Despite the early hour, grad students from Biochemistry and Med Gen & Micro make short work of setting up

Profs. Dan Durocher and Lil Attisano provide a warm welcome at registration...

....and they were busy, with 120 students stopping by to learn about grad studies

Ahhhh....nothing like great coffee and
cookies to start the day off right!

MedGen&Micro Chair, Howard Lipshitz welcomes students and describes the great breadth of research opportunities in the two departments

Biochemistry Chair, Reinhart Reithmeier, gets up close to extol the benefits of undertaking grad studies at U. of T.

Enjoying the presentations.

Alan Davidson and David Williams outline the admissions process, offer tips on what makes a strong
application and describe the academic programs in Biochemistry and MedGen & Micro
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A delicious pizza lunch provides a nice break....

...and a chance to talk with faculty and grad students

Getting high-powered advice from both
the MedGen Chair and Grad Coordinator

Biochem Chair Reinhart Reithmeier offers
some light-hearted anecdotes

Dan Durocher fields questions over lunch

Grad student Jennifer Baker offers her
perspective on grad work in Biochemistry

Grad student posters were a big hit, providing insight into the types of research ongoing in both departments

The BGSU and MGA booths were a popular spot to get information on graduate life in Toronto

Costin Antonescu describes his lab's cell biological approach to studying the trafficking of the glucose receptor

Biophysical studies of molecular chaperone
function were outlined by Lori Rutkevich

Derek Ng oulines how peptides can be used as
mimics of the transmembrane segments of proteins

Gathering for tours of the research facilities on campus
and in the hospital research institutes
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Jennifer Baker and Joe Marsh take students through the multi-million-dollar NMR facility and describe
how this technique can be used to examine the structure of proteins and their dynamic behaviour in solution

Enjoying sunshine and a great view from
the top of the CCBR building

Trevor Kwok describes research in the CCBR
with the Toronto skyline as backdrop

Getting an introduction to the high-throughput robotics facility
at Mt. Sinai hospital courtesy of manager, Alessandro Datti

At Sick Children's hospital, postdoc Nicholas Touret shows
how confocal fluorescence microscopy can provide insight
into the distribution and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton

Also at Sick Kids, Shao-Yang Ku describes the
art and science of protein crystallography

Shao-Yang takes students through the steps from crystal, to X-ray diffraction pattern, to electron density map, to final protein structure

All these tours build up an appetite - back to the
Medical Sciences Bldg....

....for a terrific Chinese food buffet

The picture of inter-departmental cooperation!

Chairs Reithmeier and Lipshitz thank students for coming
and wrap up the day with some Starbucks door prizes

After 9 hours on our feet, it's time for volunteers to take a well-deserved break
(plenty of time for experiments tomorrow!!)
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Photos by David Williams