After a caffeine
kick-start, graduate student and faculty volunteers start early to prepare
for the Open House |
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Nolan Beise and Sian Patterson |
Varinder Randhawa and Usheer Kanjee are a model of teamwork |
Patrick Kim Chiaw sets up his poster |
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Profs. Gil Privé and Lil Attisano greet students and hand out information packages |
Ahhhhh....nothing like free coffee and cookies on a chilly morning! |
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Grad. students (from left) Dana Patterson, Susan Bustos, Patrick Kim Chiaw and Varinder Randhawa give visitors a cheery reception |
Profs. Hue-Sun Chan and Régis Pomès join 80 visiting students for some remarks and a very entertaining video of research activity in the Department |
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Chair Reinhart Reithmeier welcomes visitors and describes the diverse opportunities available to graduates in Biochemistry |
Grad. Coordinator Jim Rini outlines the admissions process |
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A huge pizza lunch provides a great opportunity to chat about careers in grad school (I can't believe we ate all 240 slices!!) |
Patrick Kim Chiaw offers some tips at the BGSU booth |
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Prof. Russell Bishop and Nolan Beise field some questions |
Prof. Régis Pomès offers advice (and frisbee lessons) |
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Sian Patterson (left) provides a student's view of the Department |
Chatting with Prof. Angus McQuibban |
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Checking out posters of grad student research |
Guide Eden Fussner (centre) gathers her group for a tour of research facilities |
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Prof. John Glover describes his research in a typical Med. Sci. Bldg. lab |
A surprise stop in the brand new MaRS research labs |
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Ever-popular EM lab manager, Steve Doyle, shows how scanning and transmission electron microscopy can delve deeply into cells |
Steve explains how the >50,000X magnification of transmission EM is an excellent way to identify suspected viruses |
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Next stop is a tour of the multi-million dollar NMR facility |
Joe Marsh and Irina Bezsonova describe how NMR can address the dynamic behaviour of proteins in solution |
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Brrrr - why does Biochemistry always pick the coldest day in January for their Open House??? |
Warming up with a brisk walk to the next stop on the tour |
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Prof. Régis Pomès describes how the Molecular Design and Information Technology Centre can provide structural insights into drug design |
Always a highlight on the tour - donning 3D glasses and looking right into proteins on the 4 meter display! |
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At Sick Children's hospital Shao-Yang Ku outlines the fine art of protein crystallography |
Shao-Yang demonstrates an X-ray diffraction pattern and describes the excitement of solving a new crystal structure |
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Post-doc Nicolas Touret describes a strategy for visualizing proteins in polarized cells by confocal immunofluorescence microscopy.... |
....and then shows how the images can be reconstructed for a 3D depiction of protein location in a polarized cell. |
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Finally, tired but happy vistors unwind with a WARM! Chinese food dinner. |
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Photos by David Williams (except for the blurry one....)
