LAB NEWS

• December, 2012 - January, 2013

  The lab learns that our first research article was accepted for publication by the journal MBoC!

  Fall semester ends. I thoroughly enjoyed this year’s crop of BIOC 310 students. Had the opportunity to interact with many of them, as well as other undergraduates and many of our graduate students at our Faculty and BSA sponsored beer night at the loft at Lydia’s on Broadway. What an awesome evening!

• November, 2012

  The lab is excited to welcome Dr. Lianglu Wan back to the fold. Lectures begin for BIOC 310 – can’t wait to meet the students!

• September, 2012

  Scot receives a New Investigator salary Award from the CIHR through the Regional Partnership Program!

• August, 2012

  The lab warmly welcomes Mr. Chris Hlynialuk who returns to Canada after an enjoyable sojourn at the Ohio State University…

• April-June, 2012

  The lab is very excited to welcome its first PDF, Dr. Lisa Yu, in early August. We are grateful to the CIHR Institute of Genetics and the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation, who jointly funded the research project which will be Lisa’s main focus during her two year stay with us.

• April, 2012

  I’m thrilled for Zak, who learns of the decision to award him a Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship.

• February, 2012

  The lab will be joined by Erin Hedin, an NSERC USRA, for the summer – Congratulations Erin! February also saw me send off a grant proposal to the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation for their “Champions of Genetics: Building the Next Generation” program. If we are successful, the lab will use both our in vitro and in vivo model systems to begin to tackle the development of a viable therapeutic approach for the effective treatment of SCO1 and SCO2 patients...very exciting!

• October-December, 2011

  My second year of teaching BIOC 310 has already come and gone - how time flies when you're having fun! That said, I am eager to return full-time to the bench. Much to be done, particularly since I will be an invited speaker at the Copper ’12 meeting this coming October in Sardegna, Italia - un po di sole e il mare, e anche di piu della scienza...perfetto!

• September, 2011

  Zak decides to stay on in the lab for his M.Sc. - Fingers crossed that his submission of an NSERC PGS M is successful!

  CIHR New Investigator Salary award done and submitted! Starting to prepare for teaching, and am looking forward to a productive year interacting with the Biochemistry Student Association and our undergraduate students in general.

• July, 2011

  Lab receives news that our CIHR grant was funded for 2 years through the Regional Partnership Program! We are very excited about the implications of receiving this grant, and look forward to the opportunity it affords us to advance some really compelling stories.

• May, 2011

  The lab welcomes Zak, an NSERC USRA, for the summer!

• October, 2010 - April, 2011

  The latter months of the Fall semester saw me teach BIOC 310 - it was great to finally interact directly and consistently with our undergraduate students!

  I have been back in the lab full-time since mid-December, and all of us are steadily making progress on our respective projects. Aren has decided to stay on in the lab for his M.Sc. studies, which we are stoked about!

  The coming months will see me travel to Helsinki, Finland and Steamboat Springs, CO to present our research at two different scientific meetings.

• August - September, 2010

  Very busy with my first CIHR operating grant, which is due mid September. Looking forward to its submission, and to spending time with Min Pan (M.Sc) & Aren Boulet (4th year honours student), both of whom will join the lab as of September 1 - welcome!

• May - June, 2010

  The lab is awarded a 2 year SHRF New Investigator Establishment Grant and Equipment Grant to support our research aimed at identifying how SCO proteins fulfill dual roles in COX assembly and the regulation of cellular copper homeostasis.

• March - April, 2010

  The lab is awarded a 5 year NSERC Discovery Grant to investigate the molecular genetic mechanisms that regulate mitochondrial content!

  I head off to the University of Alberta, where I am hosted by Dr. Moira Glerum of the Department of Cell Biology, to present our recent results on the mitochondrial regulation of cellular copper homeostasis.

• January, 2010

  First independent manuscript, a review article in ARS, is accepted for publication. Check it out!

• November - December, 2009

  Initial experiments are getting done (finally!). Productivity in this respect, and many others, will be greatly boosted by the arrival of Shelley Culp-Stewart to the lab as of December 1 – welcome Shelley!

• August - October, 2009

  First two grants went off, and the lab is starting to take shape.

• July, 2009

  First official month of the Life of (a) P.I.