Natalie and Eduardo both presented at the Eastern Regional Meeting of the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists today. Natalie was awarded the prize for best talk and Eduardo was awarded the prize for best poster. Congratulations to Eduardo and Natalie for their exciting results and excellent communication!
Update: Natalie & Eduardo’s achievements were also featured on the CSB homepage.
Jana Verbančič successfully defended her PhD thesis today! Jana was part of the MelPoPP program, a joint PhD program between the University of Melbourne and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and the University of Potsdam. She was cosupervised by Heather and Staffan Persson at Uni Melb and Mark Stitt and John Lunn at the MPI/Uni Potsdam. Jana’s thesis investigated the diel regulation of cell wall synthesis using a combination of live cell imaging and metabolic analyses of labelled CO2 incorporation. She made exciting discoveries regarding the regulation of cell wall synthesis via carbon availability. Congratulations Jana!
Yu has been awarded a prestigious Chinese Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship to fund his PhD studies in the McFarLab.
McFarLab undergraduates Jia Hui (Jenny) Huang and Una McNally both graduated from their BSc today and both made outstanding contributions to the McFarLab during their degrees.
As a volunteer, NSERC-USRA, and CSB498 project student, Jenny examined the crosstalk between cell wall signaling and hormone signaling using a combination of plant growth assays and live cell imaging. Jenny will join the McFarLab in September as an MSc candidate.
As a CBS497 and CSB4898 student, Una analyzed cell wall stress proteomes and screened candidates from this proteome for their potential involvement in cell wall signaling. Una will join John Calarco’s lab in CSB as a technician.
Congratulations Jenny & Una and best wishes for your future work!
Tianyi Li (co-supervised with Dr. Berit Ebert & Prof. Josh Heazlewood at the University of Melbourne) has been awarded her MSc from the University of Melbourne. Tianyi’s thesis investigated glycan binding proteins in the model plant Arabidopsis, and is currently in preparation for publication. Congratulations Tianyi!
Natalie has won the Hilbert and Reta Straus Award here in CSB for her research achievement in plant cell and molecular biology.
Heather has been granted a 2-year Connaught New Researcher Award to support the lab’s work on cell wall signalling.
Larissa Machado Tobias (co-supervised with Gerd Bossinger and Antanas Spokevicius) has been awarded her MSc from the University of Melbourne. Larissa’s thesis received glowing comments from the reviewers and is currently in preparation for publication. She is continuing her scientific career as a lab technician in an industry setting. Congratulations Larissa!
Benjamin-Israel Moke has been awarded his BSc from the University of Toronto during the unique online convocation ceremony today. Ben has been a work-study student and volunteer in the McFarLab since September 2019. Next September, he will start life as a graduate student in CSB. Congratulations Ben!
Eduardo has been awarded CONACyT Beca de Posgrado en el Extranjero scholarship from the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology to fund his PhD studies. Congratulations Eduardo!