Natalie & Eduardo win prizes for best talk and poster!

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.

Hear about our work at ICAR

Natalie & Heather will be attending the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, held virtually this year.  Heather will give a talk in the Cell Wall session on “Fortifying the plant cell wall under stress: 7TM proteins promote CSC trafficking”.

Heather and Jacqueline Monaghan from Queen’s University will also run a workshop “Running a Research Group in the next generation” which features an exciting lineup of three fantastic female group leaders: Siobhan Brady, Liz Haswell, and Sonali Roy.

See you at the CSPB Eastern Regional Meeting

Most of the McFarLab is travelling to St. Catherines this weekend for the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists’ Eastern Regional Meeting at Brock UniversityHeather and Eduardo will present posters (P29 & P38) and Natalie will give a talk on her MSc project: “Setting the stage for lignin deposition: spatial distribution and anchoring of enzymes directing lignification in Arabidopsis” at 11:25-11:40 in AS203.  Please say hello if you see us there!