Helminthology Graduate Course

A month has now passed since the close of the Fall Semester or Michaelmas Term, depending upon your vernacular. Over the last four months I coordinated three courses: Genetics & Molecular Biology, part of the DMV undergraduate programme. Advanced Topics in Microbiomes, a graduate course in the Veterinary Medical Sciences (VMS) programme. Helminthology, another graduate … Continue reading Helminthology Graduate Course

Bioinformaticians wanted in Calgary

Bioinformatics Analyst In the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, we're recruiting a Bioinformatics Analyst to support the growing number of bioinformatics and genomics projects undertaken by our researchers. For more details check out the posting. Faculty position in Genomics/Computational Biology The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine is looking for someone to join … Continue reading Bioinformaticians wanted in Calgary

Voluminous Veterinary Medical Sciences

Within the Veterinary Medical Sciences graduate program we are aware of the broad range of research undertaken by students with an even more extensive range of backgrounds (e.g. DVMs, biomedical sciences, ecologists and policy). I carried out my PhD studies in the now defunct Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, part of the University of … Continue reading Voluminous Veterinary Medical Sciences

HPI Bootcamp in the Rockies

Just returned from the first trainee bootcamp under our Host-Parasite Interaction programme. Two days at the University of Calgary's Kananaskis BioGeosciences field station. The focus of the bootcamp was to offer trainees (and indeed faculty) instruction in the important, non-science parts of their research. Kim Barrett, Dean of Graduate Studies at UCSD, kicked us off with … Continue reading HPI Bootcamp in the Rockies

NSERC CREATE programme

Over the summer seven faculty here at the University of Calgary discovered that we'd been awarded one of the prestigious NSERC CREATE programmes. Worth a wee bit under $2million, we are charged with setting up a graduate training programme in host-parasite interactions. In addition to the Calgary based stake-holders (see below) the programme involves a number … Continue reading NSERC CREATE programme