Claire Brown: The Microscopists interviews BioImaging North America (BINA) Executive Board Members

  Watch the podcast here: https://youtu.be/Az4eUUpKOVw?si=N4o7B61ym8XtJvvj

 

 

New Physiology Graduate Fellowship

Dr. Jack & Fanor Hilton & son foundation fellowship in Physiology Established in 2023 by The Dr. Jack and Fanor Hilton and Sons Foundation

Awarded annually on the basis of academic merit by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to one Master’s student entering or enrolled in the Physiology program and pursuing a research project. Payment and allocation:  $10,000/year over 5 years Total Funding: $50,000  

Siwei Chu, Stephanie Xie, Carla Payan, and Ursula Stochaj published an in-depth review relevant to neurodegeneration

Chu, S., Xie, X., Payan, C., and Stochaj, U. (2023). Valosin containing protein (VCP): initiator, modifier, and potential drug target for neurodegenerative diseases. Mol Neurodegener 18, 52. doi:https://rdcu.be/diGyB

Kais Bietar and Ursula Stochaj, together with the Capobianco lab (Concordia), explored new nanomaterials for the killing of glioblastoma cells

Mandl, G.A., Vettier, F., Tessitore, G., Maurizio, S.L., Bietar, K., Stochaj, U., and Capobianco, J.A. (2023). Combining Pr(3+)-Doped Nanoradiosensitizers and Endogenous Protoporphyrin IX for X-ray-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy of Glioblastoma Cells. ACS Appl Bio Mater 6, 2370-2383. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsabm.3c00201

In memoriam: Professor George Mandl

In Memoriam: Professor George Mandl

Reminiscences: George Mandl

Ph.D Student Patrico Artura's recent paper

Ph.D Student Patrico Artura (Dr. John White lab) recent paper https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2300207/263850

 

Anatomy & Physiology [at McGill] rates seventh best in the world, jumping from 15th in 2022

     More info here:  https://reporter.mcgill.ca/qs-rankings-by-subject-puts-mcgill-in-global-top-50-in-28-subjects/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wn_mar23_ENGLISH&utm_source=whatsn

Competing pacemakers create distinctive triplets in heartbeats

 A simple set of mathematical rules that accurately identifies signs of competing electrical signals in the heart has been developed by McGill's Leon Glass, Gil Bub and Alvin Shrier and their UBC colleagues Marc Deyel and Zachary Laksman. The Canadian team did in vitro experiments that showed how abnormal beating triggered by anomalous electrical impulses can generate distinctive triplets.

Congratulations to Daniela Quail: CSI 2023 New Investigator Award

Daniela F. Quail, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute; and Departments of Physiology and Experimental Medicine at McGill has won the Canadian Society for Immunology 2023 New Investigator award. Read more.

Chacron Lab: Neural heterogeneities and spatially dependent correlations improve coding of object location by sensory neural populations.

Haggard, M., Chacron, M.J. Coding of object location by heterogeneous neural populations with spatially dependent correlations in weakly electric fish. PLoS Comp Biol 19, e1010938 (2023).

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010938

 

 

 

BIPOC change champions: In conversation with physiology PhD candidate Amirah-Iman Hicks

 Q&A series is part of Black History Month and Beyond, an initiative of the BHM Organizing Committee co-led by Black students and faculty from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences with the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Anti-Racism Committee (EDI-AR) of the School of Population and Global Health.

New discovery by Siwei Chu, Ossama Moujaber, Serge Lemay & Ursula Stochaj: microtubule-dependent mechanisms that drive cellular senescence

Chu, S.; Moujaber, O.; Lemay, S.; Stochaj, U., Multiple pathways promote microtubule stabilization in senescent intestinal epithelial cells. npj Aging 2022, 8 (1), 16.

Masha Prager-Khoutorsky lab published in Nature news & views

Masha Prager-Khoutorsky lab published a review article in Nature News & Views entitled “Neuronal culprits of sickness behaviours”:

Sharif Lab one of nine teams chosen as first recipients of McGill Innovation Fund

Full details: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/nine-teams-chosen-as-1st-recipients-of-mcgill-innovation-fund/

In memoriam: Professor Joseph Milic-Emili

https://www.ersnet.org/news-and-features/news/in-memoriam-professor-joseph-milic-emili/