ICYMI – We're celebrating #UCalgaryMed's recent award winners! Help us recognize their outstanding contributions and leave your congratulations for the awardees: ow.ly/lKlF50Ebyzu

... and congrats also to @leahhohman and her colleagues in the Nathan Peters Lab for her recent study in PLOS Pathogens revealing significant implications for vaccine strategies against infections #Leishmania #Leishmaniasis. bit.ly/3iZj7K0

Crosstalk between mitochondrial fission and fusion machineries: #mitochondria-shaping proteins are generally considered to be binary components of either the fission or fusion machinery, but New Research suggests MIEF1/2 are regulators of both bit.ly/3D0rkFL

We are so pleased to congratulate Dr. Amanda Ricciuto and Dr. Raman (Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases), the 2021 recipients of the Women in IBD Awards! Together with Pfizer Canada, we celebrate the advances these researchers have made in our understanding of #IBD: bit.ly/3knryzn

Dr. Maitreyi Raman Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases member was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Researcher, Women in IBD Awards by Crohn's and Colitis Canada, & Pfizer Canada, for her valuable contributions as outstanding female leader in IBD research. Congrats Dr. Raman! bit.ly/3DVkvFM #IBD #Crohns

Join us on January 10, 2022 at Mini-Med School for Nutrition: Its impact on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Fatty Liver Disease. This is a free, online, interactive evening discussion you won't want to miss. Register here bit.ly/3pC8uB1

Now hiring! The Snyder Institute is seeking a part-time Communications/Research Assistant. An understanding of/familiarity with science along with skills in communications will be an asset. Join our dynamic team! Find out more here & apply by March 25: bit.ly/3MI7Z1c

Accelerate your early-stage health innovation with UCeed investment! The UCeed Health Fund is focused on advancing health care innovation across the field. Two levels of investment are available for startups wanting to make an impact. Apply by March 18: ow.ly/jHY250IjfUz

and Bruce Vallance and DerekMcKay lab and all those involved - amazing cross Canada effort

Mark your calendar! Join us Monday, May 2, 6:30pm - 8 pm for this season's last Mini-Med School event: One Health - Understanding the relationship between human health, parasites, & worms. Online, interactive, & free. Register here bit.ly/3L8kiTj.

Today, May 19th, is World IBD Day. Every year the world bands together to reflect and raise awareness for all those impacted by inflammatory bowel disease. World IBD Day is one day a year, but IBD impacts its patients everyday for the rest of their lives. youtube.com/watch?v=pA22yX…

We're coming soon! Want to find out more? Check out our website at triangleprogram.org, follow us here, or sign up for our emails at eepurl.com/h5-CqP #GradCareers #Gastroenterology #Hepatology #Postdoc #cdnpse #HigherEd #STEM #Scholarships #Fellowships #Research

Drs Sruthi Rajeev ShuHua Li & Derek McKay’s new Parasite of the Month: #Hymenolepis #diminuta, a model #tapeworm & candidate for #HelminthTherapy, with a lifecycle in #rats (definitive host) & #beetles (intermediate host). Host-Parasite Interactions UCalgaryMedicine U Calgary authors.elsevier.com/a/1fTjM5Eb1xBg…

🎉 TRIANGLE applications are now open! If you're a graduate student, research fellow, or early career researcher in GI or liver, this program is going to TRANSFORM your career. Deadline: October 21, 2022 Apply now: tally.so/r/mD4v6p Learn more: triangleprogram.org

New HPI Blog Post 📖 by Parker Volk from DerekMcKay lab U Calgary Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases UCalgaryMedicine Allied fight against malaria: or how I learned to stop worrying and take my atabrine" #malaria #ww2 #history #parasite -theparasiteblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/13/the…

This year the McKay lab was proud to participate and volunteer in the annual #Gutsywalk for Crohn's and Colitis Canada: Dr. Bear- aka- James, in Vancouver and the rest of us in Calgary! Thank you to everyone who came out to support the IBD community. #IBD #Crohns #Colitis #gutsywalk2023

⏰ Time is almost up to apply for a TRIANGLE GI/liver scholarship, fellowship, or early career faculty award! Don't miss out on TRIANGLE's transformative funding, training, community, and support. Applications are due on Friday, September 15.

Nov. 6, 6:30 pm! Join us for the kick-off to Season 9 of our Snyder Institute Mini Medical School series: Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Disease, with Drs. Derek McKay and Tim Shutt, presented in person and online. More info and registration here bit.ly/46PtmqQ

E. coli-LF82 causes fragmentation ✂️ that increases #epithelial permeability. Dr. Derek McKay (DerekMcKay lab) and researchers at UCalgaryMedicine hypothesized that butyrate would limit the epithelial #mitochondrial disruption caused by E. coli-LF82. 👉 bit.ly/46UXctq

Congratulations to James Sousa whose image (taken as a MSc student in the McKay lab) is currently a finalist in the NSERC Science Exposed contest. Vote for him here! nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ScienceExposed… #ScienceExposed U Calgary UCalgaryMedicine Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases NSERC / CRSNG Acfas