Congratulations to Fiona, Sarah, and Alicja on awards won.

Sarah Chauvin won a prestigious NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) to work in the Bowdish lab this summer. Fiona Whelan (MSc candidate) won “best poster” at a CREST meeting (Current research in Engineering, Science & Technology) hosted by the WISE initiative and Alicja Puchta (PhD candidate) won a travel scholarship to attend a recent Keystone meeting (Immunity in the Respiratory Tract: Challenges of the Lung Environment). Way to go Team!

Bowdish lab attends IIDR Trainee Day

McMaster’s Institute for Infectious Disease Research hosted it’s annual Trainee Day to highlight the brilliant work of our trainees. The Bowdish lab attended and presented three posters.

Alex explaining his poster…

http://iidr.mcmaster.ca/images/IIDR%20Trainee%20Day%202010/target37.html

Dawn learning what her students are up to…

http://iidr.mcmaster.ca/images/IIDR%20Trainee%20Day%202010/target40.html

Alicja & Mike’s posters….

http://iidr.mcmaster.ca/images/IIDR%20Trainee%20Day%202010/target31.html

For more photos, see here..

http://iidr.mcmaster.ca/images/IIDR%20Trainee%20Day%202010/index.html

Congratulations to Alex, Harikesh & Zhongyuan for their poster award!

The Bowdish lab undergraduates, Zhongyuan, Harikesh & Alex, co-presented their poster entitled “Your Mama’s so phat, even a macrophage couldn’t engulf her” at the IIDR Opening Symposium and won best undergraduate poster. Don’t let the title fool you, this was a very serious piece of work on their characterization of MARCO expression & function. Below is the excerpt from the IIDR website.
11-28-2009 poster winners