Bulletin The Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences La Société Canadienne pour les Biosciences Moléculaires 2018 www.csmb-scbm.ca Bulletin The Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences La Société Canadienne pour les Biosciences Moléculaires 2018www.csmb-scbm.ca CSMB | SCBM Bulletin 2018 1 Table of Contents CSMB Board for 2018 ......................................................................................................................................4 President’s Report 2018 ..................................................................................................................................6 Incoming Members of the Executive Board ...................................................................................................9 Imogen Coe, Vice-President .................................................................................................................9 Walid Houry, Councillor .....................................................................................................................10 Minutes of the 61st Annual General Meeting 2018 ..................................... ...............................................11 Financial Statement 2018 .............................................................................................................................14 61st Annual Meeting, Banff, Alberta ............................................................................................................19 Meeting Report: “Membrane Proteins in Health and Disease” .........................................................19 Career Mentoring Session ..................................................................................................................22 Scenes from the Meeting ...................................................................................................................23 Poster and Travel Awards ...................................................................................................................31 Trainee Committee Activities 2018 ...............................................................................................................32 2019 CSMB Award Designates ......................................................................................................................33 CSMB New Investigator Award: Jonathan Scherzer ...........................................................................33 Canadian Science Publishing Senior Investigator Award: Sylvain Moineau .......................................34 Jeanne Manery-Fisher Memorial Award: Anne-Claude Gingras ........................................................35 Award Articles 2018 ......................................................................................................................................36 Arthur Wynne Gold Medal: James Robert Woodgett ......................................................................36 “How to continually make the case for fundamental science – a protein kinases’ perspective” News from Member Departments ...............................................................................................................41 Dalhousie University .........................................................................................................................41 McGill University ...............................................................................................................................42 McMaster University .........................................................................................................................44 Memorial University of Newfoundland ............................................................................................46 Princess Margaret Cancer Centre ......................................................................................................47 Ryerson University ............................................................................................................................49 Simon Fraser University ....................................................................................................................51 Trent University .................................................................................................................................51 Université de Montréal ....................................................................................................................52 Université de Sherbrooke .................................................................................................................53 Université Laval ................................................................................................................................54 University of Alberta ........................................................................................................................ 55 Biochemistry ......................................................................................................................... 55 2 CSMB | SCBM Bulletin 2018 Cell Biology ............................................................................................................................ 57 Physiology ............................................................................................................................. 57 University of British Columbia ..........................................................................................................59 University of Calgary .........................................................................................................................60 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology .....................................................................................60 Biological Sciences .................................................................................................................61 University of Guelph .........................................................................................................................63 University of Lethbridge ....................................................................................................................66 University of Manitoba .....................................................................................................................70 University of Ottawa .........................................................................................................................72 University of Saskatchewan ..............................................................................................................73 University of Toronto ........................................................................................................................74 Biochemistry ..........................................................................................................................74 Cell and Systems Biology .......................................................................................................77 Molecular Genetics ................................................................................................................80 University of Toronto Mississauga ....................................................................................................83 University of Toronto Scarborough ...................................................................................................84 University of Victoria ........................................................................................................................85 University of Waterloo ......................................................................................................................86 CSMB-Sponsored Events ...............................................................................................................................87 CSMB | SCBM Bulletin 2018 3 CSMB Board for 2018 Dr. Kristin Baetz University of Ottawa Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology 451 Smyth Road, Roger Guidon Hall Ottawa ON K1H 8M5 Tel: (613) 562-5800 X8592 E-mail: [email protected] Vice-President/Vice-Président Dr. Imogen Coe Ryerson University Department of Chemistry and Biology 350 Victoria Street Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 Tel: (416) 305-1946 The CSMB Board at their executive meeting in Montreal, Email: [email protected] November 2018. Standing (from left to right): Tarik Möröy, Nafisa Jadavji, Jan Rainey, Christian Baron, Bensun Fong, Treasurer/Trésorier Imogen Coe, Julie Poupart (CSMB Secretariat and Webmaster), Dr. Jan Rainey Paola Marignani, Frances Sharom. Seated (from left to right): Dalhousie University Phil Hieter, Hans-Joachim Wieden, Jim Davie, Kristin Bates, Walid Houry. Michelle Scott was connected via Skype. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Tupper Medical Building Halifax NS B3H 1X5 President/Président Tel: (902) 494-4632 Dr. Tarik Möröy E-mail: [email protected] Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal IRCM Laboratory on Hematopoiesis and Cancer Secretary/Secrétaire 110 Avenue des Pins Ouest Dr. James Davie Montreal, QC H2W 1R7 University of Manitoba Tel: (514) 987-5501 Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba E-mail: [email protected] 600A-715 McDermot Avenue, John Buhler Research Centre Winnipeg, MB R3E 3P4 Past-Presidents/Présidents Précédent and Chairs, Tel: (204) 975-7732 Nominating Committee/Président, Comité de mise en Email: [email protected] candidature Dr. Philip Hieter Councillor/Conseiller University of British Columbia Dr. Christian Baron Michael Smith Laboratories