Category: Lab Updates

Congrats, Lab Updates

Jenny & Una graduate from their BScs!

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!

Lab Updates

Welcome Carlo

The McFarLab welcomes new PhD student Carlo Perolo.  Carlo joins the lab having completed his BSc at the University of Padua and his MSc with Prof. Lorella Navazio at the University of Padua. During his MSc, he conducted an ERASMUS+ internship at with Prof. Markus Teige at University of Vienna in Austria.  Carlo will be co-supervised by Heather and Nick Provart and will use cell wall synthesis as a model system to test bioinformatic predictions.  Welcome Carlo!

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An exciting new member joins the McFarLab

Welcome to our latest lab member, the Nikon Spinning Disk Microscope. Purchased with the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund and matching funds from the Ontario Research Fund, this microscope will be used extensively by all lab members and by other scientists in the CSB. The microscope features lasers and optics to excite UV, CFP, GFP, YFP, and RFP, and will also be used for photoactivation, photoconversion, and photobleaching (FRAP) studies. It also features a fully automated XYZ stage and piezo-Z drive, the CSU-W1 spinning disk and dual sCMOS setup allows ultra-fast simultaneous imaging of two wavelengths at a time. We’ve got lots of exciting questions to answer with this microscope and we welcome external users and collaborators!

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Welcome Carlos, Erik, Jenny, Rowan, and Stephanie

Welcome summer students!  Carlos, Rowan, and Stephanie are new to the McFarLab. Carlos is a new volunteer in the lab who will be conducting a virtual project. Rowan is a Plant Genomics and Biotechnology Focus student who has been awarded an NSERC-USRA to work in the lab. Stephanie is an undergraduate at the University of Hong Kong who was awarded a MITACS GlobaLink Internship to undertake a virtual internship in the McFarLab.

Erik and Jenny are returning McFarLab students. Erik completed his BCB330 project in the McFarLab and has re-joined as virtual volunteer. Jenny completed her CSB498 project in the McFarLab and has re-joined as a part-time research assistant.

Welcome everyone!