Congratulations to Mackenzie
For his first place poster prize at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada in Montreal May 21-24, 2024.
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Way to go Anna!
Congratulations to Anna for her first place seminar award for the Biochemistry program at the Annual BMI Seminar Day!
Oh my! A paper by Anna!
The congratulations just keep on coming- now they are due to Anna and Rui Yan on their paper “State-dependent binding of cholesterol and an anionic lipid to the muscle-type Torpedo nicotinic acetylcholine receptor”, which is being published in Communications Biology – Nature.
Honestly, from what we could tell, the real hard work on this paper wasn’t the paper itself, it was uploading the simulation data to the paper’s database.
Its a wrap – Thompson et al. in Nat. Commun. published online!
“A release of local subunit conformational heterogeneity underlies gating in a muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor” is now online. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46028-x
Congratulations to Mackenzie, Farid, and Anna!
Congrats to Mack, Farid and Anna for their recent article “A release of local subunit conformational heterogeneity underlies gating in a muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor” accepted in Nature Communications!
Congratulations Dr Thompson!
In the latest of a series of Mack-related posts, we again congratulate our favourite senior PhD student who successfully defended his thesis today! Mack has already gotten a posting as a post-doc at a lab down in California, and we wish him all the best! We’ll miss him though!
An excellent award of excellence is being awarded excellently!
Congratulations are due to Mack, who will receive the Biochemistry Award of Excellence. This is awarded to a PhD student who has demonstrated academic excellence through his/her overall average and research capabilities as well as demonstrated involvement in extracurricular activities related to the Faculty of Medicine or in the community. Way to go, Mack!
Hey! You! Get outta my swamp!
The Baenziger lab put on another fun show at the BMI/CMM Halloween costume contest, taking first place for a second year in a row, this time as Shrek! Everyone looked fantastic and did a great job getting into character, but to give credit where credit is due, the real MVP was the original resident of the swamp. Tough as nails, and the first character we see in the first scene in Shrek itself ….the outhouse door!
No pressure for next year…
Pac-man wins the day!
The Baenziger lab came through again with a high-end, original and totally professionally made group costume, to take the win at the BMI group costume category on Halloween.
Bon Voyage…everyone?
In the next few months we’ll be seeing Mack, Anna, and Dr Baenziger head off for various temporary stays in France. Anna will sharpen her computational skills, while Mack and Dr B (on a skill-sharpening sabbatical) will work on cryo-EM structures of the nAChR.
