News and Annoucements

Milica Radisic (ChemE, IBBME)

On Monday, March 7, Professor Milica Radisic and her team's "person-on-a-chip" technology was published in Nature Materials, as well as featured in the Toronto Star and U of T News. To learn more about the technology, click here.

On Tuesday, March 8 at 6pm and 11pm, Radisic was featured on InnerSpace on the Space Channel. To watch the segment and learn how science fiction inspired Radisic in her career, click here.

Upcoming CEGSA Events

At 3:14pm in WB247 on Monday, March 14, CEGSA will be hosting a pie contest in celebration of Pi Day. Everyone is welcome to attend to taste the pies or even bring in a pie to be judged. Baking expenses will be reimbursed for all contestants. There will also be a pi digits recital competition.

At 4pm on Friday, March 18, CEGSA will be going curling at the High Park Club. Registration is $5 and space is limited so register early! For full details or to sign up, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1j0oSySPtXO_Xr6wi-NbV3EafpbPkWhkXm2Aa-wZsEfI/viewform?c=0&w=1

Careers in Medical Affairs Info Session on Wed, Mar 23

The Life Sciences Career Development Society (LSCDS) is a student initiative at the University of Toronto that aims to expose students to all of the various career paths that can stem from a life sciences graduate degree. LSCDS will be hosting an info session with great speakers talking about careers in medical affairs on Wednesday, March 23 from 6:15-8pm in Room 3154, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle. Pizza and pop will be served. To learn more or to register, click here.

March 11, 2016

In this issue:

Grad Office
Research Publications
Events

Grad Office

Research Publications

Conditional Epistatic Interaction Maps Reveal Global Functional Rewiring of Genome Integrity Pathways in Escherichia coli
Kumar, A., Beloglazova, N., Bundalovic-Torma, C., Phanse, S., Deineko, V., Gagarinova, A., Musso, G., Vlasblom, J., Lemak, S., Hooshyar, M., Minic, Z., Wagih, O., Mosca, R., Aloy, P., Golshani, A., Parkinson, J., Emili, A., Yakunin, A., Babu, M.
Cell Reports 2015. Article not published yet, but available online Article in Press

An in vitro model of tissue boundary formation for dissecting the contribution of different boundary forming mechanisms
Javaherian, S., D'Arcangelo, E., Slater, B., Zulueta-Coarasa, T., Fernandez-Gonzalez, R., McGuigan, A.P.
Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro 2015,
7 ( 3 ) pp. 298 - 312 .

Dehalogenimonas sp. Strain WBC-2 genome and identification of its trans-dichloroethene reductive dehalogenase, TdrA
Molenda, O., Quaile, A.T., Edwards, E.A.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2016, 82 ( 1 ) pp. 40 - 50 .

Resolving detailed molecular structures in complex organic mixtures and modeling their secondary organic aerosol formation 
Goodman-Rendall, K.A.S., Zhuang, Y.R., Amirav, A., Chan, A.W.H.
Atmospheric Environment 2016, 128 pp. 276 - 285 .

Structure-function analysis of a mixed-linkage β-glucanase/xyloglucanase from the key ruminal bacteroidetes prevotella bryantii B14 
McGregor, N., Morar, M., Fenger, T.H., Stogios, P., Lenfant, N., Yin, V., Xu, X., Evdokimova, E., Cui, H., Henrissat, B., Savchenko, A., Brumer, H.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2016, 291 ( 3 ) pp. 1175 - 1197 .

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