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Lab news and kudos!
2024
Apr/May 2024 - Another great group of summer students joining our lab!
Andrea Visnjevac, Clare Gilmour, Neve Battle and Mohaddeseh Pakzamir!
Congratulations, Andrea Visnjevac, on your NSERC Summer Studentship Award!
Congratulations, Neve Battle, on your Office of the Provost and VP (Academic) Summer Studentship Award!
Thanks to these funders for supporting our students!
Apr 2024 - Congratulations to Justine Beghin for winning the Canadian Graduate Studies NSERC Scholarship!!
Feb 2024 - FUNDING! Awarded funding through the LKSIoV Research and Innovation Grant for our HDV project - "Fighting viruses with viruses: targeting HBV by pretending to be HDV"
Jan 2024 - Welcome to our newest lab member - Roy Hutchings!
2023
Nov-Dec 2023 - Congratulations to Justine Beghin for winning FOUR entrance awards - the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, the FoMD/Alberta Health Services Graduate Student Recruitment Scholarship, the FOMD 75th anniversary award and the Li Ka Shing Graduate Studies Entrance Award!!
Nov 2023 - Congratulations, Kuldeep Kaur on your Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship!!
Nov 2023 - SPP-ARC Retreat in Banff. Justine Beghin outlined her Influenza A project in the poster session and joined by Kira Sviderskaia and Kuldeep Kaur. Lots of great networking for those in attendance!
Oct 2023 - FoMD Research Day
5 great presenters from our group! Samantha Polege, Nikolas Shapka, Emma Kasinyabo, Kira Sviderskaia, and Archee Panwar.
Congratulations, Kira Sviderskaia on winning one of the top poster presentations!!
Oct 2023 - PUBLICATION OUT!
Justine Beghin, Vanessa Meier-Stephenson, "Does hepatitis delta virus have a preference for hepatitis B virus genotype? A systematic review of the literature", J. Viral Hep, Oct 3, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/jvh.13889.
Sept 2023 - Canadian Society for the Study of the Liver (CASL) -HBV Elimination Symposium!#CASL-STC2023
Eight posters from our group - what a presence! Jessica Skoreyko, Kuldeep Kaur, Justine Beghin, Kira Sviderskaia, Samantha Polege, Mohaddeseh Pakzamir, Nikolas Shapka, and Archee Panwar!
Dr. Lorne Tyrrell was honoured at the dinner and gave a wonderful presentation describing his HBV drug development journey!
Sept 2023
These talented summer students transition to our lab's newest Independent Study (499) students, Samantha Polege and Mohaddeseh Pakzamir!
Sept 2023
Welcome to our newest graduate student, Justine Beghin!!!
Aug 2023
FUNDING! Awarded funding through SPP-ARC for our Influenza project - "Interfering with
Influenza’s Cap-snatching Viral Polymerase"
May 2023 - Lots of firsts for our team attending the Biophysical Society of Canada 2023 conference! #BSC2023
Great oral presentation by Samantha Polege! Great posters by Kuldeep Kaur, Justine Beghin, Archee Panwar and Dhruvi Patel!
Congratulations, Dhruvi Patel on winning an Undergraduate Poster Award!!
May 2023 - Welcome to our newest undergraduate student lab members: Kira Sviderskaia, Mohaddeseh Pakzamir and Nikolas Shapka!
-Welcome to Maulik Badmalia! Joining us as a Research Coordinator and biophysics expert
March/April 2023 - what a crew we have joining this summer!
Congratulations, Justine Beghin, on your CFID Summer Research Studentship Award!
Congratulations, Samantha Polege, on your NSERC Summer Studentship Award!
Congratulations, Emma Kasinyabo, on your CIHR Summer Studentship Award!
Congratulations, Archee Panwar, on your URI Summer Studentship Award!
A big thanks to these undergraduate research programs for their support!!!
Feb 2023 - Awarded the Peter Lougheed Research Award for highest ECR score in the CIHR funding year [without getting funded!] - A big thanks to the Calgary Foundation for this much appreciated bridge funding and recognition!
Jan 2023 - Our Research Features article goes live! Check it out: https://researchfeatures.com/g4-quadruplexes-tangled-knots-dna-help-regulate-protect-genes/
G4-quadruplexes: How tangled knots of DNA help regulate and protect our genes
Jan 2023
Welcome to our new Independent Study Student, Archee Panwar!
Jan 2023
Welcome to our new graduate students, Kuldeep Kaur and Jessica Skoreyko!!!
2022
Oct 2022 - Congratulations to Emma Kasinyabo on being awarded the for winning an Alberta Women in Science Scholarship! Check out all these talented researchers and role models here: https://www.awsn.org/meet-2022-awsn-scholarship-recipients Way to go, Emma! Well-deserved!!!
Sept 2022 - Welcome to our two new Independent Study Students - Cyril Alex and Dhruvi Patel!
Aug 2022 - Congrats to Emma Kasinyabo on being awarded Best Overall Poster Presentation at the Faculty of Science Summer Student Research Day!
Aug 2022 - Congrats to Samantha Polege on being awarded 2nd Place Poster in the ImmuNet Student Research Day!
July 2022 - Welcome to Jessica Skoreyko, joining our group as a Laboratory Technician!
June 2022 - Both Emma Kasinyabo and Jelili Mustapha presented posters of their work at the Canadian Society for Virology 4th Symposium here in Edmonton, Alberta. Great job, both of you!!!
April 2022 - Published "G4-quadruplex-binding proteins: review and insights into selectivity" in Biophysics Reviews
Emma Kasinyabo
Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Summer Studentship 2022
Samantha Polege
Undergraduate Research Initiative Summer Studentship 2022
Daniel Wang
Alberta Innovates Summer Studentship 2022
March 2022 -
Congratulations to ALL THREE of our summer students on winning Summer Studentship Awards!!!
A big thanks to the funders of these initiatives (AIHS, LKS, URI)!
2021
July 2021 - Officially opened my lab! (Well actually, it was more that I was no longer using bench space in the Tyrrell lab to do some preliminary experiments! Very grateful to Dr. Tyrrell and team for allowing me to get things going when I arrived in Edmonton!)