Congratulations to Geoff for winning the UBC Faculty of Science Excellence in Service award. These awards "recognize staff, students, and faculty whose service contributions have had a significant positive impact in achieving UBC Science's mission." Geoff was given this award for his 12 years of service as Academic Director of the UBC Bioimaging Facility.
Geoff receiving his award from the Dean of Science, Meigan Aronson
Geoff and Laryssa travelled to Guelph for the 2019 Plant Canada meeting.
Geoff was Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee and helped to put together a fantastic lineup of speakers. Geoff just completed his term as President of CSPB and will now represent Canada on the Global Plant Council as President of Plant Canada!
Congratulations to Laryssa Halat, who received the Ragai Ibrahim award for excellence in publication by a graduate student. She also won the Best Student Presentation Award for her seminar "Make or Break? Microtubule Growth and Shrinkage are Controlled by the Dynamic Turnover of Plus-end Proteins."
Laryssa and Geoff with presenters in the Cell Biology session.
Geoff Wasteneys, Bill Plaxton, Siobhan Brady, and Liam Dolan after their plenary session.
We welcome Jinyi Chen from the University of Western Australia, who is working on tubulin mutants in ryegrass. We also warmly welcome Rostislav Blume from Kiev, Ukraine who is undertaking a Mitacs work term in our lab.