Hearty congratulations for Dr. Hyojin Lee and Geronimo Parodi-Matteo (PhD candidate), who both won travel awards to attend The 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences to deliver oral presentations! Can’t wait to see them in action.
https://www.wc12canada.org/ David Schuster impressed the audience with his terrific oral presentation at the annual Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society meeting in Chicago. Congratulations to David on the travel award to attend the meeting! Congratulations to Dr. Hyojin Lee, who received postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea! Hyojin is working on understanding the toxicological effects of “forever chemicals” (per- and poly-fluorinated substances) using genomics and the zebrafish embryo model. Hyojin is co-supervised by Jason O’Brien (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and Jan Mennigen (uOttawa). Waita go Hyojin!
Undergraduate students Elena Esina and Anna Wood have both graduated with honours and are moving on to MSc programs. The future looks bright! Well done gang!! Elena and Anna
The lab is extremely proud of our newly minted doctor of philosophy. With five data chapters (and two more publications in the appendix) and a thesis award nomination, we are celebrating the accomplishments of Dr. Eunnara Cho, who is PhDone!! Iain Lambert (Co-supervisor), Eunnara, and Carole.
What a big month for the GReAT lab with many things to celebrate! We are excited that the first GReAT MSc students have been hooded to receive their degrees (June, 2023). Amazing work by Anne-Marie Fortin, Tatiana Kozbenko, Elizabeth Huliganga. Congratulations to this powerhouse team of masters! Anne-Marie, Tatiana and Elizabeth at convocation.
Check out this feature on Tatiana in the University of Ottawa’s Annual report! https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-science/news-all/conquering-space-travel-stage-fright The GReAT lab is very proud of team members David Schuster and Jonatan Axelsson for winning Professional Development Awards from the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute’s Genetic Toxicology Technical Committee (https://hesiglobal.org/genetic-toxicology-gttc/)!
🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 We are extremely proud of the following members who have defended their theses:
Anne-Marie Fortin, November, 2022, M.Sc. Tatiana Kozbenko, November, 2022, M.Sc. Eunnara Cho, January, 2023, Ph.D. Elizabeth Huliganga, March, 2023, M.Sc. Carole was thrilled to be co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Environmental Mutagens with GReAT lab collaborators Francesco Marchetti and Paul White. The conference was held in Ottawa from Aug. 27 - Sept. 1, 2022. This meeting, held once every four years, brings together all of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Societies from across the globe together. The GReAT lab and collaborators were there in force! Here we are at the Gala dinner in the Museum of History. A highlight was MSc candidate Elizabeth Huliganga bringing home a best poster prize (2nd place) for her work 'A case study on integrating a new key event into an existing adverse outcome pathway on oxidative DNA damage: challenges and approaches in a data-rich area.' Congrats Elizabeth!!!
GReAT students rocked the annual North American Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society meeting in Sept. 2021.
Platform presentations were given by Eunnara Cho and Tatiana Kozbenko. Poster presentations were given by Annette Dodge, Anne-Marie Fortin and Geronimo Parodi-Matteo. Huge congrats to our award winners at the conference: Anne-Marie for best student poster prize; and Tatiana Kozbenko for best student platform presentation! The lab is thrilled to have collaborated with Health Canada to win the Toxicological Sciences Paper of the Year award for 2021! The lab has been featured in two online news pieces and on BEaTs radio this fall. Check out Carole's interview on BEaTs here:
BEaTS podcast episode 85 |