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Charles Yin wins prestigious NSERC-USRA

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

The newest member of the Bowdish lab, Charles Yin, has won a prestigious NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award. Charles will be joining the lab for the summer and as a thesis student and studying the signalling capacity of the scavenger receptors. We’ll be posting a picture of him soon. Congratulations Charles!

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Bowdish lab students present at the Medical Sciences Graduate Program research day.

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

Come see Alicja Puchta (PhD candidate) and Fiona Whelan (PhD candidate) present their work at the Medical Science Research day poster presentations. March 7, 2012 1:30-3:30 pm, CIBC hall, MUSC.

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Feb. 15, 2012 – Zhongyuan Tu presents his work at the WIP seminar

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

Come see Zhongyuan present his work entitled “The involvement of MARCO in phagocytic and TLR signalling”.

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No longer accepting applications for thesis/summer students for 2012

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

Thank you for your interest but all positions are now full.

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Undergraduate Internship from the Canadian Society of Immunology applications available.

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish
See this link for the application.
The Bowdish lab will accept 1 NSERC Undergraduate Student Research award applicant and one Canadian Society of Immunology applicant for this year's thesis students. Please see FAQ page to determine if you are eligible to work in the Bowdish lab.
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Now taking applications for summer students & thesis students

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

The Bowdish lab will accept 2 undergraduate students for work in the summer and subsequent thesis project. Please see the FAQ page for eligibility requirements.

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Congratulations to Alicja Puchta on successfully passing her comprehensive exam!

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

December 8th, 2011

Alicja Puchta (MSc) is now officially a PhD candidate as she passed her comprehensive exam on “Macrophage generated responses to influenza virus with age”. Congratulations Alicja!

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Dawn’s office has moved.

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

Dawn is now located on the 4th floor of MDCL in office MDCL-4020.

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Michael Dorrington presents his work on pattern recognition receptors which recognize Streptococcus pneumoniae, November 2, 2011

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

Mike will be presenting at this week’s “Work in Progress” seminar.  For details click kafka and dorrington-nov-2-11.

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Fiona Whelan presents “Scavenging the Genome: The Evolution of the class A scavenger receptors” October, 19, 2011

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Dr. Dawn M. E. Bowdish

 

 

Come see Fiona’s Work in Progress Seminar on her analysis of the evolution of the class A scavenger receptors and the implications this work has for redefining the definition of this family. For details click here cuddington and whelan-oct-19-1.

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