Biology and Life Sciences

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Letter from the Chair, Dr. Jennifer Gommerman – Volume 12 Issue 2, 2024

Yuriy Baglaenko Biology and Life Sciences, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science, Policy and Politics
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Frederick Banting Nobel Laureate Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin with Charles Best, says something that we must embrace as Canadian Scientists. In this issue of IMMpress we have lots to be proud of as Canadian Scientists. We punch above our weight class (and...

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Letter from the Editors – Volume 12 Issue 2, 2024

Yuriy Baglaenko Biology and Life Sciences, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science, Policy and Politics
Autumn has arrived, and as the maple leaves turn a vibrant red, we are thrilled to bring you this latest issue of IMMpress Magazine, dedicated to the rich and diverse landscape of Canadian immunology. Canadians from sea to sea are making significant strides in the field of immunology every day, and so in this issue,...

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Alison Lohans: On the Magic of Making Art

L. E. Carmichael Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science
Welcome to Cantastic Authorpalooza, featuring posts by and about great Canadian children’s book creators! Today’s guest: Alison Lohans. Take it away, Alison! Creating new things. Sometimes beautiful things. We rarely know the deep origins, or why a particular “something” begins to wiggle, and then morph into a new creative work. Ever since high school, already...

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Welcome back to my sabbatical blogs as I revive the research that I put on the back burner in December 2019

Dawn Bazely Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science
In March 2020 university campuses the world over closed when the World Health Organization officially declared that the SARS-cov-2 virus, and the disease that it causes, Covid-19 were a pandemic. Scientists and members of the public health sector came together in an amazing spirit of collaboration that brought us vaccines in a very short amount...

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A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT for graduate students

Various bloggers Biology and Life Sciences, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science
Image courtesy https://www.flickr.com/photos/thibaultj/ Completing a PhD involves more than hard work; it exemplifies the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. While this is true, it is important to recognize that each component significantly contributes to the outcome. Researchers now have access to various tools, from PCR machines to sophisticated...

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Recit de voyage : Des microbes à London

Le Beagle - CSBQ Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
Par Simon Morvan, Post-doctorant à l’Institut National de Recherche Scientifique Du 24 au 26 juin avait lieu la conférence de la Société canadienne des microbiologistes à London, Ontario. Cet évènement annuel rassemble la plupart des laboratoires canadiens pour discuter de sujets variés telles que l’écologie, les biotechnologies ou l’immunologie. Bâtiment gothique du Middlesex College sur...

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At the 154th Annual American Fisheries Society Symposium

fRI Research Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences
The Water and Fish Program presented at the 154th annual American Fisheries Society Symposium in Honolulu. The 2024 symposium theme was, “Conserving Fishes and Fishing traditions Through Knowledge Co-Production,” and it did a great job of showcasing the long relationship and knowledge that indigenous people of Hawai’i have had with the waters and fish surrounding...

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