Lab goes climbing
Everyone shows their willingness to be adventurous and push themselves higher in our Lab climbing outing in December (2013).
Genomics and Development
Everyone shows their willingness to be adventurous and push themselves higher in our Lab climbing outing in December (2013).
John’s Master degree work on DNA methylation changes in preeclampsia has come out in two publications. The first study demonstrates how many changes in DNA methylation there are in placentas with preeclampsia—Thousands! So many its hard to know what to say except –wow! How does the placenta support the baby at all when so much…
First of all congratulations to Courtney Hanna who completed her PhD late last spring and moved on to an exciting postdoctoral fellowship at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England. Also to John Blair who completed his Masters last summer and moved on to my former Alma Mater (UC Berkeley) and is now enjoying all the…
Hello Everyone. Here is our 2013 Summer newsletter. Please let us know if you have any questions.
This has been a good week with two papers accepted for publication: Hanna C, Fujimoto V, Robinson W, Kim D, Parsons P, vom Saal F, Taylor J, Steuerwald, A, Bloom M. DNA methylation changes associated with exposure to the environmental contaminants, mercury, lead, cadmium and bisphenol A, in women undergoing ovarian stimulation for IVF. Human…
Congratulations to Ryan Yuen for completing his PhD and graduating! He has moved on to a PostDoc at the U of T in the Scherer lab and will be missed.
Courtney was honoured twice at the Medical Genetics Research Day in November. First she won the Jim Miller Memorial award which is given to a PhD student who best exemplifies Jim’s values of: 1) Integration of basic science with clinical medical genetics; 2) Creative leadership in departmental exchange of scientific ideas; 3) Originality and creative…
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