Camille successfully defended her thesis during the pandemic, but was finally able to celebrate at summer convocation, not just as a graduate, but as valedictorian and winner of the Governor General’s gold medal! The real achievement was uOttawa’s, for actually getting her to attend convocation.
Big congrats to Mack, whose third author work on this paper has helped our lab break into the big workd of Cryo-EM structures and analysis, which is a new and very exciting field for us!
The paper uses cryo-EM to solve apo and agonist-bound structures of the Torpedo nicotinic receptor embedded in a lipid nanodisc, which gives an unprecedented “before and after” look at the nAChR in a lipid membrane!
Congratulations to Camille on her new first author paper. “A lipid site shapes the agonist response of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel” is now published in Nature Chemical Biology!
The paper looks into the role of a potential lipid binding site in the functional modulation as well as the desensitization of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels.
Congratulations are due to Daniel Therien and Jiayin Sun who successfully defended their MSc theses (in rapid succession!). It has been a pleasure to have both of these wonderful people in the lab. Jiayin will be beginning Med school in Syracuse NY, while Daniel has chosen to continue his studies with a PhD at McGill in Mtl. Best of luck to both!
The lastest in a growing line of Baenziger lab prize winners, Jiayin Sun took home 2nd place in the BMI poster day, MSc Biochem!
We’re pleased to welcome Dr B back from his trip to Costa Rica – sometimes you just have to let your hair down….so to speak… and unwind.
Dr B riding the waves. Nope, not photoshopped.
We have a winner! We are very proud of Claire Edrington, who won first place in the biochemistry poster day, protein structure and function catergory!
Camille Hénault won second place at seminar day with her talk on M4’s role in modulating pLGIC function! Congrats! (PhD Biochem category)
Congratulations to Camille Hénault and Peter Juranka on the publication of a manuscript (with a very long title) in the Journal of Biological Chemistry! Read more
Never ones to say no to a day off to relax in the sun, in good company while eating good food, almost all of the Baenziger lab headed off to the cottage for a day of paddling, swimming, and board games. Good times!