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July 21, 2022
It has been a while since my last post and we have been busy! Here are the highlights:
- Emily McNamara graduated with her Master's in Biochemistry this May.
- We welcomed Akhil Patel to the lab as our newest summer student.
- Kerry Sun was awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's.
- I took a road trip with Angelle Britton and Tark Patel to the 9th Annual Protein Structure, Function and Malfunction (PSFaM) Meeting in Saskatoon. We all had a blast meeting the attendees in person and learning about the latest in Protein Folding research from our colleagues in Western Canada. Congratulations to Angelle who gave a talk and Tark who won a Poster Prize. We will definitely be heading back for next year's meeting!
- We FINALLY took a new lab picture :)
Posted: December 23,2021
Congratulations to our lab members on their recent research awards!
- Justin Kim - Best Poster Presentation Award, 54th Annual Summer Students’ Research Day, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta
- Angelle Britton - 75th Anniversary Award, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta
- Angelle Britton - Margaret Brine Graduate Scholarship, Canadian Federation of University Women
Posted: September 19,2021
It is the start of a new academic year for the Mok lab. We said goodbye to some of our members and welcomed some new people to our team.
- Hallie Ng - Moved to a new position in Chemistry at the UofA
- Justin Kim - Started Dentistry at the UofA
- Kerry Sun - Started his Master's program in the Mok lab
- Tark Patel, Abdallah Alwan and WooSung Choo - Started their undergraduate research projects in the Mok lab
Some of our team members are making some interesting videos! You can check them out below:
Allan Yarahmady made this how-to video for performing cappilary gel electrophoresis on the Wes system (ProteinSimple).
Emily McNamara made this how-not-to video for bacterial transformation. Enjoy!
Posted: September 14, 2021
We were very fortunate to publish with two of our amazing UofA collaborators this past year:
2021 BMC Biology Emily McNamara created a GFP-0N4R tau cell line in this study with the Westaway lab characterizing liquid-liquid phase separation events in aggregate seeded cells.
2021 Frontiers in Genetics Lion Budrass predicts miRNA regulators of J-protein chaperones in this collaboration with the Fahlman Lab.
Posted: Sept. 16, 2020 The year 2020 has been tough for everyone. As a lab, we have been adjusting our projects and work styles so that we can still do great research. Animation of the ATPase cycle of Hsp70 (pink) with its co-chaperones, Hsp40 (green) and NEF (blue). This animation was created by Shreya Mulpuri, a high school student participating in this summer's Alberta Innovates Heritage Youth Researcher Summer (HYRS) Program. Shreya was assisted by fantastic mentors, Emily McNamara and Madeleine Ridgway. I donned a GoPro to record a lab training video. Teaching new and old lab members research techniques while maintaining physical distancing! Despite everthing that is going on, our team members are still being recognized for their research efforts. I wanted to take a minute and congratulate them on their achievements! Posted: October 4, 2019
Heba Iftikhar, Maggie Wang and Gurreet Bhandal all showed off their research at the Summer Student Research Day. Special congrats to Gurreet who won one of the poster award prizes! Posted: Semptember 3, 2019
This summer/fall we welcomed some new members to the Lab. Lion Budrass joined our lab as a Master's student studying chaperone functions in neurons. Eman is starting an undergraduate research project on protein translation. Madeleine Ridgway is our newest undergraduate volunteer and is cloning some exciting new constructs for the lab! Posted: Summer 2019
The summer was so busy that I had no time to post updates so I am just going to jam the entire summary into a single post. We had a whole group of undergraduate students (Gabrielle, Gurreet, Heba, Maggie, Madeleine, Michelle) join us for the summer of 2019. It was chaotic and we had to share/make desks just to fit everyone but it was also a lot of fun. Also, we said goodbye to Heather Baker in the Mok lab. Heather was an undergraduate project student who worked on chaperone proteomics. We are sad to see her go but excited for her new adventure as a graduate student at UBC. caption: Heather, Emily, and Allan at Prion 2019 Posted: January 30, 2019
I was just in Fort McMurray with the Canadian broadcasting icon and author, Jay Ingram, to give a public lecture on Alzheimer's Disease. I had the honour of meeting fabulous and caring individuals from the Fort McMurray community. Thank you to the Alberta Prion Research Institute for organizing this event! Posted: December 11, 2018
A great Secret Santa exchange and delicious vegan food from Padmanadi! Posted: September 15, 2018
My incredible team braved rain and snow to support neuroscience research at the U of A! To find out more about the Neuroscience Mental Health Institute and the incredible research being carried out:
Click here Posted: June 27, 2018
These first time golfers looked like pros on the course. They had skills and style! Posted: April 30, 2018
A huge thanks to the incredible team of collaborators that made this publication possible. Click here to check out the advanced online publication. To check out the advanced online publication:
Click here Posted: April 27, 2018
Harry's summer project work will be supported by an "Office of the Provost and VP (Academic) Summer Student Award" from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FoMD) at the University of Alberta. Posted: April 8, 2018
The study describes the potentially important role of the SIRT1 deacetylase in regulating the spread of tau pathology in vivo. Posted: January 15, 2018
In an effort to promote teamwork and organization, both in our lab and with our collaborators, we are switching to electronic lab notebooks (ELNs). We chose the SciNote electronic lab notebook to manage all our data for several key reasons:
1) The ease with which our team members can share data and protocols in real time. We can also easily update protocols and standardize them across the entire lab. 2) It is economical, so academic labs can save their funds for students and experiments. 3) Data storage is secure and SciNote is used and trusted by other institutions e.g. National Institutes of Health. For any PIs or students thinking about switching to ELNs I recommend giving SciNote a try. It is free to get started and easy to adopt. You can even start small by using it for summer/undergrad students. Just create a project folder for each student and see if it improves communication and your student’s training experience. Posted: January 2, 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/remembering-the-transgender-scientist-who-changed-our-understanding-of-the-brain/549458/
Posted: October 5, 2017
The lab benches are starting to be put in.... Posted: September 7, 2017
The awesome crew at U of A Facilities and Operations have torn down my lab and begun to rebuild it at a lightning fast pace. Should be shiny and new in no time! Posted: August 30, 2017
Thanks to my amazing teammates (Brian Sykes, Fangze Cai, and Peter Holmes) for making this day so much fun!
Summary Student Research Day at the U of A
New lab members and student recognitions
Congratulations to Emily McNamara in our lab for being awarded a graduate teaching assistantship award from the Department. The lab is happy she is getting recognition for her awesome teaching skills!Summary
Some of the highlights:
Alzheimer's Mystery lecture with Jay Ingram
1st annual Secret Santa holiday party
My N.E.R.D. run warriors!
BEFORE the run:
AFTER the run:
Mok lab enjoys a day of golfing in the Annual Slupsky Classic
Our manuscript mapping protective chaperones against tau aggregation in NSMB is finally online!
Congratulations to Yu Ming (Harry) Liu for his summer student fellowship award
Congratulations to our collaborators in the Li Gan lab for their recent publication in the Journal of Neuroscience
The Mok Lab is going paperless!
Remembering Ben Barres
Lab renovation update
Lab renovation update
20th Annual Biochemistry Golf Tournament
