A terrific turnout of more than 200 students, postdocs, faculty, and staff
made this year's Research Day a great success!
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Earlybirds Carol Justice and Sue D'Alvise register participants		Vicki Ilgacs and Carrie Harber share a joke with BSGU president Lellean Jebailey

A great breakfast got us all off to a good start

 

Even the early hour couldn't dampen spirits		Breakfast on the run....

Chair, Reinhart Reithmeier welcomes the Department

Co-organizers Craig Smibert (left) and Grant Brown along with Carrie Harber and the BGSU designed a terrific program		Who wouldn't enjoy hearing about anion transporters in such a beautiful setting?

 

Eva Amsen leads off the student oral presentations describing how CNrasGEF regulates melanogenesis		Michael Chang discussed his work on RMI1, a suppressor of genome instability		Postdoc Emmanuelle Cordat described trafficking defects in mutants of the kidney anion exchanger 1

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Meryl Nelson, Beckman-Coulter winner for outstanding paper of 2004, presents her paper "Drosophila Cup is an eIF4E-binding protein that functions in Smaug-mediated translational repression". Nelson, Leidal, and Smibert (2004) EMBO J. 23:150		Meryl receives the Beckman-Coulter prize for outstanding paper of 2004 from Grad. Coordinator David Williams. This year, the award was shared with another excellent student, Jennifer Marles, for her paper entitled "Protein-protein interaction affinity plays a crucial role in controlling the Sho1p-mediated signal transduction pathway in yeast". Marles, Dahesh, Haynes, Andrews and Davidson (2004) Mol. Cell 14:813

 

Enjoying a coffee break between sessions		David Isenman (right) chats with Sylvia Ho and Ronnie Lum during the break

 

Reinhart Reithmeier introduces Theo Hofmann lecturer Lila Gierasch, U. Mass. - Amherst, to Theo Hofmann		Lila Gierasch presents the Hofmann lecture entitled "Navigating a challenging folding landscape: folding and aggregation of a beta-clam protein in vitro and in vivo". Lila also kindly agreed to serve as a poster judge in the afternoon session

 

A great lunch with colleagues and friends got us all in the mood for the afternoon poster session. Here the Pai and Hofmann labs enjoy the meal		Sergio Grinstein with members of the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
Office staff (from left) Suzanne D'Alvise, Victoria Ilgacs, Carrie Harber, and Carol Justice		Anders Bennick, Fred Keeley, and David Pulleyblank put on their toughest Ph.D. examiner faces but it doesn't take much to lighten the mood (run mouse over photo)

 

Decisions-decisions.... Christopher Helsen ponders which posters to visit		Meanwhile Eden Fussner models the great Biochemistry wardrobe malfunction. An entire batch of T-shirts missing the last line "know when to fold 'em"

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Posters by Tania Roberts (left) and Sagar Dugani (right) get some close scrutiny from fellow students before the judges arrive

 

Post-doc Maria Sabaye Moghaddam seems to be praying for a favourable opinion from judges Amu Sarkar and Emil Pai		Jonathan Steels takes judge Charles Deber through his poster

Lila Gierasch peruses Wanyi Xiang's work		Would you believe.....? Diana Trebec sells her story to judges Russell Bishop and Régis Pomès

Seasoned veteran Costin Antonescu shows his poise to judges Sergio Grinstein and Walid Houry		Peter Lewis discovers that even Vice-Deans have to be careful arguing disordered states with Julie Forman-Kay

Daman Bawa explains how NMDA receptors undergo phosphorylation changes during ischemia to judges John Glover and Morrie Manolson		Joe Marsh models a little disorder to judges David Isenman and Fred Keeley

Ben Pinder's poster draws a lot of attention		Carrie-Lynne Keiski emphasizes a point

Judges tally up the scores and have some tough decisions to make

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and the winners are.......