Members of the Bowdish lab took a road trip to the University of Western Ontario on November 6th to participate in the 9th annual Infection & Immunity Research Forum. All members presented their research either by an oral or poster presentation.

Dessi Loukov presents her work on chronic inflammation on macrophage function.

PhD Student Dessi Loukov gave an excellent oral presentation on how the effects of chronic age and inflammation affect macrophage function; specifically in response to our favourite pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Dr. Carol Cruezenet discusses Avee Naidoo’s poster at IIRF 2014.

Avee Naidoo, Netusha Thevaranjan, Nick Yap, Patrick Schenck and Kyle Novakowski all gave poster presentations that generated insightful scientific discussion and even some potential research collaborations! Kyle Novakowski took home the Cedarlane award for best graduate poster presentation (for students <6 months). Well done, team!

Kyle Novakowski (PhD candidate) receives his award for the best poster award as chosen by the audience.

The award winning poster! Well done Kyle!

A poster of Netusha Thevaranjan’s undergraduate work that she’s continuing as a MSc student.

Bowdish lab members past (Charles Yin and Julie Kaiser) and present (Netusha Thevaranjan) catche up at IIRF 2014.