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GRADUATE
News & Events

  • Seminar
    Series
  • MSc and PhD
    2011 Graduands
  • Upcoming
    Defences
  • Awards

Seminar Series

Seminars are held on Mondays from 11:30-12:30 in MDCL-3020 with a few exceptions.   Please come out and support your friends and colleagues and learn about their great science along the way.

For more information, please see our 2011 Seminar Series Schedule.

 

 

MSc and PhD 2011 Graduands

DOCTORAL (2011)

Date Name Supervisor Title
14 Jun Tushar Shakya Murray Junop Undercovering the antibiotic kinome with small molecules
15 Jun Daniel Garden Alex Bain Theoretical study of state-dependent action of toxins and drugs in a voltage-gated sodium channel

MASTERS (2011)

Date Name Supervisor Title
05 Jan Iwona Wenderska Lori Burrows Small-Molecule Probes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation
20 Apr Sarah Allison Eric Brown Glycosylation of Wall Teichoic Acids in Gram-Positive Bacteria
09 Jun Salma Trabelsi John Hassell The identification and characterization of protein kinase inhibitors targeting breast cancer stem cells
23 Jun Jonathon Torchia Nathan Magarvey Investigation of Antimycin-type Depsipeptide Biosynthesis
08 Jul Andrew Giacomelli John Hassel A high-throughput screen to identify small molecules that selectively target tumor-initiating cells in a mouse model of Her2-induced breast cancer
15 Jul Tomas Gverzdys Justin Nodwell The development of protocols to engineer and screen streptomyces in high throughput to test for the activation of cryptic clusters by "Heterologous Expression of Pleiotropic Regulations"

Upcoming Defences

STUDENT: Jennifer Lee
TITLE: Towards the Development of a Cytochrome C Biosensor.
DATE: 10:00a.m. Thursday, February 2, 2012
LOCATION: IIDR Boardroom , MDCL - 2307

Awards

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Dominic Li Karl B. Freeman Prize (1st place)
Kanda Pushpinder Ashbaugh Prestige Scholarship
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Ricky Cheng Impact Award – Third Prize
Yu Seon Chung Lambert Prestige Scholarship and
    Impact Award – Second Prize
Omid Dadoo International Excellence Award
Mark Fuller Fred & Helen Knight Award
    Karl B. Freeman Prize (2nd place)
Lindsay Kalan Karl B. Freeman Prize
Mohammad (Adil) Khan Impact Award – First Prize
David Mulder Ontario Graduate Prestige Scholarship
    Fred and Helen Knight Award
Monica Pillon Thomas Neilson Award
Ana Tomljenovic Karl B. Freeman Prize (2nd place)
Yulia Shulga International Excellence Award
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Sarah Allison Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Kirandeep Bhullar CIHR Masters Award
Andrew Giacomelli CIHR Masters Award
Justin Kale Canadian Breast Cancer
Jennifer Lee NSERC CGS
Ryan Mitchell
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Mac Mok Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Deborah Ng Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Sara Nolte Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Herlinder Takhar CIHR Masters Award
Lauren Wallar Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Iwona Wenderska Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Calvin Yeh CIHR Masters Award
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Steven Ahn Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Allison Boyd NSERC CGS Doctoral
Hetal Brahmbhatt Canadian Breast Cancer
Colin Cooper NSERC CGS Doctoral
Maya Farha Ontario Graduate Scholarship & CIHR CGS
Mark Fuller CIHR CGS Doctoral
Lindsay Kalan CIHR CGS Doctoral
Maria Kondratyev Canadian Breast Cancer
Lindsay Matthews CIHR CGS Doctoral
Wing (Wendy) Mok NSERC CGS
Lise Munsie CIHR CGS Doctoral
Ylan Nguyen Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Suzanne Osborne CIHR Vanier
Monica Pillon NSERC CGS Doctoral
Sarah Reid Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Leanne Stalker Canadian Breast Cancer
Seiji Sugiman-Marangos NSERC CGS Doctoral 
Kathryne Taylor NSERC CGS Doctoral 
Patricia Taylor CIHR CGS Doctoral
Ana Tomljenovic Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Soumaya Zlitni CIHR Vanier
Sarah Allison CIHR CGS
Ahmad Jomaa  CIHR CGS
David Mulder  CIHR CGS
Geordie Stewart CIHR CGS
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