GET READY @BBS_McMasterU is starting its 2022-23 Seminar series w ur first F2F talk in 2.5 years! Join us to hear Associate Member Dr. Alison Holloway speak abt -The Alberta oil sands and female reproductive health @11:30-12:30 in HSC4E20 @machealthsci. whoohoo! 🤯
🌟Today's our first day for our new course SYNB3! It took a lot of time and volunteered hours from our amazing instructors to put this together. Students will learn to design cloning experiments, model proteins, and create implementation plans by the end of this! #SynBio
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STC trainees, Laiba Jamshed and Genevieve Perono, under the supervision of Dr. Alison Holloway published a new paper investigating the effects of oil sands activity on placental trophoblast health and the role of GDF15. Check it out: https://t.co/C4ewXTZJLG
“I killed my mommy.” Said by a 9 yo girl during her 1st assessment. Mom died of COVID two wks after daughter tested (+). Intense guilt plus the invisibility of COVID deaths make children’s grief even more excruciating. This is an untold aspect of nearly 1 million pandemic deaths.
Small but mighty! This is a video of a killer T cell of the immune system destroying a monstrous ovarian cancer cell. I recently captured this data on a spinning disc confocal microscope.
My annual letter of recommendation tweet: Do not feel bad asking professors for letters. 1) It's our job. We are not doing you a favor. 2) How do you think we got our jobs? We've asked for many letters. It's the Circle of Life. Don't sweat it, just give your writers enough time.
With Omicron cases high, and a lack of hybrid options for most courses, students worry about their safety, and finding a short-term lease, as classes resume in the next few weeks. https://t.co/1YExNhLlFR