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March has come again and it is the start of another busy year of conferences for the lab. Rachel, Natalie, and Brennan have just returned from the Keystone “Cancer Metastasis: The role of metabolism, immunity, and the microenvironment” meeting in Florence, Italy! The meeting included some fantastic scientific talks, researchers from across the globe, and of course access to fantastic Italian pizza! http://www.keystonesymposia.org/index.cfm?e=Web.Meeting.Program&meetingid=1597&subTab=program

More great Bennewith Lab news for March - we have a new lab member! Welcome to the lab Lisa Decotret! Lisa will be joining us from Dr. Catherine Pallen’s lab where she was conducting her research on invadopodia. Lisa will come into the lab as an expert on tumour cell migration.

Officially DOCTOR Elizabeth Halvorsen!!! Congratulations!!! Liz officially defended her PhD thesis this Thursday and became the first PhD to come out of the Bennewith lab. Liz will be starting at Zymeworks just down the street this summer, we are going to seriously miss her in the lab, but of course this day was about celebration! Way to go Liz!

#PhD #ThesisDefence #UBC

Bennewith Lab was at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference hosted here in Vancouver this past November! Here is Brennan with his poster on perfusion modifying drugs and how they affect solid tumour oxygenation. This meeting was a great exposure to all of the great research going on across Canada. Cheers!

Welcome to the new members of the Bennewith lab!!! Rachel is joining the lab as a graduate student in the department of Pathology and Laboratory medicine, and Alvina is joining for her undergraduate thesis.

Wow summer flew by! The lab has been kept busy prepping for CIHR grant submissions, but we still found some time for the annual trip to Nat Bailey Stadium to watch the Vancouver Canadians! Here is a picture from the Bennewith lab trip to the ball game last month. Side note, Vancouver won the Northwest League Championship this year -way to go C’s!!!

Summer is about halfway gone and it has been a busy few months for the Bennewith lab!

Natalie and Elizabeth presented posters at the BC Cancer Agency Research Day in June, Elizabeth also presented a speed talk.

Just days later Natalie hopped over to Toronto to join Brennan, and other trainees from across Canada, at the Strategic Training in Transdisciplinary Radiation Science (STARS21) scholar program’s annual research day. STARS21 is a program that connects research trainees across Canada who work in a diverse set of fields related to radiation science. The research day includes poster presentations - and hey, both Natalie and Brennan won the awards this year! Way to go Bennewith lab!

And last but not least, a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Natalie on receiving a CIHR doctoral award! Time to start picking out some travel locations for that research allowance : )

The UBC department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine held its annual research day last Friday. Pathology Day is a very interdisciplinary meeting with many researchers joining from each of the BC Cancer Research Centre, the Vancouver Prostate Centre, the UBC Centre for Brain Health, iCORD (International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries building), BC Children’s Research Hospital, St. Paul’s Research Hospital, the Centre for Blood Research, and more. Needless to say, this is a great opportunity to network with local researchers to learn about how those in parallel biomedical fields conduct their research and address their experimental questions. Pathology Day is also an opportunity to present our Bennewith Lab research. This year both Natalie and Brennan presented posters - and continuing with our lab success at this meeting, BOTH Natalie and Brennan were awarded poster presentation prizes! Congrats to both!

Conference season is here! The hypoxia-focused lab members were off to sunny Miami Beach this past weekend for the 15th annual Tumor Microenvironment Workshop. This is a meeting of about 100 scientists interested in hypoxia and tumor microenvironment research. Both Natalie and Brennan attended the conference and presented their research on lymph node hypoxia and non-invasive solid tumour perfusion imaging respectively. In recognition of her great presentation, Natalie was awarded a conference junior investigator award - CONGRATS Natalie!!!! : ) The conference flew by so fast I didn’t think to get a picture of us, so here is a shot of beach just behind the conference venue. http://www.bccrc.ca/dept/ic/radiation-biology-unit/kevin-bennewith

http://www.bccrc.ca/dept/ic/radiation-biology-unit/brennan-wadsworth

Bennewith Lab Scholarships!

The Bennewith lab graduate students continue to get stipend scholarships! Congratulations to lab member Brennan Wadsworth on receiving a CIHR Doctoral Scholarship!!! Brennan is in his third year of PhD study with the Bennewith lab.

To cap off the attendance of some Bennewith Lab members at the Keystone Autoimmunity research conference held in Whistler, BC, was an afternoon up on the beautiful Whistler mountain ski resort! After rain for much of the conference, the sun came out on Thursday to make for a great day of skiing/snowboarding on some fresh snow, not to mention the fantastic views everywhere that you look when on the mountain. : ) Jenna, Elizabeth, and Liz all presented at the conference, while Natalie and Brennan made a day trip up to Whistler to join for the ski day! (Top two pictures are Natalie, Jenna, and Brennan)

Congratulations to the new Master of Science, Ada Young!!! Earlier this month Ada successfully defended her MSc thesis on the topic of radiation-induced cell migration. Ada has been an incredibly important piece of the Bennewith lab since the Fall of 2014, truly taking care of the rest of us with her help in the lab, help in trouble shooting experiments, being the main supplier of the office snack shelf (come back Ada we are out of Oreos!!), and always being available for an afternoon coffee break. We will certainly miss Ada, but we wish her the best with her new position at Zymeworks just down the street in Vancouver. Congrats Ada!!!!!

Promotion!!!!

Congratulations to our lab leader Dr. Kevin Bennewith on the approval of his tenure application and his concomitant promotion to Associate Professor! This is a fantastic milestone for the lab and a cause for celebration both for Kevin and everyone who has contributed their efforts towards the Bennewith Lab research. Here’s looking forward to continued success, congratulations Kevin!!

Pathology Day 2016 at VGH

L-R: Liz Halvorse, Jenna Collier, Ada Young, Brennan Wadsworth, Elizabeth S. Franks (missing Natalie Firmino :( ).

A number of students from our lab presented their research during the poster session or oral presentation segment for this annual day conference. Geared towards graduate students, post doctoral fellows and resident students in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pathology Day is a great way for everyone to showcase their research interests, set up collaborations and really showcase the diverse research interests within the Pathology department!

Bennewith Lab Publication announcement

Congratulations to Brennan Wadsworth!

1) Not only has he successfully passed his PhD comprehensive exam but

2) Has published his first, first author paper titled: “2-18F-Fluoroethanol is a novel positron emission tomography (PET) reporter of solid tumour perfusion” in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, in collaboration with the Dr. Francois Bernard’s Lab here at the BCCRC!

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Bennewith!

Dr. Kevin Bennewith is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring (mid-career category). We are extremely proud of our supervisor’s accomplishments and his commitment to mentoring graduate students at all levels of study. His passion is inspiring and this award is a testimony to the wonderful work that he is doing not only in research but also as a role model for students looking to establish their careers in the health sciences!

Congratulations to our lab members!

Graduate students from our lab have been awarded fellowships!

Liz Halvornse: Li Tze Fong Memorial Fellowship (Tri-Agency/Affiliated Fellowship competition)

Natalie Firmino: The Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Fellowship (Tri-Agency/Affiliated Fellowship competition) AND The Strategic Training in Transdisciplinary Radiation Science for the 21st Century (STARS21) Scholarship

Jenna Collier: Water C. Koerner Fellowship (Tri-Agency/Affiliated Fellowship competition)

Congratulations to our graduate students!

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