To celebrate everyone's hard work over the last couple of months we took part in a Heist
Thanks to some very clever people in the lab, we successfully completed this escape room game (despite “helpful” contributions from the PI)
Big congratulations to MacKenzie Sarvis for being awarded the CIHR-CGS-M and for being accepted into the Visual and Automated Disease Analytics Graduate Training Program!
We are really proud of all of MacKenzie’s hard work!
Welcome to Danielle Johnson, who will be joining the lab as a Mitacs-Globalink UK-Canada PhD exchange student!
Danielle will be joining us remotely from the UK to perform a systematic review of the use of polygenic risk scores in the field of pharmacogenomics.
The Drögemöller and Wright labs receive Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowships for their Graduate Training and Collaborative Research in Neurogenomics and Precision Medicine application
This funding has been provided to support a collaboration between the University of Manitoba and Stellenbosch University in South Africa to develop (i) a genomics analysis pipeline for the improved diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases in Manitoba and South Africa and (ii) workshops aimed at training graduate students in Neurogenomics & Precision Medicine at the University of Manitoba, Canada and Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
MacKenzie Sarvis is officially the first graduate student in the Drögemöller lab!
MacKenzie will be working on developing a polygenetic risk score to predict chemotherapy-induced ototoxicity (hearing loss) and using drug repurposing analyses to identify otoprotectants to prevent this debilitating adverse drug reaction.
Welcome to Sarah Lyle, who will be joining the lab for her Genetics Honours project!
Sarah will be using transcriptome-wide association analyses to identify genes that contribute to polycystic ovary syndrome.