Mar-Apr
13
Thanks to Prof. Mark Sansom & his group at Oxford for hosting Jan as a sabbatical visitor! |
Feb 22
13
Congrats to David, Tyler and Aaron - first structural data on the apelin receptor now published in BBA Biomembranes! |
Feb
13
Marie and Jan have fun in Tallahassee doing solid-state NMR on spider silk at the NHMFL. |
Dec
12
Thanks to an Equipment Grant from the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, our spectrofluorometer will now have time-resolved acquisition capabilities. |
Dec 7
12
Collaborative paper with Dr. Nik Thomas involving alumnus Erica now out in J Bacteriol! |
Nov 28
12
Congrats to Lingling - report of recombinant wrapping silk fibre formation now out in PLoS One! |
Oct
12
Adi, Jan, Kyung, Lingling, Marie and Muzaddid present at MOOT in Quebec - Nigel goes along for the road trip (and science)! |
Aug
12
Europe beckons: Marie, Muzaddid and Jan present at ICMRBS in Lyon while Kyung is presenting at RegPep 2012 in Copenhagen. Nice work everyone! |
July
20 12
Hearty
congrats to
Adi on a
well-earned
transfer to
the PhD
program! |
July 6
12
Congrats to
Tyler on your
J Phys Chem B
paper now in
press! |
June
12
Jan is the
grateful
recipient of a
CIHR New
Investigator
Award. |
May 12
Our NSERC
Discovery
Grant on
protein fibril
formation is
renewed for
another 5
years. Thanks to Principal Applicant Dr. David Jakeman, Dal's 500 MHz NMR spectrometer will also have a new NSERC RTI-funded double-resonance SmartProbe!/td>
|
May 12
Congrats to
Marie on you
NSHRF Doctoral
Scholarship! |
May 12
Big congrats
to Marie and
Kyung on your
NSERC PGS-D
and CGS-M
scholarships!!!
Marie also
earns the
Dalhousie
President's
Award! |
Late
April/early
May 12
Welcome to
Danielle,
Kathleen and
Sara! |
Apr 14
12
Muzaddid
presents a
nice poster at
the Chemical
Biophysics
Symposium in
Toronto. |
Mar 26
12
Congrats to
Dr. David
Langelaan on
an outstanding
PhD defence! |
Feb
25-29 12
Congrats to
Pascaline for
winning a
highly
competitive
CPOW Travel
Award to
present her
poster at the
Biophysical
Society
Meeting in San
Diego.
Congrats also
due to Adi,
David and
Marie for
great poster
presentations
in San Diego. |
Jan 12
Welcome to
Nathan! |
|
Nov 3 11
David gave a great seminar today as winner the 2011 Doug Hogue Award! Way to go David
on winning this well deserved award. |
Oct 21-23 11
Congrats to David, Marie and Muzaddid on great NMR MOOT presentations
in Toronto. Double congrats to Marie for winning a Suraj Manrao Student
Poster Award for the second year in a row! |
Oct 12 11
Marie and Lingling's silk chemical shift assignments
appear in Biomol NMR Assign! Nice work. |
Oct 1 11
Our NSERC Engage Grant with Vive
Nano in Toronto is now underway. |
Sept 11
Welcome to grad school Kyung and Nigel (and Chris at McGill) and thanks
for staying on in the lab Lesley! Matt and Ryan are also ramping up for
honours now. |
July 14 11
Congrats to Dr. Tyler Reddy on a great defence! Rounding out the day,
Tyler finds out he has been awarded a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Nice work, all around, Tyler!!! |
June 11
Welcome to Lingling! |
June 5-9 11
Aaron, David, Marie, Muzaddid and Pascaline (& Jan) all gave
great presentations at the CSC in
Montreal. Fun was had by all! |
May 2 11
Marie is featured in a Dal News article on Let's Talk
Science. |
Apr/May 11
Welcome to Jordan, Matthew, Nigel and Ryan and welcome back Erica! |
Apr 14 11
Our molecular biology "satellite lab" in 10-H1 is now open for business! |
Apr 9 11
David, Marie, Muzaddid and Pascaline all gave great presentations at
the 10th Chemical Biophysics Symposium
in Toronto. Good work! |
Mar 17 11
We now have a Picassa lab photo sharing website set up. Check it out here! |
Mar 5-9 11
Congrats to David for a great platform presentation and Marie,
Pascaline & Tyler for great poster presentations at Biophysics in Baltimore!
|
Jan 11
Our apelin project is now funded for an additional 5 years by the CIHR!
Great news!
|
Nov 7 10
David and Mike's paper on MC-HELAN
is now in press with J Chem Inf Model! Way to go guys! |
Oct 16 10
Congrats to Marie on winning a Suraj Manrao Student Poster Award at NMR MOOT XXIII!!!
|
Sept 20 10
Congrats to Marie on her NSHRF
Research Skills Award to attned to the 2010 UK NMR BootCamp in
Birmingham, England! Have fun, Marie! |
Sept 10
Welcome to Aditya! |
July 19 10
Congrats to Aaron on his CIHR
CGS-M scholarship!!! (On top of a Killam
Scholarship!) |
June 28 10
Welcome to Muzaddid! |
May 15 10
NSERC funds our Engage project
working with Ocean
Nutrition Canada. |
May 13-15 10
Pascaline presents at the 2nd
Annual Terry Fox Research Institute Scientific Meeting in
Vancouver. Good work! |
May 1 10
Congrats to Marie for winning an NSHRF
Student Research Award scholarship!!! |
May 1 10
Congrats to Aaron, Caitlin, Erica and Kyung for NSERC
USRA's this summer!!! Welcome also to Chris, Duncan and Lesley for the
summer! |
April 15-18 10
David wins both a travel award and a poster presentation award at the
53rd CSBMCB meeting in Banff!
Pascaline, David & Jan present posters and Jan gives a talk. |
April 9-11 10
Aaron & Marie win travel awards to attend the 9th Chemical Biophysics Symposium
in Toronto! Aaron & Marie give talks; Aaron & Jan
present posters. |
April 10
Marie & Aaron's chemical shifts analysis paper is out in this
month's issue of
J Biomol NMR! Tyler and David both have mini-reviews out in
this month's Biochem Cell Biol. Good work
everyone! |
Feb 19 10
David wins a Student Travel Award to go to the 54th
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
in San Francisco. |
Feb 12 10
Tyler wins a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement to go to the Sansom
lab at Oxford. Sounds like fun, indeed. |
Feb 10
Tyler's NHE1 dynamics paper is finally "officially" in print in BBA Biomembranes! Nice job, Tyler! |
Jan 10
Our 2009 apelin paper in Biochemistry
was the 14th most accessed paper
of 2009. Not too shabby! |
Dec 09
Pascaline is awarded a CRTP Postdoctoral
Fellowship - way to go! |
July 13 09
Our JPK Nanowizard Ultra AFM has been installed! Stay tuned for
exciting results. See
pictures of the instrument on the research page. |
June 09
Marie wins a travel award for the Canadian Society for Biochemistry,
Molecular & Cellular Biology Meeting "Protein Folding in Health
and
Disease" in Niagara on the Lake. Way to go! |
May 09
Thanks to Bruker,
we have a new E-free, triple-resonance static solids probe for use on
Dal's 700 MHz instrument. Bicelles here we come... A
couple of pictures of the probe are on the research page. |
May 09
Welcome to Aaron and Kyung and welcome back to Mike and Caitlin! |
Apr 09
Marie & David win travel awards for the Chemical Biophysics
Symposium in Toronto. Way to go! |
Apr 09
Big congrats to both David & Tyler for receiving NSERC CGS-D
awards!!! |
Apr 09
An NSERC
Research Tools & Instruments grant will be providing us with an
upgraded HPLC system with diode array detector and fraction collector
this summer. Should be nice! |
Feb 19 09
New 700 MHz with 2 biomolecular NMR cryoprobes officially open! See
the [not entirely accurate] Chronicle Herald coverage. |
Feb 15 09
Our apelin structural paper in Biochemistry appears to be popular! |
Jan-Feb 09
Welcome to
Pascaline & Hiren! (And, welcome to grad school, Marie!) |
Dec 08
Thanks to the DMRF,
we have a new multi-user chemically resistant lyophilizer en route. |
Fall 08
The Rainey lab is happy to have additional operating funding from both CIHR
& NSHRF.
We are also grateful for critical partnership funding from the Dal
Cancer Research Program. |
Aug 08
David, Tyler and Jan present at the ICMRBS in sunny San
Diego. |
Aug 11 08
David passes his PhD Candidacy Exam. Good work, David! |
July 5 08
Finally, a few
new pictures up on the research page. |
July 4 08
David receives a Research Skills Award from the Nova
Scotia Health Research Foundation coupled with funding from NANUC to attend the 2008 NMR Boot Camp at UConn in
Connecticut! |
July 2 08
Tyler passes his PhD Candidacy. Way to go, Tyler! |
July 2 08
Jonathan chosen to attend "Rising Stars of Research" in Vancouver.
Should be fun! |
June 9 08
Lab wiki underway. |
April 19 08
Dave & Tyler present at the Chemical Biophysics Symposium.
Nice work, guys! |
April 08
Two NSERC RTI grants coming our way: a high-end spectrofluorometer
(with D. Byers & S. Bearne) and a gel documentation/imaging
system (with M. Dobson, R. Singer, R. McLeod & S. Bearne)! |
March 20 08
Tyler & David both awarded NSERC CGSM scholarships! Way to go
guys! |
January 30 08
Protein journal club wesite up and running. Click here. |
January 21 08
Rainey lab has 3rd spectrum
of the month in less than a year at NANUC! |
January 10 08
2(!) NMR talks: Muzzadid Sarker from the Booth
Group at MUN is giving a seminar from 2:30-3:30 in Tupper
14B2. This is followed by Ray
Syvitski's Departmental Seminar at 4 pm in Theatre D. |
November 23 07
Canadian Foundation for Innovation
awards $150,000 Leaders Opportunity Fund grant to Dr. Rainey. This will
go towards a sub-basement facility & scanning probe microscope. |
November 3 07
Tyler & David present at the ARMRC
Annual NMR Spectroscopy Workshop. Good work guys! |
August 27 07
Faculty of Medicine funded peptide
synthesizer installed. And works well! |
June 15 07
DMRF funded Langmuir-Blodgett
trough has arrived. |
June 1 07
Thanks to the Dalhousie
University Faculty of Medicine for an Intramural Grant
($20,000) for purchase of a peptide synthesizer. |
May 1 07
NSERC Discovery Grant awarded to
Dr. Rainey ($40,000/yr for five years). |
Mar 19 07
Thanks to the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation
and to the E. Gordon Young Fund for
Equipment
Grants! |
Feb 19 07
A few photos of the lab taken from the point
of view of two of the lab iMac's. |
Dec 1 06
Move-in day for the new lab on 10th floor of Tupper. Pictures to follow |
Nov 3 06
Brand new website up and operational under new domain:
structbio.biochem.dal.ca |
Nov 1 06
Lab "open for business" (temporary digs). |