(left to right) Phil Ip, Alan Ji, Noor Alnabelseya, Kaiyin Liu,
Katelyn Draworsky and Hannah Zhao are all in excellent spirits
to greet guests as they arrive for the Year-End Party
Kohila Mahadevan learns the finer points of our icebreaker bingo game where one has to match the descriptions in each square to a party guest.
Members of the Enenkel and Ernst labs have pencils sharpened, ready
to find out who really can touch their nose with their tongue or is
a certified scuba diver.
Kohila is off to a quick start with help from Jennifer Haughton.
Alex Palazzo and John Glover show that their talents extend beyond biochemistry
Members of the Palazzo lab work on the bingo game while awaiting the unveiling
of their new video in the Biochemistry Idol contest
Ryan Murchie hosts a science trivia quiz that helped
us work up an appetite for Hart House's delicious lunch
The Party was a great way to put teaching and experiments on hold for
a few hours and enjoy each other's company
University Professor Marian Packham (left) catches up with the office
staff
OK, the Bingo was a hit, so what's next? The BGSU did
a great job of organizing party activities.
left to right...Theo Hofmann, John Glover, Annie Cunningham
and Avi Chakrabartty
Finally...time for lunch!
Mmm....definitely worth waiting in line for, but once again
those small plates challenged large appetites.
A great selection of fruit, cheeses, veggies and meats were on hand
Members of the McQuibban, Glover and Kim labs join
Assoc. VP Research Peter Lewis for lunch.
Lunch was followed by the ever-popular Biochemistry Idol competition.
And the bar was really raised this year!
Click on the links below to see the videos...
Macro Prions (Chakrabartty lab)
Christmas Science Rap (Graeme Sargent)
Members of the Brown and Rini Labs take in the videos....
...while the Pai, Chakrabartty and Wodak Labs discuss their favouries.
First Idol entry is "The Laboratory", a take-off on the TV
show, "The Office". Here the Moraes lab takes comments from
the Idol "judges"
Idol Judge, Roy Baker, cracks up the Palazzo Lab with his commentary
on their video "m-R-N-A". Hmmm... wonder what their research
area might be?
Idol judge and Grad Coordinator, Liliana Attisano,
offers up her analysis of the videos.
Graeme Sargent, creator of "Christmas Science Rap", takes
some heat from judge Andy Wilde.
The multi-talented Derek and the Deberites (also known for their
golf prowess as the pesky One-Putts) get an in-depth critique
of their musical entry "Peptide Bond" from Roy Baker.
And finally, the Chakrabartty lab gets cudos from the judges for their
special effects in their amazing (and ominous!) video "Macro Prions"
David Isenman and Larry Moran (left) join Jacqueline Segall (right)
for lunch with members of the Palazzo and Wilde labs.
Flush with success from their tie for first place in the Idol Contest.
the
Deber Lab savours the moment with members of the Kelly lab.
Another annual Party tradition is the performance of science parody
songs by John Glover (left) and David Williams. This year, they offered
up a grad student partying song entitled "Good King Reinhart"
followed by a plea for entry into our grad program called "Oh,
Liliana".
Chair Reinhart Reithmeier joins Vicki Ilgacs and Marian
Packham in drawing names for door prizes.
Jim Rini (left) enjoys some time with Theo Hofmann
Hailun Tang and Zhen Li head back to the lunch table to refill those
tiny plates
Post-docs Pawel Stocki, Christina Basford and Majida El Bakkouri believe
in exposing their children to science at a very early age....
....while Emil Pai and Hue-Sun Chan contemplate their
potential as future grad students!
Sian Patterson (in red) and the Williams Lab enjoy the afternoon
Past Business Officer Suzanne D'Alvise (left) celebrates the
season with Vicki Ilgacs, Carrie Harber and Anthoula Vlahakis
Reinhart Reithmeier, Theo
Hofmann, Trevor Moraes and John Glover enjoy
the waning minutes of yet another enjoyable Biochemistry Year-Ender