Annual Summer BBQ

The Annual MICB/BMG Summer BBQ will be held at Kildonan Park (2021 Main Street) on August 10th. This is a family event so please bring kids and significant others to enjoy an afternoon of hamburgers, hot dogs, a potluck and games. Sign-up sheets are available in the Main Office until August 3rd. Join in the fun!!

Dr Shantanu Banerji publishes in Nature

MICB Senior Scientist Dr Shantanu Banerji is first author on a Nature paper published on June 20th, 2012.
His team found that a recurrent fusion of the genes MAGI3 and AKT3 in what is known as a translocation event, was observed in tumors from a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer known as triple-negative breast cancer. Cancer-causing rearrangements of these two genes are common in blood cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia, but their discovery in breast cancer marks the first time they have been seen in a solid cancer.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7403/full/nature11154.html

July 13, 2012

BMG Visiting Speaker Seminar Announcement: Dr Hans Knecht, Director of Haematology Laboratory at CHUS University Hospital, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec will be presenting 3D Telomere Signatures of Hodgkin-Cells at Diagnosis Identify Patients with Poor Response to ABVD Chemotherapy
Time: 2:30pm
Location: 341 Basic Medical Sciences Building

June 28, 2012

June 28, 2012 from 11:00am - 12:00pm Dr. Spencer Gibson will be giving his "State of the Institute Talk". All MICB are expected to attend. Coffee and donuts will be served. CCMB Lecture Theatre ON2134.

June 21, 2012

June 21, 2012 from 11:00am - 12:00pm Dr. Shilpa Chooniedass, winner of the Simon and Sara Israels Graduate Thesis Prize will be presenting "The Role of Steroid Receptor RNA Activator Protein (SRAP) in the Estrogen Signaling Pathway". CCMB Lecture Theatre ON2134

June 14, 2012

June 14, 2012 from 11:00am - 12:00pm Dr. Sachin Katyal will be presenting on "Targeting DNA Repair Pathways in the Treatment of Cancer: Novel Genetic Insights". CCMB Lecture Theatre ON2134.