao gets some challenging
questions from Jim Rini and Lynne Howell
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The power of persuasion....Grace Li looks determined as she makes a point
to judges Julie Forman-Kay and John Rubinstein
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Edith Cheng gets
some encouragement from Jessica Vaisica and Alan Ji
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Myrna Cohen-Doyle, Charles Calmettes and Mjaida El Bakkouri give Ronnie
Lum a break between poster run-throughs
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Aggregated yet disordered - Sarah Rausher explains elastin self-assembly
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Jason Dumelie takes judges Any Wilde and Jacqueline Segall through his
poster
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Reinhart Reithmeier, David Williams and Harry Schachter enjoy a brief
time-out during the poster session
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Irmgard Schuiki and Tracy Teodoro get ready for the final faculty presentations
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Steven Molinski describes the gating of the CFTR channel to Tina Sing
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Faculty
presentations rounded out the afternoon....
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Alex Palazzo gave a superb presentation on detecting
targeting information within mRNAs
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David Isenman described how a combination of persistence,
hard-core biochemistry and structural biology were used to resolve
a decade-long controversy over the interaction between complement receptor
and its ligand C3d (getting the result in Science wasn't half
bad either!!!)
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Picking winning posters is never easy for the judges but, in the end,
the winners were....
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Lil
Attisano presents M.Sc. poster awards
to Tina Sing (Brown), Antoinette Bugyei-Twum (Chakrabartty) and Dustin
Little (Howell)
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Lil Attisano with the Ph.D. poster award
winners Mahboubeh
Ghoryshi (Parkinson), Angela
Yu (Houry), Lindsay Baker (Rubinstein),
Wioletta Glowacka (Rotin) and Lori Rutkevich (Williams)
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The Postdoctoral
Poster Award went to Charles Calmettes (Moraes)
Congratulations
to all the poster winners!
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Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Awards
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This year's awards for outstanding TA went to....(left) David Tulumello
(BCH210), (right) Vikram Mulligan (BCH242)
and (not shown) Priya Sharda (BCH370) and Ryder McKay (BCH471).
Congratulations to these outstanding TAs and many thanks for such exceptional
work!!
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Best
all-round graduate student(s)....the David A. Scott Award
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Our annual David
A. Scott award for best all-round graduate student is awarded on the basis
of performance at seminars, readiness and willingness to assist fellow
graduate students and staff, abilities as teaching assistant, etc.
This year the award
goes to .... Wesley Errington. Well done Wes!
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Research Day wouldn't be
possible without a lot of hard work from Carrie Harber (our Graduate
Administrator) and the
Executive of the Biochemistry Graduate Student Union (featured above).
Thanks for making the 2011 Research Day another very successful event!
Photos by David
Williams and Vikram Mulligan
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