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. CategoryReinhart 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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