The lab celebrated the holidays and the end of the year by opening gifts from some thoughtful secret santa’s and indulging in lots of sugary treats!
MicrosporidiaFest 2021!
A couple of weeks we had our second annual MicrosporidaFest. Thanks to all the speakers, participants, and co-organizer Jonathan Snow for making this a great meeting!
Conference logo by Alexandra Willis
All the Fellowships!
Belated congratulations to everyone for being awarded the following fellowships this year:
University of Toronto open fellowship - Hala and Yin
Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's - Angcy
NSERC undergraduate student research award - Jason
Graduate and Life Sciences Education Undergraduate Summer Research Project Studentship - Ronesh Sukhdeo
Undergraduate Summer Research Program - Brandon and Jerry
Brandon's microsporidia inhibitor paper is on bioRxiv!
Brandon’s paper describing the identification and characterization of microsporidia inhibitors of invasion and proliferation is now available as a preprint! See thread for details.
Hala's AAIM-1 paper is on bioRxiv!
Hala’s paper describing the discovery an an antibacterial protein necessary for microsporidia invasion is now available as a preprint! See thread for more info.
Orienteering!
To celebrate after not being in the same place together in almost a year, we ran around Trinity Bellwoods looking for brightly colored pipe cleaners!
Microsporidia species database paper published!
The paper by Brandon, Ronesh, Jerry, and Jason is now published! Checkout this thread for more info. We also have set up a Google form for contributing new species so the database can be continually updated. Click this link for details.
First research story published!
Second preprint from the Lab
Our story on microsporidia diversity, done by Brandon, Ronesh, Jerry, and Jason, is now on bioRxiv! Checkout this thread for more info.
First preprint from the lab!
Our story on inherited immunity, led by Alex and Winnie, is now on bioRxiv! Checkout this thread for more info.