News

MCB is pleased to announce the good news that Paula Russell has been selected as a recipient of this year's President's Award for Exemplary Staff Service in the category of Hidden Hero. 

This award recognizes Paula’s attributes and her contributions to our Department and the University.  We all appreciate her willingness to provide excellent behind-the scenes-support to our students, faculty, and staff.

Please join us in congratulating Paula for this well-deserved honour!

Thank you to all the participants and organizers of the 2017 CBS Undergraduate Student Poster Day!

Pictures of the event have been posted below (thank you to Dr. Lam for capturing these images).

Thank you to all who participated in MCB's Microbe Art activity during U of G's SummerFest which took place on June 25th, 2017.

We've given your art a few days to grow, and below are the final results!

First Set of Microbe Art:

Second Set of Microbe Art:

Congratulations to MCB's David Sycantha (Clarke lab) and Danielle Williams (Whitfield lab) who received awards at the Canadian Society of Microbiologists 2017 Conference held in Waterloo, ON (June 19-23, 2017).

Award Details:

Danielle Williams: Terry Beveridge Poster Competition Award.

David Sychantha: Canadian College of Microbiologists Student Symposium Award For Top Student Oral Presentation. 

Congratulations to all!

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)!