Belated congratulations to everyone for being awarded the following fellowships this year:
University of Toronto open fellowship - Hala and Yin
Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's - Angcy
NSERC undergraduate student research award - Jason
Graduate and Life Sciences Education Undergraduate Summer Research Project Studentship - Ronesh Sukhdeo
Undergraduate Summer Research Program - Brandon and Jerry
Brandon’s paper describing the identification and characterization of microsporidia inhibitors of invasion and proliferation is now available as a preprint! See thread for details.
Hala’s paper describing the discovery an an antibacterial protein necessary for microsporidia invasion is now available as a preprint! See thread for more info.
To celebrate after not being in the same place together in almost a year, we ran around Trinity Bellwoods looking for brightly colored pipe cleaners!
The paper by Brandon, Ronesh, Jerry, and Jason is now published! Checkout this thread for more info. We also have set up a Google form for contributing new species so the database can be continually updated. Click this link for details.
Our story on microsporidia diversity, done by Brandon, Ronesh, Jerry, and Jason, is now on bioRxiv! Checkout this thread for more info.
Our story on inherited immunity, led by Alex and Winnie, is now on bioRxiv! Checkout this thread for more info.
Since we couldn’t do experiments during the first part of the pandemic, we spent that time reading about some really cool science and writing a couple of review articles. Alex and Ronesh wrote a review on immune memory in worms and Hala wrote one on molecular mechanisms of microsporidia infection.
Last week over 70 people participated in the first annual MicrosporidiaFest! We had 13 awesome talks about all things microsporidia. Thanks to all the speakers and participants!
Conference logo by Alexandra Willis
