Scenes from the Biochemistry Research Day
The Old Mill, Toronto
May 18, 2004


Chair, Reinhart Reithmeier points out the venue for Research Day

 

More than 140 students, faculty, and staff participated in the Research Day

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Carol Justice and Sue D'Alvise rose at the crack of dawn to register participants
 
Vicki Ilgacs and Carrie Harber are all smiles at registration




Enjoying breakfast



Bill Trimble, Shoshana Wodak, and Boris Steipe chat before the sessions begin

Co-organizers Grant Brown and Craig Smibert with Carrie Harber and the BGSU designed a great program
 
The Old Mill was a terrific venue for scientific sessions




Reinhart Reithmeier welcomes participants to Research Day

Rishi Rakhit leads off the student oral presentations describing SOD aggregates associated with ALS
 
Cameron Scott regaled us with fabulous images of actin remodeling during phagocytosis
 
Karen Rothfels described her work on mechanisms regulating transcription of sporulation-specific genes

 

Theo Hofmann lecturer Natalie Strynadka of U.B.C. meets Theo Hofmann
prior to her lecture entitled
"Structural Biology on the Bacterial Membrane"


A great lunch got everyone in the mood for the poster sessions



Ken Lau sets up his poster



Vice Dean, Research, Peter Lewis peruses the posters



James Shaw takes fellow students through his poster

Chris Tsang convincing judge John Parkinson of the existence of septin complexes
 
Tomas Rodinger takes judge David Isenman into the fourth dimension to calculate free energy changes




Declan Lalor tries the sideways approach to presenting data....

Ahlia Khan works on the humorous approach with judge Chris Hogue
 
Chrissie O'Brien introduces judge Natalie Strynadka to Nedd4

 

from left, Theo Hofmann with Natalie Strynadka, Peter Lewis, Anders Bennick and Marian Packham

 

Harry Schachter may be retired but he's still a tough judge as Monika Niggemann discovers
 
Michael Chang takes judge Shoshana Wodak through his poster

 

Paul Paroutis gives a light-hearted description of the ER-phagosome controversy to fellow students

 

Scott Smith finds that judge Jim Rini is a tough sell...
 
Ben Pinder tries the charismatic approach with judge Cliff Lingwood

 

The judges had a tough time but.....

 

the winners are.......

M.Sc. Category

Reinhart Reithmeier with M.Sc. poster winners (from left) Wanyi Xiang, Monika Podkawa, and Ronnie Lum

 

Ph.D. Category

Reinhart Reithmeier with Ph.D. poster winners (from left) Jeff Lee, Ravi Ramjeesingh, and Tania Roberts

 

Post-Doc Category

Reinhart Reithmeier congratulates postdoctoral winner Shintaro Besshoh

 

Reinhart Reithmeier congratulates students selected for oral presentations
(from left) Cameron Scott, Rishi Rakhit, and Karen Rothfels

 

Grad. Coordinator David Williams presents the Beckman-Coulter award for best student
publication in 2003 jointly to Urszula Wojtyra and Guillaume Thibault for their paper:

Urszula A. Wojtyra, Guillaume Thibault, Ashleigh Tuite, and Walid A. Houry (2003) The N-terminal Zinc Binding Domain
of ClpX Is a Dimerization Domain That Modulates the Chaperone Function. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 48981–48990.

Photos by David Williams. Reinhart Reithmeier, and Michel Dumontier

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