To access past news items please click here. January 8th, 2013 Happy New Year from everyone in the Beier lab! November 7th, 2012
The Beier lab celebrating all our winners. October 26th, 2012 The Beier lab congratulates Ryan Gillespie for successfully defending his PhD. thesis. He presented his research on "The role
of glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta in skeletal development". Ryan has been an exemplary graduate student in the Beier lab, holding many awards for his research and teaching. Congratulations Ryan! Dr. Frank Beier and Dr. Ryan Gillespie celebrate with the Goblet of Knowledge July 30th, 2012 Congratulations to Shirine Usmani for successfully defending her PhD. thesis on "The role of transforming growth factor alpha in osteoarthritis and skeletal development". She will continue her studies in the Md/PhD program at Western University. Shirine has been a valuable asset in the Beier lab for many years, and we have all benefitted from all her hard work in the lab. Shirine flawlessly presents her PhD public lecture Shirine celebrates with Dr. Beier and the Goblet of Knowledge July 17th, 2012 Congratulations to former Beier Lab member Dr. Veronica Ullici, for being awarded a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship for her work at the University of Pittsburgh. July 16th, 2012 Congratulations to Dr. Jason Bush, who has been awarded a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship. His project concerns "CTCF-Dependent Epigenetic Regulation of Chondrocyte Development". July 1st, 2012 The Beier Lab at Cold Spring Harbour Asia PhD Candidate Lauren Solomon presents her work at the Cold Spring Harbour Asia conference on Bone and Cartilage: from Development to Human Diseases. The conference was held in Souzhou, China and covered the latest findings across many topics in skeletal biology. Dr. Beier was an invited speaker, discussing "The TGFa-EGFR pathway in posttraumatic and aging-associated osteoarthritis". June 1st, 2012 Welcome back Dr. Beier! Dr. Frank Beier with former visiting Professor Gunwoo Kim in South Korea. (Investigating a new lab dress code perhaps?) May 21st, 2012 Dr. Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award He is the fourth member of our lab to receive this distinction. Matt McCann receiving the 5th annual Dr. Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award April 19th, 2012 Congratulations to Mike Pest for earning a Banting and Best Canada Graduate scholarship from CIHR, and Anusha Ratneswaran for being awarded the JuMP Graduate Student award. You both deserve recognition for all your hard work! March 21st, 2012 Congratuations to Matt McCann for being awarded second place at Lawson Health Research Day for his platform presentation "Acute vibration induces transient expression of anabolic genes in the intervertebral disc in a frequency dependant manner". Way to go Matt! December 22nd, 2011 Happy Holidays from everyone in the Beier lab! Beier lab members and alumni alike gathered together to celebrate another exciting and productive year. We raffled off not one but two iPads with the proceeds going towards arthritis research and other charities. Congratulations to all our winners and all the best to everyone in the new year! November 18th, 2011. September 20th, 2011 Members of the Beier lab attended the OARSI 2011 World Congress on Osteoarthritis in San Diego. Shirine and Mike take in the local skeletal biology in San Diego August 17th, 2011 Congratulations to Emily LeBlanc for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis on "PPAR delta and AMPK pathways in Cartilage". She will be be starting Physiotherapy at McMaster University in September! Yay! Emily getting ready for her defense Emily and the well-earned Goblet of Knowledge Cool Beier boys August 12th, 2011 August 10th, 2011 Congratulations to Ryan Perlus for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis on "The role of Ror alpha in chondrocyte differentiation". He will be be starting medical school at The University of Limerick in September! Ryan, prepared for his defense. Congratulations to Lauren and Alex We are pleased to announce that Lauren Solomon and Alex Crawford were married this past week in London. Congratulations to you both! Despite the miserable weather, the "Walk to fight Arthritis" was a great success. Team Bernier, which included many of our lab members, collected more than $6,000, and in total the London walk raised close to $70,000! Team Bernier - Researchers in Motion Cheryl, Emily and Shirine share an umbrella with Tom OGS Awards We are pleased to announce that Lauren Solomon received an OGS scholarship in this year's competition. Dr. Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award Congratulations to Ryan Gillespie who won the 4th annual Dr. Suzanne
Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology. He is the third member of
the lab to win this award (after Veronica and Shirine). Ryan with Members of Suzanne's family and the keynote speaker Dr. Olsen Lab members at the reception Most lab members will participate at the 'Walk to fight Arthritis', a fundraiser for The Arthritis Society on May 15. We are walking as part of 'Team Bernier: Researchers in Motion', in memory of Dr. Suzanne Bernier. The team has raised over $5,000 so far and is aiming for more. Congratulations to Emily whose abstract was selected for oral presentation at the Canadian Connective Tissue Conference in Montreal http://cctc2011.com/. Welcome to our new summer students Margaret Sun, Lyuba Lytvyn and Paxton Moon. Margaret won a CIHR/IMHA summer studentship and will continue to work with Ryan P on the role of nuclear receptors in chondrocytes. Lyuba will work with Jason on CTCF function in chondrocyte differentiation. Paxton won a JuMP summer studentship and will examine the regulation of protease expression in chondrocytes, with Emily and Mike. Laura Aubrey also joined our lab this month, for now as summer student but continuing as a graduate student in the fall. Her project will address the role of GSK-3 proteins in limb and cartilage development. Beier Laboratory Osteoarthritis Research Profiled by CIHR Ask any arthritis sufferer what they find most difficult about their illness, and they'll tell you it's the constant physical pain. According to a National Population Health Survey, 80% of people with arthritis take some type of painkiller. And yet, there has been very little research examining why arthritis hurts so much. Several Beier Laboratory Members Rewarded for Efforts Another season of scholarship and grant applications has arrived and the Beier Laboratory members have been recognized for their excellent research efforts again. This year, several new students have joined the lab and were also awarded recently. Among the awardees are Jen Li, MSc candidate, who won a CIHR Masters Award and Christina Fung, summer student, who received a CIHR Summer Studentship. Qian Yan and Ryan Gillespie, both PhD candiates in the lab received travel awards to attend the 2009 Gordon Research Conference 'Bones and Teeth'. A recent PhD graduate from the lab, Dr. Veronica Ulici, also received a travel award to attend the OARSI 2009 World Congress in Montreal, QC in September. Finally, Dr. Tom Appleton, a post-doctoral research associate and medical student, received a Canadian Arthritis Network Summer Studentship for Medical and Allied Health Professionals.
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Congratulations to Matt McCann, who recieved the 5th annual Dr. Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology. Matt presented his research on intervertebral disc development prior to the keynote talk by Dr. Lynda Bonewald.
This year's Charles W. Gowdey Lecture and Research Day was a resounding success, featuring lectures from UWO Scientists Dr. Brad Urquhart and Dr. Qingping Feng. Gowdey lecturer Dr. Brenda Gallie passionately described “One Retinoblastoma World: Science and the Children” and Physiology/Pharmacology students presented fantastic posters on their research.
The Beier lab's own Ryan Gillespie (back row, left) was recognized for his hard work in the Physiology Department with the Phys/Pharm Graduate Student Council Leadership Award. Congratulations Ryan!
Ryan drinks from the goblet of knowledge
The lab celebrates at the grad club
Our techs joined in the celebration!
July 5, 2011
The ceremony was followed by drinks at the Grad Club.
May 15, 2011
Bright smiles on a cloudy day
May 13, 2011
May 13, 2011
Beier Lab Fights Arthritis
May 12, 2011
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Congratulations to Shirine Usmani who was co-winner of the Esme
Walker Award for her PhD thesis in Physiology and to Mike Pest as winner
of the best Poster Award in the Pharmacology category at the
Annual Research Day.
Mike Pest (second from left) receives his poster award.
Welcome to Hang Fang
(Elvis) from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou (China) who will join
us for two years as part of his PhD Thesis. He will work on bone changes
in osteoarthritis and is supported by a stipend from the China
Scholarship Council.
Congratulations to Mike Pest for obtaining a Graduate PhD/Pfizer Scholarship for three years from the Canadian Arthritis Network (CAN) and The Arthritis Society!
Welcome to our new members
May 12, 2011
A busy summer for the lab. Ryan P., Ryan G., Jen and Emily are all planning to graduate. Gun Woo will complete his visit and return to South Korea, while Guoyan returns to London after her leave. Lots of new people are joining the lab, and two of our PhD graduates, Claudine and Tom, will start their residencies in London - we hope to work with them on translational aspects of our projects
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