Congratulations to Lidiya Misyura for being awarded the AGSBS Dean’s Honours Undergraduate Thesis award for 2016.
Author: Andrew Donini
February 17, 2017
Best Wishes for your Post Doc Dr. Sima Jonusaite!!! Hope to see you at conferences and keep in touch.
December 5, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Sima Jonusaite for her PhD degree. Sima’s thesis will be conferred with high distinction and she will be nominated for the dissertation prize at York. Sima is now set to join the laboratory of Dr. Aylin Rodan at the University of Utah for a Postdoctoral position.
November 21, 2016
Congratulations to Andrea Durant on her first publication! Aedes aegypti Rhesus glycoproteins contribute to ammonia excretion by larval anal papillae in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Article
October 3, 2016
The lab just returned from a successful and inspiring International Congress of Entomology 2016, Orlando, Florida. Peter Agre gave a sensational, humble and inspiring talk! Andrea presented her PhD work on Rh50 proteins in mosquitoes, Sima presented her septate junction work, Gil and Lidiya presented their undergraduate research and Andrew presented some preliminary work on effects of high environmental ammonia on larval mosquitoes.
September 13, 2016
Congratulations to Gil Yerushalmi for his first publication: “Chronic dietary salt stress mitigates hyperkalemia and facilitates chill coma recovery in Drosophila melanogaster” in the Journal of Insect Physiology. This was Gil’s undergraduate thesis research. Congratulations to Hina Akhter for publication of her aquaporin MSc research in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A and to Lidiya Misyura who co-authored both of these papers.. two papers in a day from her work as an undergraduate!
June 23, 2016
Congratulations to Gil, Lidiya and Andrea for Conferral of their Bachelor of Science with Honours (Gil, Lidiya) and Master of Science (Andrea) Degrees.
June 16, 2016
Thanks to Gil, Lidiya, Andrea, Sima and Heath for excellent presentations of their research at the annual Insect Biotech Conference. Congratulations to Sima Jonusaite for being awarded 2nd prize for best Long talks at the conference.
May 30, 2016
Congratulations to Melika Zadeh Tahmasebi for publication of her undergraduate honours thesis, and to Phuong Bui for a second publication from our lab. Their work has shed light on how larval chironomid Malpighian tubule function is affected by salinity and will appear in Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology.
May 10, 2016
Well done Gil Yerushalmi for being a finalist for the HI Battle and GF Holeton awards at the CSZ 2016 meeting presenting his undergraduate thesis work.
