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Avee Naidoo recognized for her research by the CIHR Institute of Aging.
As mentioned in an earlier post, Bowdish lab PhD student, Avee Naidoo, won the Fall 2014 CIHR Institute of Aging Anne Martin-Matthews Doctoral Research Prize of Excellence in Research on Aging and is mentioned in the CIHR’s Institute of Aging newsletter!
Avee Naidoo (PhD candidate) wins the Anne Martin-Matthews Doctoral Research Prize of Excellence in Research on Aging!
Congratulations to Avee Naidoo for winning the Anne Martin-Matthews Doctoral Research Prize of Excellence in Research on Aging! Avee’s work focuses on studying the role of the microenvironment on age and how this affects immune function in the elderly. Her research will help us to understand the mechanisms behind the impaired antibacterial function seen in the elderly, as well as lead to earlier prognosis of individuals at risk of chronic age related diseases.
Avee will be presented her award at this year’s Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology in Calgary, Alberta! She will also be a guest judge for the Student Poster Competition at the meeting so bring your A game!
Manuscript:Probiotics: Prevention of Severe Pneumonia and Endotracheal Colonization Trial—PROSPECT: protocol for a feasibility randomized pilot trial
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Review: Immunosenescence: implications for vaccination programs in the elderly
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Review: An introduction to automated flow cytometry gating tools and their implementation
An introduction to automated flow cytometry gating tools and their implementation
Chris Verschoor, Alinia Lelic, Jonathan Bramson & Dawn ME Bowdish
Frontiers in Immunology
Front. Immunol., 27 July 2015 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00380
For access to the .pdf click here.
Manuscript: The evolution of the scavenger receptor cysteine-rich domain of the class A scavenger receptors
Do you work out? Cause you’re built like a rock! A rock like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson! You have an impenetrable body thanks to your complex immune system. So how did you get such a sophisticated immune system?
In the Bowdish lab, we do more than just macrophage biology; we also study the evolution of the immune system! The scavenger receptors are a group of receptors that play an important role in your immune system by binding harmful bacteria. Our most recent publication by Yap et al., looks at how these receptors evolved and how evolution has changed their function. These receptors are found in various forms of life such as sharks, frogs, and mammals, but the function and appearance of these receptors has changed over time. Check out the open access….
The Bowdish lab has a new PhD student! Congrats Avee!
Avee Naidoo successfully passed her transfer exam today. She now joins the ranks of Fan Fei, Mike Dorrington, Kyle Novakowski, Dessi Loukov, Sara Makaremi, and Pat Schenck as part of the Bowdish lab PhD posse. Well done Avee!
Becoming a PhD student in the Bowdish lab is a family affair. Junior lab members sent their favourite stuffie in to wish Avee luck. It must have worked as she aced it!
The Bowdish lab attends the 14th Annual Buffalo Immunology Conference.
This year our lab is taking the Buffalo Immunology Conference by storm!
Nick Yap (MSc candidate with Dr. Brian Golding) was chosen to give a talk “The evolution of the scavenger receptor cysteine-rich domain of the class A scavenger receptor family”. Dessi Loukov (PhD candidate) will be speaking on “MacrophAGING: The effects of chronic inflammation on macrophage anti-microbial immunity” . Dawn will be giving a talk on “The aging microbiome drives age‐associated
inflammation” while many other members of the team give poster presentations.
Alumnus update: Alex Jiang (Undergraduate June 2009-July 2011) gets plum residency position!
Alex Jiang underwent the CaRMs residency matching processwas able to land his top choice residency in Urology at Western. This is an exciting addition all the successes he has had in medical school at Western. Well done Alex!