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Please join us in congratulating our MCB Award recipients for 2017. All will all be recognized at the CBS Awards Event in November.

Graduate Awards:

Love Sandhu - Roche Molecular Biochemicals Award of Excellence ($500)

Awarded to a graduate student registered in Molecular and Cellular Biology who has presented the best graduate seminar (MCB*6500/*7500) during the academic year. 

MCB graduate students won multiple poster awards at the 2017 Waterloo-Guelph-Laurier Protein Symposium. Twenty-one excellent posters and 3 short talks were presented by MCB students and research staff. Congratulations to the award recipients: Liam Doyle (Whitfield lab), Carys Jones (Clarke lab), Sean Liston (Whitfield lab) and Kevin Rea (Akhtar lab). The 3rd conference of this annual event was held on June 5th, 2017 and hosted by the University of Waterloo. 

Congratulations to all participants!

Congratulations to MCB's Dr. Jim Uniacke who has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)!

Congratulations to MCB 2017-18 Federal and Provincial Award Recipients (Molecular and Cellular Biology – Graduate Students).

Please see attached posted for details.

MCB Late lab manuals are taking place now.

This year's Dr. Donald Robert Phillips Scholarship seminars by recipients Claire Martin (Jones Lab) and Sara Timpano (Uniacke Lab) will take place on Tuesday, May 9 at 9 am in MacNaughton 113.

These two awards were established in memory of Dr. Donald Robert Phillips, OAC'66, a genetics researcher, and are awarded to graduate students in MCB on the basis of their contributions to research, as evidenced by their published papers, conference presentations, and achievement at the graduate level. 

We hope you will attend.

Congratulations to MCB's Dr. Merrill who was recently awarded an NSERC grant for honeybee research.

URAs/USRAs/MCB-SRAs 2017: MCB is now accepting applications in SCIE 4478. See doccument for details.