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BBS Departmental Picnic 2025

The BBS Western-themed picnic was a hit! Our team lassoed second place in the Biochem Olympics. Not quite gold, but we sure had a wild time chasing it!

Lab Trip to Canada's Wonderland 2025

The Biochem crew swapped pipettes for roller coasters on our lab trip to Wonderland!

BBSRS 2025

Christmas 2024

Halloween 2024

This Halloween, Springfield took over the lab! Our costumes earned us a second-place costume contest win and the candy was plentiful. D’oh-nuts may have been consumed.

IIDR Trainee Day 2024

Congratulations Harman and Monica on winning 2nd and 1st place poster awards!

Buffalo DNA Replication, Repair and Cell Cycle Syposium 2024

ICEM

Monica and Dana presented their research at the International Conference for Environmental Mutagens in Ottawa — an exciting opportunity to share their work on an international stage!

BBS Picnic 2024

Canada's Wonderland 2024

Microscopy Society of Canada Meeting 2024

Congratulations to Monica for winning the best poster presentation for Life Sciences and travel award at this years meeting!

Niagara 2024

The lab did some sight seeing during the annual trip to Niagara!

Halloween 2023

Snow White and her crew made an appearance for Halloween, and the pumpkin carving contest brought out some serious creativity.

Christmas & New Year 2023

The lab wrapped up the year with creative Christmas door decorations and New Year celebrations. Here’s to more science (and fun) in the year ahead!

Halloween 2022

Keeping science safe from alien interference.

Lucas's last day in lab!

Congratulations Lucas on your successful MSc defence! First graduate student for our lab! Normally this picture would be at the Phoenix, but the lab is good too. Best wishes to Lucas as he starts medical school in the fall!

Inaugural Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences Research Symposium 2020

Monica and Dana presented their projects at this years BBSRS. Congratulations Monica for best MSc poster at #BBSRS2020. Way to represent the lab!

Andres-Whitney Holiday Party 2019

The structural biology groups joined forces for an exciting holiday party, that required a reading of the rules to determine the winner of the game in play. A slightly competitive bunch :)

Halloween 2019

Professor Utonium and the PowerPuff Girls - along with Mojo Jojo! The competition was tough this year for the Annual BBS Contest, and while we didn't win, we sure had a whole lot of fun!

Pumpkin Carving 2019

What could be scarier than a thesis defence?

New Semester, New Students

September 2019, and we are welcoming a whole group of great new people! Welcome to Dana and Monica, our 2 new MSc candidates, welcome back to Veronica and Andriana for their 4th year thesis, and welcome to Harry, Niki, Neeti and Tarin, who are also here for 3rd and 4th year thesis projects. We've got a full house!

Moving Day!!!!

Excited to move into our brand new, shiny lab space. Two years in the making, we are very grateful for this new space to work our magic. A big thank-you to Lucas - the primary mover, and some help from our new neighbours, the Whitney lab.

End of the semester...

April 2019, and it's already the end of the semester. Good luck to Josh, Pardis and Akile as they graduate this year and are off on new adventures!

New Year, New Semester!

Happy 2019! To celebrate the new year, and a new member in the lab, it was off to the Phoenix. Welcome to Andriana!

HALLOWEEN 2018: We joined forces with the Li lab to recreate the iconic "Magic School Bus" with the bus reflecting the awesome science we do! Cody as "Arnold", Lucas as "Ralphie", and Dr. Andres as "Liz". Also, what would Halloween be without a few Halloween treats! I'm saving the bumper with the "Andres Lab" and the bus door that has a diffraction pattern as decorations for our new lab space!

Welcome to Pardis! Pardis is our first summer student, and also a recipient of a 2018 IIDR Summer Student Fellowship - congratulations!

It's ALIVE!

The x-ray system is back online! After being on hiatus for some TLC, it was time to start screening all those crystals that have been patiently waiting to be bombarded with x-rays. First up in the beam was lysozyme, to make sure everything was running smoothly - and it was! If only every crystal diffracted as well as lysozyme!

New faces and a new semester

The start of the 2018 winter term brought us two new lab members - Cody Caba, the first graduate student for the lab, and Veronica Tran, a new undergraduate volunteer. An excellent excuse for a lab lunch outing to the Phoenix!

The first lab alumni

The end of the 2017-2018 academic year brought the end of Krish and Eugenia's time in the Andres Lab. We wish them both the best in their future endeavours!

Open for Business

August 2017 marked the beginning of the Andres lab at McMaster University. Here are a few photos of the initial entropy and the eventual order that ensued after setting up the lab. Time to experiment!

The first gel run in the lab was a success! We are off to the races!

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