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Dr. Karen Pinder Promoted to Professor of Teaching
The Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences is thrilled to announce the promotion of Dr. Karen Pinder to the rank of Professor of Teaching! Congratulations, Dr. Pinder! Professor Pinder is the MEDD 411 Director and the Director of Histology, Medical Undergraduate Education. Please find her full profile here: https://cps.med.ubc.ca/faculty1/pinder/
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Rising Star from the Rideout Lab – Dr. Lianna Wat
Tell us about your experience in UBC and the Rideout Lab Overall, my time as a PhD student has been an invaluable learning experience, and I’m so grateful to all my mentors that have helped shaped me into the independent scientist I am today. What were your significant research accomplishments during your PhD? What are…
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Meet Our Students – Sarah Erwin
Sarah is an outstanding scientist and individual. Within our laboratory, she has worked tirelessly to conduct her research, as well as train and assist lab members in their respective projects. Dr. Mark Cembrowski
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New Staff Announcement! – Laura Andrews & Euri Park
Laura Andrews – REDI & Seminar Support Laura Andrews is a Research Technician in the Gross Anatomy Lab. She also provides Admin Support for the CPS REDI Committee, BMB EDI Committee and CPS Seminar Series. She is responsible for facilitating the body donation process in the lab, helping with REDI Committee initiatives, taking meeting…
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Dr. Hilla Weidberg receives Fall 2021 CIHR project grant
Molecular mechanisms of sensing and repairing dysfunctional mitochondrial protein import Principal Investigator: Dr. Hilla Weidberg Abstract Mitochondria are essential factories within cells that manufacture energy and building blocks. A critical requirement for mitochondria to function properly is the ability to deliver proteins, the “factory manufacturing workers”, into the mitochondria. Defective mitochondrial protein delivery is a…
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A Gap-Junction-Mediated, Calcium-Signalling Network Controls Blood Progenitor Fate Decisions in Hematopoiesis
What is the significance of the findings in this publication? Our new paper uses live imaging of calcium signalling in the intact Drosophila lymph gland, where blood stem cells reside in flies. We show that gap-junctions, a special type of cell junctions that form channels between…
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Dr. Hilla Weidberg receive scholar and trainee awards in latest round of Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research funding
September 9, 2021 The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research today announced its 2021 scholar and research training awards, with two LSI investigators and two postdoctoral trainees among the 86 recipients.
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A scalable Drosophila assay for clinical interpretation of human PTEN variants in suppression of PI3K/AKT induced cellular proliferation
Abstract Gene variant discovery is becoming routine, but it remains difficult to usefully interpret the functional consequence or disease relevance of most variants. To fill this interpretation gap, experimental assays of variant function are becoming common place.
