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Dr. Patrick MacDonald, Canada Research Chair in Islet Biology, CDA and AHFMR Scholar, Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. tel. (780)492-8063. pmacdonald@pmcol.ualberta.ca

July 11, 2008

New funding from the CDA through an Innovation grant to study the role of SUMOylation in insulin secretion and exocytosis.

July 8, 2008

A sad farewell to Gary, who has left us for an industry position as Staff Scientist with Iogen Corporation in Ottawa . Good luck Gary!

June 20, 2008

New funding from NSERC to support our biophysical work on K+ channels, and renewed funding from the CDA to support our PI3 kinase project! And we’re still soliciting applications from prospective postdoctoral researchers!

Apr 29, 2008

Welcome! To Aliya, Jelena and Wayne who are joining us as Summer Students this year!

Apr 22, 2008

A new postdoc advert posted with the American Physiological Society can be seen here.

Apr 1, 2008

Congratulations! To Jelena Kolic who received an AHFMR Summer Studentship.

Jan 17, 2008

Several sections of the website have been updated (and it’s about time). We’ve updated the projects and the lab pages! And I’d still like to hear from prospective postdocs, particularly in regards to the exocytosis and alpha-cell projects.

July 25, 2008

Islet Signalling Group Seminar– Dr. Christian Rosker, “The role of type 2 RyRs in the pancreatic cell line RINmF5“ 12:00 HRIF East, 5th Floor Seminar Room

August 15, 2008

Deadline for applications for the ADI Studentships

August 22, 2008

Deadline for abstract submission to the ADI Research Day

August 23, 2008

Seminar– Dr. Martin Stebbing, RMIT University, Australia “Pain, microglia, diabetes and cardiac dysfunction” 12:00 PM, Rm. 207 HMRC