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Highlights of 2011

Kai Orton, Patrick McMullen and Lada Klaic were awarded their doctoral degrees in June 2011.

Patricija van Oosten Hawle was awarded a IGSB/CBC Fellowship.

Yoko Shibata was awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship.

Laetitia Chauve was given a Fulbright award.

Prajwal Ciryam earned a fellowship from Cambridge for 2011-2012.

Tali Gidalevitz will be taking a faculty position at Drexel University in the fall of 2011.

Meetings Attended by Lab Members in 2011

Patricija van Oosten Hawle gave a talk at the 16th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting held at Northwestern in January 2011 in Evanston. Monica Beam, Eric Guisbert, Janine Kirstein-Miles, Carmen Krammer and Catarina Silva all presented posters.

Peter Winter and Patrick McMullen presented posters at Northwestern's Complexity Conference in March 2011.

In April 2011 Tali Gidalevitz presented a poster at the Chicago Biomedical Consortium Science Day.

Carmen Krammer represented the lab and gave a talk at the Molecular Biosciences Annual Retreat in May 2011 on the Chicago campus.

Eric Guisbert traveled to the University of Notre Dame in May 2011 to give a talk at the 6th Midwest Conference on Protein Folding, Assembly and Molecular Motions in South Bend, IN. Eric also was selected to speak at the Chicago-area Worm Club at UIC in Chicago in May 2011.

Janine Kirstein-Miles and Patricija van Oosten Hawle were selected to give talks at the EMBO conference "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Austria in May 2011.

In June 2011 Carmen Krammer gave a talk at the FASEB summer research conference “The Molecular and Cellular Origins and the Biomedical Consequences ofProtein Aggregation" in Snowmass Village, CO.

Patricija van Oosten Hawle presented a poster at the CCSB P50 Site Visit in July 2011 at the University of Chicago.

Eric Guisbert presented a poster in June 2011 at the GSA Conference - 18th International C elegans Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. In July 2011 Eric participated in “A Celebration of 30 Years of Carol's (Gross) Lab” in Monterey, CA.

In August 2011 Janine Kirstein-Miles will be giving a talk at the CSSI 5th International Congress on Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine in Quebec, Canada.

Highlights of 2010

Peter Winter was named a Predictive Science and Engineering Design Fellow for the fall quarter 2010.

Barbara Calamini was appointed to the NIH training grant "Drug Discovery Training in Age-Related Disorders."

Meetings Attended by Lab Members in 2010

Elise Kikis spoke at the 15th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting in January in Evanston.

Veena Prahlad, Daniel Czyz, Janine Kirstein, Tali Gidalevitz, and Elise Kikis presented posters at the Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Chaperones and Stress Responses meeting in May 2010 in NY.

Carmen Krammer presented a poster at the Jacques Monod Conference "Protein Misfolding and Aggregation in Ageing and Disease" in Roscoff, Brittany, France in June 2010.

Laetitia Chauve presented a poster at the Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function & Behavior C. elegans Topic Meeting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in June 2010.

Catarina Silva and Eric Guisbert presented posters at the FASEB Protein Folding in the Cell summer conference in July 2010.

Laetitia Chauve, Jesper Pedersen, Patricija van Oosten Hawle, Peter Winter and Cindy Voisine presented posters at the Aging, Metabolism, Stress, Pathogenesis, and small RNAs in C. elegans Topic Meeting in August 2010.

Patricija van Oosten Hawle spoke at the 5th International Conference on the Hsp90 Chaperone Machine in Switzerland in September 2010.

Janine Kirstein was invited to give seminars at University of Konstanz, MPI Cologne, ZMBH Heidelberg, and Free University of Berline in November 2010.

In July 2010 Patrick McMullen presented a poster at the National Centers of Systems Biology Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.

Peter Winter presented a poster at the C. elegans Aging, Metabolism, Pathogenesis, Stress, and Small RNAs Topic Meeting in Madison, WI in August 2010.

At the IBiS Annual Retreat in September 2010, Peter Winter, Daniel Czyz and Laetitia Chauve presented posters.

At the Chicago Biomedical Consortium's 8th Annual Symposium in October 2010, Barbara Calamini, Tali Gidalevitz, Eric Guisbert, Janine Kirstein-Miles and Carmen Krammer presented posters.

Barbara Calamini was chosen to speak at the November 2010 meeting of the Molecular Biology Club in Evanston.

Meetings Attended by Lab Members in 2009

Elise Kikis spoke at the 14th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting in January in Evanston.

Daniel Czyz won "Best Poster" at the 14th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting in January in Evanston.

Jesper Pedersen participated in the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in February in Boston.

Eric Guisbert presented a poster at the Keystone Symposium on Neurodegenerative Diseases: New Molecular Mechanisms" in February in Keystone, CO. Eric was also the recipient of a travel scholarship from Keystone Symposia.

Janine Kirstein spoke at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May. She is also the recipient of a YFT Travel Grant.

Patricija van Oosten Hawle spoke at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May. She is also the recipient of a YFT Travel Grant.

Elise Kikis presented a poster at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May.

Tali Gidalevitz spoke at the 13th Congress of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology in Quebec in May. She also spoke at the EMBO-FEBS meeting "The Biology of Molecular Chaperones" in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May.

Daniel Czyz won "Best Poster in Stress and Aging" at the 17th International C elegans Meeting at UCLA in June.

Barbara Calamini, Cindy Voisine, and Sandy Westerheide will be presenting posters at the Gordon Research Conference "Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease" in Andover, NH in June.

Jesper Pedersen spoke at the Benzon Symposium No. 56 "Functional and Pathogenic Protein Aggregation" in Copenhagen in August.

Meetings Attended by Lab Members in 2008

Sandy Westerheide and Veena Prahlad were chosen to give talks at the 13th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting.

Veena Prahlad, Cindy Voisine, Ning Wang, Barbara Calamini, Tali Gidalevitz, and Elise Kikis presented posters at the Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Chaperones and Stress Responses meeting.

Anna Svensson participated in the Mass Spectrometry meeting in Denver.

Tali Gidalevitz spoke at the Longevity Consortium Symposium in Boulder.

Cindy Voisine, Janine Kirstein, Patricija van Oosten-Hawle, and Jesper Pedersen attended the C. elegans Aging, Stress, Heterochrony, and Pathogenesis Meeting in Madison.

Sandy Westerheide spoke at the Jacques Monod Conference on HSF in Brittany.

Anat Ben-Zvi presented a poster at FASEB's Protein Folding in the Cell meeting in Vermont.

Meetings Attended by Lab Members in 2007

Cindy Voisine gave a talk at the annual meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology in Washington, D.C. in 2007.

Anna Svensson participated in the International Consortium on Superoxide Dismutase & Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 2007 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in October.

Elise Kikis, Monica Beam and Catarina Silva participated in the 6th Leonard Berg Symposium, Novel Therapies for Protein Misfolding Disorders in September.

Elise Kikis and Monica Beam presented posters the HDSA 11th Annual Scientific / Coalition Meeting in October in Boston .

Anat Ben-Zvi, Tali Gidalevitz, Cindy Voisine, and Catarina Silva presented posters at the 16th International C. elegans Meeting in Los Angeles in July.

Cindy Voisine gave a talk entitled "Chaperone Networks Influencing Protein Misfolding and Aggregation in C. elegans" in the Systems Biology Session at the 21st Annual Symposium of The Protein Society in Boston.

Anat Ben-Zvi and Cindy Voisine travelled to Budapest to give talks at the 3rd Congress of the Cell Stress Society International in August.

Sandy Westerheide and Veena Prahlad went to Oxford to present posters in August at the Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease Gordon Research Conference.