On June 28 celebrate the International Day of Models of Human Diseases! Let's find a cure for diseases by 2030! Get involved and participate in the
Models of Human Diseases
2nd International Annual Conference
"Better models for better drugs!"
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Date: June 28, 201
On-site location: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle
Please check our new website at:
www.mhdconference.com
Free registration and abstract submission, free publication of abstracts in two online journals and postconference peer review in Faculty of 1000!
Models of Human Diseases Conference is a forum for scientific exchange that gathers scientists from around the globe who use model organisms (rodents, yeast, Drosophila, C. elegans, zebra fish, chicken, Dictyostelium, snail, crayfish, etc.) or cells to understand various diseases. It covers 18 major disease categories, as listed on the submit poster page. The key objective of this initiative is to generate better models of diseases that will lead to better understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of disease and ultimately to advancement in basic science and more efficient testing of novel therapeutics.
This initiative is intended to facilitate international collabo-ration among scientists and clinicians from academic insti-tutions, biotech and the pharmaceutical industry, clinical research organizations, and patient advocacy groups. It leads to the establisment of affiliations around the globe, that will allow for joint initiatives such as common applications for research grants and sharing of resources.
The first international annual conference of Models of Human Diseases took place in Toronto on June 29, 2010. Participants from 12 countries submitted 90 posters and over 200 participants were onsite in Toronto.
Please register your attendance and submit your poster for the 2011 conference. The online conference is ongoing.
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Onsite submission: The deadline for poster submission for the onsite (Toronto) conference is June 15, 2011. Please submit a word document with title, authors, affiliations, an abstract, and the disease category (listed below) to modelsofdiseases_gmail.com You can download instructions here.
We accept posters that were previously presented as long as this is acknowledged and specified in your submission. At your request your poster will be published in in the Frontiers in Neuroscience Journal and in the Faculty of 1000.
Online submission: Poster submission and viewing for the online conference is ongoing. Please submit your poster at http://www.vetbiotech.com/posters.php All posters can be viewed on the Veterinary Bioscience Institute webs ite at http://www.vetbiotech.com/resources.php and Faculty of 1000 http://posters.f.1000.com/PosterList?conflD+43.
The aim of Models of Human Diseases is to establish a network of laboratories for all 18 disease categories. Even if you do not submit a poster you can still participate in the onsite conference and you can have access to the online forum hosted by the Veterinary Bioscience Institute by registering your lab in one of the disease categories and by joining our Linkedin group Models of Human Diseases Consortium. Our database has reached 2,100 labs and over 10,000 members worldwide and is growing rapidly.
Prizes for best posters onsite and online offered by our sponsors Abcam, NEB Biolabs, and Mettler Toledo/Rainin!
Abstract instructions
Examples of submissions:
Cancer Szymaska H, Piskorowska J, Krysiak E, Skurzak H.M. Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Unique congenic mouse strain B10.BN H2bp1 with at mutation highly susceptible to spontaneous T-cell lymphoma
Cancer
Cardiovascular
Dermatological
Diabetes
Digestive
Endocrine
Genetics
Genito-Urinary
Haematological
Immune
Infectious
Metabolic
Musculo-Skeletal
Neurological
Neurodegenerative
Other
Respiratory
Sensorial
Cardiovascular Rosalind Silverman-Gavrila, Lorelei Silverman-Gavrila, Guangpei Hou, Ming Zhang, Milton Charlton, Michelle P. Bendeck, University of Toronto, Canada
Rear polarization of the MTOC in neointimal smooth muscle cells depends on PKC, ARPC5, and RHAMM
Diabetes/Endocrine Balderman S, Ahmed B, de Papp Z, Mead K, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rochester, USA
A case of malignant Insulinoma
Digestive Abbas Karbassian, Department of Biology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Mouse Models of Liver Diseases
Genetics Yoichi Gondo, Ryutaro Fukumura, Takuya Murata, Shigeru Makino, RIKEN BioResource Center Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan
Next-generation gene targeting in the mouse with ENU mutant mouse library for human disease modeling
Genetics /Genito-Urinary Gavrila, University of Bucharest, Romania
A mouse model of human infertility
Haematological Strzakowska A, Unrug K, Bluszcz A, Sandowska-Markiewicz Z, Karaszewska J, Pyniak M, Gajewska M, Wirth-Dzięcioowska E. The Maria-Sklodowska Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warszaw, Poland
Quantitative trait loci analysis for peripheral blood parameters in a (BALB/cW x C57BL/6J-Mplhlb219/J) F2 mice
Immune Govindarajan Thangavelu, Richard R.E. Uwiera, and Colin C. Anderson, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
PD-1 prevents lethal autoimmunity during establishment of homeostasis in recent thymic emigrants: A new model for multi-organ autoimmunity
Infectious Sulie L. Chang, Director of Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA
Ethanol-induced FOS Immunoreactivity in Dopaminergic Neurons of HIV-1 Transgenic Rats
Metabolic Janice Lyn, Wida Naik, Vadim Aksenov, Zillon LeBlanc, C. David Rollo Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Development of the cricket Acheta domestica as a new model for aging research.
Musculo-skeletal Zvaritch E, Kraev N, Kraev A, MacLennan D.H. University of Toronto, Canada
Phenotypic Variability and Pathogenesis in RYR1-related myopathies: Insights from a Mouse Model of Central Core Disease
Musculo-skeletal Di Certo MG., Corbi N., Strimpakos G. , Luvisetto S., Severini C., Onori A. Pisani C., Passananti C., Mattei E. Transgenic Laboratory - Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, CNR ROMA, Italy
Animal models to validate the use of new small synthetic transcription factors in the gene therapy of muscle dystrophies.
Neurological Miller J, Horvath S, Geschwind D, U of California, Los Angeles, USA
Gene co-expression of similarities and difference between human and mouse brain
Neurological Arregi, A., Garmendia, L., Gómez-Lázaro, E., Beitia, G., Vegas, O., and Azpiroz, A. Basque Country University, Spain
Individual differences in response to chronic social stress as a model of vulnerability to mood disorders
Neurological A Chassagneux1, O. Nachon2, S. Patchala1, S. Moghadam1, R. Garcia2, J. Yesavage1, A. Salehi1 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Medical School/ VA Palo Alto Health Care System, USA 2Laboratory of Neurobiology and Psychotraumatology, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Tetanic Stimulation of Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Facilitation of Extinction Recall in Rodents is Linked to Increased Expression of NR2B Receptors and Synaptic Densities: Possible Implication for PTSD
Neurodegenerative Morwood K, Stewart-Cox J, Manfredi G, Weter M, Ward A, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Generation of conditional transgenic mouse models for development of Alzheimer's therapeutics.
Neurodegenerative Veronica F. Colomer Gould, PhD, Departamento de Fisiología, Biofísica y Neurociencias, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México
Mouse model of Machado-Joseph disease,or spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (MJD/SCA3)
Respiratory V. McM. Carr, A.M. Robinson, and R.C.Kern Dept. of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Development of a murine model for induced allergic rhinitis and responses in the olfactory and respiratory epithelia
Sensorial J Tuo, C Bojanowski, D Shen, R Ross, M Zhou, Z Zhuang, X Cao, M Liu, C Chan, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Progressive Focal Retinal Degeneration in Ccl2/Cx3cr1 Double Deficient Mice with Pathological Features of Human Age-Related Macular Degeneration
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Models of Human Diseases is an environmentally friendly conference.
2010 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
8:30 am Registration, Refreshments, Exhibitor displays, Poster set-up
9:00 am Dr. Catharine Whiteside, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Welcome message
Dr. Rosalind Silverman and Dr. Lorelei Silverman, University of Toronto
Introduction
9:15 am Dr. Lee Adamson -Keynote speaker, Director, Mouse Physiology Core, Centre for Modeling Human Disease; Principal Investigator, Samuel
Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital; Professor, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Toronto.
A decade of ENU mutagenesis at the Centre for Modeling Human Disease: Successes and lessons learned
10:00 am Dr. Michelle Bendeck, Professor Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Using a mouse model to study inflammation, fibrosis and calcification of atherosclerosis
10:30 am Dr. Szczepan Baran, President and COO, Veterinary Bioscience Institute, USA
Rodent laparoscopy refinement for rodent model development of renal, testicular and hepatic laparoscopic implantation of neoplastic cells
11:00 am Coffee break, Refreshments, Exhibitor displays
11:15 am Non-Rodent Models of Diseases
Dr. Milton Charlton, Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto
Squid, Frog, Crayfish, and Drosophila models in Neuroscience
11:45 am Dr. Zhong-Ping Feng, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto
Lymnaea stagnalis, a multitalented model in integrative neurophysiology
12:00 am Dr. Thomas Koch, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Equine umbilical cord blood stem cell and tissue engineering based therapies using the horse as a pre-clinical animal model of orthopedic
problems
12:15 pm Lunch, Exhibitor displays/ Poster viewing and judging
1:15 pm Dr. Richard Hegele, Chair Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto- Afternoon session opening message
1:20 pm Dr. John Wallace, Director, Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Studying human GI inflammation and ulceration using rodent models
1:50 pm Dr. Jeffrey Henderson, Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, U of Toronto, Director, Murine Imaging and Histology Facility
Development of interactive surgical and multimodal atlases of the mouse CNS: Toward Integrative Neuroanatomic Measures
2:20 pm Dr. Jack Uetrecht, Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, U. of Toronto
Animal models to understand and ultimately prevent idiosyncratic drug reactions
2:50 pm Dr. David Rollo, Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Aging and development of successful dietary interventions: Lessons from transgenic growth hormone mice that express a
of accelerated aging
3:20 pm Coffee break, Refreshments, Exhibitor displays
3:35 pm Dr. Adam Karpf, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Buffalo, USA
DNA methylation in a murine prostate cancer model
4:05 pm Dr. Levon Khachigian, Director, UNSW Centre for Vascular Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Immediate-early genes as master regulators in a wide range of vascular disorders
5:00 pm Non-Rodent Models of Diseases
Dr. Joseph Culotti, Principal Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto
C. elegans as a model for gene discovery in the development and function of the nervous system
5:15 pm Dr. Ronald Pearlman, University Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, York University, Toronto
The Ciliate protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila as an important animal model organism
5:30 pm Dr. Corey Nislow, Assistant Professor, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Toronto
Gene-dose assays for drug discovery in yeast and man
5:45 pm Dr. Maurice Ringuette, Professor, Cell and Systems Biology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto
The use of multiple model organisms to reveal the complex structural and regulatory contributions of an extracellular matrix protein during
normal and pathological development
6:00 pm Dr. Joffre Mercier Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, Associate Dean, Faculty of Math & Science
Drosophila as a model system for studying neuropeptides and endocrine regulation
6:15 pm Closing remarks and gift certificate draw
6:30 pm Awards reception
7:15 pm Dinner with the speakers (by invitation only)
"On behalf of the Faculty of Medicine, I am pleased to enthusiastically congratulate the organizers of the First International Annual Conference of Models of Human Disease on this great achievement. To Drs. Lorelei and Rosalind Silverman and their faculty supervisors Professors Milton Charlton and Michelle Bendeck, many thanks for your creative development of this outstanding project. Sponsored by the CIHR and many other contributors, this conference has attracted investigators and students from across the globe who share significant interest in animal models of human disease. In the era of personalized medicine, we look to the translation of molecular and cellular mechanisms of disease into innovative bedside applications. The necessary intermediate step is the study of animal models in which the manipulation of genes, proteins, cells and systems to fully understand how human diseases are generated. This approach enables the testing of new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions that provide important new directions in health care. May I wish all the participants success in networking and establishing new opportunities for collaboration during this conference. I hope you also enjoy Toronto and our wonderful University of Toronto campus."
Dr. Catharine Whiteside, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FCAHS, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
"On behalf of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology of the University of Toronto, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all attendees of the First International Annual Conference of Models of Human Diseases. The origins of this International Conference can be attributed to the tireless efforts of two sisters, Drs. Lorelei and Rosalind Silverman, who work, respectively, as a Research Associate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Physiology (Supervisor: Dr. Milton Charlton) and as a Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Supervisor: Dr. Michelle Bendeck). Earlier this year, Lorelei and Rosalind organized what has become a popular and highly successful seminar series on Animal Models of Human Disease at the University of Toronto, and for this International Conference the scope has been extended to also include cellular models.The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the major federal funding body of biomedical research in Canada, has provided financial support for this International Conference in the form of a competitive award, and the engagement of additional sponsors is a testament to the broad relevance and potential impact of this area of research. The ability for interested individuals from around the world to engage in information and knowledge exchange in models of human disease is timely. People at all levels of expertise and experience stand to benefit from participating in the discourse and exploring new opportunities to form or strengthen research collaborations. Sincerest best wishes for an exciting, stimulating and successful meeting".
Dr. Richard G. Hegele, MD, FRCPC, PhD, Professor and Chair Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto
"Dear Lorelei and Rosalind, I wish you the best of luck with your conference.Regards,"
Dr. Mario Capecchi, Nobel Prize Laureate, Distinguished Professor, Human Genetics and Biology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, U of Utah School of Medicine
"All the best in your exciting conference!"
Dr. Avrum Gotlieb, Interim Vice Dean, Research and International Relations, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
"Looks great !Fantastic job !This is an amazing project and it would be a pleasure and an honour to be part of it. It is also great to work with someone that is so passionate about what they are doing."
Dr. Szczepan Baran, President and COO, Veterinary Bioscience Institute, Harleyville, PA, USA
"Congratulations on your very successful Models of Disease Conference. I am delighted to learn of the positive feedback. The Faculty celebrates your commitment and ingenuity. You are wonderful role models for our students. May I wish you both every continuing success.Kind regards,"
Dr. Catherine Whiteside, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, U of Toronto
"Dear Rosalind & Lori, I wanted to thank you for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at your conference. It was a great honour. I really enjoyed the whole day of talks- such an interesting variety! I thought the whole day was fabulous. I really liked the organization and pride of all your volunteers too - they were wonderful!Thanks again,"
Dr. Lee Adamson, Professor,Director, Mouse Physiology Core, Centre for Modeling Human Disease; Principal Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
"My compliments to you and your committee regarding the recent Models of Human Disease Symposium.The day was extremely well organized and a strong program. All involved deserve credit for an excellent event. All of the topics were excellent and were of interest.""
Dr. Ronald Pearman, Vice-Dean York University
" Good luck on your meeting! It sounds fascinating!"
Dr. Roger, Lew, Prefessor, York University
"Congratulations on organizing this interesting conference. Regards,"
Dr. Paul Walfish, Mount Sinai Hospital
"Good luck with the conference!"
Dr. Greg Vanlerberghe, Chair Biological Sciences Department, University of Toronto at Scarborough
"I wish you the best for this meeting!''
Dr. Angela Lange, Vice Dean, University of Toronto-Mississauga
"I wish you much success!"
Dr. Scott Abrams, Rosswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA
"Good luck for a great event. "
Sina Zere, Program Manager McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health"
"Thank you for this fabulous invitation. What an important initiative you are spearheading!"
Leslie Greenberg, Director, Strategy at Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
"I just wanted to thank you guys and congratulate you on your first conference. The talks were very informative and thought provoking.
Andres Suarez, University of Toronto
"Hi Rosalind and Lorelei, I would like to thank you for organizing the successful conference. The talks were informative and the event was interesting and fun. My only regret was having to leave early to catch my flight. Thank you again for the stimulating conference and best wishes,"
Lara Gushulak,Biochemistry and Medical Genetics,University of Manitoba
"Thanks to you for providing such an exciting opportunity and the makings of a fantastic day. Wishing you many more of the same in future."
Dr. Mark Gertner
"I read that there will be an online forum about human diseases. That would be wonderful. I am a veterinarian from the authority in Berlin, Germany that is
responsible for the authorisation of animal experiments. I know that many scientists and authority members here would be very happy to have an information platform on human disease models. Is it possible to participate in the forum? Will the ppts from the conference be available online soon? Best regards,"
Kathrin Herrmann
"Dear Lorelei and Rosiland, Thanks to you and the others for putting on a wonderful conference. Best regards,"
Dr. Adam Karpf, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA
"Thank you again for the opportunity to speak at your conference. When you put two Drs Silvermans together, amazing things get done. You had a rather remarkable team as well."
Dr. David Rollo, McMaster University
"It was a certainly superb symposium."
Dr. Levon Khachigian, U of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Catharine Whiteside
Dr. Richard Hegele
Dr. Mario Capecchi
Dr. Avrum Gotlieb
Dr. Greg Vanlerberghe
Organizing committee for the 2011 Conference
Dr. Lorelei Silverman and Dr. Rosalind Silverman, co-chairs U Toronto, Canada
Dr. Mingyao Liu, CIHR grant co-applicant, session leader
Poster judges: Dr. Gabriela Novak, Dr. Antonio Rocca, Dr. Ruth Warre, Dr. Guangpei Hou, Dr. Lloyd Berger, Dr. Hong Sun, Dr. Hamid Raziee, Dr. Nagina Parmar
Dr. Ruth Warree, newsletter
Hasan Bilal, database coordinator, work study student Joanna Dida, on-site conference organization team leader, work study student
Toofan Ghaznawi, fundraising leader, work study student Ehsan Movasaghi, travel and catering team leader, treasurer, work study student
Nada Hussain, registration leader, work study student Ghazal Fazli, secretary, past work study student
Morrison Steel, online poster team leader Chan Mi Lee, conference advertisement team leader
Diana Grossi IT team leader, work study
U of Toronto volunteers for database, poster distribution, and fundraising
Swati Agnihotri, Anastasiya Sivkova, Nardeen Kodous, Ahmed Bilal, Li Ma, Ayesha Sidddiqua, Chentila Nagamuthu, Nancy Shukla, Ray Ahn, Khrisha Alphonsus, Krishana Sankar, Ayman Hussain, Dana Novotny, Monica Abdemasih, Karen Britto, Mark Wan, Lucy Duan, Josh Lopes, David Wang, Moshe Praver, Dawit Tessema, Ashley Ross, Lisa Tran, Isabella Au, Sameena Vadivelu, Dhruva Thaker, Ami Patel, Mengxi Dong, Thiviyanah Sellathurai, Marzena Serwin, Harshika Seepany, Jing Li, Hasan Abdullah, Neda Raji, Amir Ghaznawi, Amir Aryaan , Khalida Aram, Tahsin Khan, Trincy Jewelica, Yasmeen Ali
IT consultants: Emil Solomon, Yousef Elsayed, Omer Ali, Eric Castro, Luis Gaertner, Sukhdeep Parmar, Dr. Kwokyin Hui, Rene Parshad
Life science and medical consultants: Dr. Mohammad Yousuf, Salma Al-Shahabi, Dr. Xerma Kennedy
Science engagement students: Mohammad Saad Yousuf, Jonathan Chan, Kowuthamie Tharmakulasingam, Ehsan Movasaghi, Mary Yang, Sarah
Worku, Amanda Brijmohan
Dr. Rosalind Silverman and Dr. Lorelei Silverman
Foreign trained biomedical professionals: Dr. Abbas Karbasian-team leader, Dawit Tessema, Mandana Arefmanesh, Maria McGee, Jeeva Mohan, Julia Kotowski
Premed students Chan Mi Lee-premed school University of Toronto, Diana Grosi- predental school team leader Canada, Jackie Rosenberg and Justin Mark-team leaders USA Florida Atlantic University
Medical students Graham Eshun, MD -team leader
Hasan Bilal Nada Husssain Dr. Ruth Warre
Ehsan Movasaghi
Dr. Hamid Raziee Chian Mi Lee Ghazal Fazli
Diana Grossi
Jonathan Chan Mohammad Yousuf Kowuthamie
Tharmakulassingham
Mandana Arefmanesh
Toofan Ghaznawi
Morrison Steel
Thiviyanah
Sellathurai
Nardeen Kodous Anastasyia Sivkova
Swati Agnihotri
Lisa Tran Amanda Brijmohan
Chenthila
Nagamuthu
Ayesha Siddiqua Nancy Shukla
Graham Ehsun Amir Aryaan
High school students Ori Solomon-team leader, Neha Parmar
Volunteers for database Sabrina Qadier, Andrea Leung, Jenny Lyn Jacobs, Virginie Braun, Nirvair Grewal, Ellen Koo, Timothy Ng, Jenny Jun, Kerry Andrusiak, Louisa Ho, Sajeda Patel, Yang Chou, Tatiana Perova, Sekou Gregg, Maryann Bushara, Wahan Khan, Anna Krendler, Emily Baker, Brittany Quinn, Christine Zhang
Past contributors: Dr. Hamid Raziee (database manager, online conference poster coordinator, judge)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to Dr. Mingyao Liu and Dr. Christopher Paige who endorsed our CIHR grant application and supported this initiative.
Dr. Milton Charlton (U of Toronto), Dr. Michelle Bendeck (U of Toronto), Dr. Ronald Pearlman (York University), Dr. Roger Lew (York University), Dr. Lowell Langille (U of Toronto), and Dr. Andrew Wilde, who inspired us to think inovatively.
Dr. Gavin Zealy, Executive Director, Sanofi Pasteur, Canada, Dr. Gabriela Novak, and MBA students from York University Garima Singh and Venkat Subramanian for advice on preparing the business plan for Sanofi Pasteur Healthcare & Biotechnology Venture Challenge, 2009, 2010, and 2011
Yvone Ornelas, Louella d'Cunha, Kitti Lo, Ravinder Dhillon, Joanne D'Angelo, for their support in hosting the seminars and in conference organization.
Karen Britto
Isabella Au Dawit Tessema
Sameena Vadivelu Ami Patel Dhruva Thaker
Models of Human Diseases (MHD) was awarded by CIHR a Meetings, Planning and Dissemination grant and our application was ranked nr. 1 in Canada.
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Drs. Silverman participated in the JIAS mentorship session for biomedical professionals from Israel.
Drs. Silverman paricipated in the Passages to Canada program at the invitation of Historica Dominion Institute.
Dr. Lorelei Silverman was part of the team representing Neurodevnet at the SFN meeting in San Diego.
Drs. Silverman participated in the JVS mentorship session for IT professionals. We initiated a partnership program with members of the IT community for our database and online conference project.
Happy Canada Day
to all our members!
A special message
of a healthier Canada
by the 150 anniver-
sary of our country
and a call to all of us to get involved was shared with us by Dr. Carolyn Bennet, MP.
Drs. Silverman and Models of Human Diseases were featured in the Michener Institute Magazine.
Drs. Silverman met with LAMHDI organization representatives at the SFN meeting in San Diego.
Dr. Rosalind Silverman and Dr. Lorelei Silverman presented Models of Human diseses project at the Institute for Canadian Citizenship Meeting at MaRS. They were joined by some of the members of the team.
Models of Human Diseases team participated in the carving competitions at MaRS centre and Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Happy Halloween to all our members!
Dr. Rosalind Silverman and Dr. Lorelei Silverman participated in the Passages to Canada Program at the invitation of Historica Dominion Institute. Miss Shoshana Solomon's class (Hollywood Public School) was visited.
We dedicated the cancer talks of the 2010 conference to the memory of Ms Evelyn Lazar, Ontario Human Rights Commission specialist, and friend of some of us from the organizing committee. Evelyn (zlb) lost her battle with cancer on Friday, June 18th.
Drs Silverman and their Toronto Biotechnology Initiatative (TBI) mentees at the inaugural session.
Models of Human Diseases was selected as one of the top 7 biomedical proposals at the 2010 Sanofi Pasteur Healthcare & Biotechnology Venture Challenge
MHD activities were featured in Canadian Immigrant- Star Media group newspaper
Drs. Silverman were invited to give a talk on Careers in Life Sciences and Models of Human Diseases at the Inaugural meeting for 2010-2011 year by Women in Science and Engineering group at University of Toronto
