• Congratulations to Danielle Lapierre (MSc Candidate - Sims Laboratory) and Matthew Grol (MSc Candidate - Dixon Laboratory) on the receipt of the Frederick Banting and Charles Best CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships (Master's Award)!
  Posted July 18th, 2008

• A new web site has been created in memory of Dr. Suzanne M. Bernier who was one of the CIHR Group in Skeletal Development & Remodeling's top scientists and university educators. Please take time to visit this site to remember Suzanne. A permanent link has been posted in the 'Members' Menu above.

http://reganfamily.ca/Suzanne/updates.html

Posted July 18th, 2008

• Congratulations to Lauren Solomon (MSc Student - Beier Laboratory) and Shirine Usmani (MD/PhD Student - Beier Laboratory) who each obtained an OGSST graduate scholarship to continue their work in Dr. Beier's laboratory.
  Posted June 10th, 2008

• Congratulations to Katie Hoenselaar (Summer Student - Beier Laboratory) for obtaining both NSERC and OGS graduate scholarships.
  Posted June 10th, 2008

• Congratulations to Ryan Gillespie (PhD Student - Beier Laboratory) for renewing his OGS graduate scholarship while working in the Beier lab.
  Posted June 10th, 2008

• Please mark on your calendars the upcoming Suzanne M. Bernier Memorial Lecture in Skeletal Biology and Open House on May 9th, 2008 at 2:00 PM. This event will be held in the University Hospital of the London Health Sciences Center, Auditorium A. The inaugural lecture series speaker is Dr. Ken Yamada, National Institutes of Health - Bethesday, MD.
  
  Please click to view the poster announcement
  
  Posted April 28th

• Congratulations to Ricky Miron (MSc Candidate - Hamilton Laboratory) on the receipt of a 1 year Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada!
  Posted March 28th

• Tom Appleton (MD Student - Beier Laboratory) received a Summer Studentship from the Canadian Arthritis Network Research Program for Medical Students for this coming summer.
  Posted March 19th
  

• Congratulations to Shirine Usmani (MD/PhD Student - Beier Laboratory) for receiving a three-year graduate scholarship from the Canadian Arthritis Network.
  Posted: February 4th
  

• We are pleased to announce the following successful grants have been awarded to Dr. Frank Beier in the recent CIHR Operating grants competition:
  
  1. 04/2008-03/2013 “Rac1 function inendochondral ossification”, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR),$123,371/year (Principal Investigator)
     
  2. 04/2008-03/2011 “Transforming growth factor alpha in a rodent model of osteoarthritis”, Canadian Institutesof Health Research (CIHR), $101,855/year (Principal Investigator)
     
     
• Dr. Beier has also successfully received funding in a recent Western Innovation Fund competition:
  
1. 01/2008-12/2008 “Transforming growth factor alpha as a therapeutic target in osteoarthritis”, Western Innovation Fund, $49,352 (Principal Investigator)

Posted: January 31st

 

• The CIHR Group in Skeletal Development & Remodeling annual retreat was held at the Windermere Manor this past August. See photo below:

• To follow up on his previous award, Mohit Kapoor (Leask Lab) also won a second post-doctoral fellowship from the Canadian Arthritis Network. Congratulations to Mohit once again!
  Posted: September 23, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Mohit Kapoor, a post-doctoral fellow in the Leask lab, was recently awarded the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship. The award is a 2-year fellowship to investigate the role of PPAR gamma in wound and tissue repair. Congratulations to Mohit!
  Posted: August 24th, 2007
  

• Congratulations to Tom Appleton (Beier Lab) who successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 19th! The title of Tom's thesis is 'Molecular mechanisms of articular cartilage degeneration in experimental knee osteoarthritis'.
  Posted: August 2nd, 2007

• CIHR Group Summer BBQ!
  The BBQ was held on Thursday, June 28th at the Grad Club.
  
  Please click here to see the photos!
  
  Posted: June 30th, 2007

• CIHR Group Does Relay For Life!
  In honour of those who have fought with cancer and are close to members of the CIHR Group in Skeletal Development & Remodeling, CIHR Group members participated in the 12 hour overnight Relay For Life on Friday, June 15th. The event was held at TD Waterhouse Stadium on UWO's campus and was hosted to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. To see photos from the event, please click here.
  Posted: June 18th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Ryan & Sarah Gillespie were married this past weekend in Canton, Ohio. Congratulations to you both and we wish you the best in your future together!
  Posted: June 15th, 2007

• Congratulations to Claudine James! Claudine successfully defended her PhD thesis this morning. Claudine has worked in the Beier lab for the past several years.
  Posted: June 8th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Daphne Pala won Best Oral Presentation at the Canadian Connective Tissue Conference held in Toronto this past weekend! Daphne's talk was entitled: "CTGF is required for chondrogenesis".
  Posted: May 29th, 2007

• Congratulations to Pastor Solano! At a ceremony held in the Great Hall yesterday, May 17th, Pastor was a recipient of the 2007 President's Occupational Health and Safety Award. He was one of eight recognized for their contributions to promoting health and safety in the workplace.
  Posted: May 18th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Laura Bursell successfully defended her Master's of Science thesis today! Laura has worked in the Beier Lab on signaling proteins in cartilage development for the past two years.
  Posted: May 16th, 2007

Laura Kennedy, Laura Bursell, Fak-/- mouse (Daphne Pala) and Mistre Alemayehu following the defense!

• Congratulations to Tom Appleton in the Beier lab for winning a Graduate Student Teaching Award!
  Posted: May 16th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Daphne Pala won Best Oral Presentation at the Canadian Connective Tissue Conference held in Toronto this past weekend! Daphne's talk was entitled: "CTGF is required for chondrogenesis".
  Posted: May 29th, 2007

• Congratulations to Pastor Solano! At a ceremony held in the Great Hall yesterday, May 17th, Pastor was a recipient of the 2007 President's Occupational Health and Safety Award. He was one of eight recognized for their contributions to promoting health and safety in the workplace.
  Posted: May 18th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Laura Bursell successfully defended her Master's of Science thesis today! Laura has worked in the Beier Lab on signaling proteins in cartilage development for the past two years.
  Posted: May 16th, 2007

Laura Kennedy, Laura Bursell, Fak-/- mouse (Daphne Pala) and Mistre Alemayehu following the defense!

• Congratulations to Tom Appleton in the Beier lab for winning a Graduate Student Teaching Award!
  Posted: May 16th, 2007

• Dr. Andrew Leask and the members of the Leask lab have achieved recent recognition. Two of their research papers have been recognized as important contributions by the Faculty of 1000 (Shi-wen et al. Mol Cell Biol, 2006; Chen et al. Am J Pathol, 2005), and a third research article has been designated as 'highly-accessed' by the journal Arthritis Research and Therapy (van Beek et al. Arthritis Res Ther, 2006). Congratulations!
  Posted: April 30th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Andrew Guzi successfully defended his Master's thesis today! Andrew has worked in the Bernier laboratory for the past two years, and is continuing on in Dentistry following his MSc.
  Posted: April 20th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce the following award winners of summer studentships from the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis:
  
  • Aaron Langdon will be working in the Hunter lab on "Protein-crystal interactions in biomineralization"
  • Jennifer Li will be working in the Beier lab on "PPAR-gamma in chondrocyte differentiation"

Posted: April 12th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Laura Kennedy of the Leask lab won an NSERC scholarship in this year's competition. Laura is currently in an MSc program in Physiology.
  Posted: April 10th, 2007

• Congratulations to Jennifer Lam of the Beier lab for winning the Western Athlete of the Year Award!
  Posted: April 10th, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Tom Appleton and Ryan Gillespie, PhD students in the Beier lab, received OGS scholarships in this year's competition.
  Posted: April 10th, 2007

• Congratulations to Daphne Pala (Beier/Leask labs) for her successful MSc defense yesterday!
  Posted: April 3rd, 2007

• Please congratulate Veronica Ulici (Beier Lab) on her successful completion of her PhD comprehensive exams.
  Posted: February 10th, 2007

• Congratulations to Dr. Frank Beier on a recent successful grant application. Dr. Beier has been awarded a 3 year (2007-2010) grant to investigate "Regulation of endochondral bone development by glucocorticoid signaling" valued at $101,855/year.
  Posted: February 1st, 2007

• We are pleased to announce that Ryan Gillespie (Beier Lab) has received a 3-year graduate scholarship from the Canadian Arthritis Network to complete his PhD in Dr. Beier's lab.
  Posted: January 9th, 2007

• Congratulations to Daphne Pala (Beier/Leask Labs) for receiving a Mogenson Travel Award to attend the 2006 American Society of Cell Biology meeting in Dan Diego.
  Posted: January 9th, 2007

• Congratulations to Dr. Frank Beier for receiving the promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure! Frank currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Health and holds an appointment in the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology. This is truly a milestone achievement.
  Posted: December 18th

• Tom Appleton (Beier Lab) sucessfully completed his PhD comprehensive exams on December 15th.
  Posted: December 18th

• Congratulations to Dr. Anita Woods and her supervisor Frank Beier on a successful doctoral thesis defense. The defense took place on December 14th. Dr. Rocky Tuan, visiting from the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, served on Anita's examination committee as external examiner. He also gave a great lecture the following morning. Thanks again to Rocky for this!
  Posted: December 15th

• Congratulations to Monika Lenkiewicz for successfully defending her Master's thesis on December 13th. Congratulations also to her supervisors Suzanne Bernier and Jeff Dixon. Monika's thesis is titled: "Signaling by the Neurokinin-1 Receptor in Rat Chondrocytes".
  Posted: December 14th

• Veronica Ulici (Beier Lab) received a Graduate Thesis Research Award from the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology. Congratulations!
  Posted: December 12th

• Tom Appleton (Beier Lab) also received a Graduate Thesis Research Award from the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology.
  Posted: December 12th

• Congratulations to Gurpreet Baht (Goldberg Lab) for winning a travel award to attend the Canadian Arthritis Network Annual Scientific Meeting held in Winnipeg last week. Gurpreet received his award during the banquet at the end of the meeting on Saturday night.
  Posted: December 8th

• Congratulations to Tom Appleton (Beier Lab) for winning Best Poster at the Canadian Arthritis Network Annual Scientific Meeting held in Winnipeg last week. Tom won in the category of Biological Sciences of the Joint.
  Posted: December 8th

• We are pleased to announce that Holly Dupuis from the Beier lab gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on November 9th! Saydie Wilson Dupuis is now at home with mother and father, happy and healthy. Congratulations to Holly and her new family!
  Posted: November 16th

• Anita and Hanga received their awards at the annual Physiology Stevenson Banquet on Wednesday evening. The banquet and awards cermony were held at the Windermere Manor. Dr. Gerard Karsenty, the Stevenson Lecturer this year, was also present for the awards and is in the photo at left.
  Posted: November 18th

• Erika Hegedues was hooded in the fall 2006 convocation ceremony for successfully completing her Master's degree in Public Administration. Congratulations to Erika for all her hard work! (Right: Erika stands with Dr. Bernier, Dr. Sims, and Dr. Dixon at convocation.)
  Posted: October 23rd

• Veronica Ulici was one of only 5 trainees, and the only trainee traveling from Canada, to be invited to the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons Symposium on Developmental Biology & Orthopaedics. The symposium will be held in Toronto, ON, on October 26th-28th, 2006.
  Posted: October 23rd

• Anita Woods (Beier Lab) has received a Western Graduate Research Award for her trip to the Conference on the Growth Plate, held in Washington, DC this past June.
  Posted: October 23rd

• Congratulations to Anita Woods (PhD - Physiology) in Frank Beier's lab on being this year's recipient of the Gordon Mogenson Award.
  Posted: October 23rd

• This year's Bill Bottom Award recipient is Hanga Agoston (MSc - Physiology) from Frank Beier's Lab. Congratulations Hanga!
  Posted: October 23rd

• Tom Appleton, from the Beier lab, won 'Best Presentation' at the annual Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation meeting last week. The meeting was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ottawa. Congratulations!
  Posted: October 1st

• Congratulations to Pardeep Sidhu of the Sims lab, and his wife, on the successful arrival of their new baby girl Sohila! Sohila was delivered on August 29th at 4pm. We wish Pardeep and his family all the best.
  Posted: August 31st

• Jonathan Gordon successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday. Jonathan has worked in the Goldberg lab during his PhD and celebrated this achievement last night at the Grad Club. Congratulations Jonathan!
  Posted: August 22nd

• Please note that the upcoming Canadian Arthritis Network (CAN) Scientific Conference is approaching. As usual, several members from our group will attend this year. The submission deadline for travel award applications (for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows) is October 23rd. Please visit the CAN website for details - click here.
  Posted: August 22nd

• Daphne Pala, co-supervised in the Leask and Beier labs, was successful in her application for an OGSST scholarship this year. Congratulations Daphne!
  Posted: August 4th

• Congratulations to Jason Rockel in the Bernier Lab for successfully completing his PhD comprehensive exam.
  Posted: July 7th

• Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Leask for receiving a CIHR grant of $81,856/yr for his proposal ' The contribution of endothelin-1 to lung fibrosis in scleroderma'.
  Posted: July 7th

• Congratulations to Hanga Agoston (Beier Lab) who received first prize for her oral presentation at the European Cells & Materials Conference VII in Davos, Switzerland.
  Posted: July 7th

• Successful Defence: Congratulations to Hanga Agoston from the Beier lab. Hanga successfully defended her MSc thesis this past Thursday (June 1st). Hanga will continue on in the Beier lab for the summer.
  Posted: June 7th

• Nattapon Panupinthu, from the Dixon lab, participated in the Canadian connective tissue conference along with several other trainess in the CIHR Group in Skeletal Development & Remodeling this past weekend in Ottawa. After presenting his platform presentation on P2X receptors, Nattapon won the prize for Best Seminar! Congratulations to Nattapon, as well as to Konstantina Karamboulas in the Underhill Lab who won second place for her platform presentation.
  Posted: June 5th

• Having won in his category in research at the Canadian Dentistry Meeting, Jonathan van Beek will represent Canada at the International and American Dental Research Meeting in Brisbane Australia in the Junior Clinical Science Category of the IADR/Unilever Hatton Awards Competition June 27, 2006.  His topic will be: 'The control of CCN2 gene expression by the transcription factor Ets-1'.
  Posted: May 30th

• We are proud to announce that Dr. Stephen Sims has accepted an offer of appointment to the position of Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sims on this milestone.
  Posted: May 20th, 2006

• Tom Appleton in the Beier lab has received a best poster award at the CAN Pre-Clinical Models of Osteoarthritis consensus conference in Montreal.
  Posted: May 21st, 2006

• Congratulations to Tom Appleton in the Beier lab for receiving a travel award to the Canadian Arthritis Network's Consensus Conference on Pre-Clinical Models of Osteoarthritis in Montreal this past week.
  Posted: May 21st, 2006

• Poster rehearsals for CCTC 2006 will be held on Tuesday (May 23rd) in the lunch room at noon. All are encouraged to attend.
  Posted: May 20th, 2006

• Erika Hegedues has been recognized for her important contributions as a Staff member in the CIHR Group in Skeletal Development & Remodeling. She recently received the Dean's Award of Excellence for Staff. Please congratulate Erika on this remarkable achievement.
  Posted: May 15th, 2006

• Congratulations to Tom Appleton in the Beier lab who has received an OGSST scholarship.
  Posted: May 8th, 2006

• The Network for Oral Research Training and Health (NORTH) has announced that it will be funding four summer research students to work in the CIHR Group in Skeletal Development & Remodeling. The following students and their corresponding supervisors will be involved:

- Fahad Cadili (Dr. Frank Beier)

- Jonathan van Beek (Dr. Andrew Leask)

- Jasminka Korcok (Dr. Jeff Dixon)

- Joseph Rogers (Dr. Jeff Dixon)

- Long Tieu (Dr. Graeme Hunter)

The NORTH website can be accessed by clicking here.
Posted: April 26th, 2006

• Congratulations to Adam Taller who has been awarded a Summer Studentship in Musculoskeletal Research from the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA). Adam will be working with Dr. Graeme Hunter this summer.
  Posted: April 26th, 2006

• In the Proof of Principle grants competition, Drs. Harvey Goldberg and Graeme Hunter were highlighted in a recent article for their successful grant application outlining their proposed research into repair and regeneration of bone. See the article here: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/31000.html.
  Posted: April 23rd, 2006

• Congratulations to Hanga Agoston in the Beier Lab for receiving an OGS Scholarship.
  Posted: April 23rd, 2006

• Tom Appleton (Beier Lab) won the Dean's Award for Research Excellence for first place in the Western Research Forum 2006 - Biological Sciences Division.
  Posted: April 21st, 2006

• Jason Rockel (Bernier Lab) has received an OGS scholarship. Congratulations!
  Posted: April 21st, 2006

• Congratulations to Shirine Usmani in the Beier Lab! Shirine won a CIHR Summer Studentship from the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis and will continue working in the Beier lab this summer.
  Posted: April 17th, 2006

• Congratulations to Tom Appleton who won a travel award to the Canadian Arthritis Network's Consensus Conference on Pre-clinical Models of Osteoarthritis 2006.
  Posted: April 17th, 2006

• Congratulations to Anita Woods in the Beier lab for winning a CIHR Doctoral Award.
  Posted: April 17th, 2006