Research Day 2007

A warm and sunny Research Day brought together over 220 students, post-docs, staff and faculty.
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As usual, tasty pastries and lots of coffee got things off to a fine start.


Catching up with one another before the sessions begin.

Nothing much would happen without Carol Justice, Mike Folinas
and Carrie Harber keeping us on track.


Brenda Bradshaw and Vicki Ilgacs distribute abstract booklets and name tags....		....while Carol and Mike keep track of registrants. Yes!.....we score another biochemistry pen!!


Upbeat as ever, Chair Reinhart Reithmeier welcomes everyone and sets the tone for another terrific Research Day		Research Day organizer, Jacqueline Segall, waits with the lead-off speakers (they don't even look nervous!).

Student/PostDoc presentations lead off the day....


David Tulumello describes the use of helical peptide hairpins as a model for transmembrane domain folding.		Tania Roberts follows with an examination of checkpoints in the yeast DNA damage response.		Post-doc Elisa Fadda takes us through her computational analysis of the catalytic mechanism of cytochrome c oxidase.

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The Annual Theo Hofmann Lecture

This year's Theo Hofmann lecturer was Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD, NIH, who presented an extremely engaging seminar on Emerging Fluorescence Technologies for the Analysis of Protein and Organelle Localization, Turnover and Topology in Living Cells

Jennifer meets Theo Hofmann who, at 83, continues to be passionate about his two loves: birding and aspartic proteinases!


Knox College was a wonderful venue for a barbeque lunch and a great opportunity to restore vitamin D levels after a long winter.


Any table or patch of grass worked splendidly on this warm and sunny day.


Hmmmm ..... we could get used to this kind of treatment.


Joe Marsh, centre, takes a few minutes to re-charge before the afternoon poster session.


That great fluorescence lecture was a hot topic at lunch.


OK, time to head back for the posters.....

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Posters, posters, posters....


Jennifer Baker describes the daunting task of determining the structure of a disorded domain by NMR		Artem Badasyan takes judges through factors affecting protein folding scenarios.


Amira Klip has a close look at Elida Lai's work on ER stress in pancreatic beta cells.		Rowan Henry field questions from judges Charles Deber and Shana Kelley


Jean-Phillipe Julien demonstrates a novel butterfly conformation for his Fab' fragment.		Abigale Miller receives some keen interest from judge John Parkinson.


Jing Kittanakom gets an unexpected response to her work!		Almost 20 years post retirement, Theo Hofmann still enjoys a close look at student research in the Department.


Kelly Stewart describes the intricacies of mitochondrial targeting using synthtetic peptidoconjugates		Judges Grant Brown and David Bazett-Jones seem to be enjoying Garnet Lau's poster title.


Vikram Mulligan looks like he has a tough audience in Jim Rini.		Gergely Lukacs and Craig Smibert have a close look at Jonathan Steels' work.


Chris Madill describes how to build a budget supercomputer.		Lori Rutkevich practises her skeptical "turn-the-table-on-the-judges" look with a little help from EM manager Steve Doyle.


Ben Pinder gives an enthusiastic tour of his poster to judges David Williams and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.		Sarah Rauscher describes how proline and glycine influence amyloid vs elastin fibrils, and.....


Judges listen to Sian Patterson as she describes the case of the red cell missing chaperone.		Diana Wong makes one last point (or is that her predicted research trajectory) as a bemused John Parkinson looks on.


The afternoon session was nicely rounded out with excellent talks by Angus McQuibban and John Rubinstein