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

Text Box: what’s new

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.

Text Box: coming up

Sept 8, 2008

Seminar– Dr. Xiao-Qing Dai, “Sumoylation of KV2.1 modulates pancreatic beta-cell excitability” 12:00 pm, 1-040 HRIF East, Lunch Provided

 

August 26, 2008

ADI Research Day

 

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