Azra and Ben attended the ASCB’s annual meeting last week. Despite all the pictures we just know they spent most of their time indoors listening to some fantastic scientific talks! Azra discovered that presenting a poster and giving a talk in the same day is exhausting and means you spend the entire day talking! We’re not sure she will ever sign up to do that again but she managed it very well at ASCB. The next big challenge for Azra will be her candidacy exam, but after answering so many questions at ASCB she should be well prepared.
Congratulations to Judit and Ben on having a paper accepted to the Journal of Molecular Biology!
Pi release limits the intrinsic and RNA-stimulated ATPase cycles of DEAD-box protein 5 (Dbp5). Emily V. Wong, Wenxiang Cao, Judit Vörös, Monique Merchant, Yorgo Modis, David D. Hackney, Ben Montpetit, Enrique M. De La Cruz. Journal of Molecular Biology 2015. Accepted.
The Cell Biology Students Association hosted their annual Research Days on October 1st and 2nd. Dr. Heidi McBride (McGill University) was the invited keynote speaker this year and she was a big hit with everyone. Her talk was informative and she was very easy to chat with during the student lunch. Students also had the opportunity to participate in a Careers in Science Panel Discussion with panel members from the University, government and industry.
Summer is here and so are all the conferences. In the last few weeks there have been three different conferences lab members have participated in. The first meeting, the Canada Gairdner Symposium, occurred here at the University of Alberta and included speakers from around the world. Sadly Nobel Prize laureate Gunter Blobel was unable to attend due to illness. All three lab members, Judit, Azra and Biplab, presented poster at this symposium.
We are very happy to announce that Azra Lari is one of three students selected to give an oral presentation at the annual Cell Biology Students Association Research Day on October 6, 2014. Azra and Biplab will both be presenting poster at this event.
Biplab and Azra both worked so hard generating data they emptied almost every tip box. This resulted in an afternoon of filling tip boxes and the resulting Tower of Tips!
