34th Annual Gallie Day 2008

THE GALLIE BATEMAN AWARDS

Oral Research Presentations for best work by a trainee in the Surgeon Scientist Program went to:

1st Prize

Betty Kim (NeurSurg Resident, (Supervisors: Warren C.W. Chan and James T. Rutka)
"Nanoparticle-mediated cellular response is size-dependent"

Benjamin Alman presents first prize to Betty Kim

2nd Prize - three way tie

Kristen Davidge (PlasSurg Resident, Supervisor: Aileen Davis)
"Patient expectations for surgical outcome in extremity soft tissue sarcoma"

William S. Johnson (GenSurg Resident, Supervisor: Thomas F. Lindsay)
"Complement mediated organ dysfunction after ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: Mechanistic evidence from mice and humans"

Isaac Moss (OrthSurg Resident, Supervisors: Kimberly Woodhouse, Cari Whyne, and Albert Yee)
"Biomechanical and biochemical evaluation of a novel hyaluronan/elastin-like polypeptide composite scaffold for nucleus pulposus tissue engineering"

Benjamin Alman (right) presents first prize to Marcelo Cypel (left) and Paul Northcott (centre)

POSTER AWARDS

The McMurrich Award given for the best fundamental science work by any level trainee working with a member of our department.

1st Prize - Tie for first place

Marcelo Cypel (Supervisors: Shaf Keshavjee, Mingyao Liu, and Thomas K. Waddell) "Ex vivo repair of human donor lungs for transplantation" and Paul Northcott (Supervisors: James T. Rutka and Michael D. Taylor).
"Multiple recurrent genetic events converge on control of histone lysine methylation in medulloblastoma"

2nd Prize - Tie for second place

Kathryn Ottolino-Perry (Supervisor: J. Andrea McCart)
"Spheroids: Characterization of oncolytic vaccinia virus infection and anti-tumour effects in 3-dimensional in vitro tumour models"

Amparo Wolf (Supervisor: Abhijit Guha)
"The glycolytic switch suppresses mitochondrial regulation of apoptosis and oxidative phosphorylation in glioblastoma multiforme"

3rd Prize - Five way tie for third place

Yosz Z. Haffani (Supervisor: Carol J. Swallow)
"PLK4 regulates the localization of ECT2 and the activation of RHOA at the spindle midbody to promote cytokinesis"

Carla Rosario (Supervisor: Carol J. Swallow);
"PLK4 haploinsufficiency mediates chromosomal instability and umorigenicity"

Elissa Tepperman (Supervisor: Vivek Rao)
"The effect of calcineurin inhibition on vasomotor function and visfatin expression"

Amy P. Wong (Supervisor: Thomas K. Waddell)
"Identification of a novel epithelial-like bone marrow stem cell that can repopulate the airway epithelium"

Colleen Wu (Supervisor: Benjamin A. Alman)
"Mesenchymal progenitor cells are involved in the formation of aggressive fibromatosis"

The Wyeth Award for best clinical epidemiology or education based research poster was awarded to:

Benjamin Alman (centre) and Sonja Finocchiaro (right), Wyeth Award Representative, presents the Wyeth Award to Karen Cross (left) and Deepa Kattail (not pictured)

1st Prize - Tied

Karen Cross (PlasSurg Resident, Supervisor: Joel S. Fish)
"Redefining the gold standard and establishing a grading system for tissue injury" and Deepa Kattail (Supervisor: Michael G. Fehlings) "The influence of age and comorbidity in the clinical outcomes in patients with acute spine trauma: Experience of a single acute care unit in Ontario"